Cyber Rat Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 What do you fine folk use to enjoy good music? I personally used to be a fan of WinAmp years ago, then started using various other things after version 3.0 was released. I'm currently using AIMP, an excellent program. I tried Foobar, didn't like it that much. Songbird I still have installed, but rarely use it nowadays (takes up too much memory). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) I can see why you like AIMP, it's very winampy. I'm a foobar guy myself. Edited March 22, 2011 by Faiblesse Des Sens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 *boo! hiss!* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I've stuck with WMP for the longest of times. It worked, it was functional, and the more recent versions run pretty well. However I've been using WinAmp for a few months now as my main player. It syncs up with my Android. At first it was just there for syncing, and I stuck with Spotify (which was my main player the past 2 years or so) but a few months back I re-jigged my music library when I wiped my OS. So Made an effort to clean it up, Which Winamp helped in. Theres still a fair few things I'd change on winamp, mostly in how playlists are shown, but it's good and the wi-fi syncing is fantastic. As long as my phone is within the house I can just right click on a song I want and send it to my phone. I've used Songbird in the past too, really liked the Firefox integration, especially for the add-on and skins system. Used to love this alarm add-on you could get for it. But they recently revamped it. and I'm not so keen. It's pretty huge too. I used Songbird because at the time it was the closest I could find to Amarok, a Linux player that I wa always impressed with when using Linux. I've also messed with MediaMonkey which is meant to have strong tagging features but I wasn't too impressed. WinAmp has been pretty good, but Gracenote likes to label my Japanese songs with Japanese characters. :/ So gonna have to tag those with another program some other date (shame WInamp won't let you move from Gracenote, at least from what I can tell). Oh and it's album art service is shit. Foobar I've lightly touched, wasn't for me. edit: I've heard the Zune software is pretty good, with many asking for it to be the default windows player. Oh yeah one thing I still use WMP for and I find to be pretty nifty, the single use previews brought in with Win 7. Just click a song in the file explorer n it plays in a mini version of WMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr W Phallus Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 How come no one uses iTunes? I just use that since my iPod is synced to it and Spotify for anything I don't have on my library. Or youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindo Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 iTunes runs like shit. I use Zune or Foobar depending on my needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I use itunes. I like it. i tried to use winamp, but i thought it waz weird. windows media player sucks ass too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Yeah I'd guess it's cos most of us don't use have iPods. If you don't have iPod you don't need to use iTunes. And it's generally crap and pushing very close into the same actions as malware, so it's not really worth it. And it's pretty fucked up you even have to use it for iPods n iPhones/iPads still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I use media monkey. For the longest time, I used WMP but then it started questioning my music rights and a bunch of my music disappeared from the library. The reason I liked WMP in the first place was because of its good library management and tagging and that's why I settled on Media Monkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Yeah I'd guess it's cos most of us don't use have iPods. If you don't have iPod you don't need to use iTunes. And it's generally crap and pushing very close into the same actions as malware, so it's not really worth it. And it's pretty fucked up you even have to use it for iPods n iPhones/iPads still. Even if you have an ipod you don't need itunes *refers to that one dudes status update* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 From my understanding you need iTunes to activate and update your various iDevices. While it's possible to do things like transfer music and video without iTunes, that function is still tied to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 This is my Foobar 2000 layout, edited as of a minute ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R__ Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 MOC (http://moc.daper.net/) Best music player ever. Once you learn to use it, it's more efficient than any other player... and it runs in a terminal window, so you can have it nice and transparent and borderless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I certainly am going to stop using WMP. I used it to rip several of my CDs and put them on my NAS thingy and non of my devices recognise the meta data. I have the minuutes album show up (which I bought digitally) and everything else turns up under "other" as a gigantic list of individual songs Luckily I didn't rip my entire collection before I realised as I wouldn't have been a happy bunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 How did you rip it? Also what are your "devices"? We've got a NAS and PC,s PS3 n 360's all recognise files fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 MOC (http://moc.daper. net/) Best music player ever. Once you learn to use it, it's more efficient than any other player... and it runs in a terminal window, so you can have it nice and transparent and borderless. That doesn't look efficient at all. It looks like foobar without doing any work (hell, foobar before 1.0 without any work even) Also @ the flying gerbil Use an external ripper like EAC or CDex (which is basically EAC without all the advanced features and easy to use) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Depends on my OS. On Windows, I use WMP to arrange my library, as it puts albums into a top by Album Artist and then Album Name, rather than individual track artists. If I have a soundtrack, I want to be able to find a folder containing the whole of that soundtrack's album. I don't want it individually separated. Worse is when it's the odd song from albums that "feature" an additional artist. Some programs will file that separate, which to me, is bloody stupid. Playing music though is all done by with WinAmp though. On Ubuntu 10.10, I run Guayadeque, which does some features like Visualisations and proper labelling and library management, is easy to scroll through, can find lyrics, last.fm data, store streaming radio and podcasts, and has a "Smart Mode" to select tracks similar to the last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 If I use windows to look at the files/folders all the album, artist, genre guffins show up but Windows Media Centre, my PS3, my 360 and my phone all don't see it - just the filename. It's ripped as WMA in WMP so I could excuse PS3 and phone not working but the 360 and media centre should! When I get around to properly ripping all my CDs I will definitely check it works properly before I carry on. Thanks for the suggestions FDS I'll have a look at those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 The problem is your tagging btw (which is what WMP and iTunes are terrible at... and their rips aren't very good.) That's why I use a program solely for tagging to make sure everything is universally accepted (though I think foobar can do it with the settings I have, I just use a bunch of shortcuts with mp3 tag so it takes like ten seconds total.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Yeah, I dislike the newer WMPs because of how it tags things like compilation albums. Couldn't seem to make it group one artist's song with the rest of theirs like I used to in WMP 9, just puts it all under 'Various Artists'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 WMP does show Artist and Album Artist tags, so you can have the actual artist first, and then Various Artists for the album artist. I prefer that, as I'd rather keep the album together, rather than each track show up in a different band's folders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Hmm, when I get my PC back, I'll have to look into how it sorts it because as far as I'm aware, the main artist list goes by Album Artist. If I could find a way for it to use Artist as the main list instead, that would be handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 WMP does show Artist and Album Artist tags, so you can have the actual artist first, and then Various Artists for the album artist. I prefer that, as I'd rather keep the album together, rather than each track show up in a different band's folders. Yeah, I usually sort by artist and then listen to albums. I don't usually like to listen to individual songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 Unless I'm in the mood for something specific, I usually just random -> all, and skip anything that I don't feel like listening to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jimmeh Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 That takes a lot of skipping for me. I am loving the "Smart Mode" feature of Guayadeque Player, although it does play already popular songs a little too much. Still good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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