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Which windows-based mp3 player do you use?
« on: August 08, 2003, 08:50:56 PM »
I know WinAmp is the defacto standard, but I\'m frustrated by a few things it\'s lacking.  I want to be able to sort my file list by ANY field in the ID3 tag, but WinAmp only seems to offer sorting by :

"Name" (Which is effectively Artist Name, then Track Name)
"Path / Filename" (Useless unless your files are very carefully named)
"Length"  (Who would need this sort for ANY REASON?)
"Track" (Not sure what it does, but the results are not useful)

Why can\'t there be more sort options?

So anyway, I\'m exploring what other mp3 players are out there.  Please post your recommendations.  Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2003, 09:20:24 PM »
try sonique.

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« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2003, 10:42:12 PM »
I use Musicmatch.  Very simple, stable, and easy on the eyes.  They also have that cool Super-tagging feature.

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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2003, 04:52:14 AM »
I know it\'s not very helpful, but I\'m a WinAmp guy. ;)
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2003, 10:23:54 AM »
Foobar2000

Does all that those sorting things you want, plus it has some great plugins and is very small, very fast.

EDIT:  Oh, and despite it being v0.667 it\'s EXTREMELY stable.  Don\'t let the version throw you off.

If you want more info on it, like how to customize the looks so you can get cool stuff like this or even this go here.  They\'ve got info and screens of other people\'s playlists.
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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2003, 11:26:33 AM »
Winamp 2,91, because I can\'t live without the NowPlaying plug in.

QCD is also pretty good.
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« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2003, 02:53:41 PM »
i use Windows Media player for CD\'s coz Winamp always seems 2 muck up when i try to play CD\'s on it.
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« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2003, 03:03:06 PM »
Thanks all for the suggestions.  I\'m going to try every one of these players  (except for Windows Media Player... thank you Mr. Gates.. :) )  

nO-One, what does the NowPlaying plugin do?
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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2003, 04:52:04 PM »
let\'s you control your music with the program minimized go to the next or previous track, fast forward play with the volume and stuff.

http://drpizza.arsware.org/nowplaying/
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« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2003, 04:24:42 PM »
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Thanks all for the suggestions.  I\'m going to try every one of these players  (except for Windows Media Player... thank you Mr. Gates.. :) )  

nO-One, what does the NowPlaying plugin do?

I dont see whats bad about Media player for playing CD\'s it downloads track names and the picture on the cover of the album(not exactly important but coolish) for you much better than crappy winamp- and more stable in my experience.
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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2003, 06:00:16 PM »
Yeah, and every time you run it, even just to play a file stored locally, it accesses the internet to report back to the Microsoft mothership.  At least in WinAmp you can disable that.
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« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2003, 10:18:37 PM »
iTunes. Sure, it\'s Apple, but you WinDoze users will get it soon enough.

Oh and XMMS via KDE.

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« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2003, 02:11:54 AM »
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Yeah, and every time you run it, even just to play a file stored locally, it accesses the internet to report back to the Microsoft mothership.  At least in WinAmp you can disable that.


That is true but i dont care =]
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« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2003, 12:50:29 AM »
Desktop = Winamp 2,91
Laptop = Sony SonicStage (its very good) :D.
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