Author Topic: What media player do you use? (Read 22180 times)

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 : )

nanu · « **Reply #1 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 19:35:52 »

foobar2000. I enjoy customizing and scripting stupid things.

phillip · « **Reply #2 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 21:16:56 »

music - foobar
movies - mpc-hc

instantkamera · « **Reply #3 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 21:34:25 »

mocp for tunes.

youtube for videos

j_r · « **Reply #4 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.

thebilgerat · « **Reply #5 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 22:33:40 »

mplayer.

HaaTa · « **Reply #6 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 23:15:05 »

Linux:

mplayer
mpd
sometimes vlc

Windows:

foobar2000
vlc
mpc

Music is through Ampache, and I have a bunch of custom tagging scripts (tagging fanatic as well)

sixty · « **Reply #7 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 23:26:29 »

Windows:
music: foobar
media: gom + mpchc

Linux:
music: deadbeef
media: i dont watch movies on my linux box

NAVIWORLDINC · « **Reply #8 on:** Sun, 09 January 2011, 23:34:09 »

Audio: WMP
Video: MPC-HC

williamjoseph · « **Reply #9 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....

db_Iodine · « **Reply #10 on:** Mon, 10 January 2011, 02:12:19 »

Like many, I use Foobar for music and MPC-HC or VLC for other media.

lowpoly · « **Reply #11 on:** Mon, 10 January 2011, 04:07:42 »

SMPlayer (= mplayer + interface)

urlwolf · « **Reply #12 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.

godly_music · « **Reply #13 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.

Senor_Cartmenez · « **Reply #14 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

sixty · « **Reply #15 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?

Man I'm getting old.

Mercen_505 · « **Reply #16 on:** Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:22:24 »

Vids: MPC-HC
All else: XMPlay

nanu · « **Reply #17 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.

bugfix · « **Reply #18 on:** Mon, 10 January 2011, 10:27:24 »

nanu · « **Reply #19 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

also, blatant plug for something i wrote what feels like a long time ago to bridge foobar2000 and audiosurf: AsPyFoo.

Computer-Lab in Basement · « **Reply #20 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.

Apocrypha · « **Reply #21 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.

Tony · « **Reply #22 on:** Thu, 13 January 2011, 02:47:44 »

VLC for all media file types.

Earth Worm Jim · « **Reply #23 on:** Thu, 13 January 2011, 03:23:17 »

Rhythmbox
VLC

TheSoulhunter · « **Reply #24 on:** Thu, 13 January 2011, 03:57:07 »

MPC-HC + ffdshow for video and foobar2000 for music...

urlwolf · « **Reply #25 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.

kidchunks · « **Reply #26 on:** Thu, 13 January 2011, 07:34:33 »

MPC-HC x64 and foobar2000

It just works...

Ekaros · « **Reply #27 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?

Daniel Beaver · « **Reply #28 on:** Thu, 13 January 2011, 08:34:20 »

Foobar and VLC.

Glad to see there's a consensus

Scarzy · « **Reply #29 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.

thebilgerat · « **Reply #30 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.

firestorm · « **Reply #31 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.

Keymonger · « **Reply #32 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.

HaaTa · « **Reply #33 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.

NimbleRabit · « **Reply #34 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.

instantkamera · « **Reply #35 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')

urlwolf · « **Reply #36 on:** Thu, 13 January 2011, 12:47:51 »

I'm impressed there's at least 3 of us using console apps to play music.

Ekaros · « **Reply #37 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...

instantkamera · « **Reply #38 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.

Ekaros · « **Reply #39 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...

instantkamera · « **Reply #40 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.

thebilgerat · « **Reply #41 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.

aynjell · « **Reply #42 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.

polygon · « **Reply #43 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.

godly_music · « **Reply #44 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?

yagami · « **Reply #45 on:** Sun, 23 January 2011, 15:26:54 »

foobar2000
mpc-hc
KMPlayer

keyboardlover · « **Reply #46 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.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #47 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.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #48 on:** Sun, 23 January 2011, 15:59:31 »

To play media, I use a video tapes, 8-tracks, cassettes, and records.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #49 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

There's an interesting history about digital cassettes and why they were quickly taken off the market...

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Author Topic: What media player do you use? (Read 22180 times)