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What's a good media player?

TopShopGamerTopShopGamer Registered User regular
edited March 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Does anyone know a good alternative to iTunes? I've used it for so long I don't even know what's out there anymore. I just got a new laptop and I want to know my options before I start importing my old music.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Just something generic to play .mp3s?

    can't go wrong with Winamp.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I finally went back to Foobar. It's looking a little better than it used to and it's pretty darn lightweight.

    Screenie of my setup. It's one of the defaults with 1 minor tweak I think.

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  • FofamitFofamit Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    Just something generic to play .mp3s?

    can't go wrong with Winamp.

    Yeah I second that. Also if you are looking for something good to play almost any movie file I'd recommend VLC Media player
     or my personal favorite CCCP which basically allows you to play movie files in any player of your choice, oh and it comes with Media Player Classic.

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I've used winamp for many years and been very happy with it. I've been tempted to try foobar, and I think I'm going to since someone linked it again.

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  • CylaranaCylarana Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I tried WinAmp...hated it. Too cluttered and clunky. I'm still looking for a good media player too.

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  • AndorienAndorien Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I'm a fan of musikCube. It's fast, well designed, reasonably attractive while fitting in with Windows, and also easy to use.

    Here's a quick picture from Google:
    musikcube_screen1.png

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    musikCube looks nice and in the vein of Foobar, though perhaps a little more organized in the way of the library by default.

    It used to be that Foobar looked boring and terrible at the get-go and it took a lot of studying tutorial articles and downloading plugins to make it look like the epic masterpieces a lot of people have. This is no longer the case. You'll love it.

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  • AndorienAndorien Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Also, there's one currently in development called Songbird. They take an interesting approach, but it's still in mid beta and it's a little slow and buggy at the moment. Podcast support also seems to be flaky atm.

    Regardless, here's a little video that shows what it's about:
    http://www.songbirdnest.com/screencast

    Note that the version shown there is an older one, and the interface has changed slightly (some buttons have moved, and the colors have changed a bit).

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  • enderwiggin13enderwiggin13 Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Andorien wrote: »
    I'm a fan of musikCube. It's fast, well designed, reasonably attractive while fitting in with Windows, and also easy to use.

    Here's a quick picture from Google:
    IMG

    That does look pretty cool...the one thing that turns me off it completely is the fact that it doesn't disregard the "The" at the beginning of artist and album names when sorting. That may make me anal retentive and OCD, but I don't care. I want all my "The Beatles" in the Bs and "The Flaming Lips" in the Fs.

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  • corcorigancorcorigan Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    musikCube looks just like an ugly version of iTunes...

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    corcorigan wrote: »
    musikCube looks just like an ugly version of iTunes...
    I think the idea is to take the good if iTunes (the views, layouts, and smart playlists) and get rid of the bad (slooooooow and huuuuuge).

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  • AndorienAndorien Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Furthermore, I consider iTunes itself to be pretty damn ugly. Especially since it doesn't fit in with whatever windows theme you're using, so it looks horribly out of place to boot.

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  • DaemonionDaemonion Mountain Man USARegistered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I use Mediamonkey

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