Which media player do you like most?

I've used winamp 5 for a while now, I've liked it but want to try something else as it's been giving me problems lately. Keeps locking up and has been annoying overall

So is there some new leader that I haven't heard about yet?

Some winamp features I would like to still have
ability to skin and use plug-ins
winamp's handling of the media library is nice

want it to be stable and have as low overhead.

I don't want to use Windoes MP, and definately am not installing real

So, what do you guys use? Anyone else having problems with winamp?
Any good open source players?

Foobar 2k D

I love WinAmp and I've had no problems with it all. It does what I need it do so I'm sticking with it for now.

Windows Media Player is what i use....iTunes is ok....i dont have any other programs cuz WMP is the best....

foobar2000. i wish they had it for osx. i am stuck with itunes on this. i am getting kind of sick of it.

iTunes on OSX, Winamp on XP.

just installed foobar, seems to be a lot of what I was looking for. I hope more people get involved with this project to dress it up more. I'm gonna try it for a few days to see what I think.

I just started it, but it doesn't seem to incorporate a media library which will be a dealbreaker. I need something that can scan my music folder and remember the location of the songs. I'm probally missing it.

i have been using musicmatch for years and i love it.

winamp pro divx pro and vlc player

itunes on osx wink

and speaking of media and OSX, i haven't totally delved into the mac thing yet as my new iBook is the first mac i've used since elementary school.

I tried looking for codecs for OSX, but was very suprised at the lack of them. I can't play any of my downloaded .aviurl==http://=http:///url on my iBook. I managed to find the divx codec.

Seems like there would be a nice pack of codecs, since there are so many people doing win codec packs.

[quotebb269f8e22="RocLaFamilia"]i dont have any other programs cuz WMP is the best....[/quotebb269f8e22]

how do you know it is the best if you don't have any other programs?

[quotee3636fda95="xigxag"]just installed foobar, seems to be a lot of what I was looking for. I hope more people get involved with this project to dress it up more. I'm gonna try it for a few days to see what I think.

I just started it, but it doesn't seem to incorporate a media library which will be a dealbreaker. I need something that can scan my music folder and remember the location of the songs. I'm probally missing it.[/quotee3636fda95]Just add the folder where you keep all your music and it will put all the music files in. Also, have you skinned yours yet? Mine looks like this
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i got rhapsody that i've had for about a year now and of course WMP...i'll be getting iTunes when i get my iPod.

most of the time i just use WMP. I'll only use the iTunes to sync my music to my iPod. and in case anyone's wondering, Rhapsody sucks. its actually nicer to lisen to music than WMP...but that's about it and i'd never actually keep it if I didn't have a free subscription. lol

crynos

yes, that looks much more promising!

Looks really good with your xp theme, what are you using for that?

Off to add my library.

i use iTunes... i dunno why but i just love it

i buy some of my music from the iTunes store too..

[quotede60f48873="Crynos"][quotede60f48873="xigxag"]just installed foobar, seems to be a lot of what I was looking for. I hope more people get involved with this project to dress it up more. I'm gonna try it for a few days to see what I think.

I just started it, but it doesn't seem to incorporate a media library which will be a dealbreaker. I need something that can scan my music folder and remember the location of the songs. I'm probally missing it.[/quotede60f48873]Just add the folder where you keep all your music and it will put all the music files in. Also, have you skinned yours yet? Mine looks like this
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I like how you posted the picture, 2 minutes before you took it. wink

there are codecs for osx. i watch xvid and divx all the time.

gotta love OS and gotta love wiki http//wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000[]http//wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000

+karma to the both of you for foobar, think this is gonna be exactly what I'm needing!

[quote9c376cbcf5="xigxag"][quote9c376cbcf5="RocLaFamilia"]i dont have any other programs cuz WMP is the best....[/quote9c376cbcf5]

how do you know it is the best if you don't have any other programs?[/quote9c376cbcf5]

cuz i have used many programs before and i liked WMP the most...its the most organized i think...at least to the way i like it....and the reason i dont have any other programs is cuz either i uninstaled them or never reinstalled them after i re did my computer.....

[quoteda92dd1922="tracemhunter"]there are codecs for osx. i watch xvid and divx all the time.[/quoteda92dd1922]

i use the divx pro codec for quicktime P

man this foobar is exciting, you have to put effort into learning how to customize it, but you can do anything you want!

check out this user's foobar
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[quote6ab5f897fc="xigxag"]man this foobar is exciting, you have to put effort into learning how to customize it, but you can do anything you want!

check out this user's foobar
http//img151.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img151&image=mysetup4xu.png[]http//img151.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img151&image=mysetup4xu.png[/quote6ab5f897fc]I was looking at that to, amazing. Been so long since i changed mine, what do i do with .fcsurl==http://=http:///url files?

here's my foobar
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sorry for the size.

anyway, its pretty barebones, which is how I like it. there's a lot of power in that right-click menu... tagging entire albums from cddb data in one click is nice. the album art script is sweet, too. just select a track from an album, click once and bammo, you have a 500x500 folder.jpg from walmart.com saved.

also sexy is the toast - here's what that looks like
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all the pertinent info about a song in a quick, semitransparent, unobtrusive box. doesn't show up if i'm running anything fullscreen (i.e. cs).

as for other media, i use the windows mplayer port. no directshow bullshit, almost every codec you could ever want comes with it, the rest are in an addon pack. it loads and seeks xvid/divx faster than anything i've ever seen, uses the least memory of any player i've tested, and plays unplayable files and files from heavily scratched cds. best of all, it's open source.

I just stick with iTunes. I like it's simplicity.

you have a lot of lossless music.

VLC.

It would be the THE best if the damned developers didn't quash underground attempts to incorporate Real codecs etc. (

[quotee171e4dec6="tracemhunter"]you have a lot of lossless music.[/quotee171e4dec6]

only 130gb...

does foobar play mpeg4s??

audio or video? i think it plays m4a out of the box, and maybe m4p with a plugin. no matter what you want it to do, there is a plugin for it. there's just an incredible amount of work behind foobar...

[quoteafb4251aa6="Admin"]audio or video? i think it plays m4a out of the box, and maybe m4p with a plugin. no matter what you want it to do, there is a plugin for it. there's just an incredible amount of work behind foobar...[/quoteafb4251aa6]


i mean m4a yea.. P but uh, yea all my files were downloaded off allofmp3 in m4a format...

btw.. allofmp3 has a 14% discount till feb14th, and then if you use XRost you get another 10%, so freaking i stuck in $15 and i came out with almost $20 -D

[quotea7a5e61fb6="xigxag"]and speaking of media and OSX, i haven't totally delved into the mac thing yet as my new iBook is the first mac i've used since elementary school.

I tried looking for codecs for OSX, but was very suprised at the lack of them. I can't play any of my downloaded .aviurl==http://=http:///url on my iBook. I managed to find the divx codec.

Seems like there would be a nice pack of codecs, since there are so many people doing win codec packs.[/quotea7a5e61fb6]

Get Mplayer I copied the binary into my $PATH. I love it because I can screen it and control it remotely with my laptop.

mplayer --ontop file.avi

Plays about anything.

i have been testing out a lot of media players

winamp is good

itunes i dont liek very much because when u add a song to a playlist it is added to your library again. and u cant delete it without removing from librarry

musicmatch is one of my favorites because it autoupdates when you relocate a song so u dont ahve to readd it. and it also adds music automaticly to your library. and the repair broken links (if u delete songs) button is very helpfull.

Windows media player for videos

and

Roxio AudioCentral for music

wmp10

what style/other stuff are you using admin?

i think i am going to just reformat my 160 to ntfs and put it in my hptc and just use vnc to control everything and stream it from foobar.

VLC Media Player

Windows[=http//www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html]Windows
Mac[=http//www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html]Mac

It's real simple. I find it best for playing videos....it can basically play anything.

I use Winamp with the MMD3 Skin and mlPod plugin for ipod support. I love how winamp handles my library and playlist. But i don't like how slow it can be sometimes. And album art would be great. All the plugin's i tried for art sucked. But i think Winamp is still better than anything else.

[quote04d86bb43b="PokerNerdAA"]VLC Media Player....it can basically play anything.[/quote04d86bb43b]

Almost. (

finally got the streaming to work. i couldnt get icecast2 to work so i went with the shoutcast server and oddcastv3 for foobar. took me about an hour to get all this shit working.

VLC is da bomb. it's kinda dying as I understand it from a development standpoint, but for now it's still the best all around player.