Best Media Player??

samuelhii_mei · 11-21-2004, 05:41 PM

i am using winamp now!!
and with a DFX equalizer beside!
actually winamp is not so good i think! but the DFX beside is pretty great
www.fxsound.com

**Praetor** · 11-21-2004, 07:57 PM

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Winamp

I still hold a grudge against WinAmp for back-in-the day when 17" monitors were cutting edge and running at 1280x1024 (or damn near any resolution really... damn winamp) resulted in not being able to see the damn buttons

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WMP - nah its too bulky and clunky...something about it, but I let it play video clips

Thats why you use it on Mini skin.

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Real Player - nah I can't stand that thing, its all advertisements and stuff

Agreed RP is the devil incarnate

For me i use WMP mostly for when im workin away, Sonique when im kickin back and relaxing and PowerDVD for videos

Lorand · 11-21-2004, 08:08 PM

Does it really matter what program plays those files? Are you watching the skin of it or the movie? What influence could have a graphical interface on the sound's quality?

**Praetor** · 11-21-2004, 09:27 PM

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Does it really matter what program plays those files? Are you watching the skin of it or the movie? What influence could have a graphical interface on the sound's quality?

I didnt mention quality ... but its a pain when i cant click the play button to get the damn thing to play

... i guess thats a dampener on quality

Lorand · 11-21-2004, 09:33 PM

Agree... But I use the remote (which came with my ATI AIW) instead.

**Praetor** · 11-21-2004, 09:41 PM

The batteries on mine die too quickly and it makes it a challenge to switch between multiple media players (and yes, i do have multiple media players simultaneously on different sound cards)

coxhill1988 · 01-06-2005, 09:22 PM

what is the advantage of that praetor or is it a just cus I can thing, im partial to creative play centre, as it has some really small skins and loads pretty quick, it also lets u load playlists alot more easily than wmp10, 8 had to be best 9 and 10 concentrated on nice colour and features, forgot that all you do is press play and minimise. Power DVD is also gr8 for DVD's love the way u can stretch aspect ratio and make the widescreen bars smaller, makes peter kay look thinner too lol.

pentium III @ 1000 mhz · 01-07-2005, 12:54 AM

i perfer winamp 2.91 best one made, uses almost no cpu usage at all, good on ram too. and plays them in a play list that is easily editable and of course cuz i can adjust the buffer for video AND audio for more than 35 seconds...woope do....wmp is only good on full screen..i mean the old wmp, the one that came with windows me lol

**SFR** · 01-07-2005, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Ace1627

...Stay away from Musicmatch....

Any reason in particular why I should stay away from MusicMatch?

SlothX311 · 01-07-2005, 02:50 PM

best media player out there is "foobar2000"....its plain, ugly, and white, but thats the art of it.....its memory trail is like 5 k of memmory! in other words, 2 desktop icons uses the same ammount of memory as this freakin amazing media player, and best of all its free!....heres some quotes from the site.....

Features

* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
* Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.

www.foobar2000.org

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11-21-2004, 05:41 PM	#21 (permalink)
samuelhii_mei Silver Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Age: 19 Posts: 195	i am using winamp now!! and with a DFX equalizer beside! actually winamp is not so good i think! but the DFX beside is pretty great www.fxsound.com

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Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Does it really matter what program plays those files? Are you watching the skin of it or the movie? What influence could have a graphical interface on the sound's quality?

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Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Agree... But I use the remote (which came with my ATI AIW) instead.

01-07-2005, 02:50 PM	#30 (permalink)
SlothX311 Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Akron, Ohio Age: 22 Posts: 706	best media player out there is "foobar2000"....its plain, ugly, and white, but thats the art of it.....its memory trail is like 5 k of memmory! in other words, 2 desktop icons uses the same ammount of memory as this freakin amazing media player, and best of all its free!....heres some quotes from the site..... Features * Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player * Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC * Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives * Full Unicode support on Windows NT * ReplayGain support * Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists * Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger) * Highly customizable playlist display * Customizable keyboard shortcuts * Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK) Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats. www.foobar2000.org