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  • H Hans Dietrich

    In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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    originSH
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    Winamp ... it went dodgy when they did version 3 but they kinda redeemed it with version 5. It's the skins and plugin support that gets me ... there so much content avalible. I have to admit WMP has grown on me recently, it's much better than it was but I'm sticking with winamp for now.

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    • H Hans Dietrich

      In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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      Maximilien
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      I use iTunes on both osx and windows. I mostly use it to manage my collection and update/sync my ipod since I never really listen to music on my computers.


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      • H Hans Dietrich

        In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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        Jimmanuel
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        • A Aaron VanWieren

          Mine used to be winamp, but I have recently switched over to Windows Media player 11. Allot of cool features and it actually works really well compared to winamp. I use Media Monkey to manage and change my collection.

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          Clickok
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          I did the opposite. I was using WMP (why comes installed in Windows - how convenient;P). But once I ripped one CD, and how WMP have not found on-line info about the tracks, I renamed the files and id3 tags by hand. Some time after, I backed to folder to check my files and... WMP renamed all to track1, track2, track3... I think that WMP looked on-line for the tracks info, it not found and renamed all to default names... :mad: So I have backed to Winamp, that too is faster than WMP, beautiful, free, small, and more important: it give me another reason to talk bad against MS :->.


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          • H Hans Dietrich

            In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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            Chris Losinger
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            • H Hans Dietrich

              In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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              MatrixCoder
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              MediaMonkey or VLC.


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                MediaMonkey or VLC.


                Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before. Neo: That's why it's going to work.

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                originSH
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                VLC is very, very nice. I use it for all my video needs :D

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                • H Hans Dietrich

                  In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                  Latinwiz
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                  I used to use a program called RadLight, but now I find BSPlayer is much nicer! http://www.bsplayer.org/ Christopher

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                  • H Hans Dietrich

                    In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                    Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                    Windows Media Player is good. Isn't it?

                    Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                    • H Hans Dietrich

                      In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                      Member 96
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                      WMP11 it came with Vista it works fine and I'm more interested in listening to tunes than frittering around with options and features.

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                      • H Hans Dietrich

                        In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                        Can't believe I'm the first to say Foobar... Foobar for my regular music collection, winamp for quick dirty playback for files that I don't want to drag into my foobar playlists.

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                        • H Hans Dietrich

                          In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                          Paul Watson
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                          iTunes

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                            Windows Media Player is good. Isn't it?

                            Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                            Paul Watson
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                            Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:

                            Windows Media Player is good. Isn't it?

                            Since you asked; No, it isn't good.

                            regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                            Shog9 wrote:

                            And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                            • H Hans Dietrich

                              In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                              joelgarabedian
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                              It has to be JetAudio for me. Simple, and it doesn't take up much room on your screen in the compact mode :)

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                                Aaron VanWieren
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                                Thats linux only though, correct?

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                                • H Hans Dietrich

                                  In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                                  Bruce Duncan
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                                  I use Foobar2000 for general music playback. I only load up iTunes to put stuff on my iPod, though if FB wasn't around I'd probably use it for playback as well, I find it less annoying than WMP.

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                                  • H Hans Dietrich

                                    In the past week I've tried many different free audio players - from iTunes to Winamp to MusicCubeOne - and the one I keep coming back to is VUPlayer. It obviously doesn't have the features of iTunes, but its memory footprint is the smallest of any of the ones I tried - less than 10Mb, compared with ~30Mb for iTunes and ~20Mb for WMP (when playing). It doesn't have the slickest UI, but its UI is functional, and it also supports music lookup via freedb server (which I could never get to work in Winamp). The only thing I don't like about VUPlayer is that it doesn't fully support multiple monitors - if you move it to the second monitor and then exit, it will pop up on the first monitor when you restart it. What's your favorite audio player?

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                                    peterchen
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                                    @Max TrayPlayer[^] Because of this[^]


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                                      @Max TrayPlayer[^] Because of this[^]


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                                      Hans Dietrich
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                                      I am impressed! One of the prettiest players I've seen, and less than 5Mb footprint.

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                                      • P Paul Watson

                                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:

                                        Windows Media Player is good. Isn't it?

                                        Since you asked; No, it isn't good.

                                        regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                                        Shog9 wrote:

                                        And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...

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                                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                                        :) At least I find the filesize is bit compact.

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                                        • D daniilzol

                                          Can't believe I'm the first to say Foobar... Foobar for my regular music collection, winamp for quick dirty playback for files that I don't want to drag into my foobar playlists.

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                                          I second the recommendation for foobar2000[^]. I used to use Winamp for visualizations, but now that there is a MilkDrop plugin for foobar, I no longer use Winamp.

                                          -- Marcus Kwok

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