What do you use for playing your mp3's on your PC?

frobisher

I've been using Windows media player for the simple reason that it's there but I have to say I find it sluggish and clumsy. Any thoughts or sugestions for a high quality replacement?

Ruu_Old

Ah theres loads out there. I have always used Winamp 2.81 (newest version is 5.21 I think).

The Bollox

I use WMP, just because it's simple and user-friendly. I don't see any point in downloading a player that is going to do the exact same thing, just so I can brag about how little of Microsofts software I use

OctavarIan

If you use Windows, and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty customising from scratch, use foobar2000.

If you use Windows, and you just want the generic player, use winamp.

If you use Linux, use Amarok.

Amarok>everything

8T8

Winamp 5 or if you're after something lighter that handles everything MPC.

BlackWizard

I used to use windows but Ive migrated onto i tunes player.

Its just easy to use. I dont have a mp3 player. Just use it to play my music.
A pic of it

Anti

i use the same as Ruu. And sometimes itunes wheni get lazy. Or the creative media suit ( came with the xfi ) for wheni want to watch porn in bed on the projector:p

Zapho

Winamp 5 all the way for me. I love the all the dsp plugins, the media library is nice, and does everything I like in a player.

CarefulNow

anti wrote:

wheni want to watch porn in bed on the projector:p

To much information there.
Anyway I use WMP 11. It does the job.

Lump

I use winamp, media player is too bulky, and annoying for just playing mp3's.

John

RE*AC*TOR

I use foobar2000.

Its simple - low mem usage - I like it.

On the other end of the scale - when I was using linux - Amarok is an awesome media player.

Stephen

I use Winamp 5. Hated how Amarok handled playlists. I just like to load all my mp3s into Winamp and hit shuffle.

sarahn11

i use wmp. i never did like winamp for some reason... sometimes i use itunes, but to be honest i find it very tedious and not at all user friendly!

SouperComputer

It's all network-based here. I use slimserver along with softsqueeze.

Failing that, winamp with classic skin

ShiverinEskimo

iTunes - need it for iPod support. I have enough RAM to ensure it doesn't get sluggish when scrolling. Also the "display duplicate songs" options is worth its weight in gold.

tommycahir

Itunes all the way ere - mainly started using it for ipod but then got used to it but as was said before at times it can be slightly sluggish depending on the machine build

CraggyIslander

winamp 2.8something here as well, the last version before aohell bought them and made it bloatware.

accensi0n

In windows, winamp is teh win.

PiE

Winamp + Classic skin.

Anything that takes more than 0.46 seconds to come up on screen annoys the piss out of me. I'm looking at you WMP/iTunes.

Foobar is great too, but far too much hassle to set up.

trecool

Winamp for sure! I run a small radio station as well so through the night i just make a huge playlist and turn on shoutcast!

John

astrofool

Classic skin winamp here as well, love enqueueing songs. May move over to WMP11 when its out of beta, but will see. Not a fan of iTunes, bit too clunky (Wife has a pink iPod to go with it..:)). Just ordered a proper pair of Sennheisers to listen to them with as well (and not the PC series).

irlrobins

Added a poll.

layke

Winamp 5.2x

Makaveli

Winamp 5, but I use Foobar too because it has unicode support. If I could get Foobar to work properly with Audioscrobbler I'd use it all of the time.

projectmayhem

normally winamp (i enjoy shoutcast) but for my own mp3's i have to use creative mediaplayer (que moany noises etc.) because there's no way to play off the mp3 player in winamp

Blowfish

I use xmms mainly. It's pretty much just a winamp clone for linux, and will even accept winamp skins and plugins.

Mutant_Fruit

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Makaveli wrote:

Winamp 5, but I use Foobar too because it has unicode support. If I could get Foobar to work properly with Audioscrobbler I'd use it all of the time.

I've been scrobbling my foo for a few years now... http://www.last.fm/user/Mutant_Fruit/ Ok, it needs a bit of pruning, it's been contaminated by my brother and sister again What problems are you having with audioscrobbler and foobar?

Corkey123

I use Musicmatch...mmmhhh I think I'm out numbered here. Ok then I'll get me coat.

dr.bollocko

I use WMP unless it doesnt work, in which case I'll use any of the above, I have a lot of codecs randomly darting around my desktop.

But one I really like is musicKube. It is great for searching through a huge music collection, and for generating quick playlists. It indexes your whole collection, which if u have a massive collection can take a bit, but it is specifically for really quick text searching...... really nice bit of freeware. At least I hope its freeware.

PogMoThoin

I use Wmp11 or creative mediasource. Wmp11 is deadly cos you can view all your album art when scrolling thru your collection.

M@lice

I use foobar cos its light on memory. Means I can play games and stuff while listening to music without any noticable impact on performance.

And I don't get all this setting up people are talking about. All I ever had to do was download a wma plugin.

Makaveli

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

What problems are you having with audioscrobbler and foobar?

I'm using an older version of Foobar [v0.8.3] which was working with AS, but when I upgraded to a newer foobar version the plugin stopped working (updated to the most recent plugin at the time). Went back to v0.8.3 because unicode wasn't working for me anymore. Since then AS never connects, and I think I'm still using the old plugin that doesn't cache the tracks.

Meh, once I get my new rig set up I'll sort it out on that, just couldn't really be arsed trying to get it working on this pc.

LunaC

Winamp v2

Was using v5 for a while but after a while it was taking yonks to open files so got rid and got v2.

CombatCow

Winamp 5 with Leo's Lyrics plugin

CC

Giblet

Winamp with gapless playback plugin and pacemaker.

hopeful

MediaMonkey....does what I need it to do...and has cool icon

cornbb

Winamp v.5, although its not perfect. iTunes is my second choice.

WMP is a pile of crap though, its almost impossible to find what you're looking for (e.g. playlist view) and the keyboard shortcuts are just ridiculous.

real_484

i use media monkey great for tagging before i transfer to creactive zen.

JohnK

I use Mediaplayer now but in the past I used Winamp2 and MusicMatch Jukebox

DonkeyStyle \o/

Still using Winamp 2.x ... ain't broke, don't fix it

Fenster

Banshee > Amarok for Linux

I use Musikcube under windows

byte

Winamp 5 for me.

Peteee

MusikCube here aswell.

Easily the best player out there. Plays pretty much anything you want (Plugins), lightning quick search (Not the horrible, stuttery one you get in iTunes), small memory footprint, comes up qucikly, indexes reliably (And updates quickly once it indexes initially)

mike65

Winamp 5.08 and 2.81

Mike.

conzy

QCD player its a nice lght player with nice encoding features and plug-ins...

But it doesnt have a great media library just a big list

Anyone know where I can get Winamp 2.81?

projectmayhem

is there such a thing as a plug-in for winamp that allows direct play from playforsure devices (i.e. vision:m)?

JackKelly

Amarok on Linux, Winamp on Windows. Amarok is the best mp3 player i've ever used.

Lord Oz

Foobar2000 when I'm in windows, Quodlibet when I'm in linux. Quodlibet is a great media player/organiser for linux which does everything, and foobar2000 is very fast to load and uses very little memory.

Ruu_Old

conzymaher wrote:

QCD player its a nice lght player with nice encoding features and plug-ins...

But it doesnt have a great media library just a big list

Anyone know where I can get Winamp 2.81?

Any version you want, here. Brilliant website btw.

Gandhi

Usually Realplayer at work.

At home, usually play MP3s on my Roku, using iTunes on the PC as the server.

OctavarIan

M@lice wrote:

And I don't get all this setting up people are talking about.

You can customise foobar to pretty much look you want. For example, here's a look I had back when I used windows.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5199/foobar20003rq.jpg