What is the best media player (for music) on Windows?

Far too reliant on wmp library.

No real need for anything else as wmp plays everything, quality is nice enough, the library is great.

Spotify is not bad, but would be nice to sort the on drive to online playlists unless u can and i cant see how or group playlists into categorys. Spotify is better quality somehow i duno how but it is. I mean playing somit on spotify and then wmp, it seems like lower quality on wmp. Yet its the same file.

Used to play spotify more but since they started the limit of free version to 10 hrs a month i use it sparingly now.
 
SkeeterUK said:
No real need for anything else as wmp plays everything, quality is nice enough, the library is great.
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Except all the decent music formats out the box :rolleyes:

I used to use Windows Media Centre because I could use my remote, when I moved my library to FLAC it became impossible to use (not to mention MKV files), so I switched to XBMC for all media player usage.
 
Auraomega said:
Except all the decent music formats out the box :rolleyes:

I used to use Windows Media Centre because I could use my remote, when I moved my library to FLAC it became impossible to use (not to mention MKV files), so I switched to XBMC for all media player usage.
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Except it does play mkv and flac and many more with a good codec pack. I watch my anime on wmp and listen to flac too on it.
 
Hxc said:
I miss foobar so so much on OSX. Clementine is the closest alternative. I would run it through wine if I could make global shortcuts work somehow. Honest to god nothing better than fb2k.
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I've been experimenting with running it in VirtualBox along with a stripped down version of Windows XP.

It's a little fiddly to set up, but it is functional, but I haven't managed to figure out a way of getting the Global Hotkeys plugin to work when the VB window isn't selected.

If anyone knows of a way around this then I'm all ears. :)
 
MikeHunt79 said:
I've been experimenting with running it in VirtualBox along with a stripped down version of Windows XP.

It's a little fiddly to set up, but it is functional, but I haven't managed to figure out a way of getting the Global Hotkeys plugin to work when the VB window isn't selected.

If anyone knows of a way around this then I'm all ears. :)
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It runs perfectly through winebottler, which is much simpler than an XP install. I just cannot get global shortcuts working which restricts me from using it full time because I like to be able to hit play pause, forward etc.
 
Hxc said:
It runs perfectly through winebottler, which is much simpler than an XP install. I just cannot get global shortcuts working which restricts me from using it full time because I like to be able to hit play pause, forward etc.
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Thanks, WineBottler does seem like the way forward even if their site seems to be down right now.

I'm remember back in the WinAmp 2.xx days you could use external .EXE files in order to pause, skip tracks, etc. in WinAmp.... If something similar could be dine in FB2K, then there may be a way to use OSX's Keyboard Shortcuts to launch the EXE files...
 
As the missus wants all my CD's to go off to MusicMagpie ("Well you don't need them if they're on the computer!") I decided to rip them again using a format more true to the original, so i'm a few discs into converting them all to FLAC using Exact Audio Copy.

So far I have to say that the quality is night and day compared to my 256K MP3s, played through WMP. No longer does the volume rise and fall (never had this in XP), it's just like playing the CD.

Used to use Winamp but couldn't get it happy with Win7 64bit so gave WMP another go. Very happy with it.
 
I had a quick play on other players to see what the fuss was about.

Couldn't really get along with winamp and foobar2k.
I like the speediness of mediamonkey and I like the skin of songbird. I think songbird tops mediamonkey for me.

But I'm sticking to iTunes, despite it being a little slower, because the interface just seems cleaner and the settings are easier to change.
 
MrChops said:
As the missus wants all my CD's to go off to MusicMagpie ("Well you don't need them if they're on the computer!")
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Keep them. Stick them into storage or the loft or something like that.

Justify it with - "What happens if the hard drive fails? I'll need to buy them all again."

MusicMagpie will only pay peanuts too. I've got some CD's that if sold through ebay reach £150-200 - MusicMagpie offered 45p - Ebay/Amazon are a much better bet.
 
Also, selling the CD's and keeping the rips would be illegal.

Agreed about MusicMagpie, they will give you a bare minimum for them. If you have to sell them, best to use sites suggested above.

I'm currently using MediaMonkey, finding it very good so far.

Just had a tinker around with Songbird, which also looks very good. It has no option to choose independent audio device, that I can see, which makes it a no go. Shame.
 
Marsman said:
Also, selling the CD's and keeping the rips would be illegal.
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You're right, and it never even occurred to me! Well there's no way I can flog them on now then if it means losing them completely.

Some of these CDs are like old friends, in fact I've had some longer than I know most of my friends! Damn it I even get attached to bits of polycarb!
 
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