Recommend me a media player

Clipsey · 15 Apr 2010 at 14:02

Anyone recommend a decent media player that looks really good?
I prefer the ones that are minimalistic, at the moment I'm using MediaMonkey with the mini player as a thin strip.
What I really want is this or something like it:

....but I'm on Win7 and don't think I can get the whole Samurize thing going?
So what do you all use?
Thanks

Pho · 15 Apr 2010 at 14:20

Foobar2000 and customise it to how you like.

UnworthyBean · 15 Apr 2010 at 14:23

Samurize works on Vista so I'm pretty sure it'll work on 7?

I'm using it with Mediamonkey on Vista now.

imamosher · 15 Apr 2010 at 14:25

Zoomplayer, customizable and plays everything.

jbloggs · 15 Apr 2010 at 15:00

Pho said:
Foobar2000 and customise it to how you like.

Ditto...

chad · 15 Apr 2010 at 15:04

Foobar2000

Clipsey · 15 Apr 2010 at 19:58

Thanks, installed Foobar and using it for now. It's decent and like the way you can customize it. Not what I'm looking for exactly.
Any other ideas - or even skins/plugins?

jbloggs · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:05

Foobar Customization

Antar Bolaeisk · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:06

Windows Media Player? It minimises straight to the taskbar

Amp34 · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:15

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Windows Media Player? It minimises straight to the taskbar

Still the best.

On that note how do you make WMP minimise to the taskbar like it does in previous versions, specifically with forward back and play/pause visible? Can't find the option and its really annoying me!

Fanatic · 15 Apr 2010 at 23:14

They moved it to Aero Peek. When you hover over WMP in the taskbar the buttons pop up.

Amp34 · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:01

Ah yeah, I was right clicking... Still prefer it the old way though. Next question (sorry for hijacking the thread), how do you play all music in your library? Used to be able to right click on the "songs" and play all, now, aside from there being no "songs" tab in the music section there isn't an all option anywhere I can see.

Fanatic · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:10

Just click Music, all the songs are listed

imamosher · 16 Apr 2010 at 12:23

Foobar is another good choice

Antar Bolaeisk · 16 Apr 2010 at 12:42

Fanatic said:
They moved it to Aero Peek. When you hover over WMP in the taskbar the buttons pop up.

They should give us back the option of having it integrated right into the taskbar again though as the aero peek method takes slightly longer, only a second or so granted but when you're trying to turn off that Beyoncé song which has mysteriously added itself to the playlist and is now blasting out at full volume it can be annoying.

Sunbed · 16 Apr 2010 at 13:23

Windows Media Player 12 with Toolbar

That's what I do. Doesn't work perfectly though. You have to deselect the toolbar for the WMP process to finish, still worth it though.

Nemesis379 · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:07

winamp? lol

but foobar is good too =)

Amp34 · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:39

Antar Bolaeisk said:
They should give us back the option of having it integrated right into the taskbar again though as the aero peek method takes slightly longer, only a second or so granted but when you're trying to turn off that Beyoncé song which has mysteriously added itself to the playlist and is now blasting out at full volume it can be annoying.

And you don't have the option to skip part of the track any more, or have the name of the song visible unless you go into WMP. A step backwards IMO.

Ratbag · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:51

Get CD Art Display, then check out some of the themes here. CAD works fine with mediamonkey too.