Best Media Players

I don't know. It definitely sounds better (specially after equalizer tweaking) than windows 7 WMP.

hn333 said:

Wait how is foobar better sounding?

This is from the foobar website

Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?

No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples). foobar2000 has sound processing features such as software resampling or 24bit output on new high-end soundcards, but most of the other mainstream players are capable of doing the same by now.

I use foobar too, btw.

I use Media Player Classic for movies and Foobar for music. Always have done :)

Hi there
I use VLC for DVD / Video (works on both Linux and Windows) and I have a Squeezebox Duet (and Internet radio) for playing Music -- It has good Optical Output for plugging into a high quality amp and will among others play FLAC directly - no transcoding needed.

For Digital Terrestial TV (DVB-T) with a TV card the Windows Media centre is fine

The good thing about Squeezebox is that you don't even need your computer on to play music - although to access your Music folders you need the computer to be on.

People want to be able to access music wherever its stored so tying yourself into a particular application isn't alwways a good idea.

BTW Squeezebox works on Linux too.

Logitech Squeezebox Duet Review | Music Streamers | CNET UK

Squeezebox

Cheers
jimbo

Used and still use VLC in XP and now in Windows 7, I like that I have many video playback options also has some cool skins :)

For me problem with VLC is after all this time it still doesn't have a "resume" feature. I frequently don't watch a movie all the way through in one setting. It's a hassle having to remember where you left off when viewing it multiple times.

VLC, no doubt. the rest cannot even compare, i think.