What's The Best Media Player?

[lilweirddude]

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

[Smeeeprig]

VLC - video

Foobar2000 - music

[MCT]

bsplayer video (everything except dvds)

powerdvd6 for dvds

foobar2000 for music

[Vietfobster]

for now...

foobar for music

bsplayer for videos

[lilweirddude]

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

[MCT]

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

[lilweirddude]

ack, i hate looking for plugins

[shof515]

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?

[MCT]

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

[Zxian]

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.

[un4given1]

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.

[Zxian]

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!

[indianarchie]

i use allplayer for videos....

[Technoguy]

BSplayer,mediaplayerclassic

[Jeremy]

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.