Best Music/Media Player

[DQScott95]

What is the best Music/Media player.

My interpretation of BEST is:

Beautiful sleek GUI

Support for MP3 and FLAC at least

And as the first one said Pretty and sleek UI

 

[Darician]

Depends on your definition of "Beautiful sleek GUI". With the Shark 007 Codecs, WMP 12 does the job very well. And Foobar2000, although I don't like it, from what I understand has skinning options so you can make it look how you want for the most part. But again, I'd recommend WMP 12.

 

[mindinka]

Totally agree with Darician, WMP12 configured is the good choise for player.

 

[DQScott95]

How can I configure it good, because i got it to play FLAC, but it doesn't separate my music it just groups them all in one album cause when i converted them, they lost all of their metadata

 

[whs]

Winamp is fancy

 

[DQScott95]

Yea I am using winamp right now but there is some things I dont like about it.

Like For some reason you cant drag and drop album art when it cant find it on its server.

I have the pro version fully updated and that is my main concern cause everything else is working fine but i am a perfectionest, so i need all of the album art, and info

 

[Wishmaster]

This is largely dependant on preferences.

Lately I've just been using the Zune software, and have grown to really like it.
Nothing like iTunes and far superior IMHO.

Smart DJ are really nice, & with a Zune pass, it's even better. (This of course is a subscription service and not required)
Mix View is really nice for finding new or similair artists.

It did take a bit to get a few albums in my library so that it linked correctly to the Zune DB, but after that all was great.

The downside is it does not have a EQ, but that can be easily fixed through your soundcard. So no big deal to me.

But it can also manage your Picture librarys, Music Videos, Podcasts, etc fairly well.

 

[Darician]

How can I configure it good, because i got it to play FLAC, but it doesn't separate my music it just groups them all in one album cause when i converted them, they lost all of their metadata

You may want to consider MediaMonkey for Metadata management. Don't get me wrong, WMP 12 does a decent job but MediaMonkey does metadata management in a far better manner. I use it sometimes in case metadata is too messed up and I can't correct it anywhere else.

 

[DQScott95]

I got mediamonkey, and it is great for editing metadata and album art so that was cool.

But I still cant get my .FLAC music files to be organized in WMP12. As soon as I add them every song goes into one section called unknown

 

[boohbah]

I got mediamonkey, and it is great for editing metadata and album art so that was cool.

But I still cant get my .FLAC music files to be organized in WMP12. As soon as I add them every song goes into one section called unknown

this will fix it ,did for me and will show albumart
BM-productions

 

[DQScott95]

I got mediamonkey, and it is great for editing metadata and album art so that was cool.

But I still cant get my .FLAC music files to be organized in WMP12. As soon as I add them every song goes into one section called unknown

this will fix it ,did for me and will show albumart
BM-productions

After I install it how do I get my media organized because I installed it and when I drag the music there it just does the same thing it did before

 

[Nem]

Winamp is fancy

Aimp2 > Winamp

Winamp is full of useless crap.. well to me it is.

anyone wants to try it go here that's the real site (Russian)
just use Google to translate it.

 

[boohbah]

I got mediamonkey, and it is great for editing metadata and album art so that was cool.

But I still cant get my .FLAC music files to be organized in WMP12. As soon as I add them every song goes into one section called unknown

this will fix it ,did for me and will show albumart
BM-productions

After I install it how do I get my media organized because I installed it and when I drag the music there it just does the same thing it did before

i put my flac files into the music /media folder that wmp monitors and updates itself from, you may need to tag the flac files ie album title and cd number and it should show .use this tagger its good and supports flac tagging. Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)
you can also add albumart using mp3tag.
once you get used to using the mp3 tag its real easy give me a shout if you need a hand with it.

 

[DQScott95]

this will fix it ,did for me and will show albumart
BM-productions

After I install it how do I get my media organized because I installed it and when I drag the music there it just does the same thing it did before

i put my flac files into the music /media folder that wmp monitors and updates itself from, you may need to tag the flac files ie album title and cd number and it should show .use this tagger its good and supports flac tagging. Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)
you can also add albumart using mp3tag.
once you get used to using the mp3 tag its real easy give me a shout if you need a hand with it.

How exactly does it work I downloaded it and it already shows all of the info (except for album artist) on it and is still doing the same thing in wmp. i think i may be doing something wrong.

 

[boohbah]

post a pic and we can have a look. it changes track names for me ...see screenie

 

[boohbah]

On a flac file when you try and change albumart with mp3 tag it wont show as changed in the folder for that album!
im presuming that the albums will now show in wmp
the way to show albumart on the flac file in wmp is to open the particular album right click the main album image (probably blank ) and select find album info , this will fetch the album details including albumart, select the album it will show a selection of titles and images , if the info is matching to yours it should just show a finish button at the bottom of the info window and that should do it.

 

[vicnard12]

IMO, Winamp is a jewel. with some decent plug-ins (like Enhancer 017), man, you can't go wrong with your listening pleasure!!

it plays .FLAC too..

in my list of pref, Winamp5 is over WMP12!

 

[Vertex]

I think many would say that WMP 12 is good, better than the other versions before it but its not perfect. I used Shark with it and I don't have many reasons to complain as it does the job, play my music, play my recorded TV, and play videos.

I do not want to install third party players because I believe that some of them may have incompatibility issues, freezing, lagging and they may install components I do not like, create startup items or leave some crap in the Registry or somewhere when removed. And some of them even make themselves your default media player which I do not like.

If your current media player does the job well, plays the media formats you often work with, has a suitable user interface, there is little reason to switch. It depends on taste and personal preference, really so many of us will have different opinions with this topic.

 

[DQScott95]

post a pic and we can have a look. it changes track names for me ...see screenie

Here is a screenshot of my issue

P.S. it only show the quenns of the stone age info cause it is an mp3 file I didnt convert

 

[boohbah]

just a thought!