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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: Best media player? |
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I use GOM for vids, and love it.
For music, I am using Creative MediaSource and am not really satisfied..
Any suggestions? What do you use to play music? |
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Thunndarr

Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| I'm currently using Jetaudio, but I don't exactly listen to loads of music from my PC. |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
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IMO, in terms of getting the best sound then your headphones/speakers are much more important for music. Next most important factor would be a decent motherboard or soundcard.
Last in importance would be the software used. Most media players out there would output a signal to your audio hardware in an almost identical way.
Most important, in digital music, is the original file you are playing from. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: Re: Best media player? |
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| BJWD wrote: |
I use GOM for vids, and love it.
For music, I am using Creative MediaSource and am not really satisfied..
Any suggestions? What do you use to play music? |
Try KM Player, it offers a little more than GOM (although I use GOM more). KM Player uses the Haali renderer which plays back HD stuff pretty smoothly.
Ah for music, I use Windows Media Player 11. |
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Treefarmer

Joined: 29 May 2007
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:31 am Post subject: |
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i use winamp which used to be the best
but has kind of turned shite past version 5 |
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keseki
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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vlc
plays everything you throw at it |
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eddie1983man
Joined: 31 May 2007
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| keseki wrote: |
vlc
plays everything you throw at it |
I concur |
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aditya

Joined: 22 May 2007 Location: Inha University, Incheon
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: |
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i prefer GOM for both audio and video
it has this excellent capability of easily finding necessary missing codecs and install them in a jiffy
the equalizer is also pretty good... and the controls are sleek...
i m of the opinion that it gives better sound than VLC, though the sound mainly depends on soundcard, headphones, and original file |
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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| keseki wrote: |
vlc
plays everything you throw at it |
Agreed, VLC is excellent.
For music, iTunes or for big display video, Apple TV. |
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Dodgy Al
Joined: 15 May 2004 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:22 am Post subject: |
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I recently downloaded the latest version of Jetaudio, and am very pleased with it. I like the interface, and, despite the name, it plays all the video files that I could only previously play with vlc. It's loaded with features too. Two fat thumbs up!  |
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xenok
Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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i use foobar2k for my audio needs. the vanilla install is not very useful, but it's very customizable. i don't recommend it for people who just wants something that works, but if you like hacking around under the hood, i think you'll love it.
i've used quintessential player in the past and that was pretty nice.
for media players, i use a mix of Media Player Classic, Zoom Player, VLC and mplayer. my limited use of GOM player has left me with quite a favorable impression though. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:50 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm not especially concerned with sound quality or codecs but rather a program that will help me organize my music. Right now it (my music)
is spread among 3 hard-drives and I am lazy and don't like going through the whole song and dance of jumping between hd's to find the album I want. |
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Thunndarr

Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| I've heard of a program called mediamonkey that is supposed to do a good job of organizing music. |
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cubanlord

Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep. VLC here! |
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SuperHero

Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Gom PLayer first
VLC second |
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