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Posted by MisterBister on Thu Oct 13th at 3:28pm 2005

There are quite a few different media players out there, some are really good, and some are really bad.

Since Im getting tired of Windows media player i thought it would be fun to create a thread on the topic.

Which mediaplayer is your favorite, and why?




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Posted by Andrei on Thu Oct 13th at 3:34pm 2005

Winamp, since it's compatible with most audio/video formats, including .ogg (that many other players can't read).





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Posted by Underdog on Thu Oct 13th at 4:15pm 2005

Its probably a thousand pages back but this very topic has arisen before. Don't even ask how to locate it other than trial/error but I know its there.

I personally do not currently have a preferred player choice.




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Posted by Andrei on Thu Oct 13th at 4:57pm 2005

I dedicated 15 seconds to the site's search feature. Can't find the "other" thread you mention. Still, it's probably there under a more obscure name. I'll be damned if I'm going to search for it, though.




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Posted by OtZman on Thu Oct 13th at 5:13pm 2005

Using winamp.



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Posted by Nickelplate on Thu Oct 13th at 5:16pm 2005

I always hated winamp, REALanything, and Quicktime.

I use WMP be3cause it gets on my nerves the LEAST. I hate things that have little tasktray Icons. I hate things that take over all my other file extensions, and they all do that except wmp.




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Posted by fraggard on Thu Oct 13th at 5:17pm 2005

Windows: Media Player Classic (with the KLite codec pack).
Linux: mplayer




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Posted by ReNo on Thu Oct 13th at 5:20pm 2005

I use winamp for music use (if you take the time to organise your collection, the media library rocks) and Media Player Classic for video files. Winamp seems to be quite jerky at times with video, and media player classic works with seperate subtitle files which is occasionally handy.




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Posted by satchmo on Thu Oct 13th at 5:50pm 2005

I use Windows Media Player for some things and Audacity (sp?) for others. I don't really listen to music that often.


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Posted by Naklajat on Thu Oct 13th at 6:06pm 2005

^^^^ what ReNo said. I like the media library and easy-to-use playlists. I still watch videos in winamp sometimes since its more convenient (media library, playlists). If its a single video, not a series, I prefer Media Player Classic. And for OGM and MKV format videos Media Player Classic is king.



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Posted by Windows 98 on Thu Oct 13th at 6:28pm 2005

WinAMP


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Posted by Loco on Thu Oct 13th at 6:37pm 2005

What skins are people using for WinAMP? I used to use MMD3, but the interface seems a bit crowded compared to WMP10. I'd prefer to use WinAMP for functionality, but now I'm on WMP purely because it's a bit nicer to use.



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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Oct 13th at 6:38pm 2005

Foobar2000.

I started using it about a month ago, because I thought Winamp was getting too bloated with features I didn't need. (Podcasting, bleh, bleh, bleh).

I chose Foobar2000. When you first install it, it looks like sh*t. I started customizing it to my own needs (music database, WMA/OGG support, extended playlists, notifications, ..) and now it's a custom media player with all the features I need. Nothing less but most certainly nothing more. The memory footprint is 8 mb, which is very good.

I'd suggest it to anybody who's not afraid of tweaking around and downloading/trying plug-ins.

I posted it in the other thread too, but this is the "Toaster" plug-in. It's a very subtle display (fade in/fade out) of the song playing, and it also adds the ability to pass on the song title to Gaim or MSN, or any other chat client.

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Posted by Pegs on Thu Oct 13th at 6:39pm 2005

Winamp - SKin: SimplicityOwn




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Posted by FatStrings on Thu Oct 13th at 7:30pm 2005

WMP but that foobar thing looks interesting ill have to check it out



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Thu Oct 13th at 7:38pm 2005

I just use Winamp.




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Posted by French Toast on Thu Oct 13th at 8:04pm 2005

I've got Winamp for my music playlists and stuff, mostly because I like the ability to shrink it to a small bar on the top, and always keep it on top of everything else.

For videos, I use Realplayer. It plays anything I've needed so far (winamp hasn't) so it works for me <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Windows 98 on Thu Oct 13th at 8:36pm 2005

This is what I'm running on winamp...

Skin: Modern
Color Theme: MonoDark

And I run the with the top bar compressed to only whats playing, and a few control options like play, next song, stop, pause, etc. (but usually I have it run in the backround and i just hit next song on my hot key ((crtl+alt+ page up for next and page down for previous))). Also I have a playlist dragged down, because I have a 2,000 song long play list. So... yeah I have a lot of songs I can pick from and I just leave it down. I also have it set to around 50% transparency or so, I really can't remember.

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Posted by Crapceeper on Thu Oct 13th at 9:21pm 2005

I use winamp (2.91) for music. KoolPlaya for vids. Sometimes I need the DivXplayer (For changing the aspect ratio. And if I need srt subtiles I play it with mplayerclassic. PowerDVD for DVDs. Occasionally quicktime for trailers and stuff.



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Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Thu Oct 13th at 9:24pm 2005

Winamp, same skin and color as Windows98.



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