Audio player
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I am looking for an audio player to replace windows media player. I am just not a big fan. Can anyone give me a recommendation?? I hear Winamp, iTunes. I hear good and bad things about both of them. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! :-D There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
I use MusicMatch Jukebox. It can play audio files, video files, audio CDs, grab mp3s from audio CDs, and convert audio files to other formats (e.g. wav to mp3, wma to mpa, and vice versa). Looking only at the features, WinAmp is better - but the WinAmps default skin has too small text. The default skin of Jukebox has bigger letters ;)
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I am looking for an audio player to replace windows media player. I am just not a big fan. Can anyone give me a recommendation?? I hear Winamp, iTunes. I hear good and bad things about both of them. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! :-D There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
If all you have is MP3s, get whatever the last 2.x version of WinAmp was. I don't care about skins or visualizations, and the 2.x playlist is more than sufficient for oragnizing and searching. --Mike-- Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ ---- There is a saying in statistics that a million monkeys pounding on typewriters would eventually create a work of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.
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I am looking for an audio player to replace windows media player. I am just not a big fan. Can anyone give me a recommendation?? I hear Winamp, iTunes. I hear good and bad things about both of them. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! :-D There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Winamp 2 was lovely but then Windows Media Player 9 came along and I started using that. Then Winamp 3 came out and to my mind it was Real Player with a Winamp skin, i.e. crap. So I stuck with WMP9. Then Winamp 5 came out (Winamp skipped a version number, poor 4) and it is actually really good. After using WMP I could not go back to Winamp 2 as it's playlist features were poor. Winamp 5 fixed that and the player itself was very good. Unfortuanatley I found Winamp 5 unusable on Windows 2000, kept crashing and skipping. But now that I am back on Windows XP I am going back to Winamp 5. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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I am looking for an audio player to replace windows media player. I am just not a big fan. Can anyone give me a recommendation?? I hear Winamp, iTunes. I hear good and bad things about both of them. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! :-D There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
used to have a player called sonique loved it then switched to winamp, WMP9 is nice too but somehow i prefer winamp 5 i can't even remember what my point is now, but anyway, i'm correct Barring unforeseen acts of God and Adminstrators, my server will be up tomorrow. I'm more worried about the Adminstrators.
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I am looking for an audio player to replace windows media player. I am just not a big fan. Can anyone give me a recommendation?? I hear Winamp, iTunes. I hear good and bad things about both of them. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! :-D There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
I don't know about iTunes but recently I did a quick listen test and WMP9 definitely has a better decoder than Winamp 5, less muddy at the bottom. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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Winamp 2 was lovely but then Windows Media Player 9 came along and I started using that. Then Winamp 3 came out and to my mind it was Real Player with a Winamp skin, i.e. crap. So I stuck with WMP9. Then Winamp 5 came out (Winamp skipped a version number, poor 4) and it is actually really good. After using WMP I could not go back to Winamp 2 as it's playlist features were poor. Winamp 5 fixed that and the player itself was very good. Unfortuanatley I found Winamp 5 unusable on Windows 2000, kept crashing and skipping. But now that I am back on Windows XP I am going back to Winamp 5. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
I second Winamp. I guess becuase I'm so comfortable with Winamp. I don't see the point to using wmp9 whatsoever except for video files. I like its keyboard functions better and the global keyboard functions are nice. and nice easy little key function for searching for MP3s on play list. And its nice compatibility with XMMS for Linux. It was really nice to be able to just load the playlist in XMMS full and complete, no changes or problems. Also, a lot its plugins are real nice. But I run Win2k with wiamp 5.02 and it runs just fine, no skips, no crashes. Don't know what's up with your Winamp, must be system specific.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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I second Winamp. I guess becuase I'm so comfortable with Winamp. I don't see the point to using wmp9 whatsoever except for video files. I like its keyboard functions better and the global keyboard functions are nice. and nice easy little key function for searching for MP3s on play list. And its nice compatibility with XMMS for Linux. It was really nice to be able to just load the playlist in XMMS full and complete, no changes or problems. Also, a lot its plugins are real nice. But I run Win2k with wiamp 5.02 and it runs just fine, no skips, no crashes. Don't know what's up with your Winamp, must be system specific.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
Do you use the transparency feature of Winamp 5? I think it was a conflict with my old graphics card but one which didn't happen in Windows XP. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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Do you use the transparency feature of Winamp 5? I think it was a conflict with my old graphics card but one which didn't happen in Windows XP. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
Paul Watson wrote: Do you use the transparency feature of Winamp 5? I guess I would have to say no becuase I don't know what that is. :) But anyways, I have my Winamp running with classic skin on a 4MB video card. Maybe it was the driver for Win2k for your video card.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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Winamp 2 was lovely but then Windows Media Player 9 came along and I started using that. Then Winamp 3 came out and to my mind it was Real Player with a Winamp skin, i.e. crap. So I stuck with WMP9. Then Winamp 5 came out (Winamp skipped a version number, poor 4) and it is actually really good. After using WMP I could not go back to Winamp 2 as it's playlist features were poor. Winamp 5 fixed that and the player itself was very good. Unfortuanatley I found Winamp 5 unusable on Windows 2000, kept crashing and skipping. But now that I am back on Windows XP I am going back to Winamp 5. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
Paul Watson wrote: (Winamp skipped a version number, poor 4) That's because Winamp 5 was Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 :rolleyes:
Ian Darling "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
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I am looking for an audio player to replace windows media player. I am just not a big fan. Can anyone give me a recommendation?? I hear Winamp, iTunes. I hear good and bad things about both of them. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! :-D There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Something that's bugged me for ages about the WMP9 interface is that the drop-down at the top right corner of the window, next to the minimize, maximize and close buttons, doesn't show albums. I accidentally discovered this feature over the weekend: right-click the box. You get a menu with checkmarks indicating what gets shown in this list: CD Drives, My Playlists, All Music, Genres, All Videos, Radio Stations, Albums and Artists. By default, CD Drives, My Playlists, All Music and All Videos are checked. Annoyingly, you can't seem to get rid of the automatic playlists. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder