It is meant for those who enjoy and wish to better manage their music. It allows the playing of many audio formats, creating audio libraries, and exporting them to CD-R or MP3 portable players. Sonic Foundry not only just calls Siren a digital jukebox, but a personal music manager. The configuration wizard starts when you start the program for the first time. An e-mail address is required to enable the CD database, which can be updated via the Internet.
Registration is required for all features to be enabled, which also can be done via the Internet.
The program has multiple display modes. With the standard display mode, at the top is the menu bar and sound play controls. Right underneath are from left to right the spectrum graphic display, the graphic equalizer controls, and the scope graphics display. Below that is the explorer panel, which has either a display of your hard disk music library, the contents of an inserted audio CD, a Windows Explorer interface or an Internet Explorer browser window. Which is displayed is chosen in the navigator panel to the immediate left.