Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.

Calaym has a graphical user interface

Graphical user interface

In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and...

, which manages the playlist, menus, options.

For playback, it uses sound systems (FMod/FModEx/Bass), supporting typical files like MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

, Ogg

Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex...

, wav, mod, s3m, it, xm, cda, ...

Its main inspiration was the Apollo player and its motto : "sound quality is not skinable" (Calaym is compatible with Windows XP themes

Windows XP themes

Themes customize the appearance of the Windows operating system without changing its functionality ....

 so). It claims to run from Windows 95 up to all recent Windows versions and even fully support Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 on Windows NT series.

Being developed in Visual Basic

Visual Basic

Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

6, it requires the Visual Basic 6 Runtime.