The best audio-player ???

[Terrorizer]

What in your opinion is the best audio-player ???

...here is a longtime favorite of mine: Quintessential Media Player !!!


Quintessential Media Player

Quintessential Media Player is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QMP is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.


Quintessential Media Player (http://www.quinnware.com/index.php)


...give it a try !!!

[anon]

Winamp 2.92.

[Sazzy]

I might sound stupid but I personally like Windows Media Player.

Why? Because ALL the others have so much unneeded bullshit >.<" Just play songs and that's more than enough imho

[SBfreak]

Foobar,always latest version.
@sazzy Unneeded shit?
Maybe some features are useful for others;
And on Linux,Rhythmbox.

[Terrorizer]

...another great player in the vein of Winamp: AIMP2


AIMP2 (http://aimp.ru/index.php)





Main features and functions

o Multiformat Playback:
MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC, MP+, AAC, AC3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDA, WMA, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX
o Great functionality and user-friendly interface
o Creating bookmarks and playback queue
o 18-band equalizer and built-in sound effects
Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed
o 32-bit audio processing
For the best quality!
o Work with multiple playlists
While one plays - you work with another
o Support for plugins
You can add new utils or extend already existing
o Multi-user mode support
Are several users working with one computer? This is no problem!
o Multilanguage interface
o Hotkeys
Configure local and global hotkeys as you wish!
o Files search
Search files on all opened playlists
o Flexible programm options


o Internet radio
Listen and capture internet-radio stations to OGG / WAV / MP3 formats
o Online Radio Browser
View catalogs of Shoutcast and Icecast services


o CoverArt Downloader
Search and download album covers from the Internet


o Alarm Clock
o Auto shutdown the computer
You can sleep while listening favorite music, just set the timer to shutdown the computer at given time or on playback finish.


o Tag Editor
You can easily edit tags of audio files and rename group of files, sort files by template or apply tags to a group of files


o Audio Library
Represents the music files organizer, which allows you easily organize your music, set marks for listened Tracks, keeping playback statistics.

[Sazzy]

Foobar,always latest version.
@sazzy Unneeded shit?
Maybe some features are useful for others;
And on Linux,Rhythmbox.

I was talking on a personal level. Though I am interested in hearing what feature exactly you can't live without?

I, personally, find it annoying for one if your whole screen is filled the first time you boot the thing (eg winamp, songbird, ...)

[Blocker]

Itunes

The Itunes store is really big :tongue:
I don't use to buy music but I look for new releases there sometimes
I like some podcasts and Itunes U content

Songbird :top:

Many add ons,

[crystal]

been using winamp since ages and have been accustomed to it , never used anything except winamp for audio .

[Extraterrestrial]

Of course, AIMP2 is the best. Winamp is a failure.

If you closed AIMP2, went to sleep and opened it again the next day, it will resume from the same point you were listening. A feature you won't find in any other program.

[Instab]

I was talking on a personal level. Though I am interested in hearing what feature exactly you can't live without?

totally right, but that's why these threads are in a section with no postcount. if there'd be objective and informative posts this could be moved to the computer forum

[saebrtooth]

I really dont care about features. Quality of reproduction is the most important thing imho

If Im listening to some music Im not gona sit there and say to myself wow this player is da bomb dude it can play coninuously or randomly and remove that bullsh1t before and after silence and wtf has the best avg qual there is.

I would rather exellent sound and if it came with simple interface *shrugs*

[yoco]

I clicked on MPC instead of Winamp :mad2: Can someone fix this?

[hellman]

winamp 2.92 here too

[Vuze-Sbi]

Winamp with lyrics plug-in just awesome.

[hellman]

Winamp with lyrics plug-in just awesome.

well for lyrics i use mini lyrics:top:

[anon]

I clicked on MPC instead of Winamp :mad2: Can someone fix this?

You can thank me later. :happy:

[The Shutter]

voted ... i use jetaudio

[Mihai]

I use winamp so i'll go with this one as being the best

[MOK619]

For me , with Ubuntu , only Rhythmbox.At my Windows-times in the past I used winamp.

[Nobody]

Songbird is another interesting player. It has a lot of cool extensions... I guess it's kind of like the firefox of audio players. Unfortunately like WinAmp it seems to seize under the pressure of a lot of files.

I hate Foobar... it's an overcomplicated piece of crap. I use it just because it handles the volume of my music collection quickly and effortlessly.

[system28]

I use jetAudio. The X-Surround Effect brings your mp3 on a 5.1System to a new level. Sound really great.

[dju]

Exactly the same, i'm using Rhythmbox on my Ubuntu machine and Winamp on my Windows gaming PC. Just now i've reinstalled my system and i'm too lazy to install/configure winamp, so i'm listening to WMP12 and it's actually ok!

[Grambo]

I recently discovered AIMP2.

It's the only real audio player I have seen which does not hog my computer's CPU and memory.

[silencer1980]

Definitely FOOBAR

i'm using it with Audigy 2 ZS and GD580's coaxiel output & ASIO4ALL driver + 96000khz resampling 32bit...

be an AudioPhile and use Foobar...

[Evilmill]

Winamp or WMP

[Snitlev]

in my opinion Winamp with DFX

regards

[Kas]

MPC obviously

[Resurrection]

Please consider installing the magical iZotope ozone plugin for win-amp...

Recommended for the next level experience that normal audio players don't allow...

iZotope ozone for Winamp - vLcB (download torrent) - TPB (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3968497)

[Blocker]

Itunes

The Itunes store is really big
I don't use to buy music but I look for new releases there sometimes
I like some podcasts and Itunes U content

Songbird

Many add ons,

LOl I changed my mind

Windows:Foobar

Linux:Banshee

[Nobody]

I still want to find a copy of Amarra, which is quite possibly the most ludicrously priced piece of music-playing software at a thousand dolla-oh they "reduced" the price to seven hundred dollars.

But no one ever seems to have a solid crack for it on the PC platform.

[saebrtooth]

wtf?
and it only works on mac OSs
Amarra Computer Music Player (http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/#)

Amarra 2.0 Computer Music Player ::



Amarra 2.0 Software Features ::

• Improved User Interface and sound quality.
• Support for FLAC, AAC and MP3 playback.
Note: FLAC playback requires installing FLAC components.
Note: Fluke required for use with iTunes.
• New Playlist window. Allows you to create and save custom Playlists within Amarra. Our testing as well as our beta testers report improved audio quality using Playlist mode when compared to iTunes mode.
• Improved Background Manager:
-- Advanced iZotope 64-bit Sample Rate Conversion and enhancements.
-- Background FLAC conversion to AIFF.
-- Enhanced Background Manager user interface.
• Improved support for non-latin character sets and extended file names.
• Support for NoNOISE™ broadband noise removal plug-in option.
• Play CDs through Amarra using your Mac as a transport.
• Works with all Core Audio Interfaces.
• Improved high-resolution Sonic EQ: Save and recall your favorite settings.
• Automatic hardware sample rate adjustment based on the native sample rate of the song being played.
• Adjustable digital volume with automated dither processing
• AutoPilot - Playlist autoloading of consecutive tracks from iTunes.
• Enhanced integration with Sonic Hardware including:
-- Dim Front Panel
-- Control Volume and adjustment settings
• Click here to learn more about Amarra...
• New Reduced Price: $695.00 USD

[Lucius1]

foobar2000 ftw

[anon]

foobar2000 ftw

Care to tell us why? :unsure:

[Vuze-Sbi]

Yeah for real ,please tell cause a lot of people have mentinoed about it .Wanna know what's good about it and how? can be better than my old winamp.

[Lucius1]

foobar2000 can play flac. winamp can't ( without a plugin or smth like that)

better design and functionality . for example you can see all the music in your pc in a list sorted by genre, folder structure etc.

simple UI and low memory use.

you can convert between different encodes easily. etc.
( you have to install it and use for a couple of days to see all of the details that make foobar the best audio player)

[biren]

Prefer media player classic because it is very easy to use and dont need many ram.Prefered for old computers that cant play easy 720p or 1080p files.And as for audio player is excellent it support everything.

[anon]

Prefer media player classic because it is very easy to use and dont need many ram.Prefered for old computers that cant play easy 720p or 1080p files.

The codec you're using to decode such material also plays a very important part, also.

In other words, use CoreAVC.

[Vuze-Sbi]

Is it possible to use core avc with km player ?

[anon]

Didn't try it with KM, but since CoreAVC is a codec, I doubt which player you use matters too much. Just disable the player's internal filters (if any) to let it take precedence.

[silencer1980]

if we are talking about video play

COREAVC + MPC-HT is the best with CUDA ACC. video card.
or USE DXVA with ATi 4000 series or above card.

[buta]

I like foobar for music and use Km player for video

[peepin]

I am using foobar, tiny ,powerful and good quality.

[Sb Lover]

I am using WMP + mini lyrics + K-Lite Codec Pack !!
I like WMP for it's library ! and it is really simple !
+ for videos I prefer Km Player !!