Software Recommendations

SleepyHe4d · Mar 2, 2011

Haarg said:
It looks like the rest of your operating system. What's so special about a music player that it needs to look like a physical stereo system and have custom skins?

Foobar looks awesome. DarkEmperor must be one of those people who doesn't know how computers work.

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[GU]elmur_fud · Mar 2, 2011

I use media player classic to play everything. To make that happen I installed the klite mega codec pack.

I used to use winamp before they sold out to AOL.

Bi()ha2arD · Mar 2, 2011

Haarg said:
foobar2000 used to have a terrible UI, but that's all been pretty much fixed. It will support every format you ever care about, and all it tries to do is play music.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a good alternative to VLC, although you will need codecs as well. ffdshow will take care of most of that, or you could use a codec pack like CCCP.

Pretty much what I was gonna say aswell.

www.xnview.org is great for viewing pictures. Supports pretty much every format you can throw at it.

Vitamin-Carrot · Mar 2, 2011

I use WMP for musics and VLC for everything else

i only use the noscript, adblock plus and download helper plugins for firefox

BITE_ME · Mar 2, 2011

I use note pad for every thing.
Then I convert the data in my brain.

SkaarjMaster · Mar 21, 2014

foobar2000 and AIMP3 ? audio/video files

OK, so WinAmp is still my music player of choice and even a few video files. When I can't use WinAmp (or would rather try WMP), then WMP plays the usual windows files (wma, etc.), then I go to VLC for just about everything else. DivX files and 4 more are usually played with DivX but very rarely do I do that. I use KM player for a few video formats whenever the need pops up.

I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on the latest Foobar2000 program and AIMP3 (http://www.aimp2.us/aimp3-download.php). Do these players play certain files better than the others? Would it be worth it to install these with all the others I have installed so far? My WinXP computer is set and not adding anything to it for now and I do have Foobar on it but don't use it that much. I was wondering for my Win8.1 laptop. Also, I bumped this instead of starting a new one because there is a lot of interesting posts in here for my questions. Thank you.

Al · Mar 21, 2014

I used foobar for music and Media Player Classic (K-Lite Codec Pack) for video. No need for anything else.

SkaarjMaster · Mar 21, 2014

Any advantages to foobar over winamp?

Bi()ha2arD · Mar 21, 2014

It can play back flac out of the box.

SkaarjMaster · Mar 21, 2014

OK, so I'll install foobar2000. What about AIMP3? Any good reason to install this one?

cUnNiNg_StUnTs · Mar 22, 2014

I was on Foobar for a long time but recently switched to Music Bee because I like the album art and image show that it does.

cUnNiNg_StUnTs · Mar 22, 2014

http://getmusicbee.com

SkaarjMaster · Mar 22, 2014

Foobar2000 installed; actually, just AIMP2 and that should be it. I heard that AIMP3 has issues with sound and stuff. Any truth to this?

DarkED · Mar 23, 2014

Here's another vote for foobar2000. It's a great no-bullshit music player and it has some useful extensions; I frequently use the converter extension when I'm working (to convert FLAC masters to other formats, etc.)

Zur · Mar 23, 2014

What about software to extract/convert wav from audio cds ?

Bi()ha2arD · Mar 23, 2014

EAC (Exact Audio Copy)

DarkED · Mar 23, 2014

Foobar2000 can do CD ripping to any format so long as it has access to the relevant codec.

SkaarjMaster · Mar 23, 2014

Good to know I have options if Nero 6 Ultra won't work.

Kyllian · Mar 23, 2014

Tried Foobar once, it annoyed me endlessly

igNiTion · Mar 23, 2014

Plus one for foobar, been using it for about a year now.

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Here's a few examples (need java):1- 2- 3

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