A good music player?

[Guest]

Sorry if this is the wrong subforum.

 

I'm looking for a good music player, I basicly want iTunes but without the store.

[Kevinkt]

like pc......or to use outside.

[moose_338]

If you have the music files arealdy

http://www.foobar2000.org/

[CoolBeans]

Foobar

[Guest]

Spotify and if you have the tracks I see Foobar suggested a lot.

[m3lz]

I prefer streaming to downloading anything, but for files I do have I use Winamp ._.

[JR1911]

I've tried foobar but didn't really like it so I'd recommend Winamp.

[Kevin_Walter]

Windows Media Player.

 

Because the hatred generated against it is unsubstantiated.

[spwath]

Winamp

[Damikiller37]

MusicBee is pretty good once you get it organised the way you want.

[Guest]

Spotify and if you have the tracks I see Foobar suggested a lot.

 

 

Foobar

 

 

If you have the music files arealdy

http://www.foobar2000.org/

 

I don't like foobar, it's too complicated for me.

[Guest]

I guess I'm going to keep on using iTunes...

[Kevinkt]

I don't like foobar, it's too complicated for me.

http://getmusicbee.com looks ok then.

[EmotionalSloth]

Spotify!

[IlDuceSaint]

winamp

 

 

 

Sorry if this is the wrong subforum.

 

I'm looking for a good music player, I basicly want iTunes but without the store.

[LogicalDrm]

I don't like foobar, it's too complicated for me.

 

Have you watched Tek Syndicates video series on Foobar yet? https://teksyndicate.com/videos/foobar2000-theming-organization-file-operations-etc Basicly Logan moved from iTunes to Foobar.

[Guest]

http://getmusicbee.com looks ok then.

I've been using this recently, its pretty nice, I found it a good middleground between something powerful and customizable like foobar, and something simpler like itunes. There's some nice skins available for it too: 

 

[GoodBytes]

The bellow post assume you don't care about iPod or iPad support, and just want something to play music.

Here is a different suggestion, which is a software I like and use for a many years, that few are willing to give it a chance for some reason (I guess because it can't play uncommon formats, but you said iTunes).

Zune. Yes, I kid you not.

Fully GPU rendered, its fast responsive, easy to use, simple, does the job.

ALTERNATIVELY:

Another choice, have a look at Windows Media Player 12. I know Windows Media Player got years of bad reputation and many doesn't even want to look at it, but since Windows 7 Windows Media Player 12 is pretty darn good. It's simple, fast, light weight, look fairly nice, great for low end computers, loads instantly, and does the job. I have heard somewhere it was the Zune team (well no longer, at the time, as Zune died) participated in the development of WMP12 big time, and that is how they were able to make this horrible player into this nice cool, lightweight player, that looks and is integrated with Windows.

[rashdanml]

XBMC is pretty good as well. 

[Kevin_Walter]

The bellow post assume you don't care about iPod or iPad support, and just want something to play music.

Here is a different suggestion, which is a software I like and use for a many years, that few are willing to give it a chance for some reason (I guess because it can't play uncommon formats, but you said iTunes).

Zune. Yes, I kid you not.

Fully GPU rendered, its fast responsive, easy to use, simple, does the job.

ALTERNATIVELY:

Another choice, have a look at Windows Media Player 12. I know Windows Media Player got years of bad reputation and many doesn't even want to look at it, but since Windows 7 Windows Media Player 12 is pretty darn good. It's simple, fast, light weight, look fairly nice, great for low end computers, loads instantly, and does the job. I have heard somewhere it was the Zune team (well no longer, at the time, as Zune died) participated in the development of WMP12 big time, and that is how they were able to make this horrible player into this nice cool, lightweight player, that looks and is integrated with Windows.

 

I used Zune for a long time as well. In fact, my pics of my setup I posted in the "show us your setup" thread or whatever show Zune blatantly open on my screen.

 

I think the hatred for Zune and WMP is just leftover hatred for Microsoft in general. I've never had a problem with WMP, and as you said, WMP12 is quite capable. I think my favorite thing is just how seamlessly is integrates with Windows. Not unlike Apple's apps on a mac, Windows Explorer is meant to work with normal Windows apps easily. I like that I can just stick an album into my Music folder, and the next time I open up WMP, it'll catalog it and add it to the library. iTunes can do this to an extent, but I've always had issues with it creating duplicate files, or listing certain songs as being part of different albums... not to mention, the larger my library gets, the slower iTunes seems to get as well.

 

I've never had these issues with WMP.

 

There are some things I dislike about it, of course. The look of it is kind of ugly (though I think WinAmp and Foobar, etc, are all uglier than WMP), and while it sorts my library nicely, it's not as comprehensive as it could be.

 

Still... it's already there and ready to go when I install Win 7. Why replace something that just works right out of the box?

[Guest]

The bellow post assume you don't care about iPod or iPad support, and just want something to play music.

Here is a different suggestion, which is a software I like and use for a many years, that few are willing to give it a chance for some reason (I guess because it can't play uncommon formats, but you said iTunes).

Zune. Yes, I kid you not.

Fully GPU rendered, its fast responsive, easy to use, simple, does the job.

ALTERNATIVELY:

Another choice, have a look at Windows Media Player 12. I know Windows Media Player got years of bad reputation and many doesn't even want to look at it, but since Windows 7 Windows Media Player 12 is pretty darn good. It's simple, fast, light weight, look fairly nice, great for low end computers, loads instantly, and does the job. I have heard somewhere it was the Zune team (well no longer, at the time, as Zune died) participated in the development of WMP12 big time, and that is how they were able to make this horrible player into this nice cool, lightweight player, that looks and is integrated with Windows.

 

 

 

I used Zune for a long time as well. In fact, my pics of my setup I posted in the "show us your setup" thread or whatever show Zune blatantly open on my screen.

 

I think the hatred for Zune and WMP is just leftover hatred for Microsoft in general. I've never had a problem with WMP, and as you said, WMP12 is quite capable. I think my favorite thing is just how seamlessly is integrates with Windows. Not unlike Apple's apps on a mac, Windows Explorer is meant to work with normal Windows apps easily. I like that I can just stick an album into my Music folder, and the next time I open up WMP, it'll catalog it and add it to the library. iTunes can do this to an extent, but I've always had issues with it creating duplicate files, or listing certain songs as being part of different albums... not to mention, the larger my library gets, the slower iTunes seems to get as well.

 

I've never had these issues with WMP.

 

There are some things I dislike about it, of course. The look of it is kind of ugly (though I think WinAmp and Foobar, etc, are all uglier than WMP), and while it sorts my library nicely, it's not as comprehensive as it could be.

 

Still... it's already there and ready to go when I install Win 7. Why replace something that just works right out of the box?

 

 

Personally I can't stand any wmp/zune because of their poor id3 tag support, last I checked WMP and zune don't even support id3 v2.4 tags (which is like a 10 year old standard), so a bunch of my music shows up as untagged in them (but work fine in every other media player under the sun).

 

I also absolutely can't stand how wmp likes to take your folder.jpg files and resize them all: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/767036-wmp12-win7-7100-stop-wmp12-from-touching-folderjpg-files/

 

UI wise they are pretty nice though, I give them that. But [personally] I wouldn't consider using them unless microsoft fixes the poor id3 tag support, mediocre format support, and mangling of album art files

[ohJey]

Winamp + Classic Pro skins

[Phillyphries]

Actually yes, Zune player is by far the best music player on Windows lol.

 

It's the easiest thing to use

[Bansh33]

Actually yes, Zune player is by far the best music player on Windows lol.

It's the easiest thing to use

Love the zune player!

[Phillyphries]

Love the zune player!

 

the only problem I ever had was some ID3 tags not working, but I have special programs like Advanced MP3 Catalog Pro that fixes that stuff even better than iTunes or w.e can.