What media player do you use?

[bigpook]

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]

foobar2000. I enjoy customizing and scripting stupid things.

[phillip]

music - foobar
movies - mpc-hc

[instantkamera]

mocp for tunes.

youtube for videos

[j_r]

VLC player since I really don't make time to convert all my media into a standard format.

[thebilgerat]

mplayer.

[HaaTa]

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]

Windows:
music: foobar
media: gom + mpchc

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

[NAVIWORLDINC]

Audio: WMP
Video: MPC-HC

[williamjoseph]

i use "The KM Player". but the latest version is giving me some .dll errors before running....

[db_Iodine]

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

[lowpoly]

SMPlayer (= mplayer + interface)

[urlwolf]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Vids: MPC-HC
All else: XMPlay

[nanu]

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]

Vlc

[nanu]

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]

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]

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]

VLC for all media file types.

[Earth Worm Jim]

Rhythmbox
VLC

[TheSoulhunter]

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

[urlwolf]

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]

MPC-HC x64 and foobar2000

It just works...

[Ekaros]

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]

Foobar and VLC.

Glad to see there's a consensus

[Scarzy]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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

[Ekaros]

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]

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]

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]

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

does not compute.

[thebilgerat]

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]

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]

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]

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]

foobar2000
mpc-hc
KMPlayer

[keyboardlover]

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]

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]

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

[EverythingIBM]

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...

[aynjell]

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.

[keyb_gr]

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.

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

[aynjell]

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.

[DanGWanG]

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.

[EverythingIBM]

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.

[Brian8bit]

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.

[godly_music]

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.

[aynjell]

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.

[godly_music]

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:

[aynjell]

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

[EverythingIBM]

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.

[godly_music]

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.

[keyb_gr]

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.

[aynjell]

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.

[aynjell]

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)!

[EverythingIBM]

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.

[godly_music]

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.

[Jerri]

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.

[keyboardlover]

Another Winamp user here!

[slueth]

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.

[Mercen_505]

Regarding XMPlay

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 ****.

[DaemonRaccoon]

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.

[Lethal Squirrel]

whatever opens when I click on a song or video

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

whatever opens when I click on a song or video

Pretty much what I do.

[audioave10]

WMP & VLC
good enough for me

[D-EJ915]

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?

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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.

[jnsjr]

foobar2000 and winamp for audio and zoomplayer or vlc for video

[Hak Foo]

WMP + a sidebar application to control it.

[EdwardTeach]

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!

[n12]

Audio: Foobar2000
Video: VLC

[Howie]

Audio: Keeping it oldschool, still using winamp
Video: VLC.
Pretty standard I guess.

[quadibloc]

VLC player since I really don't make time to convert all my media into a standard format.

Yes, VLC Player is very useful.

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.

[RiGS]

lol I don't listen audio
video: mpc-hc

[ch_123]

Banshee for Music, either KMPlayer (the Windows, not KDE, application) or VLC for video.

[strum4h]

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.

[HaveANiceDay]

I used mostly winamp and foobar. But while searching for an even simpler solution, I stumbled upon billy.

Here is a screenshot:


Not my playlist!

[cgoldberg]

VLC on Linux

[ktkr]

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.

[Johannes]

Always mplayer for video.
foobar2000 for music when I'm on Windows.

[nmd]

foobar with ASIO plugin.

[panda-R]

FOOBAR w/ WASABI!

[What is X?]

WMP for music and VLC for video. They just work.

[BucklingSpring]

music - foobar
movies - mpc-hc

Same as above

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