Music Players

[Whitewolf]

Im a die hard winamp fan, i just think it has so much more functionality than the other music players

 

[QueenHawkeye]

Winamp, is my favoritest music player. I couldn't/can't live without it!

 

[Sup3rkirby]

I use windows media player cause it looks cool, doesn't error much, and works!

If Microsoft had a dollar for every time someone said that about one of their applications, they'd have 1 dollar

You know, I use WMP 11 on all my computers and I don't have troubles with it. The taskbar integration is wonderful, even though other players have remotes or small skins, being in the taskbar is actually still better(not intrusive into your screen space(meaning it will not cover any data or info on your screen. It is integrated into the GUI, rather than being on top of it)). Also WMP does offer media features(like SRS, Crossfading, Speed, etc.), plus it is a fully featured media player(video and movies as well).

I have a 1.0 GHz computer with 256 Mb RAM and it doesn't skip there.

Winamp is still very lovely. As far as simply a music player goes, that would be my pick then. It is faster since it doesn't have all the extra.... stuff. Not that WMP 11 is slow or overstuffed with whatever, but that Winamp doesn't need all the things WMP has, so because of this it can run faster.

iTunes would have to be a thumbs down for me. Winamp and WMP 11 are very nice, but what really does iTunes offer that isn't in the other two? I don't see how anything in iTunes beats anything in the other two. Yes, it does have that fancy album art scroller thing, but you need an iTunes account to get album art that you don't have(WMP lets anyone get album art). And last time I checked, u needed a credit card to get the iTunes account....

Can't say much for other media players. Well, except in Linux. amaroK(of course someone would say this) is wonderful as far as all Linux players go, and there is Exaile, which I like a bit. Gecko was something else I tried a while back, don't know what has become of that.

 

[DMacK]

Winamp is definitely my favorite!

 

[Empire01]

iTunes FTW!

 

[Sohail]

I can only use iTunes since i'm on Mac.

 

[Sup3rkirby]

I can only use iTunes since i'm on Mac.

WHHAAAT!?
I'm surprised no one(especially MS) hasn't ported to Mac yet. They ported IE to Mac back in 97(or something like that), so why no WMP on a Mac? And what really shocks me is that with all the free and open source media players for Windows and Linux, there aren't other solutions for Macs.

Surely some other Mac users know of something for Macs other than iTunes.

 

[blitzkrieg]

I use winamp as many people... they were great since they started their program and imo it is the most complete program out there.

 

[lxchar2005]

winamp all the way. Reasons its small ez to use and doesnt take up allot of ram//cpu power

 

[Jigzo]

i love WMP

 

[Limvot]

I tunes and wmp 11, i am getting an ipod so i use ituns...

 

[btfog]

i use itunes my WMP doesn't work well

 

[robhol]

I use a program called "musikCube" [sic] and there's not much to complain about. The systemwide hotkeys are a relief You can also minimize it to the taskbar or systray when doing something else and the CPU usage never is too high.

 

[mattspec]

i like the way that wmp 11 organizes music, i wish i could find a lighter weight player with the same functionality, but no matter, it looks nice with vista

 

[agaitu]

i use both windows media player 10 and media player classic becoz they play all formats if codecs are installed

 

[maliq11101]

winamp of course is the best one

 

[ryoko126]

I use Media Monkey. I would use Winamp but I did some special tweaking that lets me convert midi's to mp3 and I don't want to change the settings anytime I want to actually listen to music.

 

[nexhunter]

winamp just becuase it better when running seamonkey,adobe stuff and aim at same time

 

[callumacrae]

I personally think that itunes is best because it has all your music in a list and you dont need to bother with c.d.s. but then again you can with windows media player. iTunes has loads of extra features such as a miniplayer and the album artwork and the visulizer is great.you have the choises of play by genre.

 

[Gouri]

I use Foobar for audio it takes less resources and it is skinnable.