iTunes.
I left Winamp, and poorly tagged and organised music, and never looked back. I don't own an iPod, yet. Santa might bring me one, I hope.
Winamp 5's media library seems to do pretty much everything iTunes does, without taking up half your screen.
I guess the media library was in Winamp 3 too, but the less said about Winamp 3 the better.
Winamp 5, for real.
itunes and ipod ♡
rhythmbox
nokia n-gage `ω´
iRiver iHP-140
I'm too poor to afford windows, so I'm stuck using 'noatun'. :~(
noatun ~_?
computerwise i use XMPlay, Winamp, Deliplayer, GXSCC, Hoot, MidRadio Player, MDXDRV and BridgeM1 + a million plugins, maybe more. Thats the problem when you collect those gamemusic/chiptune files that come in 50.000 different formats xD
How fast does Winamp 5 load compared to 2.x?
Just as fast.
winamp2, foobar2000, xmms, zinf.
BTW, both xmms and zinf suck. Anyone have any suggestions for good *nix media players that don't depend on the GNOME or KDE framework?
>>15
Well, there's mplayer... mikmod, oggplay, etc. etc.
But one thing I haven't tried but I heard is uber leet is "MPD"
http://www.musicpd.org/features.shtml
There's a ton of front-ends (just click "clients" on the site)... web front-ends, bash integration, an ncurses client, a bare-bones terminal client, graphical clients, etc.
The idea being the music player just runs as a daemon, like a jukebox, and you use the front-ends to control the playlist dynamically. Pretty tight.
I just did some more investigating: shit, mpd is the bomb.
1) It has a libshout (icecast) output driver. This means you can drive a network of icecast repeaters with this one front end.
2) Input drivers are pretty easy to implement (it looks like it might be straightforward to cut an XMMS plug-in down to fit). Moreover, many of them are net-enabled out of the box, which means you can pass mpd a file, or a URL to play with said plug-in. It will keep URLs in your playlists. Awesome.
3) Imagine pointing mpd at an icecast stream of it's own output... muwahahahahaa....
Unfortunately, no one has coded a SID/SPC/etc... driver yet. Yet
Now that I'm interested... hehehe.
Noted, downloaded. Too busy fighting with PearPC at the moment, but I'll be sure to give it a try.
My prime gripe with xmms is it refuses to buffer a file from disk. The developers (hay guyz, you're idiots) claim that's the file-system's responsibility. Tell that to the NTFS driver, kthxbye.
Zinf does fully buffer files, but is amazingly buggy, and a general pain to use.
I use Amarok. I meh on winamp now :P
>>16
It feels strange using a Web browser to operate a music player (I'm one of those people who only have one song on the playlist because I'm too indecisive to know what I'd want to listen to after the current song before it's finished). Interesting, though, to effortlessly flick between *chan and music without interrupting my train of thought.
A musepack input plugin would be nice.
What we really need is something amazing like Foobar2000 ported to *nix. There is nothing out there as capable as Foobar, it would come close to owning the *nix audio world overnight.
Well, I can wish. It'll probably never happen though.
Well, there's always the linux port of cubic player... ^_^
Beep Media Player.
I use foobar2000.
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Quintessential 4.50
Winamp 5 ++ a JADA J-885 DIGITAL MP3 PLAYER (generic cheap shite really, but it does the job)
foobar2k.
4GB iPod mini
Beep Media Player, xmms, xine, mplayer, mpg123, ogg123
Winamp 5
>>18
wait, wait, you're telling us that they want the IO driver to somehow do some magic voodoo time travel and predict when the next file is going to be read without being told?
Sort of. My gripe is that if I play a 10MB mp3, XMMS won't buffer the entire 10MB. According to the developers, that's the responsibility of the operating system's filesystem and VM. They won't even offer the option (unlike winamp).
I suppose some filesystems do read the entire file into memory, but NTFS certainly doesn't, nor do most other common filesystems. Instead they may read 32KB, 64KB, or whatever. XMMS could at least attempt to prime it by doing a fast sequential read at the beginning, which would ensure the entire file is in the FS cache, but no...
So, what you're left with is file IO every couple seconds. Now, with certain media that's a real PITA. My CDROM never spins down while playing an mp3, for example.
40Gb iPod.
God I love late christmas presents. But filling it with all my music is going to take a while :(
I use xmplay. I like it because it plays music without hating all as much as wa while still letting me use my dx plugin chain.
And outside I use an iAudio M3L 20GB. I like it because it plays ogg and flac and has 35 hrs battery lifetime.
For streams, I use RealAlternative's Media Player Classic.
MacAmp Lite X atm. MPD won't compile on OS X. :(
winamp, sam2 and a 40GB nomad zen xtra
Whooo, other foobar 2k users /no1
I use foobar2k, with some neat components.
(つω⊂) foo！
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XMPlay: http://www.un4seen.com
Modplug: http://www.modplug.com
with_amp
>>33 Why are you sad about having too little music for your ipod? I would be happy that i could fit it all
winamp here
（ ´∀｀ ）<Itunes
(・∀・) <'mpg123' for teh win.
>>47
mpg123 for teh non-free license.
mpg321 is your new master.
I just wanted to say that that was incredibly cute.
Winamp and M-pio
winamp, sometimes WMP.
So I'm now playing around with a Mac. What's a good music player for it? iTunes is just a bit too bloated for me.
I use the Deliplayer since it plays .mod and .xm files without addons.
iTunes or Audion are it.
lol itunes is hueg
Also, it seems to like owning all your files and copying the around willy-nilly, and I won't have that. I just want something that plays my files and doesn't take up half my screen.
iTunes Preferences -> Advanced -> Uncheck:
You also can shrink the player by pressing the resize button (the green one, top left corner), or use something like Sofa to control iTunes, and run iTunes hidden.
winamp(now ,version5),i have used this since 1998... and recently i bought creative MuVo Tx Fm mp3 player.This is very useful.
Foobar, for everything.
mplayer and beep-media-player. mplayer to test songs, and sometimes do some research on the info, and beep-media-player for regular use :)
beep-media-player is the only player which I got to convert SJIS (or EUC/ISO-2022) to UTF-8 ^^
Update: I ended up using iTunes anyway... sigh
I loved Itunes alot for its playlist orginsation, but resently switched back to winamp due to a lack of a good module for litestep.
My fav is 1by1. It's simple, handles Winamp plugins and doesn't gobble tons of memory. http://www.mpesch3.de/
I downloaded iTunes recently ..
The good : Radio feature is great, you get tons of stations and stuff. The visualizer is neat too. Fun to stare at. The library system is neat, if you can sort all your MP3s well enough.
The bad : Having to make playlists just to copy songs to the iPod is annoying as hell. Why can't I just drag-drop tracks right onto it, and it makes a playlist automatically? It only plays MP3s and Apple's format. No OGG, MPC, APE, CUE support .. what gives? It also takes up 45 MB of memory. Maybe this is justified by having so many features, but probabally not. :P I managed to crash it twice, just using it. Naughty!
>>60
Heh, bet you wish there was a "FOAD" option somewhere...
>>62
If there's one thing I do like about iTunes it's the way you can set ID3 tags. It's so painless compared to everything I've used before to tag lots of files. I moved away from ID3 tags entirely a few years ago because they sucked so much trying to use them, but iTunes makes it nice (I have lots of loose files that often need tagging in a flexible manner).
That's it, though, I still like Winamp. It just plays my music.
iTunes' visualizer looks like something out of circa-1999 WinAmp. I really thought Apple could do better than that.
>>64
They ought to talk to the people behind Rez. :)
I tried this 1by1 thing, and it seems to be very handy.
Is there a way of getting it to work with a DSP plugin and/or a Direct-X chain?
I use beep-media-player, as it has full unicode support. ID3 sucks so much that the tags are NEVER cross-compitable, so I don't have much of a choice. Files tagged by EasyTAG are showing the way they are supposed to be shown in beep-media-player, but other programs like mpd (music player daemon) doesn't. Vorbis tags are a lot better, but they are not for MP3's. APE tags are neat, but not supported by EasyTAG nor beep. I would probably have to retag EVERYTHING if I ever get an MP3 player. iPod doesn't display my tags correctly. My brother's MP3 player wouldn't display the tags either, but I don't know if that even has support for Japanese tags.
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I use iTunes and a Sony Clie.
Winamp here.
It gets the job done.
Has anyone ever gave Lillith audio player a try?
I like it very much.
It has many of the same featues as winamp and WMA10, it is also compatable with some winamp plugins.
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OS X: iTunes
GNU/Linux: amaroK
Windows: foobar2000
These are my players of choice for their respective OS'.
I like Lilith, too. Very easy to make a skin for and properly displays Japanese chacters.
I have issues with players on my work PC (Lilith and Foobar will crash if the machine goes to screen saver) so I ended up going with Winamp with the Japanese localization patch (you can retain English menus, and have Japanese charecters display properly).
ttp://win32lab.com/fsw/wpjkit/index.html
creative zen micro
I'm looking for a good software mp3 player for linux! Maybe you guys can help me out:
What I want is a minimal player but one that has playlist support. Really just a playlist with a play/pause button attached to it would work. Something like XMMS is nice too. BUT: All the ones I've tried have sucked for various reasons, many of them really stupid and small but impossible to ignore! Check it:
XMMS and beep: Both have broken alt+tab behavior. XMMS doesn't surface unless you release the tab key, and beep only surfaces the main window, stranding the playlist window with no way to get to it other than minimizing everything. :(
mpd/ncmpc: I love ncmpc's interface, but mpd makes me rescan my mp3 directory every time I add something new or change a name or anything! I tend to download a lot of music, and I also have an mp3 player that acts as a portable hard drive, so having to rescan that thing everytime I plug it in after i've downloaded something is an incredible hassle!
mplayer/xine/whatever: I want a playlist window on the window, darn it, and I don't want to have to open it up.
big media center apps like amarok or whatever else: I want something I don't have to run maximized...
snackamp: broken on my machine for some reason. It won't let me add more than one file at a time.
mp3blaster: incredibly unintuitive interface! I literally could not figure it out. Looked nice otherwise.
orpheus: what i'm using right now. But it loads in directories all randomly and not in alphabetical order, which screws up the track order, unless you alphabetize the entire playlist. Plus it takes 7 seconds a huge amount of hard drive loading to switch tracks! why??
In short, I've been working at this for like two afternoons and I'm getting frustrated! Help!
Creative Zen Xtra 30gb
As far as software .mp3 players go, I use Winamp.
My hardware .mp3 player, however, is an Ipod 20GB.
iTunes or mpg123, depending on the computer. Right now, iTunes.
iTunes on OS X with a 20Gb iPod. I let it handle all the file management. Things like smart playlists, rating, album art, OS X integration and iPod integration make it impossible from my perspective to make a better music library/player.
I use Lilith. It is probably Best Sound. Lilith corresponds to ASIO without the introduction of the plug-in.
Olympus DM-10 Voice Recorder
Foobar2000
$ mpg123 /mp3directory/* does it :)
iTunes all the way, baby.
xmms, mplayer, vlc, xine, mpg321, ogg123, and the iRiver iFP-790
>>77
Azureus is far from minimal, but it can be pretty much just look like a playlist if you want it. It has usefull features including listening to your directory and automatically adding/removing files as soon as you make a change.
http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/2575/azureuspaylit3nw.png
>>89 weird, i thought i was the only icelandic person posting here
that said, i need a viable alternative to winamp, or some kind of solution at least, i like having all my songs in the same playlist and using 'j' to search, but a 22000 song playlist is kinda resource heavy.
what should i do?
winamp/psp
noob and loving it ;)
Winamp/iPod Mini
( lame --decode --silent 2>/dev/null mysong.mp3 | waveplay -s - ) &
Of course, I have a script that types this for me, and can also play other formats using oggdec, dumb2wav, timidity, etc.
Don't let the frappr maps fool you, we are slowly but surely conquering the world ;>
>>89
I hadn't messed with amarok for various reasons, but decided to give it a try, and it's great! It has the same problem as mpd with the having to rescan half of my collection every time i remount my mp3 player, but since I can just add tracks the normal way it doesn't matter. I believe I've found myself a new mp3 player. Thank you for your help!
20GB 2nd generation iPod and iTunes 5.0. Screw 6.0 and its new retarded DRM.
Quintessential 4.51
rhythmbox on Linux and Gnomad lets me use my Zen Xtra to transfer files without having to resort to windows
i use amaroK and sometimes mplayer on freebsd...
i don't have an ipod/whatever, mainly because my laptop is portable enough for me and mp3 players with 40+ GB of storage are way too expensive.
