What Music Player Do you Use?

[ott0bot]

Am I the only person who never uses a computer to listen to music?

No, I used to use my iPod to listen to my music. But the headphone jack broke last November. I just ordered the part to fix it with and hopefully it will work. But what do you use Doctor?

I don't own an iPod or Walkman or portable CD player or any portable music device at all. I don't even have a dedicated stereo system at home. Generally the only time I listen to music is while driving. Occasionally I'll listen to CDs on my DVD player at home through the TV's speakers. I don't really like listening to recorded music.

Really? that kinda suprised me, since you're a musician i thought you may be into listening to music at home. Maybe you'd rather hear it acoustically?

I usually listen to...uhh...tapes, records & cds mostly. I have an old 70's Quadrophonic Marantz receiver hooked up to some original bose 901's in the front (with sweet pedastool stands), and some bookshelf 201 II's in the back. Sounds frickin amazing....but it does has a slight hiss from the reciever. I play my tapes on a sony dual tape deck, records with a old teac turntable, and my dvd player ususally works as a make shift cd player. I aslo have all of my game systems hooked up to this but usually just use the tv speakers.

I also use iTunes on my laptop...which is pretty much just for music and pics. I've converted quite a few tapes and records to wav files that I eventually convert into mp3's which end up on iTUnes. In my recording studio(if you can call in that)I also use some KRK Rockit 5" monitors coming out of an M-box hooked up to my iMac. I occasionaly watch some tv or movies on that too.

I have an 4gb iPod nano for travel, work and sometimes in the car. Not the best sound quality in mp3 format, but it works.

[opethfan]

iTunes usually. I'm on a Mac.

[lordofduct]

I don't know... I mean, I know what ones I've used, but I'm weird about what I want my audio player to do.

Windows Media Player sucks IMO, I just don't like it. It is slow and cumbersome... I can't scroll through my collection with out the rendering of my list coming to a hault. Ugh! It's controls are also very unintuitive.

Winamp - it's "ok" in my book. There are a couple skins that keep it fairly simple and allows me to sort my music MY WAY, but it freezes up when it tries to play .aac files and it sometimes feels like it is trying to do to much.

iTunes - I actually use this the most often out of convenience. But I still don't like it. It supports almost all of my different audio codecs (accept wma... ugh that annoys me!), but it just ain't right. I hate that it doesn't give you a lot of options in sorting music, personally that whole "album" "artist" "genre" thing bugs me. Adding new music to the list takes for ever. And it screeches to a hault a lot when navigating between different screens. But of all the software I've used for adding music to my iPod, this one is relatively the easiest. Though I don't understand why it slows down so much during the transfer process... why can't this stupid thing handle playing a song, navigating my playlist, transferring music and add more music to the transfer queu? IMO if I can run 3DS Max, Visual C++, 10 instances of Firefox, Photoshop, a game of Risk, instant messenger, music player, VLC, and an assortment of all programs simultaneousily... with out a hitch, iTunes should be able to do these basic things!

Songbird - it feels like Winamp and iTunes made love and had a retarded baby

Foobar2000 - I actually like this one, I just haven't played with it all that much. I'm a minimalist when it comes to design, and foobar supplies all of that for me. I just don't like the "playlist only" set up. Bringing up another album of music is a little cumbersome. I don't know, just need more time with it.




Personally I'm still hunting... and it's been a decade long job to find the right one! Still not there.