The best music player for Windows?

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The best music player for Windows?
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Kerr Avon	Mar 9 2011, 07:51 AM Post #1
Senior Member Posts: 560 Group: Senior Members Member #52 Joined: December 13, 2006	Hello again! I haven't posted in a while, though I have been lurking (couldn't post though, as my current place of work (I do agency based work, covering for people, it's horrible ) sort of (in theory...) monitors the 'net traffic. Anyway, my reason for posting now is to ask what Windows music players anyone would recommed? Up until now, I've been double clicking on .mp3/.wma files in Windows Explorer to play them in WinAMP (or block selecting with SHIFT and then right click then "Enqueue in WinAMP" to queue a lot of songs) whenever I've wanted to play music whilst using Windows for anything else such as net browsing, word-processing, converting files, etc. But now that I've finally put Windows 7 on my home PC, I thought I might as well move into the twenty-first century with my music playing on the PC too, so how do you play music on your PC when running other stuff on there too? WinAMP is a great music player, but what do other players offer that WinAMP doesn't, or that they do better than WinAMP? I don't care about playback other than music (VLC is fine for films) but what players offer their own tables of all available files instead of relying on you to select the files from Windows Explorer (and yes, I do use playlists in WinAMP every so often, but I'm looking for a program that can list all music files, preferably according to any filter you can want (album, group, type, etc), but will also list everything (I mean everything) alphabetically). Oh, and I much prefer it to go by filename rather than the internal data of the .mp3/.wma file, as not all of them seem to contain the needed data, whereas everything is in the format [group name]_[songname].mp3, i.e. Beatles_Let it Be.mp3. I'm not asking about very resource hungry players, as I want to be able to use it whilst converting files in the background (plus maybe other stuff at the same time), and I want it to work fine with other Windows processes, so nothing that hogs the whole screen and can't be minimized or sent to the background. Thanks for any answers. By the way, you know how I begin this post "Up until now"? I originally typed it as "Up to now", before correcting it, but I'm not so sure it is correct now, as people always say "Up to now", as do I. Yet I'm sure it's always written as "Up until now", which I believe is the correct English. Which is correct?



Matt	Mar 9 2011, 12:51 PM Post #2
Kick, Punch, It's all in the mind Posts: 2,532 Group: Legendary Member #55 Joined: January 3, 2007	I personally just use iTunes, Even though it is pretty much pointless to have if you don't have a iPod/iPhone/iPad



Shangyou	Mar 9 2011, 01:26 PM Post #3
Dreamwalker Posts: 690 Group: Senior Members Member #286 Joined: March 17, 2010	I only use iTunes!


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