Best MP3 player (Software)?

[Deepak]

Which is the best one? WinAMP?

 

[carpediem]

Which is the best one? WinAMP?

Most potent, because if the endless customizability, is probably foobar2000.

Check this thread on neowin.net for some pics of people's different foobar2000 looks.


Plugins come in all kinds of flavors
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=33236
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=28647

 

[carpediem]

On the other hand... here's a REALLY nice Winamp5 skin (hacked), if you care about the bling bling look

http://axialix.home.insightbb.com/Winamp/index.htm

 

[carpediem]

...and a REALLY good winamp5 plugin for those that have alot of MP3's and them spread on different locations on the computer. This is the plugin I couldn't live without as a winamp5 user.

http://nunzioweb.com/joonas/dl/

 

[Hector]

I suggest MusikCube. It has a nice interface, smart playlist, query support (you can make your own smart playlists based on simplified querys like rating>3 and genre=rock), fadeout and fadein between tracks, a very small footprint, and some nice plugins. Check it out here http://musikcube.com/ (no idea of how to make it a link)

 

[Blade]

Winamp does virtually everything now. It's my player of choice.

 

[Guden Oden]

It doesn't play SIDs tho, not to my knowledge anyway... There used to be a WA2.x plugin for that, but the development stopped ages ago, even before WA3 was released.

 

[Saem]

I'm a big fan of MusikCube as well. About the only thing I miss is normalisation.

 

[PARANOiA]

I actually really dig Itunes. I love the library organisation features and ratings. Sorry.

 

[Saem]

I actually really dig Itunes. I love the library organisation features and ratings. Sorry.

Those are not exclusive to iTunes. I would have stuck with iTunes but the Quicktime garbage paired with it's sluggishness, I gave up.

On linux, Amarok is king.

 

[hoom]

I use Winamp, its not all I would like but its closest I have found.
In terms of library/playlist management Realplayer most suits me. (also had a good quick ripper)
I changed when Real couldn't seem to let me use my at the time new 5.1 speakers properly & winamp did.

iTunes is awful, doesn't let you edit auto found track details before ripping, doesn't seem to have a 'now playing' list that you can edit, barely any customisation, tends to not actually play full albums even when that was what you told it to do

 

[rashly]

Foobar has the best sound out of any app for the PC. By far. Takes a lot of customizing, though.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

[CosmoKramer]

Another vote for foobar. Looks like hell but works like a charm.

 

[silence]

i like Winamp.... does everything i need.... and i am kinda used to GUI

 

[shyam]

Hi
Im new here
My vote to foobar.

 

[silence]

hi new one


maybe Deepak should start new topic with poll? just a suggestion...

 

[vb]

can someone recomend a player with ripping and encoding, easy enough to be used by my girlfriend?

Thanks

 

[Deepak]

maybe Deepak should start new topic with poll? just a suggestion...

But I know only about Winamp.

 

[suryad]

I like Winamp...prob gonna switch back to Winamp lite cause I just scrunged through the media playlist that Winamp full has and saved the links so I will just get the lite version, less memory footprint, no plugins I dont need and very fast startup.

 

[Zaphod]

can someone recomend a player with ripping and encoding, easy enough to be used by my girlfriend?

Audiograbber, if you spend five minutes setting it up first. Or dBPoweramp. Not players as such, but both decent rippers without too intimidating interfaces.

If you need the 'even my grandma'/mum/girlfriend can do it all with one app' factor to be the end all there's really no way past iTunes.