Best music players

[Mr. Keith]

Anybody have any thoughts on what the best music player is?

I typically use iTunes, but I am a little annoyed right now about it jacking up my computer's performance.

I just opened QuickTime and honestly, I can't even figure out how to use it.

So I am thinking about winamp because I seem to recall hearing that it doesn't require a lot of resources. Is that true?

I don't need a file organizer. Just something to play music.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I use Winamp. doesn't take up much resources, and it also lets you adjust the priority if you want it to take less.

 

[Mr. Keith]

I just downloaded winamp and I can already tell the difference in my web browsers performance while playing music.

 

[taper]

Amarok is by far the best I've ever used. You'll have to upgrade to Linux to use it though. Back in my Windows days I used Winamp with few problems. Foobar2000 was pretty neat too, and probably less resource intensive.

 

[Aramazd]

I am a fan of MediaMonkey myself.

Amarok is by far the best I've ever used. You'll have to upgrade to Linux to use it though. Back in my Windows days I used Winamp with few problems. Foobar2000 was pretty neat too, and probably less resource intensive.

Amarok works on both Mac OS X and Windows, although both are in beta.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I also downloaded Songbird and it looks interesting. Don't know about the memory usage, but I've heard it's similar to iTunes so worth a look.

Windows Media Player just sucks.

P.S. If you right click on Winamp and go Options>>Preferences, there's something under General Preferences called Priority Class, but if you lower it , sometimes it skips but if you're worried you can do tat.

 

[Aramazd]

I also downloaded Songbird and it looks interesting. Don't know about the memory usage, but I've heard it's similar to iTunes so worth a look.

It does have some awesome add-ons, but I still prefer MediaMonkey.

Windows Media Player just sucks.

No, it's pretty good, why would you say that?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No, it's pretty good, why would you say that?

Okay, the older versions are half-decent. But I just don't like it.

 

[Aramazd]

Okay, the older versions are half-decent. But I just don't like it.

No, the newer version (WMP 11/12beta) are fine. I take it you just don't like it because you don't like Microsoft, then?

 

[Zelig]

I tend to have WMP, Winamp and Foobar all open at any given time.

 

[innonimatu]

VLC. It plays just about everything, and its the same in just about every operating system you care to choose.

 

[kuukkeli]

For Windows Foobar and for Linux Amarok. No question about either.

 

[innonimatu]

for Linux Amarok. No question about either.

It looks good now - I should have kept track of this one!
Foobar still has an interface that is a bit... lacking. Even more so that VLC used to.

 

[Zelig]

It looks good now - I should have kept track of this one!
Foobar still has an interface that is a bit... lacking. Even more so that VLC used to.

The Foobar interface is pretty much completely customizable...

 

[innonimatu]

The Foobar interface is pretty much completely customizable...

Them I'm just too lazy to do it!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Songbird is awesome. So many addons and changing themes is fairly easy. Pretty large memory footprint though ( 400mb virtual sometimes ) but if you have the RAM its an excellent player.

 

[GVBN]

foobar2000

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No, the newer version (WMP 11/12beta) are fine. I take it you just don't like it because you don't like Microsoft, then?

I don't mind Microsoft, although they can be annoying sometimes.

There's a bunch of music players here. (This is a good freeware site, about 99% is actually freeware with the exception of a few that slipped by.)

 

[Onionsoilder]

I tend to use Windows Media Player, but mostly because I don't listen to music that often and I'm too lazy to download a bunch of players and see which one I like.

 

[Mr. Keith]

I downloaded both Foobar and Winamp.

I haven't used either enough to choose which is better, but both serve the main purpose I wanted them for, which is to allow me to play music from my computer and use the internet without my making my system run choppy like iTunes does.

Will either of those programs organize your music like iTunes does? If I dump an album into a playlist, it is quite annoying that it won't automatically order the songs correctly.