Good, free media players

[Qwerty Dvorak]

I need them

[chimx]

winamp.com

[Black Dagger]

What do you mean by media players? Like a program that will play any type of media file? Videos? Sound files? Something with lots of features or that can play lots of different things?

For video, i think, a VLC player would be a good idea,

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It can play the vast majority of video formats from my experience.

[Blue Collar Bohemian]

VCL for Video.

Winamp for Audio.


There are no other options.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Yeah I mean most media files anyway, although the primary focus would be on music... Kind of like Windows Media Player, it's just that I heard there are better ones out there.

Thanks you guys!

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

iTunes

[Blue Collar Bohemian]

Originally posted by Dr. [email protected] 6 2006, 02:01 PM
iTunes
False?

[which doctor]

http://songbirdnest.com/

It's open-source. It has a lot of cool features like a web browser built into the music player. It can automatically scan your hard drive for all the music files. I use it all the time and it's really neat. Get it!

[BreadBros]

I use WinAmp/VLC, although I use iTunes to listen to internet radio. That Songbird thing looks cool though, may give that a try...

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

Just set up Songbird, looks neat but has some minor defaults. It seems to be a beta though, so that should be fixed fairly soon.

[Zero]

Ew

Ew Ew Ew EWW!

I used to do tech in the DJ scene, and theres only one music player worth it. Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org) (click it.)


* Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
* Full unicode support.
* Advanced tagging capabilities.
* Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats).
* ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.


Beat that noobs. :P

[ComradeRed]

Assuming you are using windoze (then you are dead to me).

For mp3s and music in general FooBar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) is the best.

For videos, etc. Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) is best.

That's the only media I can think of!

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

I was wondering when someone was gonna come up with foobar... I don't like its interface.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by [email protected] 6 2006, 07:24 PM
Just set up Songbird, looks neat but has some minor defaults. It seems to be a beta though, so that should be fixed fairly soon.
Yeah, it's still in 0.20 so there are a few bugs and not all the features are fully functional yet. When Songbird 1.0 comes out it will pwn all the competition.

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

Sure looks like it, it has lots of potential.