From my experience, Foobar2000 is the best music player. I have recently gotten into the audiophile world, and I find that foobar2000 is the player of choice for windows largely because of it's ease and effective use of plugins. It supports bit-perfect playback such as ASIO, Kernel Streaming, and WASAPI with minimal glitches. As well the surround DSP's function work great as well, but I generally just listen to stereo.
I tried to use Foobar as well, but investing so much time into 'learning about a music player' didn't seem like something that was worth while. Foobar really needs to produce a preconfigured version.
Foobar2000 isn't the application for someone who doesn't listen music on a regular basis. I used Winamp before, and while it was much simpler, it's overall options for music were somewhat limiting with some buggy playback with bit-perfect plugins. Though I wish Foobar2000 was as easy to configure in terms of skins as Winamp was.
This is a well reasoned post. I do have foobar installed, but I still use itunes to listen to music, which I do all the time. Trying to catch vanilla foobar to itunes was too difficult.
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Foobar2000 isn't the application for someone who doesn't listen music on a regular basis.
This is really elitist, a lot of open source communities have issues with this, but if the aim is to promote enjoyment of high quality music, making foobar more user friendly would be great.
Ahh, I so much agree with you - I think that iTunes is very overrated...
For some users it might be good, and it's definitely better than WMP.
As about the music player I'm using, that is WinAmp - I'd used Foobar and some other player whose name I can't recall in the past, but they both failed to work when I updated my codec pack, and I'm too lazy to try to fix it, so I just downloaded WinAmp (not that I find it bad, as it recognizes "hotkeys" performed with mouse buttons).
I HATE Itunes, it's the worst piece of shit ever, bad coded and full with security holes - have to use it though for my Ipod Shuffle - or had, my Ipod landed in the wash machine, ya can imagine what happened..
I have an iPod mini so I've been using iTunes for a long while. Now that I have a mac its practically part of the OS (like WMP with less suck) and integrates with Finder and Front Row.
For video though VLC is my player of choice. Quicktime (even with perian) just doesn't cut it.
using foobar2000as music player, like to modify everything and it's easiest to modify, easiest to get support for all the filetypes i listen to, and i can use my creative remote with it ^_^, is it possible to use the remote you get with creative x-fi with winamp or any other music player ?
Well, many people complain about WMP. I use it since it works totaly fine for me.
And as said, with CCP I'm able to play everything, and for the rare case if not I have VLC.
Why should I change something which works totaly fine for me?^^
When it's about Desktop I'm a minimalist. I don't like toolbar or any similar things, for me important are just links to my most used software and links to all harddrives, here my current Desktop:
[spoiler][img]http://visual-novels.net/Downloads/Data Transfer/MyDesktop.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
Will look different soon since I'm going to change to Vista Business (yeah blame me lol :P)
I use the default black modern skin for my Winamp, since my laptop have been running a black version of the Royale theme (based on the XP Media Center's Royale theme).
lol yea.. I am not a fan of Winamp but no way would u use Windows media player as a primary media player. Despite what you WMP users have experienced with using it, it is proven to crash with large Libarys and been proven by a few friends of mine. USE ITUNES! lol
Does Itunes support ASIO/Kernel streaming? What about support for ape, flac and ogg? I'd like to give it a try if it supports all these.
More than likely, Itunes run all media through Quicktime which has various plugins for different media. My quick search of google says that it will play Flac, OGG and APE with the plug in. don't know about the ASIO/Kernel streaming though i would guess not.
I think ITunes has the best library functions out of all the other programs which makes it so much easier for me to find tracks and sort them.. For those formats i would say Winamp or whatever program is best to run them, but for regular mp3, wmv etc I only use ITunes is perfect. It all depends
I can not get over how many people stuff use Windows media player.. I have lost faith in the world.. as for Winamp i thought that died years ago guess people don't want to move on lol :sigh2:
sure windows media player has many complications that makes me to avoid using it since the a few years ago. well yeah.... windows media player sux (for me).
It crashes if you have to much in the library yet people still use it. I would use Realplayer before Windows media player.
Really I never knew that windows media crashes with too much songs. I have alot of libraries and songs in it but it seems to be working fine. Of course if that were to happen I'll go back to using winamp.
I used to use Foobar2000 for its simplicity and kernel streaming but now it always freezes whenever I open it. So I have no other choice but to use Winamp since afaik no other players support ASIO/kernel. If I can use either ASIO or kernel streaming with Realplayer/WMP then I would use them instead of Winamp (the startup of Winamp takes forever on my computer). But since they don't so...screw them. I need bit-perfect.
I know J River Media Centre also supports ASIO but I like Winamp better...
I usually use Realplayer. At the moment I'm using Windows media player on this computer though, since have been too lazy to install realplayer yet.... I'm still planning to do so though :P
I'm with Mutio, I use Windows Media Player. It's the simplest for me. Lol. I used to have Winamp, but my sister didn't like it, and I have Itunes, but I only use that for my iPod.
I'm just used to my WMP11 and moreover with CCP I can play almost everything.
The only problem I have is that it has an error when opening a file sometimes. Could be my Windows though :roar:
I really need to reinstall soon :burning:
i used winamp for music, VLC for most video files, zoomplayer for mkv and ogm files.
well i dont really care about having many players all i want is the best performance. with kazza lite codec pack zoomplayer can play anything, but i used VLC more because VLC is lighter to boot.
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This is really elitist, a lot of open source communities have issues with this, but if the aim is to promote enjoyment of high quality music, making foobar more user friendly would be great.
For some users it might be good, and it's definitely better than WMP.
As about the music player I'm using, that is WinAmp - I'd used Foobar and some other player whose name I can't recall in the past, but they both failed to work when I updated my codec pack, and I'm too lazy to try to fix it, so I just downloaded WinAmp (not that I find it bad, as it recognizes "hotkeys" performed with mouse buttons).
For video though VLC is my player of choice. Quicktime (even with perian) just doesn't cut it.
And as said, with CCP I'm able to play everything, and for the rare case if not I have VLC.
Why should I change something which works totaly fine for me?^^
When it's about Desktop I'm a minimalist. I don't like toolbar or any similar things, for me important are just links to my most used software and links to all harddrives, here my current Desktop:
[spoiler][img]http://visual-novels.net/Downloads/Data Transfer/MyDesktop.jpg[/img][/spoiler]
Will look different soon since I'm going to change to Vista Business (yeah blame me lol :P)
well I used a custom theme (self edited saber theme) on my old windows XP with saber background and freestyle skin on my winamp (saber skin)....
and now it's all gone.
More than likely, Itunes run all media through Quicktime which has various plugins for different media. My quick search of google says that it will play Flac, OGG and APE with the plug in. don't know about the ASIO/Kernel streaming though i would guess not.
I think ITunes has the best library functions out of all the other programs which makes it so much easier for me to find tracks and sort them.. For those formats i would say Winamp or whatever program is best to run them, but for regular mp3, wmv etc I only use ITunes is perfect. It all depends
which makes lazy people lose their mood on looking for new players
Really I never knew that windows media crashes with too much songs. I have alot of libraries and songs in it but it seems to be working fine. Of course if that were to happen I'll go back to using winamp.
I know J River Media Centre also supports ASIO but I like Winamp better...
I'm just used to my WMP11 and moreover with CCP I can play almost everything.
The only problem I have is that it has an error when opening a file sometimes. Could be my Windows though :roar:
I really need to reinstall soon :burning:
i used winamp for music, VLC for most video files, zoomplayer for mkv and ogm files.
well i dont really care about having many players all i want is the best performance. with kazza lite codec pack zoomplayer can play anything, but i used VLC more because VLC is lighter to boot.