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What Media Player

Poll: What media player do you like? (82 member(s) have cast votes)

What media player do you like?

  1. Windows Media Player (29 votes [35.37%])

    Percentage of vote: 35.37%

  2. iTunes (4 votes [4.88%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.88%

  3. foobar2000 (9 votes [10.98%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.98%

  4. Media Player Classic (21 votes [25.61%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.61%

  5. Amarok (1 votes [1.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.22%

  6. Other (11 votes [13.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.41%

  7. Winamp (7 votes [8.54%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.54%

  8. I don't (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1 User is offline   WBHoenig 

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 09:24 AM

What media player do you like?

Personally, I use Amarok whenever possible, but it only works on UNIX-like systems (e.g. Linux). When I'm on Linux, I use either iTunes or WMP, depending on my mood.

Poll edited. Winamp added.
--Zxian



#2 User is offline   jcarle 

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 10:57 AM

You kind of forgot one of the more important ones... Winamp.

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 11:00 AM

Oops... Sorry

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 11:42 AM

I m using Windows Media Player 11 and always be use latest version.

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 11:50 AM

WMP here. I can't be bothered with other things when it plays most things I use, and it's built in :P

This post has been edited by Biohead: 19 November 2006 - 11:50 AM


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Posted 20 November 2006 - 12:14 AM

you missed vlc media player, its the only one that works on my computer at the moment because i have a dodgy soundcard driver.
But i also like amovie.ocx (C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE amovie.ocx,RunDll) because it uses the least memory, media player classic is good to though, wmp is ok i still have it installed as well.

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 01:14 AM

View Postjcarle, on Nov 19 2006, 12:57 PM, said:

You kind of forgot one of the more important ones... Winamp.

...and Zoom Player. And VLC. And possibly QuickTime (not so much for the player itself, but the codecs are technically part of it, and it's used a lot for videos on the web, like movie trailers so still somewhat useful). And that's still ignoring all the DVD playing apps (for those who'se primary media use of a PC is watching DVDs - like PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc). And if you're going to include Linux players, then XMMS should be there too (and perhaps rhythmbox, xine, etc). We're also ignoring every kind of PVR software (MCE, MythTV, etc) which can also playback all kinds of media (and is usually the sole purpose of the PC it's running onto). The only option almost worth voting for on that list is MPC. Couldn't pay me enough for me to use WiMP or iJunk.

Besides, it would be hard to pick only one player. Lots of people use different apps for mp3s (audio) and movies. That would be the winamp/zoom player combo as far as I'm concerned (on windows).

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 01:46 AM

Media Player Classic that comes with the Combined Community Codec Pack. In addition, I install Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative. Plays everything I throw at it, even high definition video. Windows Media Player can't/won't play certain formats or files encoded with certain codecs. I use Winamp solely for audio. Best combination ;)

This post has been edited by Kiljaeden: 20 November 2006 - 01:48 AM


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Posted 20 November 2006 - 02:15 AM

Windows Media Player for me ;)

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 02:49 AM

as VLC is the only "clean" one, it's the only one i would ever consider
(all codecs included)
(i use the portable version)

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 02:51 AM

mpc for video
winamp lite for audio

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 04:20 AM

MPC all the way. I have VLC on my mac as that's the only thing that i can find that's remotely good, and to be honest i detest it. iTunes is an insult, quick time is worse still. wmp is ugly, winamp is slow and cumbersome for video (in my experience).
MPC and ffdshow work very well for my needs.

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 04:36 AM

Windows Media Player 11 works just well for me.

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 05:02 AM

I use 3:

Winamp for Music

WMP for Video Files

Power DVD for DVD movies.

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 05:12 AM

WMP for music files and PowerDVD for films. :w00t:

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 01:02 PM

media player 11 :)

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 08:32 PM

classic for video and winamp for audio

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 08:43 PM

Winamp for playing
Mediamonkey for organizing/tagging
Jet Audio for anything that wont play in winamp....
WMP makes me rainy on the inside as does iTunes

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:26 AM

I use Winamp for music.
I use WMP for videos only and thats about it.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 04:26 AM

WMP 11... Can't be ar$ed to install something else.

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