Best music player

tonyzero · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:05

hi,

having just moved to vista 64bit i was thinking about trying a new music player for my mp3s and so on but i am a bit out of touch with players as i spent a few years using music match so if there is a program that will improve on this then please post.

also is there a site that will let me download CD covers so they will show up when ever i use the 3d browse on vista ?

Thanks

Columbo · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:07

CD covers are out there somewhere but they were deemed illegal a while back. Dunno why.

I use Foobar2000. Dunno if it works in vista tho. Its small and does'nt use hardly any resources.

Jimbeam3678 · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:08

musikcube is anonther a good one. Lets you do dynamic playlists which is really good

benjo · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:08

Never had problems with winamp - not skinned though

Teaf · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:11

Jimbeam3678 · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:12

benjo said:
Never had problems with winamp - not skinned though

winamp is horrid IMO , uses way to much resources etc

benjo · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:18

divaboy said:
winamp is horrid IMO , uses way to much resources etc

As i said, never had problems. I always have it running in the background whilst gaming etc. No slowdown at all

TheVoice · 16 Jun 2007 at 13:07

Another vite for WInamp here. Fantastic player with some very nice options.

marc2003 · 16 Jun 2007 at 13:12

divaboy said:
winamp is horrid IMO , uses way to much resources etc

which could well be an issue if your pc only has 128mb of ram. for those of us with more than that, it shouldn't be a problem.

btw i'm a foobar fanboy, i'm not trying to defend winamp at all. it's just a silly argument you're using there.....

tonyzero · 16 Jun 2007 at 13:13

winamp is a no go with vista 64bit

pitchfork · 16 Jun 2007 at 13:28

Whats wrong with media player?

furnace · 16 Jun 2007 at 13:32

vote #3 for winamp

can't beat this, IMO:

that tucked away on 10% visibility until hover at the top of my second monitor :cool:

much prefer it to any other media player i've tried

jbloggs · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:07

tonyzero:

For different audio players have a look in the Audio/Radio Players section.

I personally use foobar2000 in a Vista 64bit install, it works well.

Margaret · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:41

I use iTunes because Foobar2000 refuses to work with embedded album art! (I have the plugin for it but it's a no-go)

Anyway I do like iTunes apart from the slight interface lag I get.

GraemeUK · 16 Jun 2007 at 15:54

tonyzero said:
winamp is a no go with vista 64bit

Worked perfectly for me. I presume you tried to install it without unchecking the sonic burning addon, which is not compatible.

bledd · 16 Jun 2007 at 16:11

winamp lite

BoomAM · 16 Jun 2007 at 18:13

Foobar is popular round these parts, but takes a lot of configuration to get perfect.
WinAmp is good, but i find a little clunky(prehaps not the right word).
WMP11 is nice and reliable.
iTunes is my program of choice. Auto album art download, easy to rip, easy t download, easy to organise. Bit of a memory hog, but ive got 2Gb, so a few extra tens of Mb is neither here nor there really.

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kirbz · 16 Jun 2007 at 18:16

divaboy said:
musikcube is anonther a good one. Lets you do dynamic playlists which is really good

It's also very light on resources

Mindriot · 16 Jun 2007 at 20:12

Another vote for foobar here

You can use replaygain in a really easy way to make sure all of your albums play back at a constant level, or (i do not use this tho) have each track at the same average volume for a mixed playlist, which would be great for party music etc.

I believe winamp has this feature but am not sure. I gave up on winamp since i kept getting "invalid memory access" errors and have never looked back

squiffy · 16 Jun 2007 at 20:23

Squeezebox.

But if I've using the PC soundcard I use Winamp.