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JoelJ
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I'm wondering what media player everyone uses to listen to music on their computers?

I use iTunes only to sync with my iPod touch (until their's an alternative), but whenever I use it I end up getting frustrated because it seems to always choose the same songs. Also, I don't like the mini player, it's too bulky, and I hate how the taskbar toolbar doesn't show what song you're listening to.

Anyway, so I have been using Songbird. I love it. It works well, and the mini player is awesome. But the problem is I'm going to be upgrading to Vista 64bit, and I've read that Songbird doesn't work well with Vista64.

In Ubuntu I use the default player. It's actually my favorite.

What do you guys use? What are some good media players that you all have seen/used?

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itunes only for my ipod


windows media player for normal stuff


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iTunes.


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Grandma
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Winamp

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WMP or Foobar2000.

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bitJericho
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WMP. I quite like it.

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I agree; WMP here too.


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Installed: iTunes, Foobar, WMP (of course) and Songbird.

I just stick to iTunes, but I have used Songbird and Foobar before, but I still prefer using iTunes.

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Winamp, I like the mini-player that sits on the title bar. I find media player is much more straightforward for ripping music though.


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VLC_MP and WM_P.

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Tom J
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I just use iTunes.

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iTunes because it's pre-installed and keeps all my music quite well organised, I've also started using the music store more now that the DRM is being removed.

If there was a winamp for mac I'd use that, presuming it would use less resources than itunes.


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Foobar2000 - IMO the best you can use...

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Benjamin
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I use Windows Media Player but I dislike it. The fact that it takes ages to load the first track on start-up really gets me, and the fact that seeking on Vista seems to have considerable delay. I'm not sure Microsoft are capable of creating a media player that delivers the most basic needs properly. I'd use Winamp but I'm not a big fan of that either.

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General Reed
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VLC, Plays absolubetly everything.

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The Nerd
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I use iTunes, but only because I have my iPod to take care of Besides I quite like it. before iTunes all I used was WMP.

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Quote: "I use Windows Media Player but I dislike it.... it takes ages to load the first track on start-up really gets me, and the fact that seeking on Vista seems to have considerable delay.... I'd use Winamp but I'm not a big fan of that either."

I am thinking about trying WMP for a bit, mostly for it's taskbar toolbar mode. looks beautiful.
I refuse to use Winamp as it's owned by AOL... sorry, I just can't bring myself to that level.

Quote: "VLC, Plays absolubetly everything."

I use that for watching videos, but I don't like the interface enough to use it for my music.

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General Reed
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Quote: "I use that for watching videos, but I don't like the interface enough to use it for my music"

Indeed, Its a matter or prefrence Nice layout (wmp), vs simple conveience(vlc)

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I use VLC for videos especially after our Uni's anime society caught me in the Atrium using my laptop and commandeered it for playing one of their videos (as the person's laptop they normally use wasn't working with the projector), Windows Media Player, Quicktime and Acer Arcade Deluxe all refused to play the video, luckily one of their members had VLC portable on a stick and it played their movie wonderfully. Meaning I and VLC were their heroes...though I had to sit through whatever they were watching.

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VLC for videos, no IFs ANDs or BUTs! Windows MP never has nor can find codecs for anything, and QT always seems so slow.

iTunes primarily for music.

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Grandma
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Quote: "VLC, Plays absolubetly everything."

Not everything. I have encountered a video or two that didn't play in VLC but played just fine in another player. So it wasn't the video being corrupt.

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bitJericho
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Aye, I use VLC for videos that don't play in WMP.

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I use VLC for audio and video. Does the job and has a great, simple interface.

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soapyfish
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Quote: "I refuse to use Winamp as it's owned by AOL"


Why is this a problem?


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I use WMP, both for songs and movies.

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AlanC
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I programmed my own music player years ago, when ever I'm on a windows computer, I use that.

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I use KMPlayer because it has all of the major codecs built-in so you don't have to download them all--- it's just an option so you can download other obscure ones in the future if you need. You all should try it out, the interface is awesome and it just works. Not sure how it is with music though.


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General Reed
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Quote: "Not everything. I have encountered a video or two that didn't play in VLC but played just fine in another player. So it wasn't the video being corrupt.
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Indeed, Ive come across 2 videos in my 7 years of using it, where it didnt work, But they were both videos that required the windows "certificate" scheme, in order to decode it.

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I also made my own once before for vista using C#.Net and the Bass library.

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JoelJ
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Quote: "Why is this a problem?
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AOL is satan.
But seriously, I just don't like Winamp a whole lot. I used to use it, but I found it less and less to be what I want.

I'm seriously way picky about my media players for some reason.

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I use Windows media player is really good, it does everything I need it too and the miniplayer (when the window is minimized) is perfect because it doesnt get in the way at all.

I have used song bird before and really like it but it uses sooo many system resources

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I have songbird as well, but I found it just way to slow and playback didn't seem very stable. It's still behind iTunes I think.

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iTunes

I like the UI, it plays music well, and it isn't too irritating library-wise as long as you turn off auto library management. Used to use WMP, but I found the music organisation somewhat lackluster, and it had some issues in terms of CPU usage (occasionally CPU usage would jump to 100% for extended periods of time, and it would act erratically until restart. Really irritating whilst coding/debugging, so that convinced me to dump it)


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Winamp in Windows, in Ubuntu I use the default media player: Rythmbox (prefer it to Winamp, but it is for Linux, not Windows).

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I've got Songbird on Vista x64 as my media player of choice. Works flawlessly if you give it the time to load if you have a huge library.

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I love BMPx the simplicity, effectiveness and beautiful appearance makes it best music player there is IMO, also everything works as they should.
I tried the infamous amarok, i was scared of all the buttons and last.fm dint work properly and it was KDE based so.. I dint like it..
Only downside in BMPx is that its not heavily supported.. Lacks of plugins and in example aMSN does not have music plugin for it because lots of people use other music player.

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I used to be a big user of WMP, but since I bought an iPod about a year/2 years ago I made the switch to iTunes, and haven't looked back since.

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iTunes and Winamp, but iTunes is rarely used, only for music I have purchased and haven't re-ripped into MP3 format. It just feels so dysfunctional compared to Winamp. The new versions of Winamp are great with the entire interface being the media library and I like to dock it at the top of my screen as a toolbar sorta thing. It's nice.

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WMP for audio, VLC for video.

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So I'm trying out WMP. I'm quite surprised at how much memory it doesn't use. However, I'm disappointed that it's a 32bit process, and also, the UI is quite on the nasty side. But the taskbar band is tons better than iTunes' band.

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I use Media Player.

I am a big fan of the Album and Artists view, especially if your music collection is like mine, comprised of only full albums with all the art.



I do occansionally wish there was a Cover Flow plugin for it or for Media Center. That would good for using with a remote.

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Spotify, It's in beta, but it has pretty much nearly everysong you want...
Doesnt play Video's... But I got winamp for that. :3


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Media Player and VLC for most videos

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WMP for me. I don't know how anyone can use VLC, its terrible, almost impossible to browse through a movie file without hideous visual distortions from that point onwards, it also seems to crash a lot for me.
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I use VLC for most stuff on my lappys and Media Player Classic with the klite mega codec pack on my entertainment rig.


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I usually use winamp.
But, VLC is pretty good too.

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