Music player software
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Been a while since i last looked at Foobar 2000, but i seem to recall there being addons for just about everything imaginable. In fact, i avoided it at the time due to the impression that it was effectively useless without a day invested in building a custom set of components. A quick search turns up something[^] that may do what you need.
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
Cool, I'll check it out. I just want to point and click and play music so the plugin route is ideal for me. Winamp is a horrendous mess these days precisely because so much is packaged with it I think.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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I've been trying various ones out and for some odd reason the sound quality is far better with the Foobar 2000 player than with WMP which sounds fuzzy like an overdriven speaker all the time. I tried winamp but it's a bloated mess from what it used to be years ago. Foobar 2000 seems popular and widely used as the cut down to the point alternative music player. It's nice and light and clean to use but one thing that's driving me batty is that there is no way apparently to select a bunch of files to play now and then simply view them in a list. I can add to a now playing queue but it just takes the regular list view and puts a number beside the ones that are playing. I think I must use music players strangely in general because all I ever want to do is drop working momentarily pick and choose from the library an hours worth of songs as the mood suits me and see them all in a list as they play but every music player I've tried seems to make this more complicated than it has to be. Windows media player seems to have the best support for this style of playing but it's a buried option to find the now playing list and I always seem to lose track of it. How else are you supposed to pick and choose your tunes to listen to? Build a new playlist each time or select one at a time? I've found the Picard tagger to be very useful, it uses a database of songs to properly tag them and can even take an acoustic fingerprint to find the right song, but it's a slow process to get them all tagged properly.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Been a while since i last looked at Foobar 2000, but i seem to recall there being addons for just about everything imaginable. In fact, i avoided it at the time due to the impression that it was effectively useless without a day invested in building a custom set of components. A quick search turns up something[^] that may do what you need.
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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No I already tried winamp and it's become a bloated mess, it reminded me of Real player right away. I think they've jumped the shark a long time ago.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
I think they've jumped the shark a long time ago.
It was pretty much headed that way once the original team behind it started leaving AOL. No direction behind it, so features got tacked on wherever and the UI pretty much stopped evolving and just got weird. Then again, that's the same impression i've had of WMP for many years now, so maybe i'm just not the target demographic for music players anymore.
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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I use Winamp with the classic skin.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
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I've been trying various ones out and for some odd reason the sound quality is far better with the Foobar 2000 player than with WMP which sounds fuzzy like an overdriven speaker all the time. I tried winamp but it's a bloated mess from what it used to be years ago. Foobar 2000 seems popular and widely used as the cut down to the point alternative music player. It's nice and light and clean to use but one thing that's driving me batty is that there is no way apparently to select a bunch of files to play now and then simply view them in a list. I can add to a now playing queue but it just takes the regular list view and puts a number beside the ones that are playing. I think I must use music players strangely in general because all I ever want to do is drop working momentarily pick and choose from the library an hours worth of songs as the mood suits me and see them all in a list as they play but every music player I've tried seems to make this more complicated than it has to be. Windows media player seems to have the best support for this style of playing but it's a buried option to find the now playing list and I always seem to lose track of it. How else are you supposed to pick and choose your tunes to listen to? Build a new playlist each time or select one at a time? I've found the Picard tagger to be very useful, it uses a database of songs to properly tag them and can even take an acoustic fingerprint to find the right song, but it's a slow process to get them all tagged properly.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
Perhaps I'm missing what you're trying to do, but it seems that it's really straightforward with WMP....there's 2 options - either select the tracks that you want in the library, then just drag and drop to the list pane on the right (marked Drag Items Here) - then sets them up in a temp playlist which you can save if you want or just leave. This also works from Windows explorer too, as does selecting in Win Exp, right click and select "Add to Windows Media Player List"
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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I still like Winamp :)
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))I just uninstalled WinAmp. Seriously, it's becoming a God program like ACDSee or Nero. Pretty soon, it'll start running its own OS just because it requires better thread scheduler or something :)
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I've been trying various ones out and for some odd reason the sound quality is far better with the Foobar 2000 player than with WMP which sounds fuzzy like an overdriven speaker all the time. I tried winamp but it's a bloated mess from what it used to be years ago. Foobar 2000 seems popular and widely used as the cut down to the point alternative music player. It's nice and light and clean to use but one thing that's driving me batty is that there is no way apparently to select a bunch of files to play now and then simply view them in a list. I can add to a now playing queue but it just takes the regular list view and puts a number beside the ones that are playing. I think I must use music players strangely in general because all I ever want to do is drop working momentarily pick and choose from the library an hours worth of songs as the mood suits me and see them all in a list as they play but every music player I've tried seems to make this more complicated than it has to be. Windows media player seems to have the best support for this style of playing but it's a buried option to find the now playing list and I always seem to lose track of it. How else are you supposed to pick and choose your tunes to listen to? Build a new playlist each time or select one at a time? I've found the Picard tagger to be very useful, it uses a database of songs to properly tag them and can even take an acoustic fingerprint to find the right song, but it's a slow process to get them all tagged properly.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
Awesome :cool: Screw the 5.5 version, I don't want bloat just so I can use a different skin.
Cheers, Vıkram.
Stand up to be seen. Speak up to be heard. Shut up to be appreciated.
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I use Winamp with the classic skin.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Classic skin, as in Winamp-2.x-ish-grey-and-green-and-orange? Yikes :| The modern (blue) skin in Winamp 5 is awesome. I couldn't care less about the Winamp 5.5 black skin.
Cheers, Vıkram.
Stand up to be seen. Speak up to be heard. Shut up to be appreciated.
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I've been trying various ones out and for some odd reason the sound quality is far better with the Foobar 2000 player than with WMP which sounds fuzzy like an overdriven speaker all the time. I tried winamp but it's a bloated mess from what it used to be years ago. Foobar 2000 seems popular and widely used as the cut down to the point alternative music player. It's nice and light and clean to use but one thing that's driving me batty is that there is no way apparently to select a bunch of files to play now and then simply view them in a list. I can add to a now playing queue but it just takes the regular list view and puts a number beside the ones that are playing. I think I must use music players strangely in general because all I ever want to do is drop working momentarily pick and choose from the library an hours worth of songs as the mood suits me and see them all in a list as they play but every music player I've tried seems to make this more complicated than it has to be. Windows media player seems to have the best support for this style of playing but it's a buried option to find the now playing list and I always seem to lose track of it. How else are you supposed to pick and choose your tunes to listen to? Build a new playlist each time or select one at a time? I've found the Picard tagger to be very useful, it uses a database of songs to properly tag them and can even take an acoustic fingerprint to find the right song, but it's a slow process to get them all tagged properly.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
@Max TrayPlayer[^] It's always there, but never in the way[^], and it has the most elegant "pick from your large MP3 library"[^] interface I've ever worked with. If you have your music roughly organized on your disk, it's perfect. No more "I am going to scan your disk now, because you know, with me you can easily manage your media library" crap. INstead of "edit your playlist", you select the songs you want to hear. Unfortunately, it does not support last.fm. I wish it did, I've tried various other players for last.fm suport, but I'm back at trayplayer.
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modified on Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:44 AM
