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What music player do you use?

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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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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Snowman, reply 47
BUT.... WinAmp's not the best player ever to have seen the light of day.Two other players could potentionally have knocked WinAmp off of the throne. K-Jöfol and Sonique were by far the better players when they still were in developement. Sadly though, the K-Jöfol team were headhunted over to WinAmp and Sonique was bought by Lycos (The Google of it's days), which was the death for both players.

Yep, just a little bit of skinning history there for all.

I still have kJofol somewhere [and my skins for it], but I have always stuck with Winamp [2.9x] ....;)

Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Lantec, reply 50
no player handles tags as well as MP3tag LINK

My Tagger of choice! :thumbsup:

ObjectDock - Access shortcuts and frequently used applications from an animated dock.
Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 51
but I have always stuck with Winamp [2.9x] .

Before the bloatness began. ;)

 

Winamp used to be the only media player I would use but recently I have been using Xion for music and Media Player Classic for everything else.

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting elvee, reply 53
Before the bloatness began.

 

That's one reason why I've always spent the little extra money and used the paid pro version. It cleans things up a bit and I gotta tell ya , it sounds amazing on my surround sound system.

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What bloatness does winamp have? I also use the paid version but even with the free version you can have only the main player skin with simple buttons and music info. Perhaps the bloatness has to do with size and registry entries but it is not hard on resources on my basic computer. I use iTunes, aimp and xion from time to time but I always go back to winamp pro.

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JuniorCrooks, reply 55
What bloatness does winamp have?

WA 2x was the hey-day of WA and its skinning.....a lot of people started with WA.

Some say v3 was SO BAD they simply skipped v4 and went straight to v5 just to distance themselves from the disaster....;)

But then....back about that time the CEO called me a 'clusterfuck'....so he got one thing right....;p

Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I remember version 4. It was a disaster. Waited for version 5 to come out before going for it again.

Reply #58 from Stardock Forums Top

Used WinAmp for many, many years.  Now I actually just use Google Music (I think it's been renamed to Google Play or something like that).  Free (obviously) and you can login with your gmail or G+ account.

You'll download a small app which will upload all your MP3's to "the cloud" and then all your music is now available anywhere via Google Music.  Pretty sweet and a good backup actually for all your music.  If your PC crashes you can download all your music from Google Music at anytime.

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use Google Play Music on my phone...ten times better than the stock player IMO.
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The actual desktop program I use is foobar2000.  It's simple, and it works well.  That's all I need.

For web playing, I generally go with Audiogalaxy.  Streams from my music collection at home, no need to upload anything.