pepemosca
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I personally use foobar2000. It "free" so you can try it and see how you like it. It also allows a lot of customizations if you like to tweak.
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Honestly, apart from plug-ins, there is literally no sonic difference between these players. Looking at how Media Players work, we can conclude that no player "sounds warm" or "sounds natural", unless things are being added.
You get a bit-perfect stream from Windows, without running ASIO, if two conditions are met:
- Your volume in Windows is set at 100% and you control volume with your amp
- You are only running sound from one application at once. This can be done by muting the other applications you aren't listening to.
Everything else is placebo. The only real point of ASIO is to reduce latency, which is really only important to music production, to my knowledge.
So, in short, pick the one that meets your needs best. I love MediaMonkey because it's really easy to use. WinAmp and Songbird are pretty cool too. foobar has a lot of love because it's so versatile.
None of them sound better than any other ones, and all of them (even iTunes) can have a bit-perfect stream by meeting the two qualifications, at least to my knowledge.
I use winamp as it comes with native FLAC support.
+1 for foobar2k, clean media player
I personally use foobar2000. It "free" so you can try it and see how you like it. It also allows a lot of customizations if you like to tweak.
http://www.foobar2000.org/