Best Media Player

Currently I'm rockin' Windows Media Player 10, or as I like to call it, Freeze! I have a large collection which I've ripped over the course of the last year, so we're talking nearly 100,000 MP3s. Freeze! simply doesn't handle all those files very well.

Anyone know of a media player that doesn't lock up all the time while it "thinks?"

Thanks,
Dong

iTunes. Really.

But iTunes is evil. Is there a Christian version? Like jTunes?

Six-Pack Thunder Dong wrote:

But iTunes is evil. Is there a Christian version? Like jTunes?

Nah - itunes rules!!!! Geart product from Apple. Back in the day, I used to use winamp, but it sucks now. Of course, I worked at AOL and was big on using anything AOL owned (i.e. netscape over IE)

Six-Pack Thunder Dong wrote:

Currently I'm rockin' Windows Media Player 10, or as I like to call it, Freeze! I have a large collection which I've ripped over the course of the last year, so we're talking nearly 100,000 MP3s. Freeze! simply doesn't handle all those files very well.

Anyone know of a media player that doesn't lock up all the time while it "thinks?"

Thanks,
Dong

I'm having the same problem with WMP 11. The problems started when I got my external harddrive, and used it for my music. Now it takes forever to even find the darn files.

Same here. I have an external drive. How does evilTunes work with an external? Anyone know?

Six-Pack Thunder Dong wrote:

Same here. I have an external drive. How does evilTunes work with an external? Anyone know?

This guy does.

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/19/how-to-keep-your-itunes-library-on-an-external-hard-drive/

Word.

Best free player out there for Windows is Foobar2000. It can handle all the formats (including .flac) and is very customizable. Has a built in audio converter as well.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

Best media player for the Mac OS is iTunes easily, I just don't like the way it runs on Windows.

songbird is a great media player. although i've never used it on windows.
http://getsongbird.com/download/

I use Windows Media Player 11. Less freezey than 10 and a cooler interface.

I use Winamp as that seems to work best for me on my system.

I'm with mc666, I like Songbird too, but haven't used it on windows.

detuned wrote:

Best free player out there for Windows is Foobar2000. It can handle all the formats (including .flac) and is very customizable. Has a built in audio converter as well.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

Best media player for the Mac OS is iTunes easily, I just don't like the way it runs on Windows.

Gave this a try. It was great, but every time I shut it down, I lost all the setting I changed. And every time I started it, it would go through an Indexing Files process that took forever because it was indexing nearly 80,000 files.

Trying iTunes now, but it's already annoying me. I added some albums, then deleted them. Well, iTunes deleted the MP3s from the folders and not the folders, and of course my Recycle Bin was full of MP3 files that I wanted deleted. So then these four albums were all mixed in. A bit annoying.

iTunes is not difficult. Once you set your preferences how you want them it's really very simple.

I always use iTunes. Works for me.

Winamp I remember using that about 10 years ago. The coolest feature was all the skins you could choose.

I've been a steady user of Windows Media Player for years now. I don't like iTunes. I have it, but I only use it to build my iPod playlist. It's an ugly looking and slow moving player.

Yeah, iTunes is a beast! Windows Media Player uses about 30K memory, but iTunes apparently uses about 130K. That's insane. Way too much stuff going on with that program.

Have you tries WMP 11? Maybe it works a little bit better than 10.

kmorg wrote:

Have you tries WMP 11? Maybe it works a little bit better than 10.

I tried it when it came out, and it was confusing. I set up a lot of playlists and stuff, and it simply wasn't very intuitive, so I rolled back to 10.

Six-Pack Thunder Dong wrote:

Yeah, iTunes is a beast! Windows Media Player uses about 30K memory, but iTunes apparently uses about 130K. That's insane. Way too much stuff going on with that program.

Then they have a new update for it about every week which makes it even larger.

VLC Player is leaps and bounds above all......