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  • D DaveX86

    Dude...you linked the Plagerizer...

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    Anthony Mushrow
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    I think we've all realized by now. I still stand by my initial theory that they did it on purpose, why? Nobody knows...

    My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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    • F Farhan Noor Qureshi

      VLC is a good WMP alternative. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/[^]


      Farhan Noor Qureshi

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      Michael Dunn
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      Correction, VLC is an awesome alternative :)

      --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen

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      • A Anthony Mushrow

        Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

        My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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        Miszou
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        Well, I'm afraid I have to speak up for Winamp. It's very small (both on-screen and in-memory), takes no noticeable CPU time, plays almost anything you can throw at it, and is extremely reliable. Sure it has a ton of features, but it's pretty much ready to use straight out of the box.


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        • A Anthony Mushrow

          Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

          My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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          GuyThiebaut
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          VLC - it's simple but will play pretty much everything. The best feature of it is that it will play any region dvd without needing to change the region on your dvd drive. :-D

          You always pass failure on the way to success.
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          • A Anthony Mushrow

            Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

            My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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            Vikram A Punathambekar
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            Cheers, विक्रम


            "If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy

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            • M Michael Dunn

              Correction, VLC is an awesome alternative :)

              --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen

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              Nish Nishant
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              Michael Dunn wrote:

              Correction, VLC is an awesome alternative

              It's the player!

              Regards, Nish


              Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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              • C Chris Meech

                I don't think that you linked what you thought you linked. :-D

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                Steve Mayfield
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                I'm going to have a heart to heart talk with my contrl-C key on my work machines' keyboard tomorrow morning ... seems it doesn't always work... :-O Steve

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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  Please tell me you didn't intend to link to THAT site.

                  Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                  Steve Mayfield
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                  See above :-O Steve

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                  • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                    Cheers, विक्रम


                    "If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy

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                    Andy Davies
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                    Foobar2000 for all music, VLC for video :)

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                    • A Anthony Mushrow

                      Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

                      My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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                      Paul Watson
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                      I'll get slagged for it but iTunes is my choice.

                      regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                      Andy Brummer wrote:

                      Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.

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                      • S Steve Mayfield

                        See above :-O Steve

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                        Pete OHanlon
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                        Thanks for the clarification Steve. You were starting to scare me then.;)

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                        • P Paul Watson

                          I'll get slagged for it but iTunes is my choice.

                          regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                          Andy Brummer wrote:

                          Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.

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                          Pete OHanlon
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                          Paul Watson wrote:

                          I'll get slagged for it

                          Turned into molten lava?

                          Paul Watson wrote:

                          iTunes is my choice

                          If that's what rocks your boat then fine. It's a good choice. Damn. Did I say that?

                          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                          • P Pete OHanlon

                            Paul Watson wrote:

                            I'll get slagged for it

                            Turned into molten lava?

                            Paul Watson wrote:

                            iTunes is my choice

                            If that's what rocks your boat then fine. It's a good choice. Damn. Did I say that?

                            Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

                            My blog | My articles

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                            Paul Watson
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                            Pete O`Hanlon wrote:

                            Turned into molten lava?

                            hehe. In this context it means I'll get verbally abused, jeered at, ripped off etc.

                            regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                            Andy Brummer wrote:

                            Watson's law: As an online discussion of cars grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Bugatti Veyron approaches one.

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                            • A Anthony Mushrow

                              Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

                              My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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                              Matthew Wilcoxson
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                              It's still quite a way from a final release, but it's certainly worth keeping your eye out on this one: http://www.songbirdnest.com/ It's usable now, but I wouldn't want to switch over completely just yet. In the mean time I actually like iTunes too. (Just turn off all the annoying links to the iMusic store) Mat Wilcoxson England

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                              • F Farhan Noor Qureshi

                                VLC is a good WMP alternative. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/[^]


                                Farhan Noor Qureshi

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                                Bill Seddon
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                                Agreed. It plays FLV along with most other formats including DVDs. It's a streaming server and client. Just great. We use it to broadcast TV from USB receivers over the wireless network. Though it does have a playlist capability it doesn't have all the great ways you can organize and present playlists in Media Player and isn't as nice to look at.

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                                  Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

                                  My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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                                  stevepqr
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                                  I use Winamp docked to the bottom of the screen as a single bar - don't use any of the fancy stuff much but as a player it does everything I need it too and unlike WMP its never in the way and can be set to auto hide too.

                                  Apathy Rules - I suppose...

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                                  • B Bill Seddon

                                    Agreed. It plays FLV along with most other formats including DVDs. It's a streaming server and client. Just great. We use it to broadcast TV from USB receivers over the wireless network. Though it does have a playlist capability it doesn't have all the great ways you can organize and present playlists in Media Player and isn't as nice to look at.

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                                    codemunkeh
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                                    Bill Seddon wrote:

                                    isn't as nice to look at.

                                    But, does anyone really sit and spend time simply looking at their media player? I mean, I've heard some users do that with macs though I figured it was because the mac does very little else besides look good. I use foobar2000. Can be set to work lots of ways, plenty of support for plugins if you really need organisation or album viewers, but I stuck a whole load of files into some folders in My Music, onto one big playlist and the hell with organising it. Half of them have the album information and genre tags removed. I use VLC for videos and that works great, though I've found the playlist support is unreliable and I would much rather hide it on the taskbar like foobar.


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                                    • M Matthew Wilcoxson

                                      It's still quite a way from a final release, but it's certainly worth keeping your eye out on this one: http://www.songbirdnest.com/ It's usable now, but I wouldn't want to switch over completely just yet. In the mean time I actually like iTunes too. (Just turn off all the annoying links to the iMusic store) Mat Wilcoxson England

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                                      codemunkeh
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                                      Hold it hold it! Do you mean that apple actually allow their users to configure something every now and then? I might need to rethink my entire stance on macs. Heck, I might consider it a real platform now that I realise that it's vaguely customisable.


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                                      • A Anthony Mushrow

                                        Know any good ones? I usually just use the windows media player (it doesn't deserve its capital letters), but recently its been freezing up for a few moments every now and then. At first i thought it was the internet, but it still did it when nothing was running. So anyway, i'm just uninstalling any media based applications i don't need anymore, as well as old codecs and stuff. And while thats going i thought i'd ask if anyone knew a good media player i could use instead. Something that can play everything, perhaps with the ability to have skins. I know lots of people like WinAmp an' all, but i really just want a player, no fancy features that i'm never gonna use.

                                        My current favourite word is: PIE! I have changed my name to my regular internet alias. But don't let the 'Genius' part fool you, you don't know what 'SK' stands for. -The Undefeated

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                                        jonty2
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                                        If it's just for tunes, then Coolplayer is pretty good. http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/[^]

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                                        • F Farhan Noor Qureshi

                                          VLC is a good WMP alternative. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/[^]


                                          Farhan Noor Qureshi

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                                          si618
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                                          Absolutely, VLC is excellent. For something a little more hip, try Miro (based on VLC and Mozilla's XUL), you can add a local path for your own library, and it's youtube integration works well.

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