Deus Ex Alpha

This is always an issue for me, but over the past 4 years its been narrowed down to a choice of 3; Foobar2000, Winamp, and WMP.

WMP looks too bulky to me, and not only does the default view demand that every artist have a bloody album image, it seems to crash when you have over 60GB of music!

Winamp is probably the best at easily listing the music you want to listen to, but the skins on it suck ass, and I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but if you change the settings to not have a popup for every time a new song comes on and then boot it up again, the popups still persist which is bloody annoying in certain fullscreen games - seems to eat fps :S

Foobar2000 - possibly the most customisable media player you'll find for free, but you have to download the right version - recently they've taken away the ability to slap on certain modifications and skins to it, but I hear that it can utilize the glass effect of Vista in its skins easily. Only problem is choosing your music - you have to either open another window to scroll through your music or simply drag through every song you have by every artist in alphabetical order!

So I was wondering - what media players do you guys have, and you got any suggestion as to what media player I should try?

I use Media Player Classic for videos, Foobar2000 and Songbird for music.

Kinda weird to see this in a journal, but I'll allow it.

Songbird? Reliable?

Layout is like iTunes, without the gay.

1 solution: http://www.musicocentre.com/

Not sure if I want to be streaming my music one by one from a webpage, having a lot of music on my HDD that I'd want to play :\

LTKJAY wrote:Layout is like iTunes, without the gay.

Oh god I hate iTunes. It lags like a bitch for me at least, and it is incredibly painful to use.

Jon wrote:Not sure if I want to be streaming my music one by one from a webpage, having a lot of music on my HDD that I'd want to play :\

Haven't used a media player in months.

~Psychotic~ wrote:

LTKJAY wrote:Layout is like iTunes, without the gay.

Oh god I hate iTunes. It lags like a bitch for me at least, and it is incredibly painful to use.

how is it painful?

I use to use iMesh but now since I can't stop listening to happyhardcore radio its WMP...

If I want to watch videos WMP can't recognize I use VideoLAN

Ian wrote:

~Psychotic~ wrote:

LTKJAY wrote:Layout is like iTunes, without the gay.

Oh god I hate iTunes. It lags like a bitch for me at least, and it is incredibly painful to use.

how is it painful?

It's a metaphor. Painful as in painstakingly hard to use, but only because I'm not used to it and my laptop sucks shit. I just don't like it.

lol how is it hard just make all the music that is popish under the same artist and so on then for your newish songs make a playlist and put them there

Right. And that will solve what?

Media player classic for me as well.

It came installed with the "K-Lite Codec Pack" which has a load of codecs for playing almost anything you throw at it.

I use Windows Media Player.

On occasion I'll boot up Winamp, but I usually can't be fucked.

Protocol wrote:I use Windows Media Player.

On occasion I'll boot up Winamp, but I usually can't be fucked.

Its exactly vice versa for me.

Winamp.

I feel nervous without instant access to the equalizer