Media Player Discussion Thread

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by Tsami

Why not use vlc player? I had if for about 5 months and it works great, never crashed, supports lots of video/audio formats and has customizable skins. I mostly use it to play flacs tho.

Does VLC handle digital music libraries?

[nolvorite]

Windows Media Player doesn't seem as cool as Winamp
plus the mp3 files are easy to browse

[bannister]

I use Songbird. It's pretty cool and I like it, it's actually less of a pain in the ass than Windows Media Player.

The downside is it doesn't automatically update your library when you download new stuff... and I'm lazy.

[SATCHMO]

Originally Posted by bannister

I use Songbird. It's pretty cool and I like it, it's actually less of a pain in the ass than Windows Media Player.

The downside is it doesn't automatically update your library when you download new stuff... and I'm lazy.

I like it, but I wish I could get it to burn to disc or sync with my ipod.

[noise]

i found songbird to be entirely too slow and cumbersome for my tastes. it's been a good year since i tried it though...

but really, i can't imagine every moving away from foobar. it's so customizable, and i've got it set up just the way i like it. switching to another player at this point would be like trading my ipod in for a walkman

[bannister]

Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I like it, but I wish I could get it to burn to disc or sync with my ipod.

Yeah, it won't sync to my Zune either, and getting album art is a pain.

I like the Zune software a lot, actually, but I stopped using it because I can't scrobble from it. :/ The interface is amazing and it's really easy to merge albums and fix multiple tags at once. But it's also not that easily customizable like something like Songbird or Foobar.

Originally Posted by noise

but really, i can't imagine every moving away from foobar. it's so customizable, and i've got it set up just the way i like it. switching to another player at this point would be like trading my ipod in for a walkman

I've heard so many good things about Foobar, think I'll try it next time I get pissed off at Songbird.

[NGGRPLZ]

Long time MM user...but lately the lag and crashes are getting out of hand.
Also, and I've discussed this extensively on their forums, the 'shuffle' does NOT work for all 192k files I have. They can talk math all day but when I hear 3 songs by the same artist in an hour...consistently....something's ****ed up.

So, I've been reading these (mostly old) post here. Things change pretty quick as far as music software goes. There's always new apps starting up and old ones that never get updated and fall away. Think I'll try J Rivers next...their free trial is nice and, although I'll miss MM's ease of search and updating 'properties' of multiple files, J Rivers is quick as ****. And I've been saying for a while that I would pay money to have a fast, reliable media platform for my growing library.

Anyways, peace.

NP

[OctaneHugo]

Use foobar

Good shi‎t, doesn't lag and has plenty of customization features and plugins and it's relatively easy to do, has a search function and it'll update automatically and it'd free

Here's the theme I'm using, there are plenty more

[NGGRPLZ]

Foobar doesn't burn CDs. That really is...

[OctaneHugo]

Originally Posted by NGGRPLZ

Foobar doesn't burn CDs. That really is...

There's a plugin