Good MP3 players?

[biomanz]

I'm looking for another program that sounds "better" on a 7.1 speaker setup. I'm a bit of an audiophile, and found PowerDVD, WMP10, and Creative's music player to sound better - has more of a "surround" feel to it. Thing is, PowerDVD doesn't display the playlist while it's playing, WMP distorts the sound a bit, and there was a bug saving playlists in Creative's player, unless they fixed it already. So are there any alternatives that function well like Winamp and sounds better?

 

[Qbah]

Give WMP11 a go, much better than WMP10. Also, my all time favourite, foobar2000. Takes a while to configure with 7.1 (last time I checked), but the output quality is unmatched by anything available today.

 

[tarak]

Another vote for foobar2000.

 

[Ryland]

MusikCube. It has SQL buildable search strings to really choose the music you want.

 

[gizbug]

Jetaudio

 

[gorcorps]

foobar2000 ftw

 

[Trevelyan]

Itunes 7.

It's slower than WMP11 and foobar2000, but its layout, library management and playlist creation features have yet to be surpassed, in my opinion.

EDIT: Also, plugins exist (but I haven't tried them) where you can actually send the music through foobar to use some of its excellent audio quality features.

 

[Jeff7]

In Winamp, which output plugin are you using?

Something to verify/try:
Use the DirectSound output plugin
In its Configure options, check "Allow hardware acceleration" then click Apply/OK, and start up the audio.
That should send sound to all your speakers.

 

[MustangSVT]

wow... tried fubar for the first time..

I should have switched ALOT sooner!