Hey, all. I thought that I would try and do an updated poll regarding the most popular/preferred media player. But first, would you like to chime in which players should be on the list?

Currently:

foobar2000
helium music manager
iTunes
J. River Media Center
MediaMonkey
Winamp Media Player
Windows Media Player

Anything else?

I’ll put out a poll with the top picks in about a week. Or is this a dumb idea?

Of course I'll put the "poll" thread in the proper forum once I get a good list of preferred players...

You might want to add RealPlayer and the Zune software to the list. Either that or combine the Zune software with Windows Media Player. I know of a few people (not here) that use RealPlayer and a couple other people that rely on the Zune software for everything.

Definitely add VLC. It would probably rank fairly high in usage in a forum like this.

You might want to have one poll for Audio Media Players and another for Video Media Players. Just a suggestion.

There is this Yahoo! Music Jukebox. I used to try it when it first came out but I've never seen anybody use it nowadays. It's kind of like RealPlayer, you know, noboby uses but it's there...

How about Media Player Classic? I'm pretty sure that many people use MPC. Thugh, it does not have a function of media manager like what are in your list.

Might want to add Amarok, MP3Toys, Songbird and The Godfather..

Lots use musikCube. I would myself if it supported CUE sheets and had customizable library displays.

I don't know if you want to include this list that was just started as well.

Audio - Winamp
Video - Zoom Player

Audio - Winamp
Video - Winamp with the VID4WA and ffdshow plug-ins

VID4WA allows video to be directed in fullscreen to either display on a dual-monitor system, and ffdshow allows for custom post-processing filters for image enhancement of various formats of digital video including MPEG-4.

Cheers, Slipstreem.

Also add MPD, Quod Libet

Audio player:
Native Instruments BeatPort SYNC.

Juha

Oh yeah-

Audio - Foobar2000
Video - VLC

Media Player Classic comes shipped with the K-Lite Codec Packs, so it's bound to have some popularity. It's a decent video player, but a lousy audio player.

You might want to add MPC-Homecinema onto the list too. It takes over where the development of the old Media Player Classic stopped and has native support for Video-DVD, H.264 and VC1 as well as supporting plug-ins such as ffdshow for custom post-processing image enhancement. Nothing else I've tried even comes close to this for playing back DVDs on my 60" projection screen.

Cheers, Slipstreem.

Audio - foobar
Video - VLC

Both - Vista Media Center for the TV connected to PCHC.

I've gone off VLC lately, in terms of video players I tend to either use MPC Home Cinema or SMPlayer, the best MPlayer frontend in my opinion.

video on win, add mpui (mplayer) and smplayer (also mplayer)

Foobar.

(I'm also using winamp, but only for ml_ipod).

VLC for video only.

I suggest seperating audio and video.

I use for
audio: foobar2000
and video: GOM player

Audio: Winamp (with DFX, at least)
Video: MPC-HC with ffdshow and (randomly) KMPlayer...

Audio: SqueezeCenter

Audio : fb2k
Video : MPC-HC

fb2k : geeky but effective
MPC-HC : because it works (coupled with CCCP)

I would definitely include Amarok, as has already been mentioned, and also possibly XMMS2, and MPlayer, which I use quite a bit nowadays.

audio - foobar
video - VLC

audio: fb2k
video: ffdshow tryouts + mplayerc

And i like using musikcube sometimes.

on windows:

iriver plus 3
- this has quickly become my player of choice since the last upgrade. it can organize my download folder of mp3's into albums. Very cool.

realplayer
- realplayer has gotten way better since their last upgrade, too. Used to be a pig, but the real people have certainly made many improvements.

Audio: WMP 11 & foobar

Video: VLC, Adobe Media Player and GOM Player (rarely)

Oh, and please do NOT lump WMP and Zune player together, they are NOT the same program.

iTunes (for management and play back) + Foobar (transcoding when necessary.)

Been using the standard wmp and itunes for audio. Curious: Does anyone recommend a media player that can handle very large music collections? I'm talking about indexing over 1TB.

Video - VLC | Media Player Classic
Audio - Foobar

Audio: JetAudio
Video: GOM Player, KMPlayer

I can only second the idea to separate audio players from video players. My choices are:

audio: Foobar2k
video: Media Player Classic 6.9.4.1 (an 'unofficial' branch of MPC, the other one is MPC Home Cinema which is used on our K7 (2GHz T'bred) rig because it plays 720p videos fairly well there while 'vanilla' MPC with ffdshow can't really do it)

For audio, my favourite is mpd, a lot more popular than XMMS2 I'd have thought. Also, Amarok should certainly be on the list

As has been said Amarok should really be on this list. Most of the time I use plain ol' XMMS.

Edit: I am kinda curious about how you guys are using MPD or XMMS2. Do you have need of connecting a remote client to your player backend (or whatever it's called) at home or something?

Audio: XMPlay
Video (maybe also Audio, i don’t use these): PowerDVD, Zoom Player, BSplayer

I use Media Player Classic for video and foobar2000 for audio.

Hi All,

My pref is SOUNDBASE.

Does it all and looks nice and clean!
Soundbase website
Regards,
Eric

xmms + kaffeine (debian)

foobar2000—audio
KMPlayer—video

Audio: Foobar & The KMPlayer
Video: The KMPlayer
DVD: PowerDVD / WMP 11 with Nvidia Purevideo Decoder

I manage 1+TB of mixed (mostly) mp3/flac with Mediamonkey 3. I use other tools as well, but MM3 manages the library as a whole.

Library: Mediamonkey 3
Ripping: dbpoweramp r12/r13(beta) reference
Tagging: musicbrainz picard
Misc utils: foobar
Occasional playlist/party mix generation: MusicIP Mixer

Audio: Winamp (as service with FireDaemon and netjukebox as front-end)
Video: Winamp, MPlayer, VLC

Touch Screen compatible media players?

Hi Guys, I think the Sooloos is a sexy piece of hardware / software but way too expensive, so I am building my own.

Origen (who make killer HTPC cases) have just released a super sexy touch screen http://www.origenae.com/en/panel_t12.htm so thats the hardware sorted.


But, media players that work with touch screens seem to be limited, like Vista Media Center and I dont know what else, the sooloos software interface rocks, I would just like to find something as good to for cover art browsing, and playing, MCE dosnt look so good. All other tasks tagging etc can be handled by other apps, so I dont really care about advanced features that can be handled off board?

Oh, and another question, so far I have kept my music collection in single flac/cue files, in the expectation that some "killer" single file acheive/media player combination would come along (sorry foobar just doesnt do it for my project) and after 2 years, I have lost faith. Anyway, is there any reason to keep the single file archieve versions of my flac files? Splitting them with medievil cue splitter still gives me a valid cue file at the end of the process. I am talking about 2000 albums, so I hope this will be last best storage format I will have to contend with in a very long time.

Thanks

Winamp can play FLAC and cue files after you install those plugins.

Running 2.5 TB FLAC in Helium for management and AlbumPlayer for playback.
Using AlbumPlayer in touch screen mode on HP TouchSmart. Great interface, ASIO support.
Also use JRiver -more complex than AlbumPlayer - a suite of tools rather than a great jukebox player.
Use Foobar 2000 for testing USB interfaces and DACs - small, fast, simple and clean.

foobar2000 for audio
mpc and cccp for video

Foobar2000 for all things audio.