Media Player Roundup

[fattony]

definately should have included the new winamp 5.5 and its new skin interface

 

[SinxarKnights]

To me, the new Winamp skin don't look to good. I am not saying its bad but it just don't impress me. I went and grabbed Songbird and I am loving it. I can't remember the name of the media player I found back when I had a Ubuntu desktop, but anyway Songbird is very similar to that and I like it.

 

[jimbobhickville]

Wow, I had just recently switched to foobar2000 and vlc. The best part about foobar is that I could match the Musicmatch library functionality with a couple plugins and some tweaking, but without the horrible Musicmatch bloat.

Songbird is still way too early in development to be a serious consideration. It's bloated, slow, and a resource hog, and it's only on like version 0.3. The blog searching capability is pretty cool, though, for finding new music, but I imagine once they're big enough, the RIAA will sue them into oblivion for it.

 

[blader15sk8]

Just started using foobar and I am in love with it.

My entire playlist of 1200+ songs, only consumes ~2-4MiB of ram while in the background.