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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Melvang on Fri, 17 May 2013, 01:00:04
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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.
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I only use *nix. I use VLC or CCCP.
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foobar2000 for music.
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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.
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I use foobar for music, vlc for everything else. I tried media player classic but I prefer vlc.
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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.
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I use foobar for music, vlc for everything else.
Pretty much sums it up for me too :D
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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....
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One more thing. Once you go flac you never go back, although :
I think people calling them selfs audiophiles and using a PC for there main source of music are pretty silly....
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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.
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Winamp for music
VLC for video
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Foobar2000 for music, Media Player Classic for video.
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sounds good guys thanks i will give Foobar2k a shot
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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.
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Foobar + WASAPI.
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foobar ofc.
(http://i.imgur.com/HKfKehK.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/VL1FqX4.png)
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foobar for music. vlc for video
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Foobar also has a nice plugin for syncing with your ipod, so you never have to use itunes again!
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Foobar + WASAPI.
This exactly
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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.
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audio: Amarok (VLC on Phonon level) or Audacious
video: MPlayer from CLI, Kaffeine for TV, VLC otherwise
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Anyone tried Miro?
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Anyone tried Miro?
About four years ago. It was weird.
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Anyone use ulilith?
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VLC and XBMC for video. For music at home, mostly MPD (and associated clients).
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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!
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I use Foobar2000 for music and Media Player Classic for videos.
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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.
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Foobar
MPC-HC for vidya
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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.
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Foodbar for music and the K-Lite thing with the codec pack for video.
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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.
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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.
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Winamp for music and VLC for videos.
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i use foobar and i use a fiio x3 and alost i have a tube amp
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Music: Winamp
Video: VLC
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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.
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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.
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mpc-hc + foobar2k if not you're missing out.
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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. :-\
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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.
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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).
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foobar works for audio
mpc + lav + madvr for video
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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.
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Daum's Pot Player for video, FooBar for muzak.
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I forgot about zoom player. That was pretty good for videos too (I haven't used it in a while).
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Foobar2000 for music, MPC or Potplayer for video...
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Foobar2000
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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.
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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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foobar2000 is the obvious pick for Windows unless you're heavily Appleized.
MPC-HC, LAV Filters and madVR also work beautifully together, although the new madVR scaling is too GPU intensive. I preferred the Intel-optimized ffdshow builds for upscaling via CPU, but sadly ffdshow is no longer being actively developed.
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...but sadly ffdshow is no longer being actively developed.
Work with Milan (the original dev) was nice as he was open for suggestions and critic, you supplied some code or a lib, explained it's benefits and it was implemented, I wish he would come back ;_;
The tryouts team focused mainly on bugfixing and optimizing, which is fine, but they didn't took any input (at least from me), that's why there were not much new features for ages...
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On *nix I use cmus for music and smplayer for video.
On windows I use foobar for music and Media Player Classic for video.
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Back when I used Windows, I used Foobar2k, which is a fantastic music player, MPC-HC for video.
On Linux, I use mpd+ncmpcpp, which, aside from its shoddy .cue support is quite nice, and SMplayer for video.
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I'm running a pretty minimalist Linux install so I use mpd with ncmpcpp.
Long live the terminal :)
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Foobar2k on windows. Moc in Linux and mplayer in both.
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Guys, I finally switched to Winamp after finding out that iTunes doesn't support MIDI files. Hooray! And the reason why I did this is because I recently found out about Black MIDI music which is the craziest stuff in the world! You should check it out if you haven't.
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Guys, I finally switched to Winamp after finding out that iTunes doesn't support MIDI files. Hooray! And the reason why I did this is because I recently found out about Black MIDI music which is the craziest stuff in the world! You should check it out if you haven't.
It's sad that Winamp finally died :(
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Guys, I finally switched to Winamp after finding out that iTunes doesn't support MIDI files. Hooray! And the reason why I did this is because I recently found out about Black MIDI music which is the craziest stuff in the world! You should check it out if you haven't.
It's sad that Winamp finally died :(
It is sad, but it still works!
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I like music bee. Not sure why, but I like it. I guess it just some how works for me..
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It's sad that Winamp finally died :(
Seems like they're working on something according to the new site. As I no longer use Winamp my only concern was the amazing collection of skins would be lost. Apparently not, thankfully.