Comments on: Is Windows Media Player Doomed?

By: Tobordude

Tobordude — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:55:43 +0000

I wish I still had my liftime key for MMJB. If I had known that you still could get it, man that ticks me off. I really hate what yahoo did to it. Any one care to send me their key, I’m truly sorry that I tossed mine after all these years…………….

By: Attendees | Gnomedex

Attendees | Gnomedex — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:17:55 +0000

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By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:25:01 +0000

WMP is the best out there!

By: 9400

9400 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:43:53 +0000

You’re an idiot. WMP does not in any way change quality compared to other players, and the WMA codec is completely and totally competitive with MP3 (which I use) if you are enough of an idiot to believe you need to convert your MP3s to WMA.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:24:57 +0000

Just use Cowon Media Player -JetAudio 7. That can do everything you’ll want and more.

By: Steve B

Steve B — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:22:06 +0000

I agree with Frank C, foobar2000 and VLC for me.
Did you know Irfanview plays music, movies etc! sounds Good too!
Mediamonkey is brilliant also.

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:18:13 +0000

I guess my problem is that I get up to 48x ripping speeds with MMJB Plus, and no other media player out there will offer that speed for free. MediaMonkey and Songbird look to be the most promising options, but unfortunately, I’m stuck on MMJB for now. It just does an excellent job with the library, ripping, burning, playlists, file tagging, and has a fairly good mp3 codec.

By: Matt Simmons

Matt Simmons — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:36:00 +0000

I ripped my collection of over 2000 cds to my hard drive in 320kbps using Media Monkey. It’s tagging features are excellent, and those few features it lacks (capitalize first letter of every word) can be found in TagScanner http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm.

Before settling on MM, I tried out WMP 11, iTunes, Quintessential, WinAmp, and FooBar. None could touch the feature set MM offered. I manually downloaded my album art into MM from rateyourmusic.com, and it looks perfect on a 40″ plasma through Xbox 360 Media Center, as well as on my iPod and the 1 & 1/2″ screen on my Alpine xDA-X001 in dash in my car. MM’s iPod synching features blow away iTunes’s, but it has yet to support iPhones.

I spent over two months working on transferring my music collection to my computer, and I absolutely swear by Media Monkey. I still use WMP 11 for video.

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:24:00 +0000

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I’ll be trying out your suggestions over the next couple weeks. This really is a powerful community. Thanks, Chris, and everyone.

By: GiM

GiM — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:13:43 +0000

You can try “Media Player Classic” Copyright (C) Gabest, a GNU GPL software. To my surprise, I receive a product catalog on a DVD and it was able to read it (I do not have any DVD software installed (… except this one).

And for some other “formats”, run: mplayer2

By: taph

taph — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:09:15 +0000

As a fully fleshed media player with which you can play almost everything with the right codecs, like Real Alternative, ffdshow and QuickTime Alternative, I’d suggest Media Player Classic, a light video/audio player.

For ripping, there is always the classic CDex for that.

As for just listening audio, XMPlay is really good too, very light, skinnable and no install. I use it as well along MPC, especially when I use extensively my computer, i.e. playing videogames and I am in no mood to listen to the game’s music and I need a very very light player.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:38:02 +0000

Nother vote for VLC. None of these other players linked to in comments can possibly hold a candle to THE player. If you’ve got it chances are VLC can play it, and if it can’t chances are good they’ll add support for it.

By: Henricus

Henricus — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:04:29 +0000

Well, if just want to play your MP3’s, try the Random MP3 player; googles or any search engine can get you to the download.

Greetings

Henricus

By: Eduardo Dias, from Brazil

Eduardo Dias, from Brazil — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:07:57 +0000

iTunes is even worse than WMP as far as the interface is concerned, so I try whatever’s available. I have used jetAudio in the past with good results. Also, it seems like foobar2000 is a nice one to have around when you need to ‘clean’ crippled MP3’s.

You think WMP stinks? Try and find a decent (free) player for Mac OS X. Just plain awful. That’s why iTunes reigns; it is about the only one (for free). Bleargh.

By: leftystrat

leftystrat — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:04:59 +0000

On the Windows side I use VLC.
On the linux side I use VLC.

WMP is an invasive, bloated, home-phoning piece of dung that I abandoned years ago for Winamp. I still use Winamp here and there, but VLC does it all for me.

MMJB is also too invasive for me. I don’t want an audio visual experience – I want it to play the damn file.