Author Topic: Media Player (Read 9558 times)

Melvang · « **on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 01:00:04 »

Alright audiophiles out there. What media player do you use? I am currently using Winamp Pro but I feel there must be something else out there better. And please don't say iTunes or WMP unless you have a valid reason for it.

tipo33 · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:35:24 »

I only use *nix. I use VLC or CCCP.

esoomenona · « **Reply #2 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:37:21 »

foobar2000 for music.

CPTBadAss · « **Reply #3 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:38:45 »

I use the Zune Player or Spotify for my music needs. Spotify Free is pretty awesome if you can deal with the ads. But I just upgraded to the $5/month plan.

Photekq · « **Reply #4 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:47:34 »

I use foobar for music, vlc for everything else. I tried media player classic but I prefer vlc.

esoomenona · « **Reply #5 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:55:10 »

Quote from: Photekq on Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:47:34

I use foobar for music, vlc for everything else. I tried media player classic but I prefer vlc.

Same here. foobar is where it's at.

boost · « **Reply #6 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:55:57 »

Quote from: Photekq on Fri, 17 May 2013, 13:47:34

I use foobar for music, vlc for everything else.

Pretty much sums it up for me too

baldgye · « **Reply #7 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 14:23:11 »

I used foobar for a while but switched to itunes for the simple ease of being able to just download random songs I was missing for a tiny fee. I don't think its as bad as people make out but its not at all 'great'.

Though I think people calling them selfs audiophiles and using a PC for there main source of music are pretty silly....

Photekq · « **Reply #8 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 14:24:43 »

One more thing. Once you go flac you never go back, although :

Quote from: baldgye on Fri, 17 May 2013, 14:23:11

I think people calling them selfs audiophiles and using a PC for there main source of music are pretty silly....

Melvang · « **Reply #9 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 15:04:13 »

Quote from: baldgye on Fri, 17 May 2013, 14:23:11

Though I think people calling them selfs audiophiles and using a PC for there main source of music are pretty silly....

I didn't mean that by using only a PC for media source was audiophile quality. Just wondering what audiophiles that use their PC for media at least some of the time use for a media player.

keymaster · « **Reply #10 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 15:27:59 »

Winamp for music
VLC for video

vun · « **Reply #11 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 15:32:12 »

Foobar2000 for music, Media Player Classic for video.

Melvang · « **Reply #12 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 16:30:49 »

sounds good guys thanks i will give Foobar2k a shot

vun · « **Reply #13 on:** Fri, 17 May 2013, 18:57:21 »

Quote from: Melvang on Fri, 17 May 2013, 16:30:49

sounds good guys thanks i will give Foobar2k a shot

I'm not sure how much you're into customization, but foobar2k is fantastic that way. Atm I use pretty much standard fb2k with a few additional plugins I think, but you can do so much with it.
Not sure if anyone else here recognises the name, but toolej/tool++ did some amazing stuff with fb2k.

laffindude · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 18 May 2013, 10:13:30 »

Foobar + WASAPI.

Malphas · « **Reply #15 on:** Sat, 18 May 2013, 15:55:46 »

foobar ofc.

thp777 · « **Reply #16 on:** Sat, 18 May 2013, 22:57:18 »

foobar for music. vlc for video

gliy · « **Reply #17 on:** Sat, 18 May 2013, 23:21:23 »

Foobar also has a nice plugin for syncing with your ipod, so you never have to use itunes again!

Atakp · « **Reply #18 on:** Sat, 18 May 2013, 23:40:25 »

Quote from: laffindude on Sat, 18 May 2013, 10:13:30

Foobar + WASAPI.

This exactly

Spokoman · « **Reply #19 on:** Mon, 20 May 2013, 14:10:21 »

VLC. Have not found anything better that is free and as powerful. That's for videos tho. Winamp, have not used is since it went to versions 3 and up. Too much crap. Simple and light is better.

davkol · « **Reply #20 on:** Tue, 21 May 2013, 01:33:19 »

audio: Amarok (VLC on Phonon level) or Audacious
video: MPlayer from CLI, Kaffeine for TV, VLC otherwise

rowdy · « **Reply #21 on:** Tue, 21 May 2013, 01:49:59 »

Anyone tried Miro?

davkol · « **Reply #22 on:** Tue, 21 May 2013, 03:17:09 »

Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 21 May 2013, 01:49:59

Anyone tried Miro?

About four years ago. It was weird.

mauri · « **Reply #23 on:** Tue, 21 May 2013, 04:42:43 »

Anyone use ulilith?

dndlmx · « **Reply #24 on:** Tue, 21 May 2013, 05:01:21 »

VLC and XBMC for video. For music at home, mostly MPD (and associated clients).

Altis · « **Reply #25 on:** Thu, 30 January 2014, 19:36:10 »

Forgive me digging up an old topic, but I was pretty excited that Winamp got saved last minute from its doomed fate by the Belgian Internet radio company, Radionamy.

From what I can tell, it seems as though they intend to keep the llama-whippin' spirit going. I like that there is still support for the classic skins. Much easier on the eyes than iTunes!

Glenn315 · « **Reply #26 on:** Thu, 30 January 2014, 21:37:34 »

I use Foobar2000 for music and Media Player Classic for videos.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #27 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 12:42:05 »

I've been using MusicBee for awhile now. It's overall pretty good but you do need to take some time to set it up if you like it just so... it has TOO MANY options really.

Novus · « **Reply #28 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 12:47:21 »

Foobar
MPC-HC for vidya

davkol · « **Reply #29 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 14:28:38 »

Vanilla Music (available from F-Droid) on my phone, Audacious on both desktop and laptop. I have organized everything in the filesystem, no need for additional library; I just need some queue management. A nice extra feature, Audacious supports crossfeed.

I haven't watched any videos for ages.

paicrai · « **Reply #30 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 17:43:22 »

Foodbar for music and the K-Lite thing with the codec pack for video.

FrostyToast · « **Reply #31 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 18:08:11 »

I am definitely no audiophile and I will probably get so much flac (get it?) for this but...
I do actually use itunes... and here is why

-the mini player is great if you want music in the background and have some songs you don't know by tune
-you can edit playback options for songs quite easily and to a good extent
-organization is very easy to do and simple
-The UI is intuitive and informative while maintaining a simple and pleasing look
-I never really used anything else and iTunes proved to be more than adequate for me

You can disagree with me if you want because I am not an audiophile by any means. I would love to find another player which has the same functionality and then some.

Novus · « **Reply #32 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 18:42:12 »

Quote from: FrostyToast on Fri, 31 January 2014, 18:08:11

I am definitely no audiophile and I will probably get so much flac (get it?) for this but...
I do actually use itunes... and here is why

-the mini player is great if you want music in the background and have some songs you don't know by tune
-you can edit playback options for songs quite easily and to a good extent
-organization is very easy to do and simple
-The UI is intuitive and informative while maintaining a simple and pleasing look
-I never really used anything else and iTunes proved to be more than adequate for me

You can disagree with me if you want because I am not an audiophile by any means. I would love to find another player which has the same functionality and then some.

You're not going to get any FLAC for it ... because Itunes doesn't support FLAC hehehe.
I'm just messing with you.
One of my gripes with Itunes (I dunno if they ever fixed this) is that it's very hard to keep your music files organized.
I put all of my music in particular folders and separate it by genre. Itunes doesn't have an auto scan folder function so you have to manually add all your music into the player itself.
The player itself does look nice but it doesn't particularly care about your actual music files. It's a mess.

Itunes is fine though if you only buy your music from Apple.

Morwrath · « **Reply #33 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 19:21:07 »

Winamp for music and VLC for videos.

acidtrip69 · « **Reply #34 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 21:18:31 »

i use foobar and i use a fiio x3 and alost i have a tube amp

Warduke · « **Reply #35 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 21:29:40 »

Music: Winamp
Video: VLC

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #36 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 21:57:49 »

I too was a very long time iTunes user... since the first Windows release until a few months ago when I got rid of my last iPod finally. I used it because I needed it for the most part to sync anything other than music on iPod touch, and I have a thing about installing more than one program that does the same thing. Asides from iTunes being a bloated clunky mess, there are other aspects I did like about it like how it's random play function worked.
So when I went searching for something more lightweight, that had all the features I otherwise cared anything about is how I came across MusicBee. If you like iTunes, but don't need advanced sync options for iPod touch/iPhone I really can't recommend it enough. The only thing that annoys me about MusicBee compared to iTunes... is if you select a specific track while in random, it kills the random and either stops playing or goes into album mode instead of reshuffling. The second thing that is more of a minor annoyance is the global hotkeys for things like previous/next and play/pause seem to be rather spotty and erratic when the player isn't in focus.
Like I did with iTunes, I use Rainmeter still for a persistent always on top now playing/mini player. I love that I can make it look however I want, and display what info I want to see.

1pq · « **Reply #37 on:** Fri, 31 January 2014, 22:04:30 »

Any OS X users here? Although iTunes is pretty all encompassing on Mac (not nearly as bloated as the awful windows version), I wanted to try out something a little lighter. If I want to play something that's not in iTunes or that I have organized somewhere else, I use VOX. It's free, lightweight, flexible, and pretty.

eddie · « **Reply #38 on:** Sat, 01 February 2014, 03:03:01 »

mpc-hc + foobar2k if not you're missing out.

fuzzybaffy · « **Reply #39 on:** Sat, 01 February 2014, 07:06:33 »

I'm in kind of a "media player" limbo in terms of music. Was a long time iTunes user, but as someone else mentioned, it was a dysfunctional mess when it came to organizing my music library. It had so many different file-naming conventions, so there was absolutely no consistency when it came to file-names and folders in the library. For instance, a Kanye West album would be under his name "Kanye West", while a copy of the exact same album would also be put under "Compilations". After a while I just gave up on organizing it, and now it's a complete mess that I don't want to touch.

So now I'm trying out Foobar... but now I can't use all the playlists I created under iTunes.

So I'm not sure what I should do. Just use foobar and completely ditch all those playlists I created in iTunes, or... just use iTunes, and deal with organizing the horrible library. $:-\$

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #40 on:** Sat, 01 February 2014, 11:49:28 »

After iTunes destroyed my library, I just ended up taking ALL the music and dropping it in a single folder. Then I used mp3tag to tag>filename so everything was uniform consistent. That way it's all in one place, and it shows up in an intelligent logical order in file managers without a need for loads of sub folders or any further manual management. I was also able to bring all my smart playlists from iTunes into MusicBee.

angelic_sedition · « **Reply #41 on:** Sat, 01 February 2014, 15:40:57 »

Quote from: the1onewolf on Fri, 31 January 2014, 18:42:12

Quote from: FrostyToast on Fri, 31 January 2014, 18:08:11
I am definitely no audiophile and I will probably get so much flac (get it?) for this but...
I do actually use itunes... and here is why

-the mini player is great if you want music in the background and have some songs you don't know by tune
-you can edit playback options for songs quite easily and to a good extent
-organization is very easy to do and simple
-The UI is intuitive and informative while maintaining a simple and pleasing look
-I never really used anything else and iTunes proved to be more than adequate for me

You can disagree with me if you want because I am not an audiophile by any means. I would love to find another player which has the same functionality and then some.

You're not going to get any FLAC for it ... because Itunes doesn't support FLAC hehehe.
I'm just messing with you.
One of my gripes with Itunes (I dunno if they ever fixed this) is that it's very hard to keep your music files organized.
I put all of my music in particular folders and separate it by genre. Itunes doesn't have an auto scan folder function so you have to manually add all your music into the player itself.
The player itself does look nice but it doesn't particularly care about your actual music files. It's a mess.

Itunes is fine though if you only buy your music from Apple.

x'D So much this. I hate iTunes. The worst thing about it is that it won't leave your music alone; it has to move it around and mess it up, and you have to put up with all its crap. I doubt it will ever just let you pick a directory to scan, but I haven't used it in a good 6 month. I'm so glad to be rid of my old iPod and of buying music from Apple for good.

Right now I'm using mpd and ncmpcpp for music (and sometimes clementine) and mplayer for video. (On Windows, winamp and sometimes foobar and musicbee).

tp4tissue · « **Reply #42 on:** Sat, 01 February 2014, 16:00:21 »

foobar works for audio

mpc + lav + madvr for video

audioave10 · « **Reply #43 on:** Sun, 02 February 2014, 14:06:29 »

I once had a problem with VLC (could have been my own fault) so I went with Media Player Classic for video.
Its been great ever since. I use WMP for my CD's ripped to my hard drive, but I don't install any part of the online features. That keeps MS from screwing it up or having any control.

mindoculus · « **Reply #44 on:** Sat, 08 February 2014, 10:03:34 »

Daum's Pot Player for video, FooBar for muzak.

Novus · « **Reply #45 on:** Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:24:49 »

I forgot about zoom player. That was pretty good for videos too (I haven't used it in a while).

TheSoulhunter · « **Reply #46 on:** Sat, 08 February 2014, 16:27:54 »

Foobar2000 for music, MPC or Potplayer for video...

filphil · « **Reply #47 on:** Mon, 24 February 2014, 00:55:18 »

Foobar2000

atlas3686 · « **Reply #48 on:** Mon, 24 February 2014, 01:10:05 »

Very glad to see this has been mentioned but yes definitely Daum's Pot Player for video, it's easily the best video player out there. Just customise the bits you want and you are away.

Coreda · « **Reply #49 on:** Fri, 28 February 2014, 01:57:14 »

Foobar2000 & PotPlayer are the only correct answers

The good thing about both is they can be fully customized the way I like. For years I stayed away from Foobar2k as I'd see skins that looked decent but were a mess to install, but I then discovered the joys of vanilla Foobar paired with the EsPlaylist and Facets addons. Now I have a layout that I like.

As for PotPlayer I've tried a bunch of video players over the years, but there was typically something lacking in each one. Discovered KMPlayer, and later PotPlayer and I haven't looked back.

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Author Topic: Media Player (Read 9558 times)