Which media player do you use?

[The ORIGINAL South Of Heaven]

Winamp.

My skin. Not my EQ settings, I have it set flat. These are my computers speakers, flat obviously sounds best.

 

[Erik]

XMMS

WinAmp is total shite, it barely even fucking works and I can't understand how you can actually use it and keep your sanity

 

[enorganik]

Winamp for music.

Windows Media Player Classic for videos. (google it)

 

[Kenneth R.]

XMMS

WinAmp is total shite, it barely even fucking works and I can't understand how you can actually use it and keep your sanity

what version are you talking about?

5.08 is quite simple and stable

 

[Erik]

OK. Please try to use the Queue feature in a large playlist (press Q while having a song selected, repeat until satisfied) and then please tell me if it still works

Also why does it need 20 seconds to add my 30 Gb mp3 directory when XMMS needs 5? I have more things to complain about but I can't recall at the moment. At least it's better than that absolute piece of utter fucking garbage foobar2000.

 

[DE]

That'd be true if only XMMS wasn't a piss-poor rip-off of Winamp 2.x

What the shit is the Queue feature supposed to do? I just tried it about 60 times in a playlist with 600 items in and it just stuck numbers next to the entries, is that what's supposed to happen

You and your Linux elitist faggotry Erik

 

[DE]

Actually Ifurin you're an idiot XMMS was a piss-poor rip-off of Winamp 2.x in the X11Amp days, but then the XMMS developers realized that all the Winamp developers were doing was adding useless fucking bloat that noone ever used (BEHOLD THE WONDER THAT IS WINAMP 3! OH WAIT THAT SUCKED SO BAD THAT IT'S ABSOLUTELY UNUSUSABLE OH WELL BEHOLD WINAMP 5 WHICH IS REALLY WINAMP 2.5 WITH EXTRA BLOATWARE AND SOME NON-FUNCTIONING FEATURES) so they have kind of went in other directions lately, so what we have now is a FUCKING WELL-DONE WinAmp clone, which works faster and better than the original in just about every way while retaining the interface, which admittedly isn't piss-poor.

The queue feature is very handy. Suppose you (like me) have a playlist of several thousand songs and the random feature on, but you decide you want to listen to a whole album in sequence, and after that continue with the random playback. You select the album, press Q and it queues those songs in sequence. Works in XMMS. Winamp has the feature, but in 5.x it DOESN'T FUCKING WORK. I don't know what's wrong, but it just doesn't work. It gets really fucking slow and plays the same song 93284 times over. Might be fixed in super new versions though

I just tried it and it works fine in Winamp 5, and I was just joking about the crappy rip-off of Winamp 2

I don't think I'd ever actually use the queue feature, though, since I just queue up individual albums from the media library (which rules).

What features in Winamp 5 do you consider bloat, btw

 

[deliverance]

winamp. always.
winamp skin - was default, then good ol' winamp, now using city night.
eq: rock preset

but i just installed from the link Nick provided..thanks dude, really cool skin

 

[SWAT]

Flat EQ for lyfe y'all.

Don't you mean "Shit sounding music for lyfe y'all"

There's a reason for an EQ to make the music sound BETTER. Flat EQ is just boring.

 

[Melodeath]

A good studio EQs the music so that it sounds best it possibly can when people listen to it on CD players, computers, etc.

You cant be serious when you say it is "shit sounding." They mastered it the way they wanted it to sound.

Hence the usage of a flat EQ.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I use Winamp. Classic skin (the grey one with green writing and "LED"s).

Also, fuck changing the EQ. Flat EQ forever.

 

[andrew_plamondon]

A good studio EQs the music so that it sounds best it possibly can when people listen to it on CD players, computers, etc.

You cant be serious when you say it is "shit sounding." They mastered it the way they wanted it to sound.

Hence the usage of a flat EQ.

Not all speakers are alike, not all headphones are alike, not all sources are alike nor are all earings alike...
I don't want the music to sound got for them, I want it to sound good for me, so the EQ has become a necessity.

 

[DE]

I keep the EQ flat because I want to listen to music how it was intended to be heard.

 

[Melodeath]

I keep the EQ flat because I want to listen to music how it was intended to be heard.

Yes, this is what I was saying.

Not all speakers are alike, not all headphones are alike, not all sources are alike nor are all earings alike...
I don't want the music to sound got for them, I want it to sound good for me, so the EQ has become a necessity.

Well, if you are aware of any major frequency shortcommings with your speakers, go ahead, EQ away. I myself use studio monitors which have a pretty flat frequency response.

 

[Spirit In Black]

Winamp - Rock Preset

Skin - Glen Quagmire

 

[$profit$]

I use MediaMonkey.

I used to use WinAmp like everyone else, but IMO this programs just so much better! Looks a lot like Windows Explorer but you can switch between different views of everything at once -- by album, artist, ranking, genre, title, etc. I even added on nationality tags to my MP3's so that I could sort by country.

Its very plain looking but that has never really bothered me any. I'm not really interested in seeing the player floating on the desktop since I usually just play through an album at a time with the player minimized.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I could care less about skins, but I do like that WMP lets me look at the CD cover. This is nice, but anything rare or new usually doesn't get recognized.

 

[Melodeath]

couldn't*

You can add cover art you know.

 

[The Devil's Steed]

I use WMP.

 

[Nico]

I used MediaMonkey for a few weeks, but it was realy terrible.

The problem with the automaticaly downloaded cover-art in WMP is that it creates a clusterfuck of hidden files behind your back that are nearly impossible to get rid of.