Are All Media Players the Same?

Aeneas

I have most of my music on Sonic Stage but recently began to listen to is in Windows Media Player and on Real Player. Is it my imagination or does Sonic Stage have greater detail and better overall sound than the others? Or are all Players basically the same? Anyone have a link to good reviews of these Players?

woolymammoth

in my experience, most media players are generally the same. They look different, work different, and have different capabilities, controls, codecs, and also different sound settings. It's important to have good codecs installed, but you should also have your speaker setup correct and your equalisers set, otherwise it will sound sh*t!

but then again, i'm just happy if the sound comes out at all!

Aeneas

woolymammoth wrote: »

in my experience, most media players are generally the same. They look different, work different, and have different capabilities, controls, codecs, and also different sound settings. It's important to have good codecs installed, but you should also have your speaker setup correct and your equalisers set, otherwise it will sound sh*t!

but then again, i'm just happy if the sound comes out at all!

Sorry to be so ignorant but what are codecs, which codecs are good, and how do you install them?

woolymammoth

codecs are programs that encode and decode the audio/video data. you can download and install all kinds for sound (mp3 codecs) and video (divx etc.). you should check your sound settings in the different applications, they have different equaliser settings and probably aren't set up.