Best free mp3 player program other than itunes

[LOUISSSSS]

I'm using itunes now, but am having a problem with it. instead of finding the fix, i'm just going to try another Music Player for W7-64.

What do you guys suggest, the theme here is simplicity

 

[Rio Rebel]

Do you need to sync an ipod? If so, look at Floola.

 

[darkswordsman17]

How simple and what exactly are you wanting (just playback, library management, tagging, ripping, syncing)? There's quite a few good programs. Foobar is one of my favorites, but I haven't honestly looked into things in quite a while.

 

[GhettoFob]

http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

[sdifox]

another vote for foobar

 

[LOUISSSSS]

hows winamp compared to foobar?

 

[sdifox]

hows winamp compared to foobar?

not a big fan.


try them both??? not like it takes a lot of effort.

foobar also has a plugin to synch with ipod

 

[brownstone]

Take a look at songbird. It's got a pretty simple interface and it seems to do the job well. After quitting Itunes myself, I bounced around to a few different players before settling with songbird.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

yea i need to sync with my iphone, so i may need to have itunes available to do that...

i'll prob go with foobar

 

[Slick5150]

Media Monkey is quite great

 

[Ika]

FoOoOoOoOobar.

I've heard good things about Songbird but I want my media player simple, so I use Foobar. I've also used it with my own extensions for so long that I don't think I could use anything else. It takes a while to get the interface right, but once you do it's awesome.

 

[smitbret]

I personally love WinAmp (Pro is worth the $19 to me, as well). It is not as intuitive as some of the others, but the latest versions make it so easy to tag mp3 files in batches that it is a necessary tool for me. If I needed to sync an Ipod and was more used to Itunes and other media players that have a more modern interface to them, I would use Media Monkey. That being said, I may be a little emotionally involved with WinAmp since I've been using it for years since it was the only real game in town other than Windows Media Player (at least early on).

 

[FeuerFrei]

FYI, as far as sound quality goes, I can tell you for sure that WinAMP 5.03 with the IN_MAD.dll as an input plugin and standard waveOut as output sounds noticeably better than both Songbird and MediaMonkey. MP3s have more dimension and separation of instruments in WinAMP, rather than sounding flat and lifeless as in Songbird and MediaMonkey. I do believe I have the latest versions of those two BTW.

 

[BassBomb]

i've been using winamp since 2002

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Unrecoverable playback error: Not implemented (0x80004001)

thats the error i'm getting when i'm trying to play a .mp3 file from foobar... whats going on here?

 

[sdifox]

Unrecoverable playback error: Not implemented (0x80004001)

thats the error i'm getting when i'm trying to play a .mp3 file from foobar... whats going on here?

what output module are you using?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

what output module are you using?

whats an output module?

 

[sdifox]

whats an output module?

you get to pick what output you want to use.
did you get 1.0.1? I looked at the change log and one line says

Added a workaround for horribly broken Asus Xonar drivers.

 

[mmntech]

I like Media Monkey or Winamp.

 

[Occ]

I like Winamp. It has iPod support. Fooled around with Foobar for awhile, but ultimately decided it was too much of a time sink since I was constantly tweaking it. Haven't even heard of Media Monkey. Songbird seemed interesting when I tried it, but it definitely needs more development. It seeks to emote the itunes experience though, so I imagine once it matures it may wind up being a popular alternative.

 

[Zebo]

Winamp 2.81 (check out oldversion dot com)

 

[Strk]

jetaudio basic is pretty nice

 

[LOUISSSSS]

can't even get foobar to play some of my .mp3 files, i'm getting some type of unrecoverable error on the program

 

[Ika]

Have you tried updating to latest versions of your sound card driver and latest foobar?