Media Player Discussion Thread

Love Foobar, but I prefer just to use it for flacs. Mp3s of those files go in Windows player and AACs go in Itunes.

Sound weird, but that's how it is for me.
 
Hi,

I am wondering what is your music player of choice (on the computer whilst perusing through Music Banter). Mine would have to be iTunes because it just shows up when a CD inserts.

What would yours have to be?
 
I pretty much keep most of my listening to iTunes, although I also have my entire library in Windows Media to listen to when I want to actually find something. iTunes' search feature is inferior, especially when I'm searching for very specific things.

I mostly just have iTunes for iPod syncing and burning CRAB, as Windows Media doesn't offer the burning option where there's no gap between songs. I suppose I could get a completely different program to burn discs, but meh.

Also, iTunes is slow, unorganized (ultimately) and irritating.
 
musicmatch was too complicated for me. i like WMP because i add music to my library than when im adding more. i delete the songs i dont use much. its easy for me. and the imaging is fun to look at when you're high.
 
I use Linux Media Centre Edition. Some functionality is still missing but as an overall product it is vastly superior to its competitors.

I can search and filter my music by an infinite nuraber of parameters (inluding mooRAB). All are displayed by cover-art visible on a 3d rotating cube. It uses a Gyro Mouse (think Nintendo Wii) allowing me to flick through TV, music and films with a flick of the wrist, control volume, skip tracks etc. It downloaRAB pictures from flickr.com and displays them in the background which is a really nice touch. It even controls my lighting and heating (put a film on and the lights dim for instance). It's not yet suitable for everybody, being a bit of a pain to setup, but when it is it's rock solid.

The best feature is "follow-me". As Linux MCE controls all the AV equipment in my house, I can watch a film/TV or play music in one room, tell it to "follow-me" and it'll detect my remote in whichever room I walk into. Whatever was playing in the other room will then continue from where it left off. It also means I can use thin clients (cut-down PC's) yet still have the full functionality of the core (the server). For instance, my core has four dual tuner DVB-T carRAB allowing me to record 7 TV channels whilst watching another, all accessible from the thin-clients in the other rooms.

You really have to do your research before setting it up but it is worth it. Using the explicitly support hardware it will install and set itself up form the DVD.

Dave
 
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This is how I listen to my music, just a playlist editor and winamp. It's clean, simple, and doesn't leave me having to retag files. If I want to listen to something I just go into my music directory, right click on whatever album it is, and enque in winamp and boom it's there.
 
Napster has done well, but is still selling less songs than iTunes according to the nurabers. Also, iTunes has iPod, whatcha talking about? That's the best MP3 player and it's obviously endoring iTunes, because Apple makes it. :)
 
Yeah, that just...that just doesn't make any sense. Huh.


It's really easy and useful, but if you want to get ripped off feel free.



As said, use Songbird. It's like all the good parts of iTunes and though it has flaws it's much better.
 
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