Media Player - Recommendation for you!

I'm looking for a free media player for my Dad's PC - he's got into playing his classical CDs on his PC recently. He doesn't get on with WMP as it's too complicated, I tried Winamp which I've always used but it's not great for CDs as it struggles to name the tracks, and he struggles to see the buttons (he's nearly 70).

Any recommendations for a simple, decent media player? Doesn't have to do video, just for CDs.
 
Big Chris said:
I'm looking for a free media player for my Dad's PC - he's got into playing his classical CDs on his PC recently. He doesn't get on with WMP as it's too complicated, I tried Winamp which I've always used but it's not great for CDs as it struggles to name the tracks, and he struggles to see the buttons (he's nearly 70).

Any recommendations for a simple, decent media player? Doesn't have to do video, just for CDs.
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http://jetaudio.com/download/

try it
 
Big Chris said:
I'm looking for a free media player for my Dad's PC - he's got into playing his classical CDs on his PC recently. He doesn't get on with WMP as it's too complicated, I tried Winamp which I've always used but it's not great for CDs as it struggles to name the tracks, and he struggles to see the buttons (he's nearly 70).

Any recommendations for a simple, decent media player? Doesn't have to do video, just for CDs.
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cant see how wmp is to complicated, I just put a cd in and it plays it how hard is that
 
Meh! Who cares if it's not supported any more!! I'm still gonna use Winamp! it's not like they are going to forcefully remove it from my machine! it still works nicely for me!!

Plus I bought a Licence for it all the way back in version 1.9 which is still valid! :D
 
gazjam said:
Jriver Media centre.

Most important piece of software on my media server computer.
Not free but worth every penny, especially if audio quality is important.
£32

http://www.jriver.com/
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quite rightly they state that they do not alter the sound and that the output is bit-perfect. well done them for making some software that isn't broken. :confused: it's hardly a feature worth paying for. :p
 
Your not paying for that....
look again. :)

If I said it plays native DSD and even upsamples Flac to 32bit 384 Khz audio, would that matter?
(+ the million other things it does)
 
i think marc you missing hes point, but you both have valid cliams :D

he just stating your paying for all the others features not the actual music playing
 
smogsy said:
i think marc you missing hes point, but you both have valid cliams :D

he just stating your paying for all the others features not the actual music playing
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Well, gazjam made an issue out of "audio quality," so no, I don't think he's missing the point. :p

Jriver has some nice features, especially on the video front (integrated support for the madVR renderer springs to mind). Its audio output though will be the same as any other player which doesn't have a broken decoder or undefeatable postprocessing, so the comment "Not free but worth every penny, especially if audio quality is important" is a bit misleading at best. :)
 
Why get rid of it? I think I've had the same version of wimamp for years and years. Also the old versions seem to use less resources :)

The audio quality is going to be the same no matter what player you use. That part depends on the sound file itself and your sound card.
 
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Is there a way to look into folders of WINAMP at what might be 100s of MP3s and just see the filename?
I just want to see a file manager browser for some directories.
ADD TO LIBRARY just shows all the tags for me.
 
Just depends on the level of your equipment I guess and if the features are of use to you.
I have a DSD dac and Jriver streams my SACD rips with no downsampling of bit/sample rate.
It can also convert uncompresssed PCM to DSD on the fly to a DSD capable dac.
Appreciate not everyone does this, horses for courses.

No harm done guys, wrong meeting I think. :)
Enjoyed Winamp back in the day, still hate Itunes!
Foobars good too, and unlike Jriver its free!
 
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