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Playing music on PC

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Hi
I have a lot of music on my computer and I like to play it through the computer while I'm doing stuff online etc.
I am wondering if someone can recommend a good player to use to play the music. I want one that is simple to use, i can play through all my tracks on shuffle and i can also make playlists easily.
oh, and preferably one that I can get for free :P
I currently have musicmatch jukebox but i dont like it.
thanks heaps :D

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    winamp all the way
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Winamp, or windows media player?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I use RealPlayer, at least at home. I like it, and it's good for creating playlists, burning CDs etc.

    But to be honest, I haven't really got a clue about that kind of thing :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    www.winamp.com - It really whips the llama's ass
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    winamp all the way for the win, best free program out there for music.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Musicmatch, Win Media Player, iTunes, Real Player - they're all complete shite.

    Get Winamp as everyone else has said. It's by far the fastest, easiest to use and generally best-supported program there is.

    I've been using it for about 6 years now and it's only ever crashed on me twice.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Windows media player
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Windows Media Player.

    WinTramp is good, but it hates surround sound, and I refuse to use any version above 3.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Teh_Gerbil wrote:
    Windows Media Player.

    WinTramp is good, but it hates surround sound, and I refuse to use any version above 3.

    I use version 5, it's absoulty fine and supports 5.1. WMP sucks and spys on it's users.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Windows Media Player sucks. I'd not touch it with a bargepole. Ever.

    If you're running Windows, then as suggested, Winamp is about the best around, in my opinion. For films and so on, give BSPlayer a shot - it's great!

    If you're running *nix, then Beep Media Player is the best there is :).
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    For films, I use Media Player Classic as it plays every single type of file there is pretty much, including .rm files.

    Probably doesn't support surround sound but at least it doesn't have to search for damn codecs every ten minutes.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Teh_Gerbil wrote:
    Windows Media Player.

    WinTramp is good, but it hates surround sound, and I refuse to use any version above 3.


    winamp 5 is pretty much just winamp 2.x but with video support
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    winamp


    and media player classic for films ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks

    Thanks everyone!! :love: I will sort out winamp today and get back to you with my verdict ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i use sonique
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    blaze media pro is alrught
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    blaze media player is ok, not great though.

    Windows media classic is great for video; as someone said no problem with videos. However, if we're talking music, nothing other than windows media player will do; if for no other reason than the amazing toolbar that lets you do all the basic stuff, while while minimized in the taskbar.

    If you want something that is low on system resources, other than windows media classic, foobar is ok, but i've never really accepted it because of the lack of toolbar.

    Winamp is only good for shoutcast.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    http://www.bsplayer.org/
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A Photograph Of Me wrote:
    blaze media player is ok, not great though.

    Windows media classic is great for video; as someone said no problem with videos. However, if we're talking music, nothing other than windows media player will do; if for no other reason than the amazing toolbar that lets you do all the basic stuff, while while minimized in the taskbar.

    If you want something that is low on system resources, other than windows media classic, foobar is ok, but i've never really accepted it because of the lack of toolbar.

    Winamp is only good for shoutcast.

    or you could just get a decent keyboard and control music using that

    MultiMedia-Keyboard.jpg
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    My ZBoard has musical controls, god they are so useful.

    I really love them.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    How can anything with "Microsoft" on it be called "decent"? It's like saying "This book has really good voice acting".
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Zalbor wrote:
    How can anything with "Microsoft" on it be called "decent"? It's like saying "This book has really good voice acting".
    :lol:

    Sorry, you are wrong. This is, the best mouse, EVER: ( I haveo ne, its the best thing MS have mad. Get one now, they REALLY are good.)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    like my belkin mouse

    which is also rather good, and looks pretty much the same
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    MrG wrote:
    like my belkin mouse

    which is also rather good, and looks pretty much the same

    But does it scroll Sideways!!!?!!? :shocking: :o :thumb:

    It was a great novelty I rarley use, that function.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Itunes. Ive never had any reason to complain about it.

    I use VLC media player for films and movies.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    the keyboard functions are ok, but most of the time i'm reading the screen and not using the keyboard so i find the controls in the taskbar are best!

    And the keyboard controls work with WMP anyway.
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