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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:07 PM

Just put on some Pink Floyd on my pooter and it got me wondering what media players folks use.

I use Winamp for music and VLC Media Player for video, they seem to be the best I've found, Winamp sounds as good as or better than any other music media player I've tried, it's easy to use and it was the first one I used (after realising that the Windows Media Player is shit) so I'm kinda fond of it and VLC Media Player seems to play pretty much any video without having to bugger about with finding codecs, and the picture & sound quality seem to be as good as any I've tried (I sometimes use GOM Player, if I'm watching summat while connected to the internet and browsing, cos it is less resource hungry than VLC and I've got an old computer with fuck all RAM, sometimes VLC stutters if I'm online at the same time, but I'd rather use VLC when I'm just watching summat).

SO what are your media players of choice ? :)

Hope that maybe this thread will introduce some folks to better media players than the ones they use now :) (especially anyone using Windows Media Player, cos it really is bottom smearings, worse than pretty much every free media player I've ever used)
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:14 PM

Can i just tag a question to Boojums post what what do you get extra when you pay for a media player, better sound quality?
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:19 PM

VLC and iTunes here. On a Mac so there aren't the same alternatives to iTunes as there are for pc, and its not quite the same irritating resource hog as it is on a pc anyway.
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:21 PM

View PostJimboo, on 07 March 2012 - 12:14 PM, said:

Can i just tag a question to Boojums post what what do you get extra when you pay for a media player, better sound quality?


As far as I can see the only real difference between Winamp free and Winamp Pro is that Pro allows you to rip/burn Cds faster & better quality, but there are free apps that are far better at that anyway so seems like a waste of money to me. Dunno about other pay media players, to be honest Winamp free sounds plenty good enough to me, but I'm not really a muso and I've got shitty ancient speakers so I probably couldn't tell the difference anyway.
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:22 PM

wmp for tune's and vlc for everything else :spliff:
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:28 PM

Was VLC for ages, had one too many files that wouldn't play correctly and moved to media player classic. http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ haven't looked back.
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:38 PM

Got J.Rivers media center on mine.Never used any other so can't compare it with anything
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 12:42 PM

xbmc all the way. Have been using it nice the Xbox 1 days.

saying that, I still use VLC from time to time. Can't remember why I stopped using Winamp, use to se it ll the time bak n the day.
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 01:21 PM

I use vlc player for video and i don't think there's a better one..For music i use Itunes as it's linked up to my ipod plus i find that itunes also has some great radio stations where you haven't got to listen to shit adverts..
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 05:56 PM

Media Player Classic as part of the klite codec pack
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Posted 07 March 2012 - 06:20 PM

Yip Winamp and VLC here too. Some of the shoutcast radio stations are worth using winamp for alone. Plus shoucast streams directly to the PS3. I did flirt with Media Monkey for a little while because it seems to be very customisable. But in terms of sound quality I couldn't hear much differnce so changed back to Winamp. I used Gomm player for a while too because the key and mouse bindings are quite handy. But VLC seems tro play almost every file type easily. WMP i don't really like at all for to many reasons to mention

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Posted 07 March 2012 - 09:51 PM

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 05:15 PM

I'm sick of windows media player, keep giving it another go but keep coming up against silly stuff it can't do :wallbash: toooo heavy man...

Do you know if you can rip CD's with Media Player Classic? In some lossless form hopefully WAV or FLAC? I'll be installing that if you can cause i've had enough of windows version now.

For vids i always use VLC :yep:

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 06:05 PM

VLC all the way :skin_up:
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Posted 08 March 2012 - 06:08 PM

Winamp vlc and behringer usb external dac ( £20 off the bay )

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