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Published on March 17, 2012 By Neilo In Personal Computing

Iv'e been using Winamp as my music player for years now and i'm bored with it. So, i'm looking for alternatives. I have iTunes, but i don't care for it, i use it to manage my idevices.
I'm not looking for anything fancy, as long as it plays mp3 and has decent file management.

So, what do you use, or recommend? I'm on win7 if that's a concern.

Thanks!


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on Mar 17, 2012

neone6
Quoting RedneckDude, reply 23DesktopX Player....duh..
We stick 2 our guns hey 

Hey, I use what I skin...lol.

on Mar 17, 2012

ddraney
Foobar is mostly used for FLAC playback, but also is a good mp3 player, very light footprint however, not sure it's still supported.

It's still in development.....just not very fast track. I believe a new version was released last month.

I've tried it and my only gripe is that it's assembly ware. There are "plugins" for damn near everything you need but you've got to spend the time trying them out and deciding which work best for you and "assembling" your player.

Winamp has Flac support (will rip in Flac) in fact I can't think of any audio format it doesn't support.

on Mar 17, 2012
on Mar 17, 2012

I agree with Lantec...not really into hunting down equalizer presets. You're right about it being assembly-ware no doubt. Deviant Art has some really cool skins for it though, my main reason for using it in the past. Glad to hear it's still being updated.

on Mar 17, 2012

I use iTunes religiously. My only hangup is that you have to correct most ID3 tagging and embed album artwork before you can import the files into iTunes. One perk among many is almost all 1.27 TB of my library is lossless which itunes will down convert to 128 AAC for my iPhone when synced. Doesn't get better then that.

on Mar 18, 2012

I use spotify, It does a great job combining what music you already have on your system and integrating it with new stuff.
It's light on resources and is probably the best source of free music out there.
It also has no problem opening any downloaded audio file (such as a podcast) and adding it to the library

 

on Mar 18, 2012

RedneckDude


Hey, I use what I skin...lol.
Likewise, Xion´s Great !

on Mar 18, 2012

lordofnothing
I use spotify, It does a great job combining what music you already have on your system and integrating it with new stuff.
It's light on resources and is probably the best source of free music out there.
It also has no problem opening any downloaded audio file (such as a podcast) and adding it to the library

 

Free for a time and it is no good for the many facebook haters here.

"A six month free trial period is activated upon initial login with a Facebook account, where a user can listen to an unlimited amount of music supported by visual and radio-style advertising. After the trial, Spotify will make tracks unavailable once they are played 5 times and has a listening limit of ten hours per month.[14] An "Unlimited" subscription removes advertisements and time limits and a "Premium" subscription introduces extra features such as higher bitrate streaming, offline access to music and mobile app access.[15] An active Facebook account is required to use Spotify, unless the user has registered for a Spotify-only account before 22 September 2011. Subscriptions are restricted to people with credit/debit cards or PayPal accounts registered in certain countries" Source is from wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

on Mar 18, 2012

lee3908870
An oh by the way . . . DFX is a nice add on for improving the sound.  There is a free version and a paid version, The paid version is well worth the money.

I would certainly agree with you on that. I have been using dfx for years and it makes a huge difference in sound quality. What most people do not know is there is even a program for making your own skins using existing winamp skins. It only works with the classic skins or skins that use bmp images. Here is a skin I made for one of my favorite winamp skins called Frequency. It is the bottom window.

 

on Mar 18, 2012

Lantec
The Zune software doesn't have the equalizer or all the available DSP addons but it has great sound quality (go figure) and the service used to be a great deal when it included 10 free songs (320 cbr) every month for $15 US.

It still does include the 10 free songs. It's also cheaper if you pay quarterly or yearly.

on Mar 18, 2012

I have around 15000 mp3 files representing over 500 albums and CDs in my library I have converted. I use mediamonkey for several reasons:

1) it handles very large libraries much better than other players I've tried

2) it has REALLY good support for editing tags

3) supports all the file types you'd ever want to use

That being said, it has its share of bugs and problems like any other software. Honestly, there isn't any perfect player (yet.) Things I find annoying with mediamonkey:

1) making playlists is a bit clumsy in my mind

2) crashes more often with most recent version than it used to

3) my media library got corrupted once and I lost all play history which didn't really annoy me too much, but it would some people excessively

4) the interface could use a lot of work in the looks/usability department in general

Good luck with your search. My advice is, install a bunch of them, use each for a week and keep the one you like best!

on Mar 18, 2012

vlc, bs media player- some of the more basic free media players

on Mar 18, 2012

Nothing fancy... Amarok on both Linux and Windows...

on Mar 18, 2012

CarGuy1
It still does include the 10 free songs. It's also cheaper if you pay quarterly or yearly.

I wish I had kept my old subscription going but when things got tight I canceled it and 3 months later they changed...

from their website....

 

If you signed up for the original Zune Music Pass ($14.99 a month, $44.97 for three months, or $149.99 for one year), each month you'll receive 10 song credits to redeem at Zune Marketplace. That's 10 songs every month that you get to keep in your permanent collection!

Note

You don’t get song credits with the new $9.99 Zune Music Pass or the Zune Music Pass 14-day free trial. If you have the original Zune Music Pass, you can continue to enjoy this plan as long as your subscription is active. If you want to change to the $9.99 Zune Music Pass without monthly song credits, update your Zune Music Pass to change your subscription type.

on Mar 18, 2012

Lantec...I didn't know that. I hardly ever use my credits so when my sub expires, I'm going to switch. Thx

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