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Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: bigpook on Sun, 09 January 2011, 19:27:59
I mostly use Rhythmbox but just downloaded Clementine 0.6. Have to say it is pretty sweet. From what I am reading it is a Gnome port of Amarok. I have tried Amarok but didn't like it as it seemed way too bloated. Clementine doesn't come off as over done to me though. It has this cool feature where you can hear 'rain' in the background while the song is playing. It is oddly pleasant.
However, the 'all hail the hypnotoad' is pretty bad : )
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: nanu on Sun, 09 January 2011, 19:35:52
foobar2000. I enjoy customizing and scripting stupid things.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: phillip on Sun, 09 January 2011, 21:16:56
music - foobar
movies - mpc-hc
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: instantkamera on Sun, 09 January 2011, 21:34:25
mocp for tunes.

youtube for videos ;)
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: j_r on Sun, 09 January 2011, 22:31:20
VLC player since I really don't make time to convert all my media into a standard format.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: thebilgerat on Sun, 09 January 2011, 22:33:40
mplayer.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: HaaTa on Sun, 09 January 2011, 23:15:05
Linux:

Windows:

Music is through Ampache, and I have a bunch of custom tagging scripts (tagging fanatic as well)
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: sixty on Sun, 09 January 2011, 23:26:29
Windows:
music: foobar
media: gom + mpchc

Linux:
music: deadbeef (http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/)
media: i dont watch movies on my linux box
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: NAVIWORLDINC on Sun, 09 January 2011, 23:34:09
Audio: WMP
Video: MPC-HC
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: williamjoseph on Mon, 10 January 2011, 00:02:02
i use "The KM Player". but the latest version is giving me some .dll errors before running....
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: db_Iodine on Mon, 10 January 2011, 02:12:19
Like many, I use Foobar for music and MPC-HC or VLC for other media.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: lowpoly on Mon, 10 January 2011, 04:07:42
SMPlayer (= mplayer + interface)
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: urlwolf on Mon, 10 January 2011, 04:20:27
http://gmusicbrowser.org/ is the best I've found in any platform. I've used mediaMonkey and foobar extensively. I used to use deadbeef too.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: godly_music on Mon, 10 January 2011, 05:13:00
Foobar2000, mpc-hc, ffdshow-tryouts.. on Linux it's too many to list, none of which worked a 100%. I like mplayer and gnome-mplayer though.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Senor_Cartmenez on Mon, 10 January 2011, 06:22:12
music: winamp (just got used to it)
movies: VLC (VideoLan) - cuzz it plays anything and there is no need to manually download codec packs all the time
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: sixty on Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:12:11
Quote from: Senor_Cartmenez;276040
music: winamp (just got used to it)


Had gotten "used to" Winamp for so many years too. Probably used WinAmp exclusively from 1998 to 2003 or so... until the day Nullsoft came up with Winamp 3. That was when I instantly abandoned them in shame and disgust, and never looked back.

Anyone remember Sonique?

(http://www.versiondownload.com/sonique-player/Downloads/audio-and-video/sonique-player/3.jpg)

Man I'm getting old.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Mercen_505 on Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:22:24
Vids: MPC-HC
All else: XMPlay
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: nanu on Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:25:10
lol sonique. i remember some cooler skin featuring circular progress/seek bar and volume controls or something. i too used to be a winamp fan but wa3 was superbloated for its time. wa5 was nice before AOL absorbed Nullsoft. it was then i went with foobar 0.7 and never looked back. i used to customize foobar too but quit due to instability. the standard components are actually practical now so there's nothing i really need to try. i guess i've outgrown the need to make things look cool, some.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: bugfix on Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:27:24
Vlc
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: nanu on Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:43:48
this is why i like foobar2000 btw. i get to make things perty and dork around with components
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=14679&stc=1&d=1294677641)
also, blatant plug for something i wrote what feels like a long time ago to bridge foobar2000 and audiosurf: AsPyFoo (http://www.audio-surf.com/forum/index.php?topic=4907.0).
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Mon, 10 January 2011, 11:15:58
I just use a mix of WMP, iTunes, and VLC.  I don't worry too much about a media player on my computer, I just use my iPod for music and my TV for videos.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Apocrypha on Thu, 13 January 2011, 02:45:42
Quote from: phillip;275920
music - foobar
movies - mpc-hc


This. And I can't stand anything else anymore. I'm fine with VLC on some else's computer but there were a few things it wasn't playing for me.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Tony on Thu, 13 January 2011, 02:47:44
VLC for all media file types.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Earth Worm Jim on Thu, 13 January 2011, 03:23:17
Rhythmbox
VLC
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: TheSoulhunter on Thu, 13 January 2011, 03:57:07
MPC-HC + ffdshow for video and foobar2000 for music...
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: urlwolf on Thu, 13 January 2011, 07:22:56
Let not forget some nice console based players. I'm using cmus right now to drive playlist changes from my laptop (desktop has the good soundcard and is plugged to the hifi). I only need a shell. It has its own library, replaygain works... great.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: kidchunks on Thu, 13 January 2011, 07:34:33
MPC-HC x64 and foobar2000

It just works...
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Ekaros on Thu, 13 January 2011, 08:32:38
Quote from: williamjoseph;275968
i use "The KM Player". but the latest version is giving me some .dll errors before running....


KMPlayer FTW!

Still, I might need some media library software for all my videos, any ideas?
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Daniel Beaver on Thu, 13 January 2011, 08:34:20
Foobar and VLC.

Glad to see there's a consensus :)
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Scarzy on Thu, 13 January 2011, 09:16:58
God i've not been on here in a while.

I use foobar2k (columns ui, audioscrobbler with binds all over the place)  for windows, and MPC-HC for my videos. Linux I used some terminal based player and Banshee, but banshee was pretty buggy I thought.

I used to use VLC but I found it bloaty at times, MPC is brilliant for everything I need to watch (with H264 codecs).

Also, just got asked why ripster is a 'girl version of harry potter' by a class mate.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: thebilgerat on Thu, 13 January 2011, 09:46:30
Quote from: Ekaros;277835
KMPlayer FTW!

Still, I might need some media library software for all my videos, any ideas?


KMplayer is just a GUI frontend for the real deal -mplayer.  Just go to the Mplayer website and download the latest codecs.

Alternately, if you are using a linux, just search your repo for w32codecs or w64codecs depending on your arch.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: firestorm on Thu, 13 January 2011, 10:42:38
I use MediaMonkey mainly, even though it writes non-standard tags and an older version fubared almost all of my FLAC files.  I also use foobar 2000, but mainly for creating lossy copies of my FLAC files for portable devices.  Most of our music gets played via a Squeezebox though.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Keymonger on Thu, 13 January 2011, 11:25:46
Ncmpcpp + MPD for music

Mplayer / VLC for video

Using a daemon/server for music is quite nice. It makes sense to me... music outputs to headphones or speakers, not the screen, so you only need to interface with it every once in a while with a client.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: HaaTa on Thu, 13 January 2011, 11:31:58
I started using mpd + ncmpcpp only because I had to kill X all the time for the work I was doing.
Never looked back after that.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: NimbleRabit on Thu, 13 January 2011, 11:55:22
Quote from: bigpook;275882
I mostly use Rhythmbox but just downloaded Clementine 0.6. Have to say it is pretty sweet. From what I am reading it is a Gnome port of Amarok. I have tried Amarok but didn't like it as it seemed way too bloated. Clementine doesn't come off as over done to me though. It has this cool feature where you can hear 'rain' in the background while the song is playing. It is oddly pleasant.
However, the 'all hail the hypnotoad' is pretty bad : )


I've been using Clementine for a few months now, and I love it.  Crazy to see somebody else who uses it - I normally don't see it mentioned in these kinds of posts.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: instantkamera on Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:33:44
Quote from: Keymonger;277958
Ncmpcpp + MPD for music

Mplayer / VLC for video

Using a daemon/server for music is quite nice. It makes sense to me... music outputs to headphones or speakers, not the screen, so you only need to interface with it every once in a while with a client.


Quote from: HaaTa;277962
I started using mpd + ncmpcpp only because I had to kill X all the time for the work I was doing.
Never looked back after that.


One of the reasons I use Music on Console ('mocp')
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: urlwolf on Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:47:51
I'm impressed there's at least 3 of us using console apps to play  music.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Ekaros on Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:52:05
Quote from: thebilgerat;277881
KMplayer is just a GUI frontend for the real deal -mplayer.  Just go to the Mplayer website and download the latest codecs.

Alternately, if you are using a linux, just search your repo for w32codecs or w64codecs depending on your arch.


Hmm, why they have to use same names:
http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php

I use this one, displays almost all formats and does well with subtitles and different audio tracks...
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: instantkamera on Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:52:21
Quote from: urlwolf;278009
I'm impressed there's at least 3 of us using console apps to play  music.


to be fair I use console apps for most things.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Ekaros on Thu, 13 January 2011, 13:47:19
Quote from: urlwolf;278009
I'm impressed there's at least 3 of us using console apps to play  music.

What does consoles have any other fuction than music and dvds?


Edit:
I know what console is, have some experience with UNIX-shell and I'm pure-PC-gamer. So gaming consoles have little more use than DVD-player, or about same...
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: instantkamera on Thu, 13 January 2011, 13:59:31
Quote from: Ekaros;278045
What does consoles have any other fuction than music and dvds?


does not compute.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: thebilgerat on Thu, 13 January 2011, 14:44:53
Quote from: Ekaros;278045
What does consoles have any other fuction than music and dvds?


In the linux world there are two main toolkits for GUI interfaces QT and GTK.  KDE uses QT, gnome uses GTK.  a console based app is simply one that decides not to play along with these newer (and buggier) ideas and is run good old unix command line style.  This is why I use mplayer, because I organize my media by type, artist etc on my hard drive anyway, I can create text document playlists, etc etc.  and all I have to type is "mplayer foo.bar" and off it goes.  Never crashes, never chokes on whatever media I throw at it to include youtube.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Thu, 13 January 2011, 15:13:07
In windows, Foobar 2000. I haven't used linux in a long enough time to have a preference there anymore.

Last time I used linux, audio quality was horendous because of the mass adoption of gstreamer, which quite frankly, sounds like ass.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: polygon on Thu, 13 January 2011, 19:45:39
for Movies:

Windows Media Player with Nvidia Codec Addon

For organisation:
Windows explorer. Lots of folders. Music players are over rated, I do it oldschool. Plus on HTPC -> XBMC.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: godly_music on Fri, 14 January 2011, 10:07:21
For organisation (foobar2000):

F:\(archive)\[$lower($swapprefix(%album artist%))\][$lower(%album%)\][%discnumber%.][%tracknumber% - ][$lower(%artist%) - ][$lower(%title%)]

When a line of script can auto-sort your 50.000 songs for you, is it overrated?
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: yagami on Sun, 23 January 2011, 15:26:54
foobar2000
mpc-hc
KMPlayer
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: keyboardlover on Sun, 23 January 2011, 15:29:18
I usually use Media Player Classic x64 HomeCinema edition. In the rare cases that it doesn't handle a file well, I use VLC.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 23 January 2011, 15:52:50
XMPlay XMPlay XMPlay.

All other media players fall flat when it comes to supporting the most wide amount of formats with the lowest CPU footprint.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 23 January 2011, 15:59:31
To play  media,  I use a video tapes, 8-tracks, cassettes, and records.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 23 January 2011, 16:05:28
Quote from: microsoft windows;283512
To play  media,  I use a video tapes, 8-tracks, cassettes, and records.


You should try to find a 12" of Comptuerwelt:


Or trans-europe express!


So many brats today spoiled by their MP3s :p

There's an interesting history about digital cassettes and why they were quickly taken off the market...
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Mon, 24 January 2011, 04:46:13
Quote from: EverythingIBM;283509
XMPlay XMPlay XMPlay.

All other media players fall flat when it comes to supporting the most wide amount of formats with the lowest CPU footprint.


I might have to give this a listen. "Balls on accurate" it says. I'm a foobar fan myself mainly because the vast majority of pc using audiophiles are. Sometimes doing what everyone else does has it's perks. Foobar is like the mustang of the audio community.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: keyb_gr on Mon, 24 January 2011, 10:38:44
Quote from: EverythingIBM;283513
There's an interesting history about digital cassettes and why they were quickly taken off the market...
DCC? Well, new formats with backwards compatibility have rarely been that successful.
Quote from: aynjell;283788
I might have to give this a listen. "Balls on accurate" it says. I'm a foobar fan myself mainly because the vast majority of pc using audiophiles are. Sometimes doing what everyone else does has it's perks. Foobar is like the mustang of the audio community.
Well, I hope you had more reasons than "everyone else uses it". Several years ago Fb2k was ahead of pretty much everything, with textbook-level processing, gapless playback, Replaygain (read and write) support, kernel streaming support and extensive customization options. (Keep in mind that Foobar's author was a former Winamp plugin developer who was dissatisfied with how things worked in that player, so he decided to roll his own in about '02.) It certainly hasn't gotten any worse. The support policy still sucks though.

What I use:
Music library - Foobar2000 1.0.3
Video, PVR timeshift recordings - VLC
Radio recording archive - Winamp 5.3.5
Web MP3 streaming - MPC / MPC-HC
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Tue, 25 January 2011, 14:14:13
Quote from: keyb_gr;283905
DCC? Well, new formats with backwards compatibility have rarely been that successful.

Well, I hope you had more reasons than "everyone else uses it". Several years ago Fb2k was ahead of pretty much everything, with textbook-level processing, gapless playback, Replaygain (read and write) support, kernel streaming support and extensive customization options. (Keep in mind that Foobar's author was a former Winamp plugin developer who was dissatisfied with how things worked in that player, so he decided to roll his own in about '02.) It certainly hasn't gotten any worse. The support policy still sucks though.

What I use:
Music library - Foobar2000 1.0.3
Video, PVR timeshift recordings - VLC
Radio recording archive - Winamp 5.3.5
Web MP3 streaming - MPC / MPC-HC

I use it because it provides exact playback, wasapi, and the crossfeed plugin is good too. Also I can rip CD's with verification, re-tagging is easy, and I can setup the screen exactly the way I like it. It works perfectly for all my uses.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: DanGWanG on Tue, 25 January 2011, 14:31:19
I still use Winamp with classic skin.  It really whips the llamas ass, you know.

Does anyone here use Grooveshark?  I started exclusively using it for everything.  I save playlists and add things to my library just as I would with itunes and my d: drive, except I don't have to store anything.  I'm not a hardcore music stereohead enthusiast, but the quality is still amazing when I listen to it through my Sennheiser 555s.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Tue, 25 January 2011, 23:23:13
Quote from: aynjell;283788
I might have to give this a listen. "Balls on accurate" it says. I'm a foobar fan myself mainly because the vast majority of pc using audiophiles are. Sometimes doing what everyone else does has it's perks. Foobar is like the mustang of the audio community.


XMPlay also does tracker files. No other media player I know of can support so many tracker formats (.IT, .MO3, .S3M, .XM, etc.) or render them so nicely. Even the original Amiga players sound inferior to me.

But it works great for any audio really.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Brian8bit on Tue, 25 January 2011, 23:32:31
XMPlay is great and what I use on my Windows box, specifically because of it's tracker format support. However it does have a tendency to crash if you try and load thousands of files (in a folder) at one time. I just make separate playlists of each folder in the HVSC archive rather than try and load them all at once. Another problem I had was trying to play (I think it's) sc68 files which requires the installation of a dll and registry tweaking to point it at the right place. I hate having to set that up on a fresh install. That said there's absolutely nothing XMPlay can't play and if it can't, comment on the forums about it and someone will come up with a plugin for it.

I've yet to find anything on Mac that comes close to being as stable and supporting as much as XMPlay does. Which is a shame.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: godly_music on Wed, 26 January 2011, 07:54:50
WASAPI, ASIO or kernel streaming do not make things sound different. They are used for low latency audio work. They may sound different if your typical windows mixer setting is messed up and it adds DSPs, etc.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Wed, 26 January 2011, 12:19:17
Quote from: godly_music;285078
WASAPI, ASIO or kernel streaming do not make things sound different. They are used for low latency audio work. They may sound different if your typical windows mixer setting is messed up and it adds DSPs, etc.

I've noticed it doesn't make anything sound different, however it does make a really nice "turn everything else off" feature. Foobar is not set to use on open on any files. It is strictly a media browser. It doesn't play music files unless I explicitly tell it to. For everything else, there's VLC. In the case of foobar, if I'm sitting down to listen to an album, no distractions are permitted.

Thus WASAPI, also it prevents ANY mixer interference. It's a bit paranoid in this regard, but there are reasons for me to use it.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: godly_music on Wed, 26 January 2011, 14:39:32
You're right, of course, that's an excellent reason to use it. I'm so used to the usual answer of "it sounds different" that I automatically assumed. :biggrin:
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Wed, 26 January 2011, 18:09:33
Quote from: godly_music;285348
You're right, of course, that's an excellent reason to use it. I'm so used to the usual answer of "it sounds different" that I automatically assumed. :biggrin:

I never could hear much of a difference, but I think I use wasapi for the same reason I use flac. I KNOW FOR A FACT my sound card is playing as true to the source as it physically possibly can. Foobar, playing FLAC that was verified against the accuraterip database (if it's on my drive, it's 100% verified unless there's no record of the album), through wasapi out via optical to an external DAC. I want my computer to screw up my music as little as physically possible. I'll let my tubes do all of that. :O
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 27 January 2011, 03:14:44
Quote from: aynjell;285481
I never could hear much of a difference, but I think I use wasapi for the same reason I use flac. I KNOW FOR A FACT my sound card is playing as true to the source as it physically possibly can. Foobar, playing FLAC that was verified against the accuraterip database (if it's on my drive, it's 100% verified unless there's no record of the album), through wasapi out via optical to an external DAC. I want my computer to screw up my music as little as physically possible. I'll let my tubes do all of that. :O


I find FLAC so inconvenient. If you want good quality just use WAVs, they have 3 TB HDDs these days anyways.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: godly_music on Thu, 27 January 2011, 03:43:41
Quote from: EverythingIBM;285602
I find FLAC so inconvenient. If you want good quality just use WAVs, they have 3 TB HDDs these days anyways.


He trollin'.

I'm a big fan of FLAC myself, but it's just what I download and later transcode into Vorbis Q6, which is for keeping and listening.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: keyb_gr on Thu, 27 January 2011, 06:49:09
I actually have Foobar output via DSound since I need the soundcard driver's feature that duplicates stereo on all channels in order to run both speakers and headphones. Accordingly, the output format is set up as 16 bit with dithering. In terms of processing, I only have Replaygain and mono->stereo conversion enabled. It's not "bit perfect" (strictly speaking), but transparent.
People get worked up about bit-perfect playback too much - the system should be able to pull it off, but that doesn't mean you have to give up all kinds of convenience features like RG.

My (CD) music library is all in FLAC, plus transcoded medium-bitrate MP3s for portable use. I don't feel like ripping things again.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Thu, 27 January 2011, 15:46:31
Quote from: EverythingIBM;285602
I find FLAC so inconvenient. If you want good quality just use WAVs, they have 3 TB HDDs these days anyways.


Flac quality is the same as wav, but it also provides tagging functionality including album covers which improves convenience and user experience. Also, the files are better compressed. While it is less usable on some systems, in my use case, it's best possible option, so I use it.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: aynjell on Thu, 27 January 2011, 19:26:07
Quote from: ripster;285938
WAVs?  Wow, when you say EverythingIBM you ain't kidding.

React 2.0 to create both MP3 and Flac using EAC into both file types automatically on my media server with embedded album art.  DbPoweramp will do the same but I haven't tried it.



That's one reason I love foobar, every feature in EAC (the file verification) I care about is reproducible in foobar. Hooray for one app to rule them all (music wise)!
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 27 January 2011, 19:49:18
Quote from: ripster;285938
WAVs?  Wow, when you say EverythingIBM you ain't kidding.

React 2.0 to create both MP3 and Flac using EAC into both file types automatically on my media server with embedded album art.  DbPoweramp will do the same but I haven't tried it.


I've always had a hard ass time playing FLACs... I just hate the format. OGG is more mainstream.

There seriously is nothing wrong with WAVs, storage is getting so large that it doesn't matter anymore.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: godly_music on Fri, 28 January 2011, 07:17:40
Yeah but FLAC is 1/2 the size of WAV and it's still huge. I've never run into anything that couldn't handle FLAC, except maybe for some Apple junk that only accepts ALAC. You can lossless transcode that easily.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Jerri on Fri, 28 January 2011, 08:12:32
Winamp since about 1998 ;). But sometimes i would try some new one.
For Midis i use Dosbox -> Win 3.11 -> Creative Midi Player (SB16 Driver), don't know why, but they handle midis different, they sound better in Win 3.11.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: keyboardlover on Fri, 28 January 2011, 08:34:28
Another Winamp user here!
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: slueth on Sun, 13 February 2011, 13:42:57
I use foobar and zune player.  
Foobar can run flac but the user interface could use some love.  
One has functionality and the other is just more intuitive.
Used to use winamp but for some reason I don't any more.  Probably because they have way too many updates and each time they trick me to installing 3rd party crap.
On Ubuntu i just use Rythmbox, I used to use Amarok but the lastest revisions must of been developed by a different set of people because it is awful.. Amarok 1.X > 2.0 after that it crashes and the is not as smooth.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Mercen_505 on Sun, 13 February 2011, 15:03:51
Regarding XMPlay

Quote

However it does have a tendency to crash if you try and load thousands of files (in a folder) at one time.



I had that complaint for quite some time. As it turns out, it was actually a problem with one of the 1500+ files I was asking it to queue. Once I removed the file, I was good to go. The problem is that it can be wonky about pinpointing exactly which file made it take a **** all over itself. You load a ton of files, hear the hard drive grinding in the background, and a few seconds later it dies on you. Not helpful!

But really, it would be nice to see a dialog box pop up with something like "error: foo_bar.mp3 is corrupt. Derping."

Other than that, XMPlay is the ****.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: DaemonRaccoon on Sun, 13 February 2011, 16:21:58
Chalk up another Linux CLI guy here:
ncmpcpp + mpc - music
mplayer - videos

If I ever get around to using Windows again it'll be foobar2000 and either MPC-HC or VLC.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Lethal Squirrel on Sun, 13 February 2011, 16:54:33
whatever opens when I click on a song or video
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 13 February 2011, 17:05:13
Quote from: Lethal Squirrel;294519
whatever opens when I click on a song or video


Pretty much what I do.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: audioave10 on Sun, 13 February 2011, 22:32:09
WMP & VLC
good enough for me
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: D-EJ915 on Sun, 13 February 2011, 22:33:46
Quote from: sixty;276118
Had gotten "used to" Winamp for so many years too. Probably used WinAmp exclusively from 1998 to 2003 or so... until the day Nullsoft came up with Winamp 3. That was when I instantly abandoned them in shame and disgust, and never looked back.

Anyone remember Sonique?

Show Image
(http://www.versiondownload.com/sonique-player/Downloads/audio-and-video/sonique-player/3.jpg)


Man I'm getting old.

haha yeah, it had some pretty killer skins.  sonique 2 tried but wasn't as nice, the pitch feature was neat too

I usually use foobar on windows and audacious or xmms on unix systems.  mplayer or vlc for video.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: jnsjr on Mon, 14 February 2011, 22:42:55
foobar2000 and winamp for audio and zoomplayer or vlc for video
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Hak Foo on Mon, 14 February 2011, 23:51:38
WMP + a sidebar application to control it.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: EdwardTeach on Thu, 10 March 2011, 05:56:46
I have been pondering this recently. I spent last weekend ripping my entire CD collection (several 100) onto my computer. I haven't had a CD player for a couple of years, but have been incredibly lazy about switching to using my computer for music.

I have been finding WMP ok so far, but I have also been recommended Songbird and Foobar and I think I will check them out.

Now I need to buy myself a semi decent set of speakers becasue the ones I have currently are awful!
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: n12 on Wed, 16 March 2011, 00:49:15
Audio: Foobar2000
Video: VLC
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Howie on Thu, 17 March 2011, 17:44:34
Audio: Keeping it oldschool, still using winamp
Video: VLC.
Pretty standard I guess.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: quadibloc on Fri, 18 March 2011, 17:58:31
Quote from: j_r;275946
VLC player since I really don't make time to convert all my media into a standard format.
Yes, VLC Player is very useful.

Quote from: Lethal Squirrel;294519
whatever opens when I click on a song or video
Oh, you trusting soul. I just about never double-click on documents, only programs. Although, by ensuring that I have "Hide extensions for known file types" unchecked, (Windows Explorer (program) > Tools > Options > View (tab) > Hide extensions for known file types (checkbox in scrollbox)) I keep the danger to a minimum.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: RiGS on Fri, 18 March 2011, 18:10:09
lol I don't listen audio
video: mpc-hc
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 18 March 2011, 18:38:28
Banshee for Music, either KMPlayer (the Windows, not KDE, application) or VLC for video.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: strum4h on Sat, 26 March 2011, 03:31:33
zune player. I would use winamp and get it to scrobble what I listen to but I just like to use what my player can handle.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: HaveANiceDay on Sat, 26 March 2011, 13:02:23
I used mostly winamp and foobar. But while searching for an even simpler solution, I stumbled upon billy (http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy).

Here is a screenshot:
(http://i.imgur.com/K1Cz7.gif)

Not my playlist! :D
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: cgoldberg on Sat, 26 March 2011, 13:54:49
VLC on Linux
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: ktkr on Sat, 26 March 2011, 14:39:33
MPC-HC (from CCCP) for video,
foobar2000 for audio.

The (unfortunately) oh-so-popular VLC doesn't get any points from me. About every second release has broken matroska support and SSA subtitle rendering.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: Johannes on Sat, 26 March 2011, 16:15:52
Always mplayer for video.
foobar2000 for music when I'm on Windows.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: nmd on Sat, 26 March 2011, 18:44:15
foobar with ASIO plugin.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: panda-R on Sat, 26 March 2011, 18:56:29
FOOBAR w/ WASABI!
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: What is X? on Sat, 26 March 2011, 20:18:33
WMP for music and VLC for video. They just work.
Title: What media player do you use?
Post by: BucklingSpring on Sun, 27 March 2011, 09:57:17
Quote from: phillip;275920
music - foobar
movies - mpc-hc


Same as above

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