Best music players currently?

A.Baird3 · 22 Apr 2016 at 04:54

What are people using for music playback these days? I'm using Clementine, which I like, but I was wondering what other folks were using. It's been years since I looked around, so I'm out of the loop as to new things.

I like the way Clementine organizes my playlists, it seems to do it better than Winamp or AIMP, but the lyrics display panel seems to be not as good in the latest version. I need a lyrics facility so I can sing along badly.

So what do you use, and would recommend?

Camburt · 22 Apr 2016 at 05:58

I am using Winamp since many years.

bledd · 22 Apr 2016 at 07:39

Winamp

hyperseven · 22 Apr 2016 at 08:14

musicbee

kayomani · 22 Apr 2016 at 08:34

Itunes

joeyjojo · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:02

foobar2000, but it takes a bit of work to set it up nicely.

Clementine and musicbee look decent, must try them out.

Gambisk · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:09

another vote for musicbee, but increasingly I'm just using spotify or google music and not buying as much music.

Sp00n · 22 Apr 2016 at 09:28

foobar2000 with Hifoo skin

AHarvey · 22 Apr 2016 at 10:42

I use mediamonkey, find it great as it can do videos etc too. Great library functions, radio etc.

Oxide™ · 22 Apr 2016 at 10:51

Camburt said:
I am using Winamp since many years.

+ MiniLyrics plugin

flowrider99 · 22 Apr 2016 at 20:46

Mediamonkey here as well.

Selmancer · 22 Apr 2016 at 22:47

iTunes too

rids57 · 22 Apr 2016 at 23:46

Another vote for MusicBee here

mistersprinkles · 23 Apr 2016 at 04:28

I use JRiver, which is a paid product, but it is the best audio/video player for windows bar none. You should check out the demo.

If you have high end hardware it will be up to the task and blow your mind.

Next best thing after JPlay (also paid) is Foobar2000 which is very nice and can talk directly to your sound device via ASIO or Kernel streaming and has nice "nerd" features like tweakable latency and so forth. Nothing compares to JRiver though. That player is better than sex.

If you don't have 800 squid + in your audio setup just get Foobar2000. It's free and you won't notice the difference.

Also take a look at services like Tidal (which works best in windows through Chrome, which conveniently supports WASAPI to stream directly to your soundcard or DAC.

Glaucus · 23 Apr 2016 at 06:49

Groove music, don't see the need fir anything else.

malachi · 23 Apr 2016 at 07:49

Winamp, nice and light.

NeoWave · 23 Apr 2016 at 08:22

Winamp. Still the only one that most of the stuff I need it to.

KIA · 23 Apr 2016 at 18:07

MediaMonkey.

JLarks · 23 Apr 2016 at 19:22

Windows Media Player... should really give that Winamp a try sometime

A.Baird3 · 24 Apr 2016 at 04:40

I might try that Musicbee. A problem I find is that only Clementine can organise my library properly. Either that or I'm not using other software properly.