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[N4Z.]

Hey

After I have been using iTunes for around a year now.. I have grown tired of it.. It does the opposite thing I want it to do at the best of times.. like.. reassembles my playlists etc.

These are the players ive tried:
Windows Media Player
WinAmp
iTunes
RealPlayer

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Anyone know of some up and coming players? Like ones that are hardly heard of? I find most things that are not discovered so much are the best ones

If anyone has any suggestions I would be most grateful

Later,
Tom

Edited by S0LDIER., 03 October 2006 - 06:08 AM.

[Dance]

Itunes is my choise when it comes down to the music, it does all the logisticsa for you and is easy and fast to use, downside is the constant nagging about updates and music store.

When it comes down the video VLC media player is according to me the best one out there. It plays just about any type of video including all kinds of layered ones with multiple subs and multiple tracks for sound and or video. Fast reliable and can also be used to steam video onto ze intraweb. And its free ofc!

http://www.videolan....c/features.html

[N4Z.]

Sweet..

I think im sticking with iTunes..

In comparison with everything else, it is probably the best.. but everytime i add songs ripped from CDs its not in order of the lbum.. i am very touchy about that sort of thing lol

[l3lueMage]

Windows Media player 11 is nice. Though I use itunes

[Adαm]

I think Windows Media Player 11 is the best. For me anyway. There is a free video service aswell

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[l3lueMage]

And WMP11 you can stream real movies For like $3/ea or something!

[syntex]

WMP11 For sure, Gota love the mini player in your taskbar
Never have liked Winamp!

[Matthew.]

I don't know why so many people knock Realone/player. I like it.

I used to use that mainly, then i switched it wmp for a while, and i'm now onto itunes. But if itunes skips when i'm scrolling again i'm going to go spare so i think ill switch to something i haven't tried before like WinAmp.

If itunes fixes their little skipping bug i will revert back as i find it probably the most pleasant one to use even with the slight delayed action on pause/play/stop/volume and it's above average memory usage.

syntex, itunes also has a taskbar player

I'll be looking that free video thing, i never knew about it before. I normally just use yahoo music or youtube for vids.

Edited by Matthew., 03 October 2006 - 03:43 PM.

[syntex]

Matthew., on Oct 3 2006, 08:41 PM, said:

syntex, itunes also has a taskbar player

Yeh but, On my PC iTunes is extremely laggy and stuff so i dont use it

[Av-]

Simple, windows media player beats all, implented into windows, no need to download other crap, and... it works

I dunno why you all love iTunes tho, i tried it once, an i absolutely hated it, slow loading, difficult finding your way around, that was like a year ago since i last tried it tho, dunno if it has changed since then, but i cant be bothered checking it out.

[Matthew.]

Avalanche, on Oct 3 2006, 11:16 PM, said:

I dunno why you all love iTunes tho, i tried it once, an i absolutely hated it, slow loading, difficult finding your way around, that was like a year ago since i last tried it tho, dunno if it has changed since then, but i cant be bothered checking it out.

I had exactly the same reaction when i first installed it a few months back, i uninstalled it nearly as quick as i installed it. Try it again, that's what i have done. I reinstalled yesterday and now i'm pretty impressed by it. (+ i got one of those free coke bottle coupons that get you a free song from itunes so i figured what the hey lol)

[Illinifan91]

i think itues is easily the best ive never had troublw with it. media player is ok but i thinks it isnt as easy to use as itunes.

[l3lueMage]

try BSPlayer, it uses very little memory and runs fast, better for videos though...

Edited by l3lueMage, 03 October 2006 - 08:56 PM.

[.iCY7.]

Realone/player is crap at buffering and lags your pc

Winamp is good theres loads of skins for it, confusing when it comes to burning music to a cd though

iTunes is only actually good if you have an iPod and the stupid thing is when you convert music to AAC format it comes out as M4A

Musicmatch and players like VLC are crap

WMP 11 looks nice but it dont feel right with XP and the ID tags edit different to how they did in WMP 10 so i still got v10 and its the best

[daveredpath]

i thinkk the zxp680 comes out on top

[N-sane Noob]

Got to go with WMP 11, the look and all that. I don't like ITunes

[chaoslight]

Windows Media Player 11 for me..

[goaliemike]

WMP 11 is ok, but it dosnt work for XP x64...

Winamp is so much better imo, all the plugins i have for it that are free makes the sound so much better.

[l3lueMage]

people still use x64 windows?...I always thought microsoft never updated it or anything so people stopped using it lol

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