Favourite player for listening music?

[Airhawk]

Used iTunes, till i discovered flacs, now winamp xD

[der richter]

I don't even know what else I can use for Mac.  I'm using WMP for windows at the moment.  Works fine, even though others seem to dislike it. 

maybe you like "songbird". it is quit a capable player but didn't liked it as much as iTunes.

[kurandoinu]

Itunes. Never had a problem with it on mac, was fecking horrible back in my pc days though. :/

[1000mAh]

Ask if you want me to add players to the poll or about resetting the votes, I made a small mistake when creating it...

[Pzc]

Ask if you want me to add players to the poll or about resetting the votes, I made a small mistake when creating it...

Nah, with foobar in the lead it looks about right

[Tatsujin]

Ask if you want me to add players to the poll or about resetting the votes, I made a small mistake when creating it...

Nah, with foobar in the lead it looks about right

I honestly was loving WMP until it couldn't play several files like FLAC and other rare music formats. Then some people recommended Foobar to me and I installed it and loved it ever since. Winamp is just pure fail (black screens!) and it was my favorite player. It was also the reason why I got into anime (watch TV streams and look for anime).

[x5ga]

Ask if you want me to add players to the poll or about resetting the votes, I made a small mistake when creating it...

Nah, with foobar in the lead it looks about right

I honestly was loving WMP until it couldn't play several files like FLAC and other rare music formats. Then some people recommended Foobar to me and I installed it and loved it ever since. Winamp is just pure fail (black screens!) and it was my favorite player. It was also the reason why I got into anime (watch TV streams and look for anime).

WMP can play almost anything... just not by default

[Sharpe_116]

 I recently Installed ubuntu linux On my laptop so im using rythmbox music player ^.^, i prefer it to the wildly popular linux amarok, dont know why, amarok just feels very cluttered and stressed =(

[temuchin]

Try opening up the store or something, that number likely doubles.

Memory and CPU usage aside (considering any modern computer shouldn't have any problem with RAM or playing a audio track), iTunes is just abysmal with speeds. It takes forever to start up (I can start my internet browser and load 8 tabs faster than iTunes, that's just sad), forever to change playlists, pretty much forever to do anything. They have improved it considerably with v9, but compared to other players, it's slow as a snail. Bunch that with no FLAC support, a really crappy converter which only converts stuff to ACC, no global hotkeys, no fade-outs when switching between songs (seriously, how hard can this be?)... yea...

what are you using a P4 on a dial-up modem?  your argument has no basis in reality.  iTunes transcoder supports various other formats including ALac.  

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importing Flac on Snow Leopard is viable with as der ricther mentioned Fluke.   personally i use a transcoder called Xld.   so i take a Flac file convert it with Xld to ALac and import it into iTunes.  another benefit is that i can then easily edit/add the the cover art and any incorrect tags.

when i was on windoze i used Foobar and iTunes.  iTunes early on was absolute crap- it actually fragged my sound-card but since the last 3 years or so it has become stable.   on Mac it operates flawlessly. no surprise there.  hehe i use it in conjunction with my apple remote.

my only complaints are:
i would like to see more skin customizations
the Ping thing.   although this can be removed in terminal.
would like to see the highlight line always on the current track.

re: Foobar- is it still necessary to manually add the  cover art?  i.e add the art to the music folder and designate it as cover.jpeg etc.

[Tatsujin]

Try opening up the store or something, that number likely doubles.

Memory and CPU usage aside (considering any modern computer shouldn't have any problem with RAM or playing a audio track), iTunes is just abysmal with speeds. It takes forever to start up (I can start my internet browser and load 8 tabs faster than iTunes, that's just sad), forever to change playlists, pretty much forever to do anything. They have improved it considerably with v9, but compared to other players, it's slow as a snail. Bunch that with no FLAC support, a really crappy converter which only converts stuff to ACC, no global hotkeys, no fade-outs when switching between songs (seriously, how hard can this be?)... yea...

what are you using a P4 on a dial-up modem?  your argument has no basis in reality.  iTunes transcoder supports various other formats including ALac.  

(click to show/hide)

importing Flac on Snow Leopard is viable with as der ricther mentioned Fluke.   personally i use a transcoder called Xld.   so i take a Flac file convert it with Xld to ALac and import it into iTunes.  another benefit is that i can then easily edit/add the the cover art and any incorrect tags.

when i was on windoze i used Foobar and iTunes.  iTunes early on was absolute crap- it actually fragged my sound-card but since the last 3 years or so it has become stable.   on Mac it operates flawlessly. no surprise there.  hehe i use it in conjunction with my apple remote.

my only complaints are:
i would like to see more skin customizations
the Ping thing.   although this can be removed in terminal.
would like to see the highlight line always on the current track.

re: Foobar- is it still necessary to manually add the  cover art?  i.e add the art to the music folder and designate it as cover.jpeg etc.

Put iTunes to the side ... shoot Foobar up. Load your awesome music and play them!

Btw, you can copy and paste easily in Foobar ! And I have the rating system on it!

[temuchin]

Put iTunes to the side ... shoot Foobar up. Load your awesome music and play them!
Btw, you can copy and paste easily in Foobar ! And I have the rating system on it!

Foobar requires Wine to work on OSX.   would love to see a port for the mac.
i remember using Foobar before every player had automatic cover art dl built in
that i had to use scripts to procure art from amazon, cduniverse etc but i had to manually
toss them into said audio folder.   took some time with a larger library.   but the sheer customization
possibilities is tight.

this Songbird sounds interesting.

oh yeah; doing a 180 here i must confess Quicktime is absolute rubbish. i use QT to dl HD movie trailers that's it.
i assume Apple created this abomination merely to complement Final Cut Pro which i would love to "test" myself.
i have Premiere/AE etc but i have heard FCP is more adept at the kind of editing i want to do.

[Soulreaper77]

So ... I recently switched to foobar and it's way better than winamp. It takes like 4% of the RAM winamp used to take and uses less CPU and it doesn't lag anymore when I'm downloading anime (well sometimes but not 100% of the time anymore).
Anyone have an awesome blue/black (those mixed) skin for foobar?

[Tatsujin]

So ... I recently switched to foobar and it's way better than winamp. It takes like 4% of the RAM winamp used to take and uses less CPU and it doesn't lag anymore when I'm downloading anime (well sometimes but not 100% of the time anymore).
Anyone have an awesome blue/black (those mixed) skin for foobar?

They come installed in Foobar. Do the following:

View > Layout > Quick Setup

And mess around. Pretty quick and easy

[undetz]

Chalk up another Foobar user.
What ultimately made me pick Foobar was firstly, because it can handle anything I throw at it, and secondly, because it was very easy to disable the library function and download of cover artwork and all that. I don't need a program to keep track of my music for me, I know where I've got it stored, I don't want my media players synced to all my USB sticks, what's on them changes all the time anyway, I certainly don't want a 400*400 picture of a cover of a CD. What's that even good for? I can create my own playlists and keep track of what's on my harddrive myself, what's more, I'm better at it than any program I've come across so far.

[SirSkyRider]

I don't even know what else I can use for Mac.  I'm using WMP for windows at the moment.  Works fine, even though others seem to dislike it. 

maybe you like "songbird". it is quit a capable player but didn't liked it as much as iTunes.

"Play" is also quite neat, but fucks up your system if you also have the last.fm Client.

[logos]

WMP+ffdshow, mostly cuz that's what I'm already familiar with.  I mean I already have all my playlists/album art/ratings etc on WMP and I'm lazy, so redoing everything on a different player just for the chance that it'll run with less RAM doesn't seem worth it to me.
And my only complaint with WMP is that it seems a bit resource intensive (which usually doesnt bother me cuz my system is a beast, but you can only have so many things runnning at once before shit starts to get laggy, and laggy music makes me unhappy)

[donald1]

i use winamp cuz it has a nice Hatsune Miku skin, but i am interested in this Foobar i am hearing about.

[1000mAh]

i use winamp cuz it has a nice Hatsune Miku skin, but i am interested in this Foobar i am hearing about.

I dunno where you can get more skins for Winamp... mind telling me?

[zat0x91]

Foobar2000.  It is one of the least resource-intensive music playing programs and can play any file format.

I don't understand why people use Winamp.  It's been a piece of shit since 2.5. It is bloated, overloaded with worthless features, poorly written, runs like ass, is ugly, etc.

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[Sasaki]

I'm throwing my lot in with iTunes.  Can't say that I need any more functionality.