What do YOU think the best media player (for a computer) is?

[zephyrmaster]

I'm thinking about them, sometimes I like Winamp's small size, but I like iTunes' interface, just not the fact that after weeks of use it seems to get slower... and slower... and glitchy. So, what should I try?

 

[n00b]

Foobar2000!

I love it, but it takes some patience and discipline to get it to look good..

 

[D-EJ915]

Whoa dude that looks insane! You should upload your program folder haha, people would seriously download that crap. I just have it stock, winAMP is nice too but w/e. foobar is easier to have multiple playlists on, obviously.

 

[Vosper]

Foobar 2000 is awesome, especiallu if you have an above-average soundcard. Unofrtunately it's generally horrible to look at and use.

n00b: That is awesome

 

[asmox]

i use foobark2k.

musickube, or whatever it's called, is cool too.

 

[ojnihs]

I personally use iTunes because I use Apple products exclusively. I like it a lot to be honest and don't have any desire to use anything else...

When forced to use a windows system, which is rare, I use foobar2000 or winamp.

 

[Asr]

Windows Media Player. Yeah ok so it's not the best playback software, but I'm too lazy to hunt down another, and it works.

A few years ago I used to use Sonique, that was a great app back in the day. I upgraded to Sonique 2 when that came out but the developers killed it.

 

[Twombly]

Foobar2000. Customizability out the wazoo, transcoding, freedb lookup, supports nearly every audio format ever made.

Le voilà.

 

[n00b]

Nice foobar, twombly! I didn't know Bright Eyes was Electronica?

 

[Twombly]

Digital Ash is electro-pop. It's sort of Conor's aborted fetus project.

 

[Teerawit]

I only use itunes.

And I use a PC too

...thinking about switching over to a mac, though.

 

[rauer]

A question to you guys more experienced with fb2k:

Are there any good/decent pre-configured versions of the player available for download? I've used mine for a while now, but only the default user interface. I don't want to use weeks to learn what seems to be the black art of fb2k tweaking.

 

[n00b]

Rauer: here's a link to get you started:
http://foobar.nub4life.net/columns/

There's one other resource that I used but I don't remember where it is now.. If you really need it I could probably dig it up for you.

 

[rauer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by n00b Rauer: here's a link to get you started

Thanks!

EDIT: although unfortunately that site seems to be about manual configurations, editing strings etc. Exactly the thing I'd like to avoid. Any links to pre-made custom installers?

 

[Twombly]

The fun of foobar is figuring it out for yourself. Use winamp 2.x if you want simplicity.