Distant Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 So I recently reformatted because my computer is archaic specs wise and I wanted a fresh start. What do you guys use for .mp3 players that have easy to create playlist options and decent customization? I do prefer a relatively minimalist look. Less is more in my opinion. In the past I have played with and used Winamp. What else is out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 KRazpopov Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Almost every media player supports that function. WMP12 supports it, Zune supports it, Foobar does as well. I'm not sure about iTunes though, as I haven't bothered to check its' features since v9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 YounGMessiah Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Zune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 JOHW Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Foobar with the SubjectBeauty skin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 phendrome Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 I'm surprised MusicBee hasn't been noted yet. It's fairly new and has a lot of potential. Current release is RC3. I however love foobar2000 and would never be able switch out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Gerowen Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 XMMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 f146 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Check out Billy.This as light as you can go. Billy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mancode20 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Foobar with the SubjectBeauty skin Foobar looks pretty cool. I'm definitely going to have to try it out. I see you have multiple playlists in that screenshot. Those are tabs that you can switch between at any time? If so, that would make me want to use Foobar. That's what Winamp is really missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ViperAFK Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Foobar looks pretty cool. I'm definitely going to have to try it out. I see you have multiple playlists in that screenshot. Those are tabs that you can switch between at any time? If so, that would make me want to use Foobar. That's what Winamp is really missing. Yeah, foobar has playlist tabs that you can switch to at any time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Syanide Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I use Clementine, simply because I still haven't found anything close to Exaile in terms of user interface on Windows (both are 'continuation' of Amarok 1.x, but only Clementine offers Mac and Windows builds along with Linux ones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 raid0 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Why do your guys are still using mp3's? I started to convert my music library from mp3 to eAAC+, imagine a 24kbps song sounding the same as 192kbps mp3. To me it's perfect and I can put a lot on my iPod touch. A whole album (1h15 approx) is about 10-15 megabytes total. I discovered the eAAC+ from radio streams, I was stunned by the quality eAAC+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sanctified Veteran Posted July 26, 2011 Veteran Share Posted July 26, 2011 Why do your guys are still using mp3's? I started to convert my music library from mp3 to eAAC+, imagine a 24kbps song sounding the same as 192kbps mp3. To me it's perfect and I can put a lot on my iPod touch. A whole album (1h15 approx) is about 10-15 megabytes total. I discovered the eAAC+ from radio streams, I was stunned by the quality eAAC+ You're cool Check out Billy.This as light as you can go. Billy I remember Billy, used to use it a lot back in the day. Seems there's an "updated" version (2008). Will try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 remixedcat Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Does clementine have advanced DSPs like media jukebox? That is the main reason I love MJ!!!!!! I also love the interface. (Please note it does not come dark like this I'm using the albedo skin and candara fonts) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ridlas Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I love Winamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 cooky560 Veteran Posted July 28, 2011 Veteran Share Posted July 28, 2011 Chalk up a vote for Foobar2000 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DaViD_BRaNDoN Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Been using Winamp for God knows how many years already :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 cork1958 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 6MB of what? RAM? :laugh: Oh man. Imagine if it was possible to build a machine like that. Is there a version of DOS that is capable of multi-threading? :shifty: Edited before I get warned for some dumb reason. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Prince781 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I'd go with Zune. It has one of the most minimalistic designs you can think of. Plus, you can take your playlists and media from another service like iTunes and import them. It's for Windows only. You can get it here Jan, KRazpopov and mikrokiwi 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Copernic Reporter Posted August 26, 2011 Reporter Share Posted August 26, 2011 MPXPLAY Audio Player, the lightest audio player ever: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpxplay/ http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows (Win2K, XP, Vista and Win7) operating systems. It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it plays: DTS, MOD and SPX too. Audio CD playing and ripping is also possible (CDW). It supports the following playlist types: M3U, M3U8, PLS, FPL, CUE, MXU. DOS version uses a 32-bit DOS extender (DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender being the most up-to-date version compatible). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Buttus Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I would use Foobar if i didn't already have VLC, but since VLC plays everything and is very minimal, i don't need two programs to play mp3's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pam14160 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Winamp, and iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 KiHu Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Whatever you feel is the best for you. is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bigmehdi Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I use both foobar & mediamonkey . And occasionally winamp. Foobar for simplicity, the tabbed playlist, customizations, I love to be able to run a chain of vst, wasapi support. Mediamonkey because it's much easier to browse a huge library of albums, and to tag it. Also mediamonkey has nice scripts, like "last fm node" which allows to gather stats from last.fm and create a "kind of radio" by playing similar tracks. Winamp, occasionally, for chip tunes, or streaming tv online; in fact I don't remind why exactly I've installed winamp. I don't need really winamp. I don't like the interface of VLC , I use it for video only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PGHammer Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 I would use Foobar if i didn't already have VLC, but since VLC plays everything and is very minimal, i don't need two programs to play mp3's... It depends on whether you want plain (or fancy) MP3 playback - or not. For plain playback, I use VLC. For fancier playback, I use MediaSource 5 (and the included EAX Environments, which, contrary to belief, works just fine in Vista or 7, even the x64 iterations). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Roger H. Veteran Posted October 12, 2011 Veteran Share Posted October 12, 2011 Moved to Software Discussion & Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Somnus Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 I use Winamp on my main system, but for my netbook which obviously values less resource intensive applications, I use FooBar2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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So I recently reformatted because my computer is archaic specs wise and I wanted a fresh start.
What do you guys use for .mp3 players that have easy to create playlist options and decent customization?
I do prefer a relatively minimalist look. Less is more in my opinion.
In the past I have played with and used Winamp. What else is out there?
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