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Which player is best?
I use what everyone I know uses: 'Winamp'.
Are their any other better players to listen to music than Winamp?
I use Winamp, but it's not good... takes too much memory and is generally sluggish (even on my near-high end computer).
So I'm also open for suggestions.
(bad ideas: Quintessential Player, RealPlayer, Quicktime, iTunes...)
You could go to an older version of winamp. I never use the modern skins, to keep speed and cpu usage low. 2.9 was good, you can get it from www.oldversion.com
I won't use winamp anymore...AOL bought it and now it keeps on asking me if I want to upgrade to the full version, after telling it "No" repeatedly.
I use foobar2000 for all my music listening. Its incredibly lightweight, yet has about 100x the features winamp has. Its truly a wonderful program. The interface right after you install it doesn't look the best...but give it a chance, learn the myriad of features and configurations there are, and you'll learn how to customize it and come to love it as I do. Highly recommended!
A good player would, IMHO...
Be skinnable
Have a light footprint
Do justice to the sound (some players sound really bad)
And that's it.
Winamp is good. I think WMP takes too much memory, and that's for sure.
I used this XM Play once, its also nice, it automatically Amplifies higher or lower with the cheering in Livesets.
Their are definatly better players out their than Winamp, its just that I dont know them. 
i'm also using winamp but that's because i haven't found a better one out there. Winamp does tend to be slower, and for some reason the newer versions take longer to load on my computer which is annoying. I'm also open to suggestions lol.
Foobar2000 + Asio = teh win
An extremely good player for mp3-files is Apollo. The developers tried to optimize the mp3-decoder close to its limits. The mp3-audio comes as close as possible to the specifications for mp3-sound, much closer than for any other program. It is often used by radio stations.
Disadvantage of Apollo: it does not care much about other audio formats, it is a lot about mp3. And they do not care about the "Look'nFeel" of their program so it looks very spartanic.
http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/
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| Does Apollo support ID3 tag editing? No. It will never do. The reason is that I don't use ID3 tags myself and the current development of Apollo is based on my own needs |
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| Originally posted by DJ Cinos Yeah. Smart idea. ...it sucks. |
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| Originally posted by oje_oje As I told you: Apollo is all about mp3-sound quality and not about tons of graphical and non-essential features. |
i actually use itunes and enjoy it because it displays the album artwork, allows me to create playlists and modify my preferences like a database.... very easy to use imo and has great database-like features.
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| Originally posted by keithos27 i actually use itunes and enjoy it because it displays the album artwork, allows me to create playlists and modify my preferences like a database.... very easy to use imo and has great database-like features. |
Winapm 5 Lite = The best.
WMP FTW.
/awaits flames.
Nothing keeps my files better organized than WMP.. i love the layout, fuck how much ram it takes wtvr.
Kickass player.
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| Originally posted by DJ Cinos ID3 tags are pretty essential. |
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| Originally posted by DJ Cinos It's also bloated like a thanksgiving turkey. |
used and experimented with them all (the popular ones)....
the greatest strength of winamp is the PLUGINS and the the DSP features... Problem is, u can't use more than one of either at a time... so u gotta find the ultimate plug in... but WINAMP still hogs a fair bit of RAM (though compared to other players, less)
in the end, FOOBAR2000 is the best, for audio lovers. by far...
every piece of sound equipment i use, HEADPHONES, 5.1 channel sound system, HI-FI, i could TONE TEST, and get the PERFECT EQUILIER FOR. the sound quality is awesome once u do this, and u can hear bits of the music in the background, u've never heard before.
extremely efficient, and allows for a lot of tweaks.
best WINamp player of all time.....everyone get ProStak I and esp. ProStak II
I can confirm Apollo makes the mp3's sound better than winamp. This with a above avg headset.
I use ITUNES. Easy to create custom playlists and easily searchable libraries.
I just downloaded Apollo and the sound quality is DEFINATELY better than Winamp.
But how to raise or lower the volume? And from where can I download equaliser presets to load in it?
Winamp 5 with DFX 7.3 and MMD3 skin... I don't care how much RAM it takes, I have 1 GB of RAM so it doesn't matter. 
And it sounds very good. 
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