[CAT] Scratching Post

I'm not too crazy about WMP. iTunes is getting old. Winamp crashes on me every time I try to add my mp3s to its library. What else is there? Anything good?

I like my Creative Media player. All the software that came with my fatality is pretty cool.

Foobar is a light efficient media player. It is very open to customization. But it isn't user friendly at all. It is best to get it working, then leave it be. I try it every couple months but get frustrated. Yet a buddy of mine uses it flawlessly...but refuses to help me out. elitist bullshit.


Anyways, i too am sick of itunes/wmp/winamp. Any alternative would be worth checking out.

Like Rip said, the Creative stuff is ok. all on free download I guess.

DivX web player (for DiVX files only though). Beats youtube and anything similar by miles in terms of speed and quality.

Koz wrote:Foobar is a light efficient media player. It is very open to customization. But it isn't user friendly at all. It is best to get it working, then leave it be. I try it every couple months but get frustrated. Yet a buddy of mine uses it flawlessly...but refuses to help me out. elitist bullshit.


Anyways, i too am sick of itunes/wmp/winamp. Any alternative would be worth checking out.

I actually use Foobar to convert one format (Ogg, WMA, etc) to mp3 for my car player.

VLC Media Player for MOV files.

Media Player Classic for all others.

Also, install Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative, so you don't have to mess with either companies shitty software, but play both files just fine.

I've been using MediaMonkey. It runs well, and was a great help in tagging and organizing my collection. There is a free version as well as a paid and it actually works well enough that I am considering getting the additional functionality of the paid version.

Speaking of tagging, I hate doing that shit by hand but how accurate are the ones that will in data for you? When I let an old version of WMP do that it filled in the cd data with the info from a later special edition of the disc I had, which had a different track listing. Right now I have a lot of stuff and a bunch of it is obscure and/or out-of-print crap from bygone eras. Do you have any idea what it takes to do 240GB of mp3 files manually?

I found that MediaMonkey depended a lot on the information that you already had in the tag to begin with. If it just had the artist, it would list all the albums by that artist that Amazon has in their DB and you could manually choose the album and have it autotag each track in the album with the appropriate information, including the album art if you want it.

Some of the more obscure stuff of mine wasn't in the database and so I had to input what I knew and google the rest. It took a week for me to do my ~50gb working a few hours every night. I'm sure that there are still problems with my stuff but the basics are correct. I'm still going through and adding album art and that sort of stuff when I have the time.

For tagging, you might also try MusicBrainz Picard or one of their other tools.

I'm trying Creative MediaSource. For some reason, it doesn't have the nifty little feature that iTunes have that lets you specify multiple CDs for one album, like a live CD. Too bad...

You've got to give it to iTunes, it is organized nice and clean... if only it supported other players / wma format... ** sigh **

For video files, i have to echo the sentiment of others with VLC. I use it for most video files, plus it plays DVDs well too. Best video player i've found.

And i do like itunes too...but it seems like such a memory hog.

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Just got a 4 gigs iPod from my sister (weird exchange with my Zen Stone, plus 40€, plus some overdue Christmas/birthday gifts). Love it, but I'm pissed off that there's no way with iTunes to transfer stuff from my iPod to a PC. Not that I need to really, I wouldn't add stuff to my library this way, but on principle it pisses me off - one thing I miss from my Zen Stone was it simplicity: make folders and dump your mp3s in there! Plus I hear iTunes is a memory hog. So I wonder what a good alternative would be: foobar? Sharepod? I would like to keep the podcasts function, and be able to transfer videos eventually. What formats does the iPod support? Is it iTunes doing the conversion?

The iPod sound better than the Zen Stone it seems like...

Mediaplayer classic.
- No Install
- Eats everything, even DVD's.
- Free
- Easy
- 1 Megabyte.

Google this one, cannot upload here. .Exe is not allowed.

Slight addon to Vadar. Search for Media Player Classic Homecinema. The origonal developer of MPC stopped working on it in 2006, and while it's still good, there are a few of the newer formats that it seems to have trouble with.

MPC Homecinema is the origonal sourcecode with some enhancements (like 64-bit extensions) added by fans of the origonal.