What is the best Music Player program?

Beefpops · Mar 8, 2004

RealPlayer only plays out of 2 speakers and it loads slowly.
Windows Media Player cuts out the bass sometimes and sounds gritty.
Internal players on P2P programs are skippy and not very customizeable.
WinAmp just sucks.

Somebody here recommend a super-nice Music player (MP3 is my main concern) with bumpin'-*** bass and 4.1 support!

dead_man311 · Mar 8, 2004

theres Musicmatch Jukebox. ive use it before its not to bad of a program.

whats wrong with Winamp, that my main player used it forever now. i think it the best player out there

TimDgsr · Mar 8, 2004

i'll have to second the "what's wrong with winamp"

it is my favorite player for music as well.

rxc · Mar 8, 2004

I use iTunes and foobar2000.

Andyman902042 · Mar 8, 2004

I have to third the "whats wrong with winamp"
I think its fantastic.

Beefpops · Mar 8, 2004

Are there any better skins for WinAMP? The default one is offputting. Also, what's a good CD>MP3 program?

Oni · Mar 8, 2004

I'll be the fourth to say 'What's wrong with Winamp?'. Winamp v5 is nice and full-featured, with some very excellent skins to choose from.

If you don't like it, you could go with Quintessential Player, which is also a nice, full-featured player.

dead_man311 · Mar 8, 2004

there are tons of skins for winamp. go look on winamp site.

which winamp you run 2,3 or 5 (there's not much out there for 2)

TimDgsr · Mar 9, 2004

dead_man311 said:
there are tons of skins for winamp. go look on winamp site.

which winamp you run 2,3 or 5 (there's not much out there for 2)

winamp 2 has the pimp apple looking one for it

qtx i think? i forget the names

JigPu · Mar 9, 2004

There's still quite a few out there for Winamp 2, you just have to know where to look since Nulsoft took down 99% of it's skins

JigPu

unwrittenLaw · Mar 9, 2004

I like MusicMatch...

electromagnetic · Mar 9, 2004

Why does winamp suck? Have you tried version 5? It's nice and clean, I like it. That's what I use right now, but I think I'll switch back to WMP just because I can look at the album cover art while listening to my albums. Still a tossup though because the winamp visuals are soooo much cooler.

Agent_Mull · Mar 9, 2004

Ya, the default winamp 5 skin doesnt suck, its very clean and has nice equalizer settings, right out of the installer.

lowbaby · Mar 10, 2004

no doubt
winamp has like a batrillion skins on the site
i have 5 with 9 or 10 skins downloaded for it

13rian · Mar 11, 2004

if ur going for looks and features, winamp5 seems to be the underdog. there's potential in another program, called jetAudio, but it has hardly any skins right now (lots of nice features though). it uses a little bit more resources than winamp2

WA2 is the most clean-cut i know. simple shortcut features, the minimilistic view, quick loading, low memory usage is all i need while i do other tasks on my desktop. i seriously don't fully understand y one would want an intricate skin for a player that's not really meant to be a main visual eye-candy.

for better sound, u'd need to look for speakers/headphones and a sound card.

Beefpops · Mar 11, 2004

Okay, I've started to use WinAmp, but now it doesn't play out of all 4 of my speakers! It only uses the front 2. Where do I change these settings (games and other players still use all 4, and SoundStorm has 4 speaker mode enabled).

Lan_Of_Malkier · Mar 11, 2004

Creative Labs makes an EXCELLENT player, but it is for listening to music, not watching it, it has a very plain and program-ish interface, however it's incredible, no sound loss and it has support for up to 7.1 DTS THX, and everything below that.

As far as CD to MP3 go with Nero. It is not free ($20 for the mp3 conversion key), but it is definately worth it. Very customizable compression settings and alot more. You should be using this to burn with anyhow! *tsk tsk*

dead_man311 · Mar 11, 2004

thats weird how it onlt plays out of two, i have 4:1 with a sub and any player or just anything that make sound plays out of all my speakers

Luie · Mar 11, 2004

You have to set it for the program to play through your 4 speakers.
Me = 2.1 speaker setup
I use Winamp5 for because of "internet radio" and "internet TV".
I use foobar2000 because it seems like there're more bass from my music. dunno why.

Zim2411 · Mar 12, 2004

I use Foobar2000. It's the simplest player in existance, but is still very customizable. I have 5.1 speakers, and as long as it's set to 4 channels in the soundstorm panel thingy, Foobar works with em all, as long as I change one setting.

In the Foobar2000 preferences, I have to change the output to DirectSound instead of waveOut. Only then do the rear channels kick in. I believe Winamp has this setting... poke around in the preferences and see if you can find it.

Edit: I have 5.1 speakers, but my mic is plugged into the center channel thingy. Thus I really only have 4.1 speakers.

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