Windows Media Player - What are the alternatives??

dulpit

Hey, so wmp is pissing me off big time at the moment, it doesn't always open when i double click on it (even though the process shows up as running in the task manager..) I cannot delete songs from my library (i right click, hit delete and nothing happens) and i cannot change names or titles of songs (i type new name, press enter and the old name re-appears...)

So i'm thinking of getting a different media player instead... What are my options? What's good and why?? I've used media monkey, don't really like it, and iTunes is no good either, but everything else i'd be open to try...

Obviously i'm looking for something free, what say ye??

auggie2k

VLC Media Player... plays everything and everything well.

junkster12345

i agree, vlc media player, it has played nearly everything i have thrown at it without asking any questions

AlmightyCushion

Another vote for vlc player here. I downloaded it after a thread like this just to see what all the fuss was about. Haven't used wmp since.

Ruu_Old

VLC has a very basic interface and works very well, plays everything (that I've found so far anyway).

dulpit

VLC is too basic really, it doesn't appear to have any library or anything... I'd be looking for something like that... I only use VLC as something to play the odd video file that won't work elsewhere...

PogMoThoin

You could try winamp. I've tried many as i've a 60Gb+ collection & found it the best i could find. I also liked that its totally configuarble, you can add skins & you can set it to name artists using the album artist id3 tag (unlike many others including itunes), which means compilations will not have each song listed under song artist.

Kiith

I use Winamp for my music. Never liked Media Player (although havent tried 10 or 11). For movies i use Media Player Classic, with all the codecs installed. And if that doesnt work, then VLC, which does play everything.

Jonathan

Try Foobar2000........ Minimalist but highly customizable.

BULLER

WINAMP, WINAMP! - It really kicks the lamba's ass!!!

Nothing beats the new winamp 5.5 with the bento skin... It organises everything perfectly with automatic album pics now and a new feature called "autotagging"
I've about 5,000 songs now and winamp has it all to perfection!

mordeith

You could try Quentessential. You stale version is a great audio player and there's a development release available that incorporates media library features but I don't know how finished it is yet.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

media player classic... plays everything Vlc does, and it lets you scroll volume with the mousewheel

that's something Vlc desperately needs

cornbb

VLC is solid as a rock but it is lacking a lot of useful features like library management, CD burning, ripping etc. Mediamonkey gets my vote. Its based on the Winamp engine (I think) only it has a lot more features.

Lump

VLC for me!

kaimera

musikcube for audio files.

media player classic for video

SeanW

Another vote for VLC - for video and DVD it's a waste of time to use anything else!

JohnK

Ruu wrote: »

VLC has a very basic interface and works very well, plays everything (that I've found so far anyway).

funnily enough I've come across several videos that dont play on VLC or play poorly yet play perfectly on WMP

Nerin

mediamonkey for audio, specially large audio libraries
vlc has always worked a treat for me with videos

jozi

VLC for video

Foobar2000 for music - with a custom UI (found on their forum)

Winamp would be my 2nd vote for music, never liked it for video

Media player classic is always handy to have (Quicktime and Real Alternative) use it for streaming from time to time and sometimes certain movies that VLC wont play (apple's video codec i think)