So that's gonna be very interesting...
I sadly didn't have have space to include some other famous players I know of, just check the last option if you use one of them.
regards,
Digga

I use iTunes, MacAmp Lite X, Audion, and XMMS.
Guess though you're just interested in PC progs.

WinAmp2 because of MExp Plug-in and Adapt-X plug-in.

Embrace for impact! This thread will soon turn into fb2k mania heaven.

I don't know what Windows Media Player Classic is.
There is Windows Media Player on one side. One the other side there is Media Player Classic.
And Media Player Classic has nothing to do with Windows. It is developped by Gabest. The only common point with Windows is that it really looks like Windows Media Player 7. That's all. But, Media Player Classic is just much better.

BTW, I use both fb2k for audio files and Media Player Classic for video files, but had to vote only once.

Yes, that's right, maybe I didn't made the question clear enough... Sorry.
As Windos-user seem to be the majority here, I found that quite fitting

I use J.River Media Center 9 www.jrmediacenter.com

Your are right about that, my mistake.

I am biased for "The Core Media Player" but still use WA2 and MPC for other things.

I use 1by1, it uses less resources than foobar2k for me.

Yeah it's interesting to see how many people have changed preferences since last month.


Well, it brings a little variaty to usual pool at least.

We have draw btw. Time to place bets.

QCD

DBpowerAmp and QCD also

You forgot Coolplayer.

I use xmms

Xmms when Wine refuses to obey.

I'm using foobar2000, but somebody could say that my player is a rare hybrid of Winamp 2, Windows Media (6.4, of course) and foobar2000.

Perhaps there should be separate polls for music players and video players, because there's so many players around ..

I use XMPlay for music and Bsplayer for video.

A poll for audio player was already made last month:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=10369
Still, there were too many players to mention them all.

A poll for video players could be created @Off-Topic (or @Doom9), why not?

I'm the only one so far who voted for Windows Media Player...I'm not sure how to feel about that, like a standout or like a leper.

Anyway, I use it and dBpowerAMP for audio and Intervideo WinDVD Platinum for video (only because I get an ugly interference line down the right side of the window when viewing a DVD in WMP).

I've used WMP for a long time because it's easy. I originally let it do everything for me: rip, encode and manage. Now, I don't use it for ripping or encoding at all, but I still use it to manage. I know there are probably better tools out there, though. As a player, dBpowerAMP has more flexibility IMO, with more available plug-ins, so I'm using it more and more often. But I still prefer WMP's playlist management, as long as "automatic media info updating" is turned off to prevent it from moving my music around.

I'd really like to figure out how to use FB2K since everyone seems to rave about it, but it just seems really cryptic to me. It seems like FB2K is to digital audio players what UNIX is to operating systems...very complex but very powerful. I'll keep trying at it...

Xmms for audio, and mplayer for video. My Windows using friends are jealous of mplayer because it plays more formats than anything else.

I am most definitely in the foobar2k camp - have tried many other players out there in the past few years and foobar has the best balance of nice GUI and functionality for me. (probably about what I posted in the last thread on this topic)

I use XMMS for the currently rare moments that I have linux up - I only have one monitor for both my win crash box and *nix system and the win box is normally using it recently.

foobar2000 because I can configure every detail to my taste, and it has no will of it's own to make strange things happen.

Coolplayer is horrible. Thank god for yours.

I'm using Winamp2 for audio and Media Player Classic for video.

winamp 2. Still great for me.

Windows Media Player for audio and Zoomplayer for video. Winamp2 only for the few MPC's I have. I hardly ever listen to MP3's or other lossy codecs anymore. Huge modern hard disks made lossy codecs obsolete for me. But they surely make sense in other contexts and for other people of course...

Should try Foobar...

Winamp 2.95 with Album List 1.42.

If Foobar could do what winamp Albumlist does (can it???) then I'd probably use it. But on my system there are no real advantages in using Foobar. Winamp does all I need and it looks much prettier.

.dd.

I am using Winamp since version 1.45 and I still like it a lot.

Anyway, I saw people asking about the difference between Windows Media Player and Windows Media Player Classic: Windows Media Player is the program "wmplayer.exe", while Windows Media Player Classic is "mplayer2.exe".

from afterdawn.com:

I think there is no more confusion now. We have:
- Media Player Classic (homepage: http://gabest.org/ )
- Windows Media Player (the program "wmplayer.exe")
- "mplayer2.exe" which is the old Windows Media Player v6.4 (but, why call it "classic"?).

Haha, how about Graphedit?

Media Player Classic (the one by Gabest) for Video and foobar2000 for audio. It's that simple. Both currently represent state-of-the-art technology, have a rather minimal approach and their developers support/contribute to other projects as well..

dev0

K-Jofol anyone ? Sonique 2 ? Winamp v1.x ? soundrec32.exe ?
Oh boy, I think I'll start the poll next month...

RadLight 4 alpha 2

What's up with ZINF, XMMS or ALSA-player? Not everybody is using Win32 environments...

Nope, it looks like Windows Media Player 6.x.

I use Winamp 2.81c for audio and Media Player Classic for videos.

I also use XBMP as seen on www.xboxmediaplayer.de

Yes, it can.

gosh, I didn't think that such a huge number of ppl use foobar2k so far, rather than winamp. I guess that speaks for itself... (in case some guys didn't register a few times, just to make the foobar line grow... )
I'm kind of glad to see though that nobody use sonique. not that this would be bad in any way, I just don't like it much.

Hehe, yes, sure, but maybe you must start the same topic in the Winamp forums and then compare again...

And about the GUIs... if you want, there isn't a difference:
foobarlooks

maybe there should be some new disclaimer included in the registration-proces here at HA:
something like, 'yes, I fully agree with the fact, that god first created foobar2k, then the other stuff...'
but you are prob. right about the winamp forum... *mhm, what make me think that... cause it's a forum for winamp? yes, makes sence*
though I have to say, I simply winamp!

Can you tell me how to do it then ...???

I have albums saved as Genre/Artist/Album/track.mp3 What I want is to be able to list albums based on their directory hierarchy, and *NOT* based on their tags. Winamp albumlist does this easily. So how can you do it in Foobar?

[this isn't the first time I've posted this question, and I'm not the only person to ask it]

.dd.

Something like this:should do the trick (in albumlist settings / tree hierarchy).

Thanks zZzZzZz - it did the trick perfectly!
I wish the Foobar docs were a bit easier to get and a bit more newbie friendly. not being a programmer it wan't too easy to work this out for myself.

Now I'm a foobar convert!

Winamp 2.81 for audio
Windows Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) for videos

This is exactly why I love FB2K so much: it's incredibly flexible, but you have to take your time playing around with it. The album list is a good example: after experimenting with it for a while, I found out that I no longer need any other external media organizer.

Another reason why I love FB2K is the universal and transparent tagging and replay (album!) gain support for all formats (MP3,MPC,OGG,FLAC,APE,...).

Incredible work by Peter.

Winamp 5.0 beta 2.

I'm a Foobar2k converted and use it on a daily basis. I enjoy the flexibility of its playlist, replay gain and the kernel streaming.

I still use Winamp3 sometimes for its Media Library, I do like this tool (despite some bugs...) and it is the only one working propely for *.ape files (my format of choice) thanks to Case plugin.

i use fb2k and since i use the formatting string made by upnorth (http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/strings.php?f=40), no other programm can beat it (at least for me)

Now that's one project which could do with a foobar core port...

AFAIK they use MPlayer; one of the fastest and most user-unfriendly players in the world.