JetAudio’s user interface has similarities to that of Winamp in that it features separate windows for e.g. playback, playlist and music library. Like Winamp, JetAudio can also be minimized to a toolbar by pressing the “Toolbar Mode ON/OFF” button in the upper right portion of the Main Window. The interface centers around a 10-band spectrum visualization which doubles as an equalizer. Different implementations of this spectrum visualization can be found in the Main Window, the Media Center, the Video Window, the Lyrics Viewer and the External Spectrum Viewer.
Windows
The JetAudio interface comprises the following windows:
JetAudio comes with a number of pre-installed skins: “Default Gunmetal Grey”, “Default Silver”, “Default Silver Mini” and an older version of “Default Silver” with a potentiometer-style volume control. In addition to these, there are four skins that display the Main Window as a bar. Users are able to create their own skins using the JetAudio Skin Development Kit available for download from the JetAudio website. Some skins apply to every part of the user interface, while others may only affect the Main Window.
Like many other media player applications, JetAudio offers the option of displaying an animated visualization synchronized with the music. JetAudio comes with three visualization plugins pre-installed: PixelTrip, Space and Synesthesia. Additional visualization plugins can be downloaded from external providers.
Lyric support
JetAudio has the ability to display both synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics to the music using several different methods. Lyrics are displayed in the dedicated Lyrics Viewer window, along with the album art of the file and optionally a spectrum visualization.
JetAudio offers several other features such as bookmarking the current position in a song, looping a section of a song, a dropdown on-screen display with configurable content and a configurable “sleep timer” for shutting down the computer after a set period of playback.
JetAudio for Android
On, the highly anticipated mobile version of JetAudio, “JetAudio for Android,” was released. Initially, the app included the same BBE sound effects found in the desktop version of JetAudio, but these were quietly removed with the release of version 1.0.2, likely due to licensing issues. Cowon has made no official statement on the matter. The app has been praised for its user interface, with one reviewer citing it as “arguably one of the best and most user-friendly that we’ve seen on an Android device”. Like its desktop counterpart, JetAudio for Android is available as a free, “Basic” version and a paid “Plus” version. Apart from removing the advertising banners present in the Basic version, the Plus version doubles the number of bands available in the built-in equalizer, as well as adds the ability to display unsynchronized lyrics to the music.
JetAudio 4’s graphical user interface was designed to look like a high-powered stereo rack and installed with an on-screen equalizer and remote control.
JetAudio 5
JetAudio 5, released in 2002, saw a major overhaul of the entire user interface and added support for skins.
JetAudio 6
JetAudio 6 was released in 2004.
JetAudio 7
JetAudio 7 was the first version of JetAudio to include BBE sound enhancement algorithms. The Consumers' Institute of New Zealand evaluated the Basic version and remarked that it “doesn’t have a plug-in for Firefox compatibility”, but judged the range of video and audio file formats supported as “good”.
JetAudio 8
JetAudio 8 is the first version of JetAudio to be fully compatible with Windows 7. Some of the new features in JetAudio 8 are:
On, Cowon announced the release of JetVideo, a media player program with features which partially overlap with those of JetAudio. Like JetAudio, it relies on external codecs for some of its data decoding.
