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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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    daniilzol
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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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      • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

        Windows Media Player is good. Isn't it?

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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[^]


                  We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
                  My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighist

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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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                      ricecake
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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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