seeing all the other "What's the best...." topics, i don't see why not

i'm looking for alternatives

i currently use winamp 5 for my music and vlc for my videos

VLC - video

Foobar2000 - music

bsplayer video (everything except dvds)

powerdvd6 for dvds

foobar2000 for music

for now...

foobar for music

bsplayer for videos

hm...everyone seems to like foobar but in the screenshots it looks ugly

is it skinnable?

plus, dont ask me why, i like to see my album art

u can get an album art plugin for foobar

its skinable with plugins, theres a ton of different plugins for foobar available

but im a minimalist when it comes 2 foobar.. its small, fast & only uses 2MB of ram, heres a screenshot

ack, i hate looking for plugins

Question about foobar:

When loading songs into foobar,does it read Media Data(or w/e wmp calls) for the songs names and stuff like that?

it reads the media.. u have options u can edit, to whether or not 2 display song titles, album names, length, genre.. about 30 different options

Are there any other media players out there that are easily configurable to have Global hotkeys like WinAmp has?

That's the only reason why I haven't switched away from WinAmp yet.

I know I'm gonna get a lot of crap for this one.. but I like using WMP. It already built in. It does the job. I used to use DJ2000 but they haven't updated it in forever, so I just use WMP.

I never was able to get a grasp of playlists in WMP... that was the big reason why I switched over to Winamp back in the 2.x days.

Whatever works!

i use allplayer for videos....

BSplayer,mediaplayerclassic

I use Zoom Player for media.

1By1 for MP3.

I have tried MPC, BSPlayer, VideoLAN. VLC sucks no question. BSPlayer is alright except I couldn't find where to set it to play the file over again automatically (loop). MPC is great except everytime the file hits a high volume the audio thereafter goes down and never normalizes.