Comments on: How do you use your media player?

By: jondavis

jondavis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:05:44 +0000

Can’t find one I like. :(
I’ve tried like 10 or more players and none of them allow you to tag edit your video’s (like audio with Artist, Album, ect ) and support flv and mpg.

Best one so far I can find is Jaangle.

By: pospam

pospam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:30:27 +0000

You want a simple audio player, try Xmplay.
Portable, skinable, and it is able to play zipped or .rar albums using plugins
http://support.xmplay.com/

By: hedgehog

hedgehog — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:45:39 +0000

winamp for audio files
gom player for video files
i’ve tried almost any media player and i always go back to winamp
also the KMPlayer is good player for video files
on linux i use amarok, it’s just great music player (version 2 seems a bit bloated)

By: dario

dario — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:18:06 +0000

winamp for music and streamming
MP classic for video
VLC for files not openned by the 2 first

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:52:51 +0000

Aimp 2 – for audio. I like BASS sound more than WinAmp engine, and the AIMP have almost all functionality I need – some playlist can be opened, playlist search, Explorer menu integration, hotkeys support.

Media Player Classic for video. It has all I need too.

By: UnoNoOo

UnoNoOo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:04:55 +0000

Car: Winamp with plugins, Winlyrics, Cover & TAG. Usb gamepad with Winstick to control it. Freeway DVD2685 with 1.5″ screen to see & hear it. Hands down the most functional/affordable car music setup.

Living Room: WindowsXp MCE for music & videos. Solid, clean & functional.

Home Theatre: Meedio with front projection. For music, videos & games. Highly configurable & functional.

Portable: Ipod for music, Zune for video. Entire music & video collections are portable.

Tagging & Encoding: Itunes & MediaMonkey. Tmpgenc. Nuff said.

By: BRAiN8

BRAiN8 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:04:17 +0000

No one mentioned MusikCube? haha I used that for quite some time. It actually retired WinAmp for me and then I found foobar was was simple as well with a few more features. MusikCube was very simple with ratings, tags, and playlist sorting stuff.

By: grapeshine

grapeshine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:11:24 +0000

GOM (w/ simple skin for movie lovers) for video. Foobar2000 for music. It’s not pretty, but with the noise sharpening and channel mixer plug-ins it sounds better than anything else I’ve tried.

By: Coolkid

Coolkid — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:33:44 +0000

The best audio and video player is “The KMPlayer”
But dont get it mixed up with “KMPlayer”

Have a look at it here [http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12142].

One of the best graphical interface, playabilty and features.
Once you try it you’ll all love it!

By: SnowDog

SnowDog — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:45:55 +0000

Windows 7
WMP 12 for Video
WMP 12 for Audio

(Shark007’s codec pack installed)

By: Terence Hill

Terence Hill — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:08:42 +0000

I’m a Windows user.

I use KMPlayer for watching videos and to open media files (fresh downloaded audio or video files for example) by double clicking on them: it’s enough fast opening and it doesn’t interrupt the music I’m listening with another other player (I can keep the current position in the song). High quality playing audio and video files.

I use for listening the music 2 players, depending on the situation:
1) If I want the best performance from my pc (playing a videogame for example) I use one of the simpler players around called 1by1 (however it’s not a worthless player).

2) When I don’t need a superfast PC, I use Foobar heavily tweaked that looks very nice, with lots of plugins and features (I like particularly to see the lyrics of the song playing), and ofc the best audio quality. I consider Foobar the FireFox of the audio players :)

By: Cyclonus

Cyclonus — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:34:34 +0000

My choice: Songbird.

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:50:10 +0000

Winamp its the best for me. Enable global hotkeys and always open a single .m3u file wich contains all my library (around 10000 songs). Then just use the “Jump to box” (win+j in my case) hotkey, enter part of the
artist/album/song name and hit alt+j to play it or alt+q to queue the song, hit ESC and I’m back to what I was doing. It doesn’t get better than this. I have also hotkeys to play/pause (win+home), increase/decrease volume (win+arrow up/down), change track (win+pgup/pgdn) or show winamp (win+del). You can create a hotkey to many functions to the point you don’t even need to ever see the player. Being doing this on all my computers and everyone likes it as soon they get used to the hotkeys. If you listen to music while doing other things I think this is a nice configuration, give a try :)

By: eRIZ

eRIZ — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:38:15 +0000

At the most – Winamp5 + classic skin; of course – global hotkeys.

It might be Foobar but it’s very difficult to find any SDK for it; I need any to show ID3s on my program. ;)

For video – only Media Player Classic + ffdshow + RealAlternative + QuickTime Alternative. And I laugh on people who install huge codecs packs. :D Total waste of resources.

By: p5chin

p5chin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:47:03 +0000

Winamp for audio
KMPlayer for video – plays everything u throw at it with excellent maneuverability

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:37:03 +0000

I had used QMP (quintessential media player) for years, but then the develepmont became slow & erratic & I went over to AIMP. AIMP is perfect for playing back music formats. It comes with a few extra tools (ripping/encoding/ID3 tag editor) & does have a pretty decent media library, although I never use media libraries I did try AIMP’s & it functions rather well.
AIMP has support for hardware media keyboard buttons (essential for any music player) & has a lot of skins for those who like changing the decoration now & then. There is also a skin editor available which makes it extremely easy to either modify or create a skin without all the hassles of playing around with code & co-ordinates, one just needs a decent graphics program.

For video there is only one player that I use, I have tried many but the only one that does exactly what I need is Media Player Classic.
I create videos & need something small & fast that will playback rushes. As it’s my default player for video I combine it with XnView to browse my rushes & configure all video formats to open in MPC & not inside XnView.

By: Paul(us).

Paul(us). — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:51:51 +0000

Hoi Daniel, its ferry easy. For music MS media player, for all the movies, tv programs, streaming,etc the BS player pro and for the few files the BS Player pro is not able to handle the VLC Player. That’s it.

By: Psjentje

Psjentje — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:29:16 +0000

Foobar for audio
VLC for video

Real & Quicktime Alternative when needed. (rather not though)

By: dop

dop — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:50:09 +0000

foobar2000 for audio
KMP for video (plays everything)

By: ray

ray — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:23:17 +0000

I mainly use wwinamp. If I’m not using winamp it’s because I’m listening to some kind of internet stream whare there isn’t a way to play it easily in any media player. I also love the ogg format for the music and so on that I store on my external hardrive.