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I am sure somewhere someone posted this, so disclaimer, this is the 2010 edition! And I want FRESH opinions, not ones made last month, last year or in 2006!

Now that that is settled! I am in the market for a new media player. Here is what i have used, and what I like, and what I want.

iTunes: Like it! I like the pics for the tracks, I like the search feature, I like the star system. I hate that it crashes, updates very 3 fething days, locks down music I purchase and sets a limit to how many times I can download it... I could go on...

Winamp: Like it! But I hate the modern version, I still use the Classic Settings. Again I like that it is easy to search. I don't like that to get all the cool itunes features in winamp I have to sacrifice so much to it. I have 8 gigs so I can run Maya, Photoshop, Painter, and Illustrator all at once, and use Adobe Bridge to move files around. Not so winamp can giggle and steal 6 gigs and only use .25 of what it is hogging. (I am prone to sarcasm and over-exaggeration.. you have been warned.)

VLC: meh. Anything I have to download so many codecs for just to get it to work is like putting together a SoB army... to much work for not enough pay off.. (I KID, I KEED!! Mel that one is for you )

So who uses what? Also what Market place do you use for digital music purchases? Are the choices really so limited?!?!?!?

I used to use winmedia player, then switched to Itunes when I got this mac. Same general functionality and almost total parity of features. The zune player is alright, but has a few issues and I'm not at all a fan of winamp. VLC is a media player, not a content handler, and it doesn't do well as your primary.

The choices are about what they were in 2006.

Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000

it does everything.


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thegrav wrote:I have 8 gigs so I can run Maya, Photoshop, Painter, and Illustrator all at once, and use Adobe Bridge to move files around

sounds like what I run daily....seriously, get Foobar. It SUPER low resource, and you can install plug ins for ANYTHING.

IG_urban wrote:Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000 Foobar 2000

it does everything.


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thegrav wrote:I have 8 gigs so I can run Maya, Photoshop, Painter, and Illustrator all at once, and use Adobe Bridge to move files around

sounds like what I run daily....seriously, get Foobar. It SUPER low resource, and you can install plug ins for ANYTHING.

Towards the end of the semester at one point I was rendering in After effects while rendering in maya while working in photoshop while I had eight tabs open in chrome and had music playing in Itunes. I think I had image preview up also, but thats low impact.

iTunes on Mac and Win. I use it because I got a Mac first and it comes ready installed.

I buy most of my music on disc and rip it. I've never bought anything from the iTunes store. I have bought digital music from independents.

Foobar 2000 is the best.

I even got plugins to play Playstation and N64 music on it!

Kilkrazy wrote:iTunes on Mac and Win. I use it because I got a Mac first and it comes ready installed.

I buy most of my music on disc and rip it. I've never bought anything from the iTunes store. I have bought digital music from independents.

Get Foobar for your PC, it has iPod master plug ins. iTunes is like AIDS for you PC.

Winamp, VLC and Spotify. Winamp's my content manager, VLC my movie player and Spotify is my 'radio'.

I will look into foobar 2000, I have used winamp as my radio for a long time too, and I know if you configure VLC right it can work as a handler, but anything I have to work that much with that little pay off is just .

I think I am more biased against iTunes cause it is a mac product than anything... I am gonna check into Foobar though.