You can’t ignore the fact that at some point of time, you’ll listen to music on your computer. Whether it’s a CD, mp3, or some internet radio, you have to admit that it’s a great way to keep yourself occupied.
Listening to music only needs a software program that does the needful. This brings me to my question for all the readers. What program do you use to listen to music on your PC? I know it sounds a little strange but I’m curious about preferences of the folks who visit Ghacks.
There are a lot of audio players out there. For most people, I guess it doesn’t make that big a difference as long as it plays the songs. But I know some people who are vary particular. How did you select your player? Did you like how it looked or how you could customize it? Were you looking for something that could play specific audio formats?
I’ll start the ball rolling. I listen to music on my computer everyday and my player of choice is Winamp 2.8. Yeah, I know it’s old but what can I say. I started using it 8 years ago and I guess it’s grown on me. I want to try the Linux player Amarok though. With all the rave reviews I keep hearing, I can’t wait for it to be developed for Windows.
Some of the other players I know about are Media Monkey, iTunes, Songbird, Foobar2000, etc. Drop me a line and tell me what your favorite player is and why.
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foobar2000 9.6 Beta3 を Windows2000で使ってみる…
いつのまにか、foobar2000が 9.6になっていますね。まだ、Beta 3ですが、インストールしてみました。ちなみに、foobar2000_0.9.6_xxx を XP互換設定するだけです。設定が完了したら、Ez Install で shel…
Media Monkey here :)
It’s a very likeable player with good functions for sorting the music.
Wow! I never thought I’d get these many comments! Maybe I should post stuff like this more often. Thanks a lot everyone.
I use the latest version of WinAmp (currently v5.531). Ever since I discovered it, I didn’t change my Audio Player, even though I kno there are better Audio Players. I’m just too lazy to get a new one.
I use cowon jetAudio.
plays video & audio – supports almost all types of formats – minimizes to system try – can configure hot keys for almost all functionalities – have very compact interface while playing video- arrow keys for ffwd/rewind/vol up/down etc…
(these features are very important for me ‘coz my laptop dont have multimedia keys.)
Winamp 5
Amarok pwns all :)
I use Winamp 2.95 with a very clean skin, after all its for listening to music, its always minimized in the system tray as a set of buttons to play and advance songs, so who wants a super duper coolgy bungy shinyskin?
Then i use media player classic with klite codec pack for video. I like VLC and bsplayer too but i find media player classic its better, more configurable, i love it cause it starts centered on the screen, what i dont like its the poor playlist it has
sorry im not an english native speaker!
Winamp 5 with classic skin. Pretty lightweight, fast, and media library that rocks all other media players.
Windows:
foobar2000 (for albums and like, playing from library) + xmplayer (for single files, through file association)
linux:
amaroK
After trying Winamp 2.8 through the current version, iTunes, Foobar2000, Media Monkey, Windows Media Player, VLC, and Media Player Classic, I have settled on XMPlay for my audio needs.
With this many comments, maybe you should just make a poll :P
Foobar2000. Small, clean and fast – but can play almost any format.
But polls have very few options, this is most interesting and then please make an article analyzing all.
Only the best here:
Music, Video, Photos, iPod, iPhone, Documents, Podcasts, etc. with….
J River Media Center latest version (regular updates) !
:)
@tash: because the poll answers are infinite.
winamp is my first choice.
1) 1-by-1 – simple mode (but not necessarily)
2) kmplayer – control mode
3) winamp – full monty
at home: mediamonkey. so good I even paid for it. – Lighter than most (especially iTunes)
- un-bloated
- excellent library management even for very large sizes
- neat interface
- flexible ripping solution
- works just well with my zen stone plus
at work: amarok (on Kubuntu)
- does most of what I need there correctly.
- I’ve met some really strange bugs though, but they happen very rarely.
My choice is MediaMonkey and my reasons are:
1. Low system resources
2. User friendly
3. Good interface
4. Great library options
5. Impressive tagging and audio files management options.
Hey man, too late, but my choice is XMPlay: ultralight, standalone, very simple use, fast open, modular plugins, extra audio HQ. Yeah, i love it! ;)
Winamp, but definitely an older version. I’m not on the laptop at the moment, but it’s definitely beyond 2.x and below 5.x so maybe around 3? It’s before they added all the bells and whistles to make it a ‘media’ manager. Am going to read your review of Amarok later though because I do wonder about alternatives ^^
xmplay for just pure audio, no frills.
My default audio player is AIMP2. Light, simple, and beautiful; I love it cuz can hide it in the system tray, and still skip tracks and control volume. Testing Songbird and Floola, cuz iTunes ate a lot of space, just to transfer files to my iPod.
My video player is the simple, very light and versatil GOM Player. It’s just perfect.
Regards.
In windows, up until recently winamp was the golden standard.
however, as of late, the player is buggy as hell.
foobar, because of a plugin “quicksearch toolbar” that can even search in the folder name and filename (I can’t tag automatically since it’s mostly jpop, so I won’t bother to tag).
Foobar,cuz it has many cool but useful component. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components_0.9
I use VLC and Km Player—both are good and sooo much better thanReal or WMP player
Aimp2 for music (Quintessential Player previously, and CoolPlayer before that)
GomPlayer for video (previously CrystalPlayer..and something else I forgot)
Well, pretty much using KMPlayer, because of its great reproduction capabilities, has almost all video and audio codecs, supports all kinds of internet streaming protocols, also supports serbian subtitles which is very important to me.
Has smaller memory fingerprint than WMP, and hasn’t crashed, not even once! It just doesn’t show the Now listening on MSN, but i can live without it :P Strongly recommend!
As far as I am concerned there is only two decent options, aTunes on windows and amarok on linux, both are FOSS and both are brilliance, take my word for it and give them a go, you will not regret it!
Amarok is definitely the player of choice