What's Your Fave Media Player And Why

lufbra · #1 March 25th, 2004, 01:57 AM

Must be Freeware!!

**degsy** · #2 March 25th, 2004, 05:52 PM

Windows Media Player 6.4

It's small, fast, simple.
If you can't be bothered with playlists, visualizations and track info then it's great!

Even have it installed on XP

It plays videos Full Screen which WMP9 doesn't see to want to do.

Crimson Knight · #3 March 25th, 2004, 06:15 PM

It's a big program, but what you pay for in RAM you get in features and performance...

You have to have a creative brand MP3 player plugged into your computer when you run setup, but after that it's smooth sailing. Download from Creative's site for free. This program has the best media/playlist organizer I have seen to date... I have not run accross ANY media format it cannot play (with the exception of Vob files. but this is more for music & video then DVDs). But the coolest thing is that it can rip ANY song off ANY CD, encrypted or not, perfectly. And then encode it to ANY format at ANY bit rate. Can also capture digital and analouge audio playing through your sound card or microphone. Find someone with a Creative Muvo or Jukebox and borrow it to install the media player, SO WORTH IT!

30111987 · #4 March 25th, 2004, 06:18 PM

i like windows media player 9 most (xp version), but i also like winamp 5

Baser-X · #5 March 25th, 2004, 06:45 PM

I use WMP9 for the most part to play all audio and video. It's preinstalled and works well enough for my needs. I do also use Winamp 2.9 for when I want to hear just a few selected tracks b/c it's easier than dealing with WMP when adding 10 or so tracks from various directories.

lufbra · #6 March 26th, 2004, 12:31 AM

Quote:

It plays videos Full Screen which WMP9 doesn't see to want to do.

Mine works fine for that, Degsy!!

I have WMP9 too, it's great!!

**MishY** · #7 March 26th, 2004, 12:44 AM

mplayer or xmms for linux

**Tweaker** · #8 March 26th, 2004, 12:47 AM

WMP 9 Works great for me.

**degsy** · #9 March 26th, 2004, 12:52 AM

My WMP9 seems to always want a bar top & bottom (controls), which I don't consider as fullscreen.
http://www.degs.co.uk/test/cyber/wmp9.jpg

If anyone knows how to get rid then shout up

restin256 · #10 March 26th, 2004, 01:00 AM

You just have to have it configured right for the controls not to show.

Winamp 3 under Windoze, XMMS for audio, and Kaffiene for Video. Winamp 5 is too bloaty/slow, and I don't see any new features I'd actually use.

lufbra · #11 March 26th, 2004, 01:02 AM

Degsy, on mine the bar is there, then it hides itself untill the cursor is moved, then it appears again!!

IRISH_GUY · #12 March 26th, 2004, 01:11 AM

I use WMP9 for videos and CDs...I use Winamp 2.80 for my MP3"s...I have been trying out a new player called Quintessential (site below)...so far it"s a great little player

http://www.quinnware.com/

x86scorpion · #13 March 26th, 2004, 02:21 AM

I use Winamp Classic

http://winamp.com/
http://www27.brinkster.com/winampheaven/

1by1 (48 KB)

1by1 is a very small sized player which is not only small: It plays whole directories without a playlist
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/1by1.zip

also

Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic is the perfect substitute for Windows Media Player

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358

enat66 · #14 March 26th, 2004, 02:41 AM

I'm a mucicmatch guy. I like the intro sound, how it does the CDDB database, and it looks the most eye appealing to me. Windows Media Player used to give me some trouble. Winamp still gives me trouble.

x86scorpion · #15 March 26th, 2004, 02:45 AM

Where can we download MusicMatch??? Never used that one before but I'll try it so I can compare it to others

View Poll Results: Must Be Freeware
Windows Media Player	6	46.15%
Winamp	3	23.08%
MusicMatch	2	15.38%
Other	2	15.38%
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