Need help finding a good music player

[acr1965]

I know there are many, many music players for computers and that makes things a bit confusing. Here is my situation- I have some songs saved on Playlist.com. It seems to work pretty well as I can search for music and upload it to my online "player" easy enough. But sometimes the songs become "unavailable". I would like a software player I can import my Playlist.com song list to and save them. I am also running Vista. It would be nice if I can find a player that has a few simple features, maybe even an equalizer. Basically I just want to save my songs and play them later without having to go online. I am not really that interested in burning songs to a cd. And I am thinking that the total number of songs I'll end up with will be maybe 100 or so. Freeware would be fine and something I would have to pay for may be ok too. Simple is the key. Any ideas?

[HURST]

I use winamp, don't know exactly what you want, but you have a lot of choices.
See this poll:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=74636

[acr1965]

Can I import my playlist to winamp? I am also looking at mediamonkey. Does anyone know if I can if I can import my playlist to mm? Also I am wanting to save the songs to the program, not just the url address.

[HURST]

Winamp supports playlists, but I've never used playlist.com, so I can't tell if that is gonna work...

[DevilFrank]

WMP11 will play your playlist without problems. It´s free and is including an equalizer and many more.
;)

Edit:
And you can save your songs local and create an own playlist (local) with mediaplayer. All you need is there...

[Saraceno]

Try Spider Player.

It's actually portable so it can run off a USB stick and doesn't write registry entries.

The default skin isn't that great, but there are a selection of others you can download.

The free version allows you to rip songs to mp3 (but only one at a time). All up, it's only a few MB in size.

Home page:
http://spider-player.com/

Portable version:
http://spider-player.com/content/view/28/66/

Some screenshots:
http://spider-player.com/content/view/17/33/

Here's a range of other players that won't fill your system up with a million registry entries:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?sc=43

[acr1965]

{QUOTE-> Try Spider Player.

It's actually portable so it can run off a USB stick and doesn't write registry entries.

The default skin isn't that great, but there are a selection of others you can download.

The free version allows you to rip songs to mp3 (but only one at a time). All up, it's only a few MB in size.

Home page:
http://spider-player.com/

Portable version:
http://spider-player.com/content/view/28/66/

Some screenshots:
http://spider-player.com/content/view/17/33/

Here's a range of other players that won't fill your system up with a million registry entries:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?sc=43 <-QUOTE}

Thanks for the list. Does Spider free version allow only 10 songs to be uploaded? Foobar and Winamp Lite look interesting too.

[munckman]

This may be useful - Comparison of media players (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_media_players) - for video and audio players.

[dw426]

Maybe I just have a weird ear, but the sound out of Winamp has so far been the only computer-based player that satisfies the audiophile in me. It just sounds so "clean" if you will. Just an opinion :)

[N1ckR]

So many good music players and within this a diverse feature set.

I play all my music Via XMBC on my Xbox nowadays, but I always liked Winamp with only the media library add-on for browsing my Music, more recently I liked Windows Media player 9, but stopped using it after reliability problems, not had a need to use Windows Media Player 10 yet due to Using XBMC.
A lot of people rate Foobar, but I did not find the GUI intuitive for browsing and generating playlists.

[Saraceno]

I'm not too sure on that one acr1965.

Check the portablefreeware site, has a few that might be what you're after.

This one is portable, has a 10-band eq, a million skins and can play direct urls. http://xion.r2.com.au/
Skins
http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&usr=AllUsers&srt=Rating

The one called Alexis is unreal! But I got sick of it after a few mins. ;)

***edit** this skin still kicks @ss.

[dw426]

{QUOTE-> I'm not too sure on that one acr1965.

Check the portablefreeware site, has a few that might be what you're after.

This one is portable, has a 10-band eq, a million skins and can play direct urls. http://xion.r2.com.au/
Skins
http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&usr=AllUsers&srt=Rating

The one called Alexis is unreal! But I got sick of it after a few mins. ;) <-QUOTE}

Lol, Alexis is crazy! Nice find, this is a good player.

Edit: Ok, goodbye Winamp

[acr1965]

{QUOTE-> WMP11 will play your playlist without problems. It´s free and is including an equalizer and many more.
;)

Edit:
And you can save your songs local and create an own playlist (local) with mediaplayer. All you need is there... <-QUOTE}

I tried this and it seemed to work. I was not able to navigate between the songs very well. Is there some way to show the list of songs?

[acr1965]

{QUOTE-> I'm not too sure on that one acr1965.

Check the portablefreeware site, has a few that might be what you're after.

This one is portable, has a 10-band eq, a million skins and can play direct urls. http://xion.r2.com.au/
Skins
http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&usr=AllUsers&srt=Rating

The one called Alexis is unreal! But I got sick of it after a few mins. ;) <-QUOTE}

Will give it a shot. thanks

[bman412]

I use foobar2000 for audio playback of my mp3s. Handles playlists, low on resource usage.

[markymoo]

Check out AIMP2 2.11

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1226141&postcount=29

http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=cat&category=aimp

{QUOTE-> AIMP Classic is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp), so you'll get used to it very quickly. It can also be customized with skins. The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization window to display rhythmic visual effects and a playlist editor to organize your audio files. A nice fading effect makes your list of songs look like an endless music loop and a handy volume normalizing feature avoids drastic volume changes between tracks. Also, the player's main functions can be conveniently controlled by global hotkeys. Besides playing music, AIMP Classic features three extra utilities which also enable you to record any sound on your computer, convert audio files from one format to another and view or edit tags. AIMP Classic is based on the well-known audio engine BASS, so it's easy to connect new plug-ins (from the plug-in library included in the program) and expand the player's functionalities.

* Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC, MP+, AAC, AC3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDA, WMA, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX
* Good functionality and friendly user interface
* 18-sliders equalizer and build-in sound effects Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed
* 32-bit sound processing for crystal clear sound
* Works with few playlists Listern one, work with other
* Plug-Ins support You can add new utils or extend already exists, and connect some winamp plugins: Input, Gen, DSP
* Autoshutdown manager
* Internet-Radio Listern and Capture!
* Bookmarks and Queues
* Hotkeys Customizable local and global hotkeys
* Multilingual interface
* Multiuser mode support Few users works unders one computer? It's no problem!
* Full Unicode support
* File search File search by all opened playlists
* Many program options
* Small distributive size
* Audio Converter Any supported audio file can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format
* Audio Grabber Audio CD Track can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format
* Sound Recorder Capture sound from any audio device in your system to mp3, ogg, wav or wma format
* Advanced Tag Editor Edit ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis, WMA tags. Grouping rename, group editing and sort files by one of templates.
* Audio Library <-QUOTE}

{QUOTE-> 2.5 Beta released May 26th

* Improved work with Winamp DSP
* New Winamp Input Wrapper
* New SkinsEngine: Added ability to add buttons / ñheck box / scrollbars
* New SkinsEngine: Added ability to align elements with "centre"
* New SkinsEngine: Added ability to align text in labels
* New SkinsEngine: Programm's code optimization
* Audio Library: Quick search in grouping tree
* Audio Library: Ability to choose table column's position
* Audio Library: New DB service menu
* Audio Library: New library interface
* Audio Library: Quick navigation panel
* Audio Library: FLAC / APE support
* Audio Library: Expanded fusion with player
* Audio Library: Saving relative file paths from removable drives
* Playlists: Programm's code optimization

http://fileforum.betanews.com/download/AIMP/1189013260/1 <-QUOTE}

{QUOTE-> Input MAD Plug-in v0.2 - libmad 0.15.1 (beta) output resolutions from 8 to 32 bits.

This is a new version of MAD input plugin with
* libmad 0.15.1b compiled with OPT_ACCURACY.
* libid3tag 0.15.1b with ID3v2.3 support.
* zlib 1.23.
* Gaussian dither and noise shaping from Shibatch SSRC 1.30.
* Working ID3v2 tag editor and support.
* APEv2 editor and support.
* ReplayGain support.
* Gapless playback from LAME tags.
* Gap removal for files without LAME tag.
* ID3v2.4 EQU2 EQ curve frame.
* Internal EQ based on Shibatch supereq.
* Fully Unicode GUI.
* Multi-lingual dialogs (once someone translates!).
* Shoutcast streaming title support

http://www.zen23652.zen.co.uk/in_mad_2b.zip <-QUOTE}

[HURST]

Thanks for that markymoo.
If I can get my laptop's media buttons to work with it, I *might* even replace winamp (using it since 1997).

[dw426]

Great, I had a security software addiction, now I have an audio player addiction. AIMP is cool too! Sometimes I hate these forums, lol.

[Saraceno]

{QUOTE-> Lol, Alexis is crazy! Nice find, this is a good player.

Edit: Ok, goodbye Winamp <-QUOTE}

dw426, try the skin "Atomic (http://xion.r2.com.au/index.php?page=skins&usr=AllUsers&srt=Rating)". Best one I've used. I can listen to music at work and noone would know I'm loading tracks, changing the volume, song progression, all with this small transparent icon sitting on top of my programs. :)

You can access while in any program as it's transparent and just cycles away.

See images attached. First one when it's highlighted, and the second one once it is spinning.:thumb:

[dw426]

That IS cool! Lol, I need to just log out and not come back for a while, now I have a skin addiction (now that sounds weird, lol).