What does everyone use as a media player?

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nageov3t

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no WinAmp? what's up with that?

I use WinAmp 5 for audio, and a combination of WMP 10 and Divx Player for video (divx player seems to handle corrupted video files a lot better than wmp).
 
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Originally posted by: VanillaH
foobar2000
Gomplayer
for those of you who arent in the know, gomplayer rocks cuz
-fastest player around, lower requirement than swan
-comes with most codecs and codec locator for missing ones (very few anyway, stuff like mastroka)
-plays incomplete files, files with broken index, and files with download in progress
-best smi support ever, lets you control everything (location, size, color, sync etc etc)
-supports m3u, pls, asx and lets you make a playlist with different file types
-fully skinable, skins are fairly easy to make
-lets you capture successive frames automatically (comes in very handy for making animated gifs)
-lets you seek thru an avi file by key frames (or # of seconds as configured by the user)
-customizable to no end (custom keyboard mouse shortcuts, VMR output, selectable full screen resolution and much more)

Is Gomplayer free?
 

jst0ney

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I am in the process of changing my media player. I have been a die hard winamp user since the beginning of nullsoft but since the last of the origional developers left my feeling is that winamp is finished.

I have tried itunes but it is too big and not feature rich. VideoLan VLC player is awesome for video and I am going to give foobar2000 a shot today.

edit:

Are there other media players that let you browse shoucast servers. That is one of my fav featurs of winamp.
 

mkahn5

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winamp and i dont plan on switching anytime soon

there is no other
plus it has the best internet radio broswer IMO
 

kami333

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Dec 12, 2001
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iTunes for my mp3 library
Winamp 2.86 for random mp3 clips
Zoom Player for divx
PowerDVD for DVD
 

neonerd

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WMP 10 is the best media player IMO...it's simple, basic, good looking, sexy, and compatible with most formats...

I wish WMP would be able to play .mov and .raw

i HATE real player
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: neonerd
WMP 10 is the best media player IMO...it's simple, basic, good looking, sexy, and compatible with most formats...

I wish WMP would be able to play .mov and .raw

i HATE real player

media player classic + Real Alt & Quick time Alt
 

natto fire

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Jan 4, 2000
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Originally posted by: Armitage
xmms

Me too, seems like a largely disproportionate amount of Windows users here. Given the crowd and all :p

I dual-boot though, so when I have to use windoze :shudder: I use winamp 2.8, and Media Player Classic/Zoom Player.
 

Seemann

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Nov 18, 2004
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Most of the time: WinAMP. For some weird files and / or formats I use RealPlayer, WMP or QuickTime.
 

Merlyn3D

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Sep 15, 2001
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I would have liked to vote for Media Player Classic for anything video related and Winamp for anything audio related.
 

konakona

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Is Gomplayer free?

yes, it is absolutely free, and they update quite often for being a free player. the only problem is the menus are not in english and they no plans of making an english version any time soon. if anyone can hack the codes, i will can help with translation ;)