Any music player recommendations? (includes some ranting)

[Npl]

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And it took 5 posts till someone recommend foobar2000... on a technophile board. Whats the world coming to?

 

[Joe DeFuria]

This is also worth a look:

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

 

[hoom]

http://www.foobar2000.org/

Looks nice, I'm gonna give that a good try out

I've been still using Winamp but not been especially happy with it.

Way back I liked the music_directory/artist/album Library part of Realplayer despite most people being very unhappy with it plus they default enabled opt-ins to various data-mining etc.

Edit: yup, so-far foobar2000 = win.
Light weight, simple & easy to find what I want to play.
No stupid skins, trying to be a video player, browser or all-in one media center.
It even started with my Win7 'Music' library already loaded (admittedly a pretty obvious place to look but Winamp needed a hint)
Love the spectrogram.

Can you make it minimise to tray?

 

[Bludd]

Can you make it minimise to tray?

Look in Preferences - Display - Default User Interface - System Notification area

 

[hoom]

Excellent thanks

 

[orangpelupa]

wow this topic make me realized that its been years since last time i use "proper" music player on my pc...
i just use VLC directly from windows explorer

or maybe because i more often use my cellphone than pc to lay music....