Best Music Player

[water101]

I was wondering what people think is the best music player for the computer. I currently use Winamp, but I was looking to change if there is something out there better. I just got a set of Bose Companion 5 speakers and they rock. I want to get a better music player so I can get even more out of them.

 

Thanks

Water101

[badbinary]

dbpoweramp is a very nice light application. with that said, i use wmp 11 for the most part. i think it was improved quite a bit from wmp 10.

[el kido]

I know how you feel, Music players programs suck with speaker compatibility. Did you try Real player? i had them for a bit, and it worked quite nice.

 

I just ended up sticking to itunes

 

But try real player!

[xXenXx]

MPD (musicpd.org) and Sonata(sonata.berlios.de). Exaile (exaile.org) is nice as well, though it's still a bit buggy.

 

On Windows? Probably Winamp. Realplayer would be nice if it was just a media player. I don't want something phoning home and popping up ads. Windows Media Player is bloated and slow.

 

I was disappointed how difficult it was to find a good free media player on Windows. I refuse to use iTunes, and the closest other thing was Zinf (blah).

 

VLC is nice for videos though!

[Riqtam]

I used to use Creative Media Player for years..the best and most convenient program I've ever tried.

But since my SBLive doesn't work with windows Vista I can't use any creative software so I just use Winamp which really sucks. so if you have any other Creative SoundCard which do support Vista try the software that came with it, I think the new ones called Creative Media Source...not sure though.

[wdeydwondrer]

winamp does have a milion and a half plugins to help it out.

 

i totally hate the wmp11 and use either 10 or 9 when i can.

[stormy13]

Winamp with this plugin,

 

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/147013

 

The ATSurround Processor performs audio matrix decoding to extract surround information inherently present in many music and audio sources to enhance the listening experience. This ensures that your 5.1 system is fully utilized.The plugin also has the ability to encode multichannel sources into 2 channel stereo for decoding with an external surround capable audio receiver.The powerful Headphone mode allows you to listen to your favorite songs in virtual surround, while preventing listening fatigue.

 

and if you are running Vista you can get hardware acceleration back in Winamp using Alchemy,

 

For X-Fi

 

For Audigy users

 

Then after installing copy and paste dsound.dll into the Winamp folder.

[gordesky1]

the best music player i like is itunes been useling it for about a year now with no problems.

 

been working good on xp and vista which i have on my main pc thats steaming music 24/7:) and while i game:)

 

i also tried others but couldint stand them at all they just didint work as good as itunes:)

[porksandwich9113]

iTunes for music. Mostly because i have an iPod, but i do also like it.

And VLC for vids. Because there isn't any codec problems with VLC ever.

[SoDope]

i stick with the old school media player. WINDOWS

good enough for me