mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

2002-08-09 02:56:21

How about it?

How many people out there use something OTHER than winamp to play mp3 files?  If so what do you use and why do you like it?

Thanks

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #1 – 2002-08-09 03:19:42

Sonique is pretty good.  Good sound quality, but the functions are a little confusing and take soem time to get used to

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #2 – 2002-08-09 03:34:47

coolplayer. it's real small and doesn't load the memory and what-not. not like winamp does either, but i was using a ten-year-old laptop for most of this summer, and winamp didn't work well. also, coolplayer can use winamp's input plugins, which is real nice since that's what everybody writes plugins for first.

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #3 – 2002-08-09 04:57:33

There is more besides Winamp?  Are you sure?

Sonique has good playback, I just cannot stand the internface.
Cool Player is nice
I have heard good thins about QCD
And you cant go wrong of finding an old version of K-Jofol (the only OTHER media player I ever regualry used)

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #4 – 2002-08-09 09:15:11

k-Jofol was VERY cool.  awesome skins and not very resource intensive.  I'm pretty sure the maker got hired to develop winamp 3?  Too bad, they would have been better off continuing development of K-Jofol instead of starting over again for winamp3.

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #5 – 2002-08-09 09:25:25

ditto. k-jofol wuz the shizniat.

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #6 – 2002-08-09 10:16:06

I' m using Musicmatch Jukebox ( player + recorder + burn ( mp3 or CD format))

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #7 – 2002-08-09 11:04:40

I use 1by1 ( http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/#1by1 ) with appropriate Winamp-input plugins.

Nifty little player

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #8 – 2002-08-09 15:39:22

QCD 3. Very good!

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #9 – 2002-08-09 20:56:44

Ok, additional to the one mentioned Creative customers may also use Playcenter 3, an universal audio player.

Some of the features include

- Audio Clean UP (for crackling mp3s and tape/ LP rips
- Movie Mode (rendering 5.1 channels)
- some extra effects

I tried it and it was not that bad at all, if you're just to lazy to tune your sound manually. But for Winampers like me of course no substitute

Most of these features require hardware support and will be a priviledge for Audigy customers...

However highend fans would laugh about these features, they have their own ideas about how audio should sound (and how it shouldn't  )

So I mention it just to complete the list of possibilities...

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #10 – 2002-08-09 21:41:56

After reading about that cool player wich runs
smoothly in older machines, I did a search and
found some versions avaliable at the same page:

http://genghis.winamp.com/~christophe/kjofol/

LIF

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #11 – 2002-08-09 22:06:09

UltraPlayer is really good. I use STP player at work, a really handy player.

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #12 – 2002-08-09 23:58:27

Nothing beats Media Jukebox 8 (bld 346). Has the best file handling - interface - search functions. Handles any format you can think of. It will do anything you want it to. It's cool.

Xenno

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #13 – 2002-08-10 21:45:44

I use CoolPlayer - simple, yet - almost perfect.
http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #14 – 2002-08-10 23:21:34

I tried quite a few players, but Media Jukebox is the only one that didn't leave me constantly wishing for another feature.

mp3 playback - if not winamp, what?

Reply #15 – 2002-08-11 02:45:29

I hate Creative PlayCentre.

Last I checked, installed along with it is a plug-in for Winamp which is of very little use and has very bad side effects, basically making your Winamp a retarded gimp on acid until you remove the DLL.