I just use Media Player. It does what I want/need it to do so I've never felt a need to switch. I did try iTunes at one point just because, but I hated ir and doubt I'd ever even try it again.
What music player are you using and why?
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I use VLC media player. Partly because I'm running Xubuntu on this thing, partly because I prefer it to others I have tried so far.
I ended up having a love/hate relationship with iTunes. It loved to piss me off and I hated it. Never using that program again.
I ended up having a love/hate relationship with iTunes. It loved to piss me off and I hated it. Never using that program again.
Winamp, it really kicks the lamas ass.
Mostly because it's just simple and it sounds good. iTunes being the pile of shit it is decided to randomly organize my music when I was out one day, dumping a sizable portion of my music into UNKNOWN ARTIST folders. Basically I had to re-get my entire library.
Mostly because it's just simple and it sounds good. iTunes being the pile of shit it is decided to randomly organize my music when I was out one day, dumping a sizable portion of my music into UNKNOWN ARTIST folders. Basically I had to re-get my entire library.
I use iTunes on Windows to manage my iPod. That's one out of two reasons I have to keep Windows around. Other than that, I stick to Rhythmbox/Amarok on Ubuntu. I immensely prefer Amarok over Rhythmbox, but Rhythmbox is better if I'm running a Live CD/USB as I only need to install the codecs and then I'm ready to go, unlike Amarok, which I have to configure to my liking before using as I cannot use Amarok right after installing (too many confusing defaults).
I use iTunes. I keep hearing about how much better other music players are, and I'm usually not even a fan of Apple, but honestly all the other music players I've tried have just been confusing, unintuitive messes, so unless I'm missing a really good one I'll stick with iTunes.
Foobar2k. Mainly because it's light, quality, and customizable. I also love being able to literally drag songs from the explorer into my library.
I moved from Winamp to iTunes quite a few years ago, though I can't say I haven't looked back. From what I can tell Winamp is just as capable of organizing music and playlists as iTunes currently is (which is to say, a lot more capable than it was when I used it - it used to be a total clusterfuck). iTunes is nice when it works, but a piece of ass when it doesn't (people say Apple products are more stable, I say they just don't give any error feedback when they fuck up). And the constant update notifications are annoying as fuck, especially when last I checked the auto updater is complete ass (update from 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 you say? how about fuck you redownload and reinstall the entire thing because dicks). It probably isn't a big deal for one computer, but when you need to have the same version on about 5 computers for everything to stay working it's a chore to update them all.
I'd probably make the switch back if I didn't have a consolidated, networked library of music and playlists that I'm not sure will easily transfer over, as well as the issue of other people freaking out and being completely unable to adapt to a slight layout change. I'll have to look into whether it can import iTunes libraries and has good support for iDevice sync. Last I checked, Winamp really whips the llama's ass...that's something you just don't get with iTunes.
edit: Unfortunately Winamp appears to still have a fairly crap UI. I love all the features but if it's this hard to use then balls to it for now. Maybe in another 5 years.
I'd probably make the switch back if I didn't have a consolidated, networked library of music and playlists that I'm not sure will easily transfer over, as well as the issue of other people freaking out and being completely unable to adapt to a slight layout change. I'll have to look into whether it can import iTunes libraries and has good support for iDevice sync. Last I checked, Winamp really whips the llama's ass...that's something you just don't get with iTunes.
edit: Unfortunately Winamp appears to still have a fairly crap UI. I love all the features but if it's this hard to use then balls to it for now. Maybe in another 5 years.
iTunes in conjunction with Sharepod. Sharepod just makes it so much easier to get everything in one place. So far iTunes hasn't majorly fucked up at all, apart from occasionally not being able to find the art for stuff, so I'll stick with it for the foreseeable future.
I recently got rid of my ipod and went in search of a new Media player.
After trying winamp; Foobar and a few others I found Musicbee and it is bloody fantastic!
It is fairly customizable and the little things like how you can skip, pause or favorite a track without opening the program is really cool.
I'm really content with it.
After trying winamp; Foobar and a few others I found Musicbee and it is bloody fantastic!
It is fairly customizable and the little things like how you can skip, pause or favorite a track without opening the program is really cool.
I'm really content with it.
Itunes and Youtube.
And when I'm on the go, I use a shuffle. Because if theres one thing a shuffle knows how to do is play music and thats it. No apps, or facebook, or constant recharge, or touch screen, just. music.
And when I'm on the go, I use a shuffle. Because if theres one thing a shuffle knows how to do is play music and thats it. No apps, or facebook, or constant recharge, or touch screen, just. music.
The Zune software, because I'm just that much of a hipster it's legitimately the best piece of music software I've ever used. And the fact that they don't officially support it anymore means there's not a bunch of bullshit updates breaking stuff every few months.
Yeah, Foobar is awesome like that. It can be minimalistic with only a list or you can make it look very sweet.DazZ. said:
I also use Spotify if I want to listen to music I don't own. It's a good service, but I don't use it enough to pay for it so I am stuck with limited time and annoying advertisement. It's not really a big deal, I do get to listen to music for free.