music player on Windows

[foxy123]

I guess a lot of people have to use Windows at work. I wonder what music players you guys use? After amarok, listen and quod libet I find it difficult to pick something similar for Windows...

[frodon]

When i used windows at the time foobar was a good equivalent for amarok, quod libet, ...

[Sef]

real player to listen to npr.

[n3tfury]

foobar and winamp. realplayer sucks by the way, get Real Alternative (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm) which includes the great Media Player Classic.

[Christmas]

I don't use Windows anymore, I have only Linux at home. At college it's true, there is Windows installed but there we only study C++ so, no time for music. Anyway, when I had Windows I used Winamp. I think Winamp is the best music player ever, and those of you who still use Windows check out the 5.x version. It's just fantastic. Maybe it doesn't have lyrics finder but the Media Library in Winamp it's just great. amarok, Rhythmbox, XMMS, BMP or Listen... for me they are just not comparable to Winamp unfortunately. I hope there will be an equivalent to Winamp for Linux too.

LE: I used Windows since 2000, but I never heard of Foobar...

[foxy123]

Foobar is great. I used to use it in my pre-Linux days :) And I am using it right now. But it is hard to configure sometimes. At the moment I am trying to figure out how to display album cover (like in amarok or quod libet).

[FISHERMAN]

I use musikCube (http://www.musikcube.com/) in windows.

[hesee]

I found winamp too heavy for my comp, when I was doing some long-lasting mathematical computing. That's when i found foobar. Must be the most lightest windows music player. But what would be the most lightest *linux* music player?

[foxy123]

I found winamp too heavy for my comp, when I was doing some long-lasting mathematical computing. That's when i found foobar. Must be the most lightest windows music player. But what would be the most lightest *linux* music player?
i guess some console commands

[Subbu.exe]

The New ******* Media Player 11 Looks Good.. Its Still in Beta..

See the Screenshot..
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0af7a7933.jpg

[hesee]

i guess some console commands

Yeah, i was expecting something like that. But if we stay in GUIs? XMMS is not bad, at least.

That wmp11 looks actually quite nice... but I like more simple&light design.

[Onyros]

Yeah, i was expecting something like that. But if we stay in GUIs? XMMS is not bad, at least.

That wmp11 looks actually quite nice... but I like more simple&light design.Then there's only one way to go... the best music player there is: foobar2000. It's simple, light, customizable, and with a good convolver .wav it'll make equalization obsolete for you.

I just wish there was a convolver plugin for amaroK.

[n3tfury]

The New ******* Media Player 11 Looks Good.. Its Still in Beta..

See the Screenshot..
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0af7a7933.jpg

sure if you don't mind bloat.

[isotonic]

I thought that Media Player Classic was the quick 'n' easy choice for Windows, especially after installing the KLite codec packs which included it.

[crypto178]

Foobar2000 for me aswell. I'm not too much into music "libraries" (itunes, etc.), I prefer a good old flat playlist (although foobar can do both styles I think).
On linux I'm using BMP but I don't like it as much as I like foobar (feels slower, playlist less readable).

[RAV TUX]

The New ******* Media Player 11 Looks Good.. Its Still in Beta..

See the Screenshot..
http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0af7a7933.jpg
I've been using 11 for about 2 months now, not great I also am looking for an alternative...

I say stay Open Source even on Windows...

Try these Open Source Media players ported to Windows:


Media Players (audio)



Delphamp (http://www.delphamp.com/) [GNU GPL]
Zinf (http://www.zinf.org/) [GNU GPL]
LongPlayer (http://lplayer.sourceforge.net/) [GNU GPL]
CoolPlayer (http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/) [GNU GPL]
SnackAmp (http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/) [GNU GPL]
NotifyCD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/notifycd/) [GNU GPL]
Winamp Radio Scheduler (http://wrs.visionfm.go.ro/)
MP3Gain (http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/) [GNU LGPL]
MPlayer (ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta) [GNU GPL] in combination with MPLayer Control (http://mplayerc.sourceforge.net/) [GNU GPL]
Mixxx (http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/) [GNU GPL]
foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) [Other/proprietary]Media Players (video)


VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org/) [GNU GPL]
Media Player Classic (http://www.gabest.org/) [GNU GPL]
Xine (http://xinehq.de/) [GNU GPL] (According to the site on 13th March 2005, 'support for MS Windows is partially working and committed to CVS'), but we haven't found any binaries available... anybody?)
MPlayer (ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta) [GNU GPL]
GPAC (http://gpac.sourceforge.net/)
Vitessa (http://ppw.kuleuven.be/ortho/vitessa/) [GNU GPL]Also worth a good look is SongBird built on Firefox:

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox (http://mozilla.com/)'s browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Learn more. (http://www.songbirdnest.com/home)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9689/mainscreenshotsmall2us.th.png (http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mainscreenshotsmall2us.png)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6119/24sciencebird7uf.th.png (http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=24sciencebird7uf.png)

Songbird Screencast (http://www.songbirdnest.com/screencast)

[Denta]

I use musikCube (http://www.musikcube.com/) in windows.
+1

[TeeAhr1]

I use winamp at work, but now that I've been using gmusicbrowser at home (where the real rocking happens), winamp just feels so damn inadequate.

[foxy123]

well, I came back to foobar on my work laptop. Added a few plugins to make it look more like Linux player (amarok/quod libet). It is a very nice player, albeit not open source.

[disturbed1]

Jetaudio, built in FLAC, Ogg, MP4 (ffmpeg) support. Burns, rips, and converts audio/video. All for free.

Has the best sound quality (to me ;) ). I stopped using Winamp after the 2.9 version. It started to look to much like Music Match Jukebox IMO.

If I was looking for just audio play back, I'd choose Zinf. Though it is a version or 2 behind the Linux builds. Also supports ogg out of the box, and has better sound quality than most othe plaers.

FOOBAR!?! WTF, that player is foobar looking :D

[AndyCooll]

When at work I use PortableVLC Media Player (I don't use ******* at home) which I keep on my USB stick.

Indeed I keep a number of portable apps on my stick (OpenOffice, Firefox, Gimp, Gaim etc) and even though my work environment is a M$ infested place I can at least have a few of the apps I'm more comfortable using.

Available here: PortableApps.com (http://portableapps.com/)

:cool:

[foxy123]

Jetaudio, built in FLAC, Ogg, MP4 (ffmpeg) support. Burns, rips, and converts audio/video. All for free.

Has the best sound quality (to me ;) ). I stopped using Winamp after the 2.9 version. It started to look to much like Music Match Jukebox IMO.

If I was looking for just audio play back, I'd choose Zinf. Though it is a version or 2 behind the Linux builds. Also supports ogg out of the box, and has better sound quality than most othe plaers.

FOOBAR!?! WTF, that player is foobar looking :D
oh, yes it was another one I used quite a lot in pre-Linux days :)

[somuchfortheafter]

itunes anyone?

[Lord Illidan]

itunes anyone?

I hate that bloated piece of DRM laden ****! For someone who has not got an Ipod, nor an account with Apple Music Store, Itunes is useless, and slow to boot.

In Windows, I use Foobar 2000, and yearn for the day when I can run Amarok! I don't use Windows for playing music anymore. Just a quick piece of music while I using Turbo Pascal.

[ripkirby]

WinAmp is the greatest media player, but I use it only for music.. AVS + DSP/Effect = good. For videos I use Windows Media Player Classic so it doesnt mess with my winamp play list.