Windows 7 - Music Programs/Cool Playing Programs Ideas?

Storm31 · 09-28-2010

Hey guys.. My first Post !

Im wondering about a good problem to play music files and video files.. I want a cool looking music playing program like wamp or something.. or a cool skin for a program.. my theme on my computer is red/grey.. Strong computer with cs5 master collection and i need a program to run HD Videos HQ/HD Music Files with style.. Any ideas?

~Storm

Gornot · 09-28-2010

As far as videos go, there is no better than VLC. It might not look good, but you can find tons of skins on the website. Furthermore, you won't need any codecs to play videos, as VLC uses them all internally.

For audio, I recommend keeping it simple. if WMP isn't your thing, foobar2000 should do the trick; it's a little hard to install skins, but you can check deviantART for skins (all packages have instructions).

blackroseMD1 · 09-28-2010

For audio, I would recommend Songbird. Tons of skins, and it's and awesome player with plugins etc. It's pretty much a musical firefox.

PooMan UK · 09-28-2010

And there's always the old faithful Winamp

hybridfan · 09-29-2010

Foobar2000 is amazing you can tweak it to your hearts content this is mine at the moment....

Skin is from here, very easy to setup too as it's a executable file instead of dealing with lots of dll files like the norm.

DarkOne v2.1 by ~tedgo on deviantART

Gornot · 09-29-2010

Just to show diversity in skins, here's my foobar

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The biggest problem with foobar could be getting used to it, and any kind of tweaking would require patience, as some settings may destroy the installed skin. Like any other open-source, it's not easy to use, but once you get the hang of it, you'll never look back

Storm31 · 10-02-2010

Quote: Originally Posted by hybridfan

Foobar2000 is amazing you can tweak it to your hearts content this is mine at the moment....

Skin is from here, very easy to setup too as it's a executable file instead of dealing with lots of dll files like the norm.

DarkOne v2.1 by ~tedgo on deviantART

Looks awesome.. My theme on my computer is custom black/red/grey/white. So i think this fitts

Does it play most file types?

noobvious · 10-02-2010

Quote: Originally Posted by hybridfan

Foobar2000 is amazing you can tweak it to your hearts content this is mine at the moment....

Skin is from here, very easy to setup too as it's a executable file instead of dealing with lots of dll files like the norm.

DarkOne v2.1 by ~tedgo on deviantART

Quote: Originally Posted by Gornot

Just to show diversity in skins, here's my foobar

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The biggest problem with foobar could be getting used to it, and any kind of tweaking would require patience, as some settings may destroy the installed skin. Like any other open-source, it's not easy to use, but once you get the hang of it, you'll never look back

I haven't chosen to add any skin to my foobar, as seen below. I use WMP12 for my videos, and I haven't skinned that either, actually.

xTL · 10-02-2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Gornot

As far as videos go, there is no better than VLC. It might not look good, but you can find tons of skins on the website. Furthermore, you won't need any codecs to play videos, as VLC uses them all internally.

For audio, I recommend keeping it simple. if WMP isn't your thing, foobar2000 should do the trick; it's a little hard to install skins, but you can check deviantART for skins (all packages have instructions).

Thx for the encouragement

finally done something i should have done along time ago,
changed the ugly vlc skin that is =)

Gornot · 10-02-2010

You're welcome

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