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    Which media player do you use?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by soldier0316, May 17, 2006.

  1. seiichi

    seiichi Notebook Enthusiast

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    I use ITunes for music, Zoom Player for video, MPC for Real files (with Real Alternative codec), and PowerDVD for DVD's.
     
  2. TheRunaway

    TheRunaway Notebook Consultant

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    Media Player Classic with the K-Lite Codec Pack
     
  3. DrewN

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    Rhapsody for my music subscription service, and JetAudio to play my OGG and FLAC files.
     
  4. archie88

    archie88 Notebook Consultant

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    I use VLC for almost everything.
    I have quicktime alternative to play qt files.
    I have JetAudio Free for RealPlayer files (because Media Player Classic won't stream ram files and RealPlayer Free is full of ad/spyware).
     
  5. NumLock

    NumLock Notebook Evangelist

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    - iTunes here. I have 1.5gb of ram so I don't care about memory problems. I switched to this from winamp when I got my first ipod just a month back.
    - Media Player classic for videos (with klite mega codec packs and realplayer and quicktime plugins).
    - HP's quickplay for DVD movies. Who needs powerdvd hehe.

    winamp 2.91 is great on pentium3 machines. highly recommend for them to use that instead of winamp5 or itunes to all ow them to multitask.
     
  6. whtvr

    whtvr Notebook Consultant

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    audio:
    foobar2000 http://tinyurl.com/z5b7
    neat and powerfull, just the way i like it;

    video:
    mplayer http://tinyurl.com/pbhfd
    command line video player, does not require additional codec-packs;

    and i couldn't be more happy... well, actually i could... i just need to figure out how to play dvd's with mplayer but it's not a big issue since i watch dvd _very_ rarely;

    greetings
     
  7. Anubix

    Anubix Notebook Enthusiast

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    iTunes for music, WMP and DivX for videos.
     
  8. nushmeow

    nushmeow Notebook Guru

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    iTunes and WMP 11
     
  9. 4W4K3

    4W4K3 Notebook Evangelist

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    WMP 11 right now. Have tried a varety of other players and they all had serious problems. From crashing or resource hogs to not playing a file, then 5 mins later playing it just fine.

    will try Quint.
     
  10. Bwen

    Bwen Notebook Evangelist

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    There's no Media Player Classic on the list? MPC with the .rm and quicktime addon is probably by far one of the best media players out there.
     
  11. wing_gundam

    wing_gundam Notebook Enthusiast

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    VLC is the best
     
  12. ArmanSLR

    ArmanSLR Notebook Evangelist

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    I barely use it but Windows Media Players. I don't use it a lot because my desktop has no sound :( . I think it is because, I took it to get repaired at this computer place and I am 99% sure they took stuff out. My computer seemed different right after I got it from them but I could do nothing . :( but yeah WMP is aite.
     
  13. Alacrity

    Alacrity Notebook Enthusiast

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    VLC definintely is the best, it will play pretty much anything you throw at it!
     
  14. royrules22

    royrules22 Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    I used to use WinAmp, and than on to VLC Player (for audio and video), but now I've left VLC to video only and use:

    Foobar 2000
     
  15. MP5

    MP5 Notebook Consultant

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    Real player
     
  16. ma401

    ma401 Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    I use iTunes for music (as I'm an iPod mini owner and it's so terribly hassle-free) and Media Player Classic for video.
     
  17. Drio

    Drio Notebook Geek

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    I got fed up with all the different players for different purposes and decided on
    VLC plus the quicktime alternative and real alternative plus a codec pack. Got rid of all the rest.

    Drio
     
  18. Daetlus

    Daetlus Notebook Consultant

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    I vote for VLC, it's simple and it plays about everything under the sun.
     
  19. NOSintake

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    i use itunes for music, but i use winamp for videos
     
  20. mattgonebad

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    iTunes for music and VLC for video/dvd
     
  21. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    I recently switched back to iTunes because all my audio is .AAC Apple format.
     
  22. mjpartyboy

    mjpartyboy Notebook Evangelist

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    Windows Media Player 10 for me.
     
  23. famous grouse

    famous grouse Notebook Evangelist

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    VLC for my vids and sony's sonicstage for my music. Both work really well.
     
  24. pop4

    pop4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I use Winamp for my music, but WMP 10 for pretty much everything else.
     
  25. smt

    smt Notebook Consultant

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    vlc > *

    except for music, which I use winamp for :)
     
  26. 31337

    31337 Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    winamp for music and wmp for video sometimes i use realone for both music and videos .
     
  27. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    VLC.

    :)

    Yup.
     
  28. nickster87

    nickster87 Notebook Consultant

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    iTunes for music and VLC for video. :)
     
  29. socarwolverine

    socarwolverine Notebook Consultant

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    WinAmp for music, anything for videos
     
  30. loesjoel

    loesjoel Notebook Consultant

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    iTunes for music and mostly Nero Media Player (because it set itself to default) for video files.
     
  31. Ross_00

    Ross_00 Notebook Guru

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    Winamp for audio, VLC for video
     
  32. jordansport

    jordansport Notebook Consultant

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    Same here :D

    Wish VLC player would work with my i9300 media buttons though :(
     
  33. notabenem

    notabenem Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Voted others:
    MediaPlayerClassic (video) & foobar2000 (solely for music)
     
  34. rarrar

    rarrar Newbie

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    MPC and iTunes.

    VLC to play .bin files, sometimes.
     
  35. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    I love WMP 11.
     
  36. M1CH43L

    M1CH43L Notebook Geek

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    VLC for videos, and windows media 10 for music.
     
  37. soldier0316

    soldier0316 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yo moderators, this should be a sticky =P
     
  38. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Im using VLC and WMP.
     
  39. kidA

    kidA Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Media Monkey and winamp 2.x. it runs so much cleaner than itunes or WMP and it transfers songs to my creative zen so much faster.
     
  40. Ella Grande

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    Itunes Baby!
     
  41. kidA

    kidA Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    ive gotten fed up with itunes being so slow and taking up too much of my resources. love the interface though...if only it was leaner
     
  42. LFC

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    @ above ^ Even on the 2nd ancient desktop with 256mb ram, I find iTunes to breeze along
     
  43. kidA

    kidA Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    to clarify, iTunes loads slow once you have a library in the 30gb range on a 5400 rpm hard drive. Also, on average it takes up about 40mb of my ram and up to about 15% of cpu power in sporadic spikes. I just prefer winamp 2.x taking up 5 megs of ram and no processing power.
     
  44. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    I use WMP 11 now. I used iTunes on my old laptop, but switched when Media Player 11 came out. It has so many more options, already integrated into Windows, and it allows my to sync with my PSP. I did use Sony SonicStage for a while due to the PSP and Atrac3Plus gives VERY good sound quality for the size. But then I reformatted and found out that all my music on my PSP would not transfer over to the new XP copy. I was severely upset and have not used SonicStage since.
     
  45. Qhs

    Qhs Notebook Evangelist

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    Media Player Classic with CCCP Codec. Best combo possible as it plays every file imaginable and support H264 encoding. YAY! VLC as backup for thoes pesky corrupt videos.
     
  46. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I love the looks of WMP 11, but I like the way iTunes works, everything seems simpler and neater on iTunes. The only thing is that iTunes doesn't seem to fit in to the rest of the Windows programs.
     
  47. gevorg

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    J River Media Center
    Foobar
     
  48. ChangFest

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    VLC
    Foobar 2000
     
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    I use Winamp for music and Media Player Classic for movies.
     
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    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    I use Kaffeine (Xine) on linux.
     
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