Which media player do you use?

[Fangface74]

Winamp for music (& iPod) for music

Media Player classic (plus latest codec pack) for video

 

[Nomad]

Ultraplayer for audio, VLC for video.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I use iTunes for my music. However for movies I use VLC or Media Player Classic

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

VLC player, it plays pretty much everything.

What does VLC stand for? My computer uses WMP and Quicktime (I hate thee Quicktime!) at the mo.

VLC: Video Lan Converter.

 

[naftali1]

VLC player, it plays pretty much everything.

This one. It'll play any type of video or audio file out there.

 

[Vek]

Really, here's all the supported features and formats of VLC by OS/platform. It's GNU/GPL, so it's free, and it works on pretty much any OS.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

Thank you - that'll make a fine open-source alternative to my current media players for Windows.

Quite welcome. I've been using VLC for a few years now; I rip my music into .wav format, and atthe time I found VLC, Windows Media didn't support .wav (I think WMP 9 it was). Now I use .flac and .wav for all music, and VLC handles both.

 

[wahi]

i dunno about itunes on mac software. but the ported binary for vista really sucks. i mean itunes was quite on xp, but on vista it constantly ctded on me ):

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Itunes for music and Windows Media Player just to network my media to my consoles.

 

[Sycker]

iTunes because i'm lazy and like the machine to do everything for me.

 

[BmC]

Amarok: Because noone else does

 

[ProfessorLayton]

iTunes and I have an iPod video. I use it mainly for movies.

 

[wahi]

Amarok: Because noone else does

amarok has a very high resource usage. maybe its better on kde, but i prefer gnome. have u tried using mpd with sonata/pympd/ncmpcpp ???

 

[Droshi]

I have fluctuated a lot, but after getting Vista and seeing Windows Media Player, I like it the most now. The way it handles the Library is great, it's compatible with syncing for my Walkman (amazingly fluent), and I can minimize it to my Taskbar (which actually works properly and doesn't stretch the bar out anymore).

I also still occasionally use Winamp for music, iTunes ONLY for when I update my iPod for the car, and Media Player Classic for DVD's and most videos. I used to use VLC but I think I prefer MPC now.

 

[wahi]

Amarok: Because noone else does

amarok has a very high resource usage. maybe its better on kde, but i prefer gnome. have u tried using mpd with sonata/pympd/ncmpcpp ???

I haven't had any problems regarding Amarok on my laptop, a 1.6GHz Pentium M with 512MB of RAM, running Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.

wat can i say really, admittedly its not very high. i mean its not like 50% or something. but i get sentimental as soon as my resource usage goes above 10% so i stick woth mpd
and also i think amarok2 is quite neat but imo u really need kde for amarok, but i run gnome so

 

[Samurai Goomba]

WMP. I like the interface, although the most recent versions suck a lot more than the old ones. I miss the option to play every MPEG on the computer, regardless of playlist or filing arrangement.

 

[Insomniac55]

I use WMP for the most part, for a few reasons:

1. It was the only media player I had before iTunes was installed.
2. It does everything I need it to, and works with the special keys at the top of my keyboard for media (itunes only works with these when it is in front of other windows, however WMP works perfectly even when in-game TF2, allowing me to change songs etc without alt-tabbing)
3. It looks decent, and has an interface I can navigate without much difficulty.


Although I must admit, the new visualizer for iTunes 8 is very, very awesome looking...

So for me I guess it boils down to:

iTunes if I feel like watching a cool visualization.

WMP for everything else.