Author Topic: Media Player (Read 3651 times)

Psycho · « **on:** December 23, 2006, 02:50:43 PM »

Considering a bunch of things like (quality), (how much space it takes up), (likelyhood of skipping), (versatility), (RAM usage), (user-friendliness), and (availability), tell me what you think is the best Media Player to have, or use (like to watch stunt videos and listen to music...)

and please no one-line answers with no explanation. tell why you think it is the best.

So far, I have: [Winamp] [Windows Media Player] [RealPlayer] [QuickTime/iTunes] and something called [VLC Media Player]

thanks in advance.

shadow · « **Reply #1 on:** December 23, 2006, 02:55:03 PM »

so far i like wmp the best. the only one your list i havent used is iTunes because i never found a need for it since i dont have an ipod (yet). Right now im using wmp 11 but it seems like it takes more RAM then 10

EDIT: I forgot about Musicmatch jukebox which doesnt work for me anymore but it doesnt use much ram and it has a very easy interface, lists all the songs even if they arent playing, and it has a cd ripper/burner/mp3 syncher thing, too bad it doesnt work for me anymore

Link · « **Reply #2 on:** December 23, 2006, 02:57:02 PM »

Well i use Winamp to hear music and some of these NOT omfg quality vids in because imo its easier to use than WMP

Devision · « **Reply #3 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:01:30 PM »

I use WMP for videos only.. Because that damn thing takes up alot of ram on my pc.. I use winamp for music.

Aries · « **Reply #4 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:02:55 PM »

I really love Creative Media Source.

I dont know if you can get it with a creative product, but man it's good.

- Plays anything I throw at it, including my cat (Lol, I mean formats)
- Manages all my music in a nice organized fashion
- Very low RAM usage
- Nice easy interface

Devision · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:07:37 PM »

Quote from: Aries

I really love Creative Media Source.

I dont know if you can get it with a creative product, but man it's good.

- Plays anything I throw at it, including my cat (Lol, I mean formats)
- Manages all my music in a nice organized fashion
- Very low RAM usage
- Nice easy interface

haha i know about that. My brother got it with his old MP3 player.

infested · « **Reply #6 on:** December 23, 2006, 03:37:58 PM »

For music I use Winamp for the reason "If it's not broke, why fix it?"
As for stunt vids I use Windows Movie Maker to watch all vids. Instead of skipping frames it pauses the vid so it has enough time to load the next frame. The music in high quality vids sounds horrible, but at least I get to watch the vid. High RAM usage, but great for watching vids, can play vids of higher bitrate than WMP and VLC(except for XviD formats where VLC pwns).

Energise · « **Reply #7 on:** December 23, 2006, 04:58:23 PM »

I think Itunes is great, easy to use, doesn't take up much space and it's free .

Psycho · « **Reply #8 on:** December 23, 2006, 09:39:57 PM »

well, right now I use WMP for watching videos and iTunes for music, but I was just curious, since TurtleDick made a big deal out of me switching from RealPlayer(which I notice NOBODY mentioned) to WMP, and my brother and youth leader both say winamp is the best, so I guess I wanted to know what to use, and stick with it, and get rid of everything else... [Can iTunes, Winamp, and WMP play EVERYTHING?] if so, I'll just stick with those. And I'll also try what Aries has.

aMpT Mike · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2006, 09:48:08 PM »

VLC for videos

iTunes for music

Laketown · « **Reply #10 on:** December 23, 2006, 09:50:43 PM »

I used to use Itunes when I had windows XP, now I have to use WMP for it (Itunes doesn't work with 2000)

.Synergy · « **Reply #11 on:** December 24, 2006, 01:05:36 AM »

Windows media player caus it came with my pc :duh:

Link · « **Reply #12 on:** December 24, 2006, 01:19:27 AM »

Quote from: Psycho

well, right now I use WMP for watching videos and iTunes for music, but I was just curious, since TurtleDick made a big deal out of me switching from RealPlayer(which I notice NOBODY mentioned) to WMP, and my brother and youth leader both say winamp is the best, so I guess I wanted to know what to use, and stick with it, and get rid of everything else... [Can iTunes, Winamp, and WMP play EVERYTHING?] if so, I'll just stick with those. And I'll also try what Aries has.

Yea realplayer.
I once used it but IMO it took too much of my ram so i switched to Winamp.
And yes Winamp can play every MUSIC files. But if you for example dl the DivX plugin winamp can run divx vids too.

Auzas · « **Reply #13 on:** December 24, 2006, 02:58:10 AM »

I use foobar2000 for music it dosent take up too much RAM and its easy to understand and WMP for vid's

_Hiei_ · « **Reply #14 on:** December 25, 2006, 10:18:35 AM »

BSPlayer is the best for vids imo. You can imagine the reasons... it has all you need while watching a vid and all the options are ordered and clear. It also handles subtitles well.. and I need it since I'm an anime watcher. I'm using WMP too now though.

RealPlayer ain't bad for music.. but I use Winamp.

You should just try some and then choose yourself. Some prefer some players and others prefer other ones.