Alternatives to Winamp

[Hard core Rikki]

Needless to precise, primarly on Windows (feel free to mention acceptably good Linux ones as well).
Mention nice ones you use or have heard of. what do you appreciate in the ones you are using ?

PS: this thread is about multimedia players whose primary intended use is to play music (99,92% of video players can play music after all).

[Mako Eyes]

Windows: foobar2000
Linux: Amarok

Thread over.

EDIT: Okay, might as well talk about what I like about each.

foobar2000 is very lightweight, infinitely customizable, has global hotkey support, gapless playback by default, and all kinds of other neat stuff that Winamp normally needs plugins for, etc. Oh, also, foobar is expandable by use of plugins as well.

Amarok: Personally, I find it a little slow and bloated (or at least in GNOME), but I haven't used it much. The main reason why I started to use it is because it's the closest thing I could find in Linux to foobar2000.

[Hard core Rikki]

Not over, I couldve posted these in first post.

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Well if you have a Creative sound card you might aswell use the Creative Mediasource Player that comes with it.

Then again listening to music has never been a priority of mine so I don't have much too compare...it certainly seems nicer than winamp did when I like last tried it 3 years ago.

Not sure if other players can also do this, but it has the ability to find music on it's own and make it into a playlist. I see no reason why another player would not also have the ability though.

So if you do have a creative card then you don't really need to go and look for a replacement like WinAmp or another app as the Mediasource Player will do the job acceptably.

[Proto]

Can i just second Mako Eyes' recomendation and declare the thread over?

Just that I don't find amarok to be slow and all, and since getting used to it I even find foobar to be lacking. But if you want something more lightweight there is quod libet.

[Hard core Rikki]

Then let this turn into a list of 400 ones, and discuss none... [/sigh]
Then I will add these pretty capable ones:

XMplay
Sonique
Quintessential Player

(I cannot recommend Tuniac or Magikube at the moment)

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[Proto]

Aight

1by1
AIMP
AlbumPlayer
ALSong
Amarok
Aqualung
aTunes
Audacious
Audion
Banshee
BOSSA
Beep
Billy
Cactus
cmus
Cog
Creative
damp
Decibel
DeliPlayer
Exaile
Express
foobar2000
BSD
Helium
Jajuk
JuK
KSP
Listen
Media
MediaMonkey
Mesk
MP3Toys
MPXPLAY
Music
Musicmatch
musikCube
Muzikbrowzer
Napster
QuickPlayer
Rhapsody
Rhythmbox
SnackAmp
Sonique
Spider
VUPlayer
XMMS
XMPlay
Yahoo!
Zinf

There you are

Now on a more serious note. What I like about Amarok the most is its collection organizing capabilities. Creating dynamic playlists is extremely easy, and with its ability to connect to last.fm and grab related artists or songs to the ones you are hearing, the lists get even better and more consistent. Not to mention it got one of the nicest interfaces a linux app have to boast about

[Hard core Rikki]

A number of these have low substitution quality to Winamp

Yahoo ?? ;p

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Sorry HCR...I was just making Creative sound card owners aware that they already have a decent WinAmp equivalent so no need to waste bandwidth on getting something else...

[Hard core Rikki]

How decent is it? If it's just "optimized" for these cards, then I suppose the card drivers are just deliberately crippled to give Creative's software an advantage (that wouldn't surprise me), and given such a treacherous behaviour is not (no longer?) present, the quality difference between the creative app and others would be levelled.

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

How decent is it? If it's just "optimized" for these cards, then I suppose the card drivers are just deliberately crippled to give Creative's software an advantage (that wouldn't surprise me), and given such a treacherous behaviour is not (no longer?) present, the quality difference between the creative app and others would be levelled.

It's got nothing to do with being unoptimised for other cards or anything like that...it's that it belongs to Creative...it's the CREATIVE Mediasource Player...in other words the only way to get it is bundeled with a Creative sound card. I am not saying go out and buy a creative card...it's just that a lot of people already have one and therefore the Mediasource Player aswell and don't need to go looking for WinAmp or another app as their music player.

[Hard core Rikki]

Such bundled apps generally suck, and feature the most basic of functionalties.

[P_RePTiLe]

I for one, use MPlayer (Entering MPlayer homepage) as the associated mp3+whatever-multimedia-format-player - for the uber-instant-quickness of it's loading.
it's like: double-click->preview.

But when i need a playlist, i find that a light winamp-install with just audio-support does the trick, even if the mp3-quality is somewhat lower.

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Well to me at least it seems feature packed and just as good (or as I said better than WinAmp was like 3 years ago...and I doubt it's changed that much) as WinAmp...certainly acceptable enough to not need another audio player...but as I said I am no Audiophile. Plus the added ability of EAX control of your creative sound card.
Sound Blaster: Creative MediaSource

[Lino]

It's my Lettore MP3, it's old I have lost the source code

[Spyhop]

Songbird.
Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player

The bastard child of Winamp and Mozilla.

[Shin_Gouki]

Audacious
i think that one is pretty nice

[Mako Eyes]

Originally Posted by Proto

Can i just second Mako Eyes' recomendation and declare the thread over?

Just that I don't find amarok to be slow and all, and since getting used to it I even find foobar to be lacking. But if you want something more lightweight there is quod libet.

^ this.

[MiretanK]

Un4seen Developments - 2MIDI / BASS / MID2XM / MO3 / XM-EXE / XMPlay

xmplayer. But again, I'd give this thread done. Foobar is the best lightweight alternative for Windows, other that go use the old Windows Media Player.

[_E_]

Which of those can support winamp plugins? Its pointless to switch to winamp when I can't play my PSFs anymore.