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  • P Phil J Pearson

    Media Player 10 will rip to MP3 if you want, but why would you want to when WMA is better?


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    Turtle Hand
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    I want a format I can play on anything, not just my desktop.

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      I need to commit to using a single player. -I don't like Windows Media Player for 2 reasons. I can't copy my CDs to mp3 format and the UI for managing songs, artists, etc really sucks. -Real Player is awesome, except it's riddled with spyware. -WinAmp works, but it doesn't play .ra files. I'm not sure how good the UI is for managing songs. Any suggestions? It's good to be alive, Josef Wainz Programmer Analyst

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      Barry Lapthorn
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      zinf http://www.zinf.org/[^] and media player classic http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/[^] and of course cdex Regards, Barry

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      • F fakefur

        Because WMA is proprietry and doesn't play nice with other OS's.

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        Blake Miller
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        And the small executive stereo systems are JUST starting to support WMA. Many already support MP3. I have a Philips with PC-Link that will play the MP3 directly from my hard drive to the stereo system. I don't have to burn the CD, just RIP it to the computer's hard disk.

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          I need to commit to using a single player. -I don't like Windows Media Player for 2 reasons. I can't copy my CDs to mp3 format and the UI for managing songs, artists, etc really sucks. -Real Player is awesome, except it's riddled with spyware. -WinAmp works, but it doesn't play .ra files. I'm not sure how good the UI is for managing songs. Any suggestions? It's good to be alive, Josef Wainz Programmer Analyst

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          Stuart van Weele
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          Turtle Hand wrote: Real Player is awesome, except it's riddled with spyware. Just point their websites to 127.0.0.1, or install ZoneAlarm and don't let it phone home.

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          • L Lost User

            I really like itunes

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            Lost User
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            iTunes owns, with iPhoto and quicktime(built into iTunes now) i can view all my media =) -hammackj

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              iTunes owns, with iPhoto and quicktime(built into iTunes now) i can view all my media =) -hammackj

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              Maximilien
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              iPhoto for Windows ? :confused: is it out ?


              Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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              • J Judah Gabriel Himango

                Real Player has spyware? I thought it was just bloated and showed some ads...

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                Steve Mayfield
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                Yes, I think he meant adware... Steve

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                • T Turtle Hand

                  Is there a song database? When I rip a CD, it's nice for all the song info to automatically get assigned. WMP does a nice job at this.

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                  Lost User
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                  I use CDex[^] for ripping CDs, it's free, uses CDDB and lets me set the quality level I want. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                  • D daniilzol

                    ZoomPlayer for video, Foobar for audio...

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                    Lost User
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                    /me roots for foobar[^] Paul

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                    • M Maximilien

                      iPhoto for Windows ? :confused: is it out ?


                      Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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                      Lost User
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                      My bad, I use a powerbook. I run windows in a window tho =)

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                      • L Lost User

                        /me roots for foobar[^] Paul

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                        Lars Viklund
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                        For video, Media Player Classic[^] in conjunction with ffdshow for the codecs. For audio, foobar2000[^] is definitely the choice for me. fb2k can do anything under the sun. In the betas of version 0.9[^] it can rip securely from CDs into any format you have configured an encoder for. It has a powerful masstagger to place tags on your files with. It even feeds your cat. You could always sneak into #foobar2000 on freenode and poke random people for help if you're stuck with something. There's also a new pretty informative wiki[^] too.

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                        • M Maximilien

                          iPhoto for Windows ? :confused: is it out ?


                          Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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                          Lost User
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                          Yeah itunes for windows has been around for a while. You can download it free from the apple web site

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                            Yeah itunes for windows has been around for a while. You can download it free from the apple web site

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                            Maximilien
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                            I was talking about iPhoto, not iTunes which I'm already using .


                            Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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