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I don't need itunes on this computer and I hate windows media player. I've heard that winamp jumped the shark. Any good recommendations? Looking for lightweight with easy library organization.

songbird

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mpc, vlc, and mplayer are all good players (I prefer mplayer personally but it's not the most user-friendly, though I think it's got more/better features than vlc)

VLC. For everything.

Same as duck and tricks, VLC. Very rarely do I use anything else.

OK I got VLC but its kind of being a dick, how do you perform bulk actions? Also how do you get rid of stuff from your library?

Winamp, only because I'm oldschool and it's super lightweight.

14614 songs loaded right now and it's using under 50mb of ram.

wmp, too lazy to get anything else

brb buffering

winamp 2.95 forever.


Actually, I do use 5.56 on my newest computer, but for all others I stick with 2.95. I like knowing where the buttons are.

foobar2000. It's infinitely customizable, but it does take a little work to get it set up well. Simple, clean, and really lightweight (~20MB of memory). I highly recommend using the Columns UI plugin; it makes organizing the layout much easier.

(12-27-2009, 12:09 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: [ -> ]OK I got VLC but its kind of being a dick, how do you perform bulk actions? Also how do you get rid of stuff from your library?

VLC doesn't have library management
it simply is a media player

smplayer.

(12-27-2009, 06:20 PM)zaneyard link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Surf314 link=topic=4042.msg129248#msg129248 date=1261933791]
OK I got VLC but its kind of being a dick, how do you perform bulk actions? Also how do you get rid of stuff from your library?

VLC doesn't have library management
it simply is a media player
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I didn’t see this Surf, sorry. I use VLC for a general media player, because when I would grab pirate video during my college days I could throw nearly any file type at it and it would play. Other players would say “this file type isn’t supported” and I would have to find some kind of patch to fix it. Also, VLC is incredibly lightweight as a program.

Personally, I don’t torrent any music at all, so I prefer to go to sites with relativity little costs associated with online music streaming. I use Pandora some, but I am really enjoying lala.com recently for the ability to sort of build your own Pandora station with much more song selection. It does cost money however, but even $20 goes a really long way for online streaming. I write reviews on there, create playlists, etc. Pitchfork is fairly active on Lala, and I am able to discover a decent amount of music that way as well.

That’s a long way of saying if library management is more important (as in you have many gigs of music already on your computer) I think some of the other suggestions in this thread would probably serve you better then VLC.

Foobar is the winner. By a lot.

Winamp and Media Player Classic.

for some reason i read media player and thought video player even though you mentioned itunes. ??? Mediamonkey is another good player for big audio libraries

I use itunes because fuck all if I'm gonna bother to search for a music player for less then 50 active songs.

Foobar2K, it's hella lightweight, and highly customizable if you want it to be. I only use it for my music, while VLC is used for my videos