[oicdn]

What do you all use to play your music on your laptops/PCs???? Is it just me, or does WMP sound muffled/veiled???

WHat do you guys use???

 

[krmathis]

iTunes here

For several reasons:
* The major, and imo the best, audio player for Mac OS X.
* AirTunes support (which I need to stream audio to my two AirPort Express').
* Lossless audio support (Apple Lossless).

 

[skyline889]

Foobar for audio, WMP for video.

 

[makasin]

Foobar2000 for audio, Itunes for ipod synching, Media Player Classic for video.

Foobar allows for totaly control and configuration of your sound output setup. You can choose directsound, kernel sound, or ASIO output and then you can change the resolution of the outupt (16,24 bit, etc.). Very configurable and sounds great.

Itunes is ok, but it doesnt sound ideal, plus version 7 is super slow and clunky.

MPC is an awesome media player for videos because its a very small program, loads fast, supports pretty much everything, and is very configurable.

 

[Cjattwood]

foobar2000 for audio, Media Player Classic for video. Yamipod for syncing to iPod.

 

[werdwerdus]

foobar2000 for audio

VLC, WMP, or MPC for video. I tend to use VLC unless something won't work, then I'll try MPC. I use WMP for WMV files because sometimes you can't fast forward/rewind well in VLC with wmv.

 

[wanderman]

foobar2000 for music media player classic for video.

 

[Alucard]

Foobar for audio, Video Lan Client (VLC) for video.

 

[Ahriman4891]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alucard /img/forum/go_quote.gif Foobar for audio, Video Lan Codec (VLC) for video.

Same here. Ipod is Rockboxed, so I just drag-n-drop FLAC to it

, no need for iTunes.

 

[Hermitt]

WMP11 > no eq or other sound reducing effects> NF4 audio chipset > SPDIF coaxial out > Edifier S2.1D = no veil here

 

[ZenFountain]

foobar for every music format for replay gain and kernal streaming support

http://www.foobar2000.org/

combined community codec pack with windows media player classic for all video formats. mpc seems to have the lowest overhead, works great for resizing, adjusting aspect ratios, ect. and ffdshow with haali media splitter plays everything with the best quality and tweaks.

http://www.cccp-project.net/

 

[luckybaer]

Winamp or Windoze Media Slayer for audio.

Media Player Classic for video.

Apple iToonz for synching my iPod Nano and ripping for the Nano.

 

[pNoyz3Ro]

Music = iTunes
Video = VLC

I like using iTunes, to me it's fast and the search feature is great. Love the library too, very easy to organize.

 

[audioengr]

The quality that you get will depend on a lot of things:

1) iTunes is great on a PC IF you are using a wireless converter such as Olive, SB, or AE. iTunes is NOT great on a PC if you are using a USB converter because it has no way of bypassing KMIXER

2) iTunes however is great on a MAC because there is no KMIXER and the native drivers are excellent. Resampler is not so good however.

3) Foobar can only be run on a PC, or a PC OS. Foobar is excellent for USB converters because it has options for ASIO plug-ins and resampling plug-ins as well as other DSP functions. User interface can be tailored to your taste. My personal favorite.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
Manufacturer

 

[oicdn]

Oh my god.....Foobar is sooooooo plain, but jesus christ does it sound good!!!! Talk about completely not caring about the aesthetics....wow, never looking back to anything else.