Posted October 30, 2010
Foobar2000.
AIMP2 is a good alternative too.
AIMP2 is a good alternative too.
Vlidi
New User
Registered: Mar 2009
From Spain
michaelleung
YOU ARE ALL RETARDS
Registered: Sep 2008
From Canada
Posted October 30, 2010
iTunes because I'm such an Apple whore.
Well because I own an iPod. And I like the interface and I know if I use anything else for my podcasts it will fuck up on the iPod.
Well because I own an iPod. And I like the interface and I know if I use anything else for my podcasts it will fuck up on the iPod.
stormless
clear skies
Registered: Aug 2009
From United States
Posted October 30, 2010
I use foobar. It's incredibly light weight, especially coming from iTunes, which I was using before.
Lobsang1979
Placeholder
Registered: Aug 2009
From United Kingdom
Posted October 30, 2010
Another vote for foobar here. Light, customizable and expandable with plugins.
I found it by accident when I asked Google the same question as the OP.
I found it by accident when I asked Google the same question as the OP.
TheCheese33
Saves The Day
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted October 30, 2010
I just tried that, and was very surprised. This forum is the fourth result for "music player of choice"! What the hell? I figured more people would ask that.
xyem
Old-ish User
Registered: Sep 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted October 30, 2010
MPD :)
I have it set up so that when I get home from a drive, my car playlist synchronises with my server so it's (almost) uninterrupted as I get back into the house. Same when I go out to my car and start it (it syncs with my server).
I have it set up so that when I get home from a drive, my car playlist synchronises with my server so it's (almost) uninterrupted as I get back into the house. Same when I go out to my car and start it (it syncs with my server).
orcishgamer
Mad and Green
Registered: Jun 2010
From United States
Posted October 30, 2010
Been meaning to try this one.
Songbird sucks, only works on Windows well.
Exhaile rocks but is spare in features and only really works well under Gnome in Linux.
Banshee is a crappy, crappy app (Mono, need I say more?)
Rythmbox is alright, iTunes clone, but I think you need Gnome for it as well.
I won't use iTunes.
I tried Jaangle but either it sucks or confused me, not sure which, but didn't like it.
I'm set on a Linux box, I'll happily use Exhaile, I just don't have a good Windows media player (not a big fan of Winamp, but need more than VLC).
KavazovAngel: Music-related stuff that I use...
FL Studio - obviously, for music production (taking a break from right now, gotta focus on university first).
Ableton Live - for making sets, compilations, mashups, simple remixes, cuts and other similar stuff.
Sony Sound Forge - for making some small edits to some tracks, using it together with Live and FL Studio.
Exact Audio Copy - for ripping CDs. Connected with LAME, for making high-qualty 320kbps MP3s from the wav files for use in my portable devices.
FLAC - for decoding FLAC files, I don't encode into FLAC, though. Like my music in wav (for lappy playback and archiving) and mp3 format (for portable playback).
Windows Media Player, for everyday playback of the music.
EDIT: Forgot Mp3tag, which I use to add tags and information to the MP3 files. EAC is the bomb for ripping. It samples over and over again until it gets the sequential identical reads. I've ripped some screwed up CDs with this. It also supports tagging and will offload encoding to LAME (even passing tagging info to it for you).
Songbird sucks, only works on Windows well.
Exhaile rocks but is spare in features and only really works well under Gnome in Linux.
Banshee is a crappy, crappy app (Mono, need I say more?)
Rythmbox is alright, iTunes clone, but I think you need Gnome for it as well.
I won't use iTunes.
I tried Jaangle but either it sucks or confused me, not sure which, but didn't like it.
I'm set on a Linux box, I'll happily use Exhaile, I just don't have a good Windows media player (not a big fan of Winamp, but need more than VLC).
FL Studio - obviously, for music production (taking a break from right now, gotta focus on university first).
Ableton Live - for making sets, compilations, mashups, simple remixes, cuts and other similar stuff.
Sony Sound Forge - for making some small edits to some tracks, using it together with Live and FL Studio.
Exact Audio Copy - for ripping CDs. Connected with LAME, for making high-qualty 320kbps MP3s from the wav files for use in my portable devices.
FLAC - for decoding FLAC files, I don't encode into FLAC, though. Like my music in wav (for lappy playback and archiving) and mp3 format (for portable playback).
Windows Media Player, for everyday playback of the music.
EDIT: Forgot Mp3tag, which I use to add tags and information to the MP3 files.
Post edited October 30, 2010 by orcishgamer
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dapperoctopus
Registered: Dec 2008
From Australia
Posted October 31, 2010
This thread has reminded me that I need to check Songbird out again. Getting a bit sick of iTunes and Foobar.
PoSSeSSeDCoW
Moove on over.
Registered: Jan 2009
From United States
Posted October 31, 2010
MediaMonkey.
I love it.
I love it.
shantae.
Ret - 2 - Gog
Registered: Oct 2008
From Canada
Posted October 31, 2010
I use Winamp. It serves me well.
riddler214
Am I Real?
Registered: Jan 2010
From Philippines
Posted October 31, 2010
Another vote for foobar here. Best music player in years. That's from a user who have used most of the mainstream offering for the past decade or so (winamp, sonique, musicmatch, itunes, mediamonkey, wmp etc).
Foobar + FLAC + (insert good DAC/AMP here) + Grado SR80i = Musical bliss!
Foobar + FLAC + (insert good DAC/AMP here) + Grado SR80i = Musical bliss!
Post edited October 31, 2010 by riddler214
RowdyRodimus
GOG World Champ
Registered: Sep 2010
From United States
Posted October 31, 2010
Media Player. All I listen to are podcasts and most of those have flash players for them so the only one I have to download is Wrestlecrap Radio (which if you are a wrestling fan, you need to check out @ Wrestlecrap.com "The very worst in professional wrestling")