What's the best media player and why?

[Waterboi]

Whats your favorite media player and why?

Winamp?
WMP?
VLC?
Itunes?


There must be more, so why do you like it?

 

[robertdotcom]

Whats your favorite media player and why?

Winamp?
WMP?
VLC?
Itunes?


There must be more, so why do you like it?

Winamp

 

[Stanley]

for what? movies or music?
I'd say Winamp for music
Media Player Classic for movies

 

[robertdotcom]

for what? movies or music?
I'd say Winamp for music
Media Player Classic for movies

BSPlayer for movies. You can't beat that

 

[JamieB]

I use iTunes on a mac for listening to my music, I use VLC or Quicktime for movies.

 

[Ben]

I can't believe more people are not saying VLC!

I use iTunes for music.

 

[John]

Winamp 2.95

 

[illusion]

VLC for movies
Foobar for music

 

[ImagesAndWords]

VLC for any type of video. It plays just about any media format out there without hassle. No more trouble with missing codecs and shit.

Winamp for any type of audio.

EDIT: VLC will actually even play incomplete video files AND play files that are still compressed in archives(!) You can also drag and drop a DVD image file like a .BIN or .ISO over to the player an it will treat it like a DVD/VCD with menus and everything

 

[jchunk]

itunes for music and quicktime/vlc for vids.

 

[Demon]

By the way, does anyone know why VLC pauses for about 5 seconds every 5 minutes in a movie clip? It fucking pisses me off which is why I never use it. And yes, I always have the latest codecs...

 

[halfpc]

for what? movies or music?
I'd say Winamp for music
Media Player Classic for movies

I second that media Player Classic choice. I am also a big fan.

Winamp should be an earlier version, avoid the latest ones.
Use the the "Volume Logic" plugin with winamp.

 

[illusion]

By the way, does anyone know why VLC pauses for about 5 seconds every 5 minutes in a movie clip? It fucking pisses me off which is why I never use it. And yes, I always have the latest codecs...

Ummm never does that for me

 

[ImagesAndWords]

By the way, does anyone know why VLC pauses for about 5 seconds every 5 minutes in a movie clip? It fucking pisses me off which is why I never use it. And yes, I always have the latest codecs...

Never does this to me either. I'd try to reinstall it, but it sounds like it could be an OS or video driver issue.

 

[krazyjosh5]

I dont have time for videos. I only have time for writing content and SEOing blogs.

As for MP3s, Winamp works for me. Ive spent way too much time looking into this. I liked Musicmatch alot for its tree structure view but it didnt have an API so there were no plugins so it sucked. And I moved on.

 

[Mike]

I've got VLC and used to love it. Lately though it doesn't play videos for shit. It'll play the audio, but not the video. I think I need to upgrade, just been lazy.

 

[Skeewe]

For me Winamp basic for music and GOM for movies

 

[Stanley]

I used both VLC and MPC (medial player classic) and they're both excellent in terms of codecs - however MPC has much better controls and features.