What music player do you use?
(or reccomend)
Saturday, March 17, 2012 by Neilo | Discussion: Personal Computing
Iv'e been using Winamp as my music player for years now and i'm bored with it. So, i'm looking for alternatives. I have iTunes, but i don't care for it, i use it to manage my idevices.
I'm not looking for anything fancy, as long as it plays mp3 and has decent file management.
So, what do you use, or recommend? I'm on win7 if that's a concern.
Thanks!
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Reply #42 Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:27 PM
vlc, bs media player- some of the more basic free media players
Reply #44 Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:20 PM
I wish I had kept my old subscription going but when things got tight I canceled it and 3 months later they changed...
from their website....
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Reply #45 Sunday, March 18, 2012 8:04 PM
Lantec...I didn't know that. I hardly ever use my credits so when my sub expires, I'm going to switch. Thx
Reply #46 Sunday, March 18, 2012 8:08 PM
This is a big plus! It's one area where Winamp is let down, and itunes fails.
Yup, i have now about 6 media players installed and trying them all out. I also installed Jetaudio, i hadn't used it before, thoughts anyone?
Reply #47 Sunday, March 18, 2012 8:12 PM
Of all the players I've tried throughout the years (closing on 1½ decade), and I've tried -many-, I've found that WinAmp is currently the best and easiest to use for music - and by far the easiest to skin (Classic skins). 
It is offcause the player I use, and it's been my main music player since 1998. (I use VLC for video/films)
BUT.... WinAmp's not the best player ever to have seen the light of day.
Two other players could potentionally have knocked WinAmp off of the throne. K-Jöfol and Sonique were by far the better players when they still were in developement. Sadly though, the K-Jöfol team were headhunted over to WinAmp and Sonique was bought by Lycos (The Google of it's days), which was the death for both players.
Reply #48 Monday, March 19, 2012 9:42 AM
Why do people say it's hard to edit tags in iTunes? I edit tags quite often with no issues.
Reply #49 Monday, March 19, 2012 10:43 AM
Given that I like to listen to one song over and over again in an endless loop and only change it once every 10 minutes or so, I never really had to move beyond YouTube Repeater.
Reply #51 Monday, March 19, 2012 8:32 PM
Yep, just a little bit of skinning history there for all.
I still have kJofol somewhere [and my skins for it], but I have always stuck with Winamp [2.9x] ....
Reply #55 Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:34 AM
What bloatness does winamp have? I also use the paid version but even with the free version you can have only the main player skin with simple buttons and music info. Perhaps the bloatness has to do with size and registry entries but it is not hard on resources on my basic computer. I use iTunes, aimp and xion from time to time but I always go back to winamp pro.
Reply #56 Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:36 AM
WA 2x was the hey-day of WA and its skinning.....a lot of people started with WA.
Some say v3 was SO BAD they simply skipped v4 and went straight to v5 just to distance themselves from the disaster....
But then....back about that time the CEO called me a 'clusterfuck'....so he got one thing right....
Reply #57 Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:35 AM
I remember version 4. It was a disaster. Waited for version 5 to come out before going for it again.
Reply #58 Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:59 PM
Used WinAmp for many, many years. Now I actually just use Google Music (I think it's been renamed to Google Play or something like that). Free (obviously) and you can login with your gmail or G+ account.
You'll download a small app which will upload all your MP3's to "the cloud" and then all your music is now available anywhere via Google Music. Pretty sweet and a good backup actually for all your music. If your PC crashes you can download all your music from Google Music at anytime.
Reply #59 Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:49 PM
Reply #60 Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:32 PM
The actual desktop program I use is foobar2000. It's simple, and it works well. That's all I need.
For web playing, I generally go with Audiogalaxy. Streams from my music collection at home, no need to upload anything.
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Reply #41 Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:07 PM
I have around 15000 mp3 files representing over 500 albums and CDs in my library I have converted. I use mediamonkey for several reasons:
1) it handles very large libraries much better than other players I've tried
2) it has REALLY good support for editing tags
3) supports all the file types you'd ever want to use
That being said, it has its share of bugs and problems like any other software. Honestly, there isn't any perfect player (yet.) Things I find annoying with mediamonkey:
1) making playlists is a bit clumsy in my mind
2) crashes more often with most recent version than it used to
3) my media library got corrupted once and I lost all play history which didn't really annoy me too much, but it would some people excessively
4) the interface could use a lot of work in the looks/usability department in general
Good luck with your search. My advice is, install a bunch of them, use each for a week and keep the one you like best!