What best Music Media player?

cu3ed · 17 Mar 2011 at 21:15

Winamp?

Im jsut looking for something that when I click on will be my default Music player..I want something light that works well and small on memory, Media player keeps messing up and seems slow...
I have iTunes installed for my devices but dont like it importing everything I clock on..kinda want to keep it seperate, plus its a bit resource hungry.

grudas · 17 Mar 2011 at 21:31

been using "mediamonkey" for ages.. love it.

Ratbag · 17 Mar 2011 at 21:45

If you want a simple player try Xion. Or a basic installation of Winamp.

Meatball · 17 Mar 2011 at 21:46

Controversial but I love iTunes....

Macky · 17 Mar 2011 at 21:58

Winamp.

UnworthyBean · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:05

Another vote for mediamonkey, does everything I want and more. I'd say its better than winamp as they are both practically the same thing but mediamonkey does more.

cu3ed · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:10

Meatball said:
Controversial but I love iTunes....

I have nothing against iTunes only that its too bloated now, and really only want to use it when updating my overall Library of my music, when randomly clicking thru and listening to a stream or random track ( i produce a lot of stuff so click thru a lot of random files)...i jsut want something light and stable.

Thanks for the inputs...looks like a tos up between Win and Monkey.

Never had Media Monkey so might give it a go.

Umm side question..how do I get rid of Media Player for good?

UnworthyBean · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:15

cu3ed said:
Umm side question..how do I get rid of Media Player for good?

You can't, You can only remove it from the list of available programs

It'll be in control panel - Programs and features - Turn windows features on or off. Will vary slightly depending on what windows version you have.

cu3ed · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:18

Yes have done that...just aware that its not really gone.

MarcLister · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:25

grudas said:
been using "mediamonkey" for ages.. love it.

UnworthyBean said:
Another vote for mediamonkey, does everything I want and more. I'd say its better than winamp as they are both practically the same thing but mediamonkey does more.

I'll third both the above.

Fantastic iPod support out of the box. With Winamp I found that its built in iPod support was OK but it was better with the ml_iPod plugin. Got introduced to MediaMonkey by another OcUKer. :cool:

Haven't looked back since.

lurkio · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:35

foobar

exia · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:55

+1 for Foobar2000

marc2003 · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:55

lurkio said:
foobar

that one!

cu3ed · 17 Mar 2011 at 23:34

lol...not helping mkae a choice lol...wasnt actually going to be using it for the Iphone/ Pad...with Apps and song etc...jsut literally as a background player thats small.

Foobar looks good actually stright forward and nothing fancy....can it handle streaming say off Digitally Imported?

marc2003 · 17 Mar 2011 at 23:44

cu3ed said:
can it handle streaming say off Digitally Imported?

yup.

cu3ed · 17 Mar 2011 at 23:48

Downloaded it...plain....boring..barly using anything..perfect lol.

snowdog · 17 Mar 2011 at 23:49

Spotify

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Only issue is it doesn't play WMA's, ogg's and flacs...

But it's great if you want the same music on your phone as on your pc.

gropingmantis · 17 Mar 2011 at 23:55

Do any of these have decent podcatchers?
Thats the only thing stopping me from migrating from iTunes. It is just so much better and simpler to subscribe and download podcasts than anything else I've tried

marc2003 · 18 Mar 2011 at 00:01

i know foobar has a 3rd party component called foo_podcatcher. but as i've never used podcasts in my life, i have no idea if it's any good or not.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=69053

welshdragon · 18 Mar 2011 at 09:11

cu3ed said:
Yes have done that...just aware that its not really gone.

Don't worry about it. Just leave it there in the dark, all alone, no friends....that'll learn it. Bout time they sprinkled some of the leftover magic form win7/ie9 on the thing!