What media player do you use?

[Surf314]

I don't need itunes on this computer and I hate windows media player. I've heard that winamp jumped the shark. Any good recommendations? Looking for lightweight with easy library organization.

[zaneyard]

songbird

[copulatingduck]

eww gross



mpc, vlc, and mplayer are all good players (I prefer mplayer personally but it's not the most user-friendly, though I think it's got more/better features than vlc)

[Tricks]

VLC. For everything.

[KarthXLR]

Same as duck and tricks, VLC. Very rarely do I use anything else.

[Surf314]

OK I got VLC but its kind of being a dick, how do you perform bulk actions? Also how do you get rid of stuff from your library?

[HeK]

Winamp, only because I'm oldschool and it's super lightweight.

14614 songs loaded right now and it's using under 50mb of ram.

[Geoff]

wmp, too lazy to get anything else

[CaffeinePowered]

brb buffering

[rumsfald]

winamp 2.95 forever.


Actually, I do use 5.56 on my newest computer, but for all others I stick with 2.95. I like knowing where the buttons are.

[K2]

foobar2000. It's infinitely customizable, but it does take a little work to get it set up well. Simple, clean, and really lightweight (~20MB of memory). I highly recommend using the Columns UI plugin; it makes organizing the layout much easier.

[zaneyard]

OK I got VLC but its kind of being a dick, how do you perform bulk actions? Also how do you get rid of stuff from your library?

VLC doesn't have library management
it simply is a media player

[Squishy3]

smplayer.

[Tricks]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=4042.msg129248#msg129248 date=1261933791]
OK I got VLC but its kind of being a dick, how do you perform bulk actions? Also how do you get rid of stuff from your library?

VLC doesn't have library management
it simply is a media player
[/quote]

I didn’t see this Surf, sorry. I use VLC for a general media player, because when I would grab pirate video during my college days I could throw nearly any file type at it and it would play. Other players would say “this file type isn’t supported” and I would have to find some kind of patch to fix it. Also, VLC is incredibly lightweight as a program.

Personally, I don’t torrent any music at all, so I prefer to go to sites with relativity little costs associated with online music streaming. I use Pandora some, but I am really enjoying lala.com recently for the ability to sort of build your own Pandora station with much more song selection. It does cost money however, but even $20 goes a really long way for online streaming. I write reviews on there, create playlists, etc. Pitchfork is fairly active on Lala, and I am able to discover a decent amount of music that way as well.

That’s a long way of saying if library management is more important (as in you have many gigs of music already on your computer) I think some of the other suggestions in this thread would probably serve you better then VLC.

[Surf314]

Foobar is the winner. By a lot.

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

Winamp and Media Player Classic.

[copulatingduck]

for some reason i read media player and thought video player even though you mentioned itunes. ??? Mediamonkey is another good player for big audio libraries

[Neonie]

I use itunes because fuck all if I'm gonna bother to search for a music player for less then 50 active songs.

[Eschatos]

I use itunes because fuck all if I'm gonna bother to search for a music player for less then 3500 active songs.

[Vlambo]

Foobar2K, it's hella lightweight, and highly customizable if you want it to be. I only use it for my music, while VLC is used for my videos