Melody can used to play WAV, MPEG, MIDI, MOD files or to play audio CD disks. The navigation of files and disks is simple, 2 mouse buttons are used: One click by the left button opens a disk or folder, and also starts playing a song. Clicking the right button in any place takes you up one level of the folder tree, up to the list of drives. Double-click is not used and you do not need to search for the exit button from the current folder. The displays for song, mode and time along with buttons for forward, rewind and stop are also clear and convenient. You can also use the keyboard cursor keys to move between songs and to rewind. This is also really handy if you have the monitor switched off. You don't need to use the mouse.

From version 1.2 there is the ability to create song lists. You can also add any comments you like to these lists. When "Melody" encounters one of these comments it will continue and search the next song. From version 1.5 there is the ability to play MOD, IT*, XM*, S3*,ME*, MPP, MDZ files.