Ok so recently I switched back to windows. And I rememberd that Winamp was the shit, when I was a kid so I downloaded it. Much to my disappointment, Winamp is now bloated spyware and it does not run on my machine.(crashes every 2-3 minutes i've been through the winamp tech support its horrible) I dont want a video player, I want something like iTunes, but 50% of my music collection(60gb) is in high quality formats that iTunes cant play on Win7(worked on macosx )
I've tried these they wont work for me: Winamp(broken, does not function 75% of the time) aimp(too complicated interface to organize songs/playlists) songbird(no high quality playback) windows media player(wont playback certain songs even though i installed the codec packs, and 1 out of 4 times it completely forgets my library and play-lists and i have to rebuild it.....no go) iTunes ( no flac playback on win7) mediamonkey (ghetto, but i might have to go back to this if nothing else works) vlc (no playlist organization) kantaris (same problems as winamp) Foobar (a little buggy but I might have to go back to this if nothign else works)
I'm hoping someone from euro/asia has a player that maybe I haven't heard of that I can try out, thanks in advance. I see no reason for a music player to be larger than 5-6mb, so please no bloated media players, I've found that "the more a program claims to do" the less it actually does well.
tl;dr Needs to support .flac and .ogg(and all major audio formats) Playlist/audio library organization (quickly select songs to put in a playlist to play for the day) Runs while sc2 is playing/doesn't hog system performance
Foobar2k is everything I could want in a music player, really. Minimizes to the system tray so it's unobtrusive, able to set hotkeys to control playback, lets me organize my library by folder, has a nice clean look:
Never had any problems with bugs, codecs, or anything like that. Then again, I've also used a few of the other players you listed and never had any problems.
YOU SIR ARE A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR, I salute you.
Thx thx thx. Thanks for the suggestions guys. Musicbee is just want I needed. Sadly foobar did not recognize the artist tag on half of my files, even though it grouped them in the right place alphabetically, the artist name had to manually put in for some strange reason.
I've used Winamp since like 2000 and never had a problem with it... what specific problems are you having? Might be worth trying to iron them out 'cause it's a real pleasure to use for me and I wouldn't use anything else.
On January 20 2011 14:07 prOxi.swAMi wrote: I've used Winamp since like 2000 and never had a problem with it... what specific problems are you having? Might be worth trying to iron them out 'cause it's a real pleasure to use for me and I wouldn't use anything else.
I had a two page discussion with Winamp Tech support, seems like they have a ton of issues with win7 64bit and their latest release(there was like 100 other people having similar issues). They were unable to remedy the problem even after sending crash logs, system specs etc etc. And the old winamp client does not support .flac so thats a no go. One of the programmer's said "he would get back to me" it's been a month and a half and they haven't given me any solutions, or "gotten back to me". Winamp crashes and crashes and crashes and crashes it's really all it does. Try to put a playist into the queue, crash, try to alt+tab out of sc2 to change the song, crash, try to import large amount of audio files crash, etc etc. I never want to try winamp again.
As an audiophile who has used a ton of music players, I've gotta say musicbee is everything I want it to be and nothing more, which I love. Worked out of the box without installing a million plugins, or reading 7 pages of help forums.
I've been using foobar for as long as I can remember, with and without skins, I like sticking to the classic look though because I rarely am motivated enough to get album art. It's the most "efficient" player I've used and I need the global hotkey settings it allows.
Foobar here, it is really great because its speedy and lightweight. I'm using it with basic barebones columns ui interface and its okay, still lookign for a good skin (some of the ones in this thread are pretty cool).
Not sure what you mean by foobar is buggy. It's been 100% rock stable for me on win7 32-bit, maybe you have a buggy component or something. The great thing about foobar is that it supports a wide range of file formats, for example not just lossless flac but also .ape files which is great, saves you the trouble of transcoding even though there is no quality loss when transcoding from lossless to lossless.
I used Winamp up to Ver 3.0 afterwards Winamp has been going downhill. I ve been using foobar since then. There are so many Skins etc available. I only use lyricsgrabber+ textui.
You're welcome TheGiftedApe! It's funny I found musicbee (and foobar) after downloading winamp a couple weeks ago thinking it would be as good as I remember during my childhood. Boy was I wrong. The program is bloated with crap and it took all priorities of my music and movie files when I tried to not let it, so I uninstalled it and never looked back.
im using the shark007.net codecs for my windows media player. also vlc is great, but you wrote it doesnt have some kind of thing you need...
also, ever thought about any errors with you win7 machine or win7 itself? My win7 surely loves to crash from time to time, too. I think it does have something to do with win7 and firefox and java-advertise-viruses and avast antivir. as soon as avast wants to block and send the virus to some contamination folder it all goes BOOM
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