Comments on: What’s your Favorite Music Player ? [Poll]

By: joe

joe — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:29:30 +0000

VLC player! It’s the most universal player I’ve heard of. I know it’s not ideal for audio, but the only problem I had with it is silence time between songs in the playlist (maybe there is a setting to remove that, I didn’t look).

At first I used WMP when I had my music organized by playlists, then Winamp when I had my music organized by folder. One day I accidentally clicked on the Winamp library, and my computer got owned, thus I removed it. After that I tried foobar which seemed ok but didn’t appeal to me.

I had to download VLC for video anyway, so I figured why install a second software for audio?

It’s all about being universal. VLCs only interest is making a quality media player. iTunes, Windows Media, RealAudio, are all focused on their platform specific file types, which spells out to me “steer clear!”.

By: v sreelakshmi

v sreelakshmi — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:14:57 +0000

BILLY is the best.Consumes very less space.
No fussing about it.

By: Chrisclap

Chrisclap — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:05:16 +0000

People people people it is all about Moovida, i use it every day “fubar” ahahah fucked up beyond all recognition lol

Seriously though moovida is bangin

you should check it out http://www.moovida.com

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:31:12 +0000

iTunes.

By: amit

amit — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:24:52 +0000

Winamp

By: tim

tim — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:56:01 +0000

Foobar2000 is completely customizable. Keyboard shortcuts, fonts, plugins, everything is exactly the way I want it. Whenever I am bored I do an overhaul. It is the antithesis of iTunes.

Never mind small footprint, infinitesimal launch time, and badass icon.

By: tim

tim — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:38:42 +0000

foobar2000 FTW!

By: skwerp

skwerp — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:29:30 +0000

last time a poll like this was up, i saw foobar2000 show up in the comments… i thought hey, if this many people on makeuseof like it, it’s gotta be good right?! lol the commenters were right. i’ve been a diehard realplayer fan as long as i can remember (i know, i know) but now i have foobar for music and media player classic for video, realplayer’s only still on my computer because i’m too lazy to remove it.

By: turbo

turbo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:46:41 +0000

MPD should be in the List like BLU said. Just that it is hard to find a good client… I used Sonata for quite some time but now i like Gimmix better. Don’t know if it is still worked on though. For shortcuts mpc is class.

By: Antony Jones

Antony Jones — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:01:45 +0000

I still use mpg123 to play streams:

mpg123 -@http://www.somafm.com/gs8000.pls

simple, and it rocks!