I currently have Window Media Player, and it's okay most of the time. I used to have Winamp, but I'd read where it could be hacked or something like that.
I currently have Window Media Player, and it's okay most of the time. I used to have Winamp, but I'd read where it could be hacked or something like that.
I also use VLC.
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Laura
Windows Media Player is my default because it recognizes my haphazard tags, even my live ROIOs. I keep foobar2000 around for decompressing some cue/FLAC files. I use JRiver once in a while but it's not as intuitive as WMP plus it hitches itself to the system volume control. I hate that.
foobar, WinAmp, and VLC are fine players but all of them are hopeless when dealing with old ROIOs. Unknown album, unknown artist, blah, blah, blah. WMP either recognizes it or makes it easy to sort an album like that into its proper place. JRiver is especially hopeless on albums where someone is sitting in for one song. It sees those instances and throws the whole album into the "multiple artists" dung heap without a second thought. Fuck that. WinAmp does have some extraordinary skins and I wish WMP had that.
iTunes on a PC is the biggest piece of shit/bloatware in the known universe. It is a crime against humanity. Apple should be tried at the Hague for insisting it be used for all their devices.
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VLC, because it works with almost anything, and is current and updated regularly.
I also use SqueezePlay to play music on the PC from my NAS with a consistent user interface to my standalone music players.
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itunes and whatever windows 10 has
you said vlc is free?
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Yes, it is. It is available for all desktop and mobile OSes. I use it on my Android devices too. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Laura
I've always been a fan of Winamp, but my player of choice lately is Plex, which allows me to listen to my music anywhere (as well as films and TV shows).
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What about Mac?
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Thanks for the suggestions. Do any of those players record web radio or are they just players? I thought I had some software that would do that too, but either it will and I can't play the recordings back or I need a codex add on file or something, which I'm not literate enough to know how to sync that up. It would be nice to record some web radio for the car however. They have lousy radio around here, small town. I used to have Total Recorder software that would do that, and used it until I switched/upgraded computers, probably should look it up again. There maybe some apps out there for PC or something, I don't know.
I sure like Accuradio.com's jazz stations though, particularly the Cutting Edge one.
There are a couple of other stations I've found that play sort of experimental or exploratory music too: Numbers.FMhttp://numbers.fm/, SCHNET,, zovietfrance: a duck in a tree show,
Resonance, Fluid, SomaFM, Rare Frequency, even WFMU online
I have tried Media Monkey, VLC and WinAmp, but keep returning to WMP. It is about time someone created a WMP+.
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Still using Winamp, even though they’re not updating it anymore. I’m invested in their media library, which is the best I’ve come across.
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WinAmp kicks the llama's ass.....still.
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I also use the app HibyMusic on my Android devices along with a USB OTG adapter and a FiiO Q1 DAC and my Sony MDR-7506 headphones to play FLAC files on my Android devices. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...com.hiby.music
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foobar will treat them any way you tell it to. It's extremely configurable.
That's one of the reason I use it. The other is that with the right plugins it can play pretty much anything (including all surround formats) and output it in bit-perfect fashion to my main system.
I still use Windows Media Player to rip CDs. To edit the tracks I use Widows Sound Recorder. To burn CDs I use Roxio/Sonic. It works for my needs.
Widows Sound Recorder sounds more badass.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
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