Media Players

[JimiP]

Hello everyone,

I was just curious as to what you all think the best Media Player is. I have used iTunes, WMP, and RealPlayer and I want something that takes up minimal space, plays just about anything that I can throw at it and just sounds good for MP3's.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Please see this thread

 

[benzylic]

I would try out Foobar2000 it's very light on resourses. It's not the prettiest thing you'll ever see, but there's some nice configs floating around to make it look awesome, they make it a little heavier on system resources though. I would also download the Columns UI interface. It separates artist, album, and title, into different columns. Which without it Foobar does not

EDIT: fixed links

 

[JimiP]

So far it seems to be a pretty solid MP. I can dig it.

mxrider - I'm having a hard time accessing that link. That sounds like something that I'm interested in too.

 

[benzylic]

The links got messed up. They should work now though

 

[dealmaster00]

foobar for music.

vlc for video.

 

[JimiP]

I have another question regarding Foobar2000. When I open an Audio CD from Foobar2000 and I want to add it to my playlist... It doesn't label the Artist, Album, Song, Genre. This is definitely something that I want it to do. I am too used to iTunes to not have my Media Player do these things automatically.

Now, does this Columns UI do this? I'm not exactly sure how this works so please go easy on me.

 

[lxskllr]

There may be an easier way, but this is how I do it. Highlight the tracks from the cd you just put in, right click on the tracks, pick tagging from the context menu, select get tags from freedb. Unless you listen to extremely obscure stuff, you should be able to get the track names.

I personally seldom listen to cds per say. What I do is rip the cds using WMP11 using 190kbs mp3, and store them to my hd. Wmp gets the track names automagically, then I import them into my Foobar library.