music Best Musicplayer for PC?

[Outkin 35]

What do you think the best music player is? I'm half looking for a new one, half wanting to start a conversation. Also if you feel like it, what do you think are the worst players?

[CornBreadGang 513]

On PC, I'd have to recommend either Windows Media Player or iTunes. Media Player is pretty reliable, and works with CD's better. So I'd go with Media Player. Hope this helps!

[Kulstor 254]

I use Winamp on my desktop.  I think it takes less system resources then some other programs do.  I use it for all my desktop mp3 listening, music, podcasts, ect.

[Moonlight 7,279]

I would probably say my personal favorite is iTunes, everything's organized by artist, genre, album, and a bunch of other areas. I think it's rather great. Windows Media Player is second to me. 

 

Spotify is average. If you have Premium, then it's great, if not...then it's meh.

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

The best music players differ on what you want but here is a list of music players that are THE best of the best:

 

VLC

Foobar2000

iTunes

 

Winamp sucks massive. massive phallus and media player is just terrible for various formats.

 

FLAC + VLC MASTER RACE <3

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

I use iTunes for the sake of keeping everything nice and tidy, and for syncing my iPod. I also like how iTunes automatically gives you the artwork for an album, although it doesn't work all the time.

[CaptainCanti 5]

Windows Media Player is easily the best, considering it can be sync to any device. But I'd recommend Spotify if you're not just looking for something to sync your music on.

 

I'd say iTunes is the worst, in terms of the fact that it can only play MP3 files.

[Trickiert 150]

I use Winamp and have done for years. I don't get why people hate it tbh it's not that confusing to use.

 

Plus it supports FLAC playback which lots of music players don't generally support.

[Sir Xarthas VI 470]

Well there are a majority of media players for PC. iTunes is ok for .mp3's and .mp4's, but that's about it. Windows Media Players is ok, but I really don't like how it's so basic. I personally prefer and recommend using VLC Media Player. I like how you can customize just about anything and you can set the Equalizer to any settings you want (also has presets).

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

I'd say iTunes is the worst, in terms of the fact that it can only play MP3 files.

 

WRONG WRONG WRONG. Stop bashing on iTunes for it's compatibility when the files it's compatible with are the ones that most fucking people use. (This isn't just directed at the person I quoted, there's other people as well who this is aimed at <3)

 

iTunes can play these popular formats:

 

AIFF

WAV

MP3

MP4

 

And others found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ta44475

 

LEARN 2 USE GOOGLE BEFORE YOU BASH ON THINGS.

[CaptainCanti 5]

WRONG WRONG WRONG. Stop bashing on iTunes for it's compatibility when the files it's compatible with are the ones that most fucking people use. (This isn't just directed at the person I quoted, there's other people as well who this is aimed at <3)

 

iTunes can play these popular formats:

 

AIFF

WAV

MP3

MP4

 

And others found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ta44475

 

LEARN 2 USE GOOGLE BEFORE YOU BASH ON THINGS.

That's still only nine formats, compared to how many Windows Media Player supports. If you're using a Mac, iTunes is great. But beyond that, it aint anything.

 

Come at me brah.

Edited September 2, 2013 by CaptainCanti

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

For the end user, it's not gonna make a difference. Tell me what services use a format other than those nine apart from FLAC?

 

Also, iTunes can convert a handful of formats into AAC for listening to.

[Kulstor 254]

Not sure why there is the hate for certain programs and going at each other some do.  I'd suggest make a list of some of the ones suggested here.  Try out some, and you may find over time you prefer this or that program.    Trying out some, say for a few days or so each .

[Passion 3,478]

Foobar2000, definitely. I love this program, it's easy to handle, it's crystal clear, never had any compatibility issues with it.

 

I would recommend it to anyone.

[Scootalove 10,684]

I use iTunes, since it has a lot of songs that I like and it took me a long time to find the songs on other music player programs.

[Soundgarden 2,757]

I use Winamp. I don't even understand why people complain about it being difficult to use. These people probably just looked at the interface for five seconds and just gave up

 

Anyways, it easily sorts all your shit where it belongs and it supports FLAC

[NightOwl 911]

I'm using Spotify as my main music player at the moment. I quite like it It's pretty cheap as well compared to iTunes and you get access to millions of songs. 

[LittleRawr 679]

I use iTunes, and it's good enough for me c:

 

It's also much easier to put stuff on my iPod through it, and I don't want to find out how it would be without iTunes.

[Dusknight Haze 161]

I use three. 

 

First and foremost, iTunes is the obvious one if you own any I-devices, which I (sadly) do. It is pretty neat for organization but the lack of Cover Flow in the updates of the last few months literally made me stop using it except to sync.

 

Secondly, when I'm just playing a few files, or am queueing up a temporary playlist, I just use VLC since it has the easiest playlist settings and plays every single file format you would ever use in a normal setting.

 

When I want everything organized and tagged but outside of the freaking terribly confining options of iTunes, I use JRiver Media. It's not free (if you don't want to... uhh.... cough... torr*nt like I do. Or just use a free trial, I guess) but it has all the nice tagging and sorting options of iTunes (and its tags are permanent, unlike iTunes), plays all the major file formats like VLC, and looks pretty nice and uses few resources to boot. If you're willing to pay for it or break the "law" then I highly recommend it.

 

I once used winamp, and it's pretty useful in terms of extracting music from an i-device if for some reason you need to (like a broken hard drive or syncing the same stuff on a different computer), but otherwise it has similar limitations, few tagging and sorting options, a not-so-friendly UI, and is unusually ugly (at least when I used it. It probably has changed since.).

[Apocalyptic_Unicorn 240]

I use iTunes. I always have, and I've gotten used to it. I guess that's one of the main things, as well as needing it for use with my iPhone. I love how organised it is, and I like the simple design. Also, I'm kinda biased towards Apple. 

I've used Windows Media Player and Winamp in the past, and meh, they didn't do it for me. 

Edited September 2, 2013 by Apocalyptic_Unicorn

[TheTEChguy27 273]

Windows Media Player gets the job done for the most part, but can get clogged up if you have a ton of music.

 

VLC's a great program for any sort of media.

 

Foobar2000's also very good, and it lets you convert into a variety of sound files.

 

Winamp's alright, I just never got into it that much.

 

iTunes works fine, but it organizes things a bit oddly sometimes and has to convert .wma files into its own format for usage.

 

All in all, try out a few of the programs (they're all free) and stick with whichever one you prefer! 

 

Oh, and if you ever want to edit sound files, Audacity works swimmingly.