Which media player do you use?
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Posted by Ag Fox, 11.02.2010 - 16:29
By media player I mean for music, not videos DVDs w/e.
Currently my most used one is iTunes because of the playlist / music tagging + cover flow does look good
I also have foobar2000, because I customised it to look good with cover flow as well etc rather than using less resources. I also use it to convert music files into formats that I prefer.
However, I am sort of fed up with iTunes using up so much resources and I am looking for alternatives. My requirements of course includes good looks
I've read about songbird, but hvn't got any friends using it. It's a media player with browser capabilities, iTunes playlist import, coverflow, skinnable etc. The question is does it use up lots of resources like iTunes?Please let me know what you folks use and whether there are cool alternatives around.
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| Fane Posts: 292  |
Foobar. Compact, powerful, edit-as-much-as-you-want and do something many other players don't let you: develop it to satisfy your needs (=download pr0n).
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| Ph0eNiX Fire from Above Posts: 418  |
VLC Media player plays EVERYTHING!!!!! I can run a PAL file on that and you don't know how much that works with liking Dr. Who while living in the US. I've also noticed that sound source quality and loudness seems to be pretty damn good as well. Don't get me wrong, after looking at the above stuff from the screen shots those are breath taking but VLC covers it for me well.
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| vezzy Stallmanite Posts: 3493  |
Winamp and VLC media player.
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| Raiden Down Under Staff Elite Posts: 8292  |
On my Windows desktop PC I mainly use Winamp. I like its media library features and the tool that automatically adds ID3 tags to files. I also have WMP and Media Centre (obviously because it comes with Windows), VLC for its file type support, Real Player so I can play .ra and .rm files, foobar because it can rename files based on ID3 tag info and Quicktime for those apple filetypes. On my Linux desktop (Kubuntu) I use Amarok which isn't too bad. Although I don't have a whole heap of music on that PC. On my netbook which also runs Linux (Mint v9) I use Rhythmbox and MPlayer. Rhythmbox is actually pretty good I've found. I like that it automatically populates the music library and it's good for organising online radio stations. I like that it pops up with the track name that's playing (even if it's an Internet radio station which is only one "track"). @Candlemass: The problem with MediaMonkey though is that it isn't free...
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| The Turbanator Posts: 1900  |
Winamp. End of discussion.
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| Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955  |
@syver foxy. dude this footbar is awesome as hell, love the distribution of album covers. Im still using the BigBento fullscreen on Winamp 
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| Zombie Thrash'tillDeath Posts: 1627  |
Winamp wow, when i read the comments, winamp's got quite the cult-following  !
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| Gurth Bennas Posts: 297  |
Just Windows Media Player! so simple and powerful!
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| akvan Posts: 186  |
For videos i use Media Player classic and for musics just Windows Media Player
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| Elio Red Nightmare Posts: 4920  |
WMP and foobar for the FLAC files.
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| ANGEL REAPER Posts: 3687  |
Media Player Classic ..... Because it does the job just fine....and it dont have a tone of shit i dont need....plus it free....
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| Bulletdodger Posts: 463  |
Foobar.
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| Candlemass Defaeco Posts: 828 |
MediaMonkey + DFX9 = You can't lose (not against Foobar, winamp, Itunes or Windows media player). I have coverflow, an automatic updating library, automatic tagging, automatic information (like biograpghy) which shows up, a format convertor, great skins, recently added playlist... Buy mediamonkey, you will thank me in a private message.
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| Candlemass Defaeco Posts: 828 |
@EmperorGonzo Well, if that is good for you - it's good for you  I guess for someone with more wanting, will use MediaMonkey (which by the way, has also a good CD ripper).
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| king_matt Posts: 449  |
ITunes. So simple and to my liking.
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| Metal_4Ever Posts: 876  |
Written by akvan on 14.09.2010 at 18:16 Also me..
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| Abattoir Staff Posts: 3630  |
Mostly BS Player, also VLC Media Player sometimes, if the BS cannot play/show the specific rare formats.
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| Beer Fairy Posts: 395  |
Written by Fane on 23.05.2010 at 23:23 Same here.
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
Itunes. Never listen to music on the computer really. My ipod is a fucking beast.
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| SSM Massacred Posts: 236  |
Audio: Windows Media Player Video: Depends! WMP or VLC Player or KMP
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