Which is your preferred media player?

[rajeevk]

VLC is really the best media player and even Media Player Classic is very useful in playing compressed video files.

 

[Neuron]

i tried it but when the songs pitch goes low the sounds looks like disturbed.why is it so?does it happens with u also and how much value should i keep for wow and tru bass

My equalizer and TruBass settings.

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If you are getting distorted sound ,try reducing the equalizer gain as well as TruBass.Also make sure that no other utility influences the audio output.For example in my case if Realtek audio manager's equalizer is also turned on it distorts the sound.

 

[Raphael]

VLC Media player & Media Player Classic

 

[sukesh1090]

@Neuron,
why you have kept wow effect to 0.

 

[ithehappy]

Sorry,its not 'Hyperbass' its 'TruBass'.You can get it by right clicking on the screen when in now playing mode and clicking enhancements->SRS WOW effects.

I am actually surprised to see that most of the windows users are not using WMP for playback.WMP with TruBass and SRS WOW effects enabled provides supreme sound enhancement.

Oh! OK, yes, TruBass is a very good feature. I used to use that all time but now I got something in Windows 7 sound enchancement option called Bass Boost. It's better and more effective than TruBass. Maybe it's over kill for someone but certainly not for me. I am talking about this one,

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And yes it's quite surprising to see that users tend towards VLC and other players other than WMP, I've used all of them, all are bogus imo, and the worst one I found was VLC. , all just my opinion, don't take it personally.

 

[cute.bandar]

kmplayer all the way for videos . Far superior to VLC IMO.
Audio - Mediamonkey

don't know how people can tolerate WMP, its just terrible.

 

[Techn0crat]

Audio - Foobar2000
Video - MPC-HC/VLC

 

[abhijangda]

On Fedora 14
Totem and VLC
On Windows XP
Windows Media Player and VLC

 

[baiju]

I have set KM Player as default player for audio and video. Media monkey is used for audio management.

 

[gameranand]

kmplayer all the way for videos . Far superior to VLC IMO.

Nope. I used both of em and I find MPC as best solutions for videos and sometimes VLC. In KM player my videos looked blurry sometimes and also sometimes there were edges and other issues so moved on to MPC and VLC. Although other features in that player are quite good but adding the collection is pain as it makes images for thumbnails which I hate.

 

[cute.bandar]

in kmplayer you can choose which codecs to use (external/internal).
MPC is featureless player.kmplayer's shortcuts are far better than vlc or MPC.

 

[gameranand]

MPC is featureless player.kmplayer's shortcuts are far better than vlc or MPC.

You know its more about personal choices. I am a user who don't want unnecessary features and want to get my job done perfectly which MPC and VLC does at best. Yes KM has features I said that earlier before but I don't need them. I use video player just to play my video files nothing more nothing less. But in Audio department I want feature rich player so I use MediaMonkey. It easily configures my N8 for transfer and has a damn good tag editor and some extensions which are practically no use for me but the vanilla version itself is quite feature rich. Its just personal tastes and requirement for a particular software which make some software special for you.

 

[rahul_c]

I use VLC for videos and WMP for audio.
All those impressed by WMP's inbuilt SRS audio enhancement should try 'SRS HD audio lab software', it does make lot of difference.

 

[abhinav_sinha]

VLC

It should have been a poll thread just to know the rating.Though I know there are too many but it could have listed rest by section others.

 

[Vyom]

The poll can be created by the OP.

 

[Neuron]

Poll created.Multiple voting enabled.

 

[avichandana20000]

VLC all the way

 

[Vyom]

Wow... Of the 10 people who voted, until now, no one uses Winamp! Looks like, it's gotten really bloated to be of any now!

 

[gameranand]

Wow... Of the 10 people who voted, until now, no one uses Winamp! Looks like, it's gotten really bloated to be of any now!

For me its kinda sluggish. Nothing special and I hate themes of winamp. Also tag editor is awful and creates a folder.jpg for every image file I use for Album Art and what not. I have nearly used 15-20 players to get my sweet spot.

 

[Vyom]

^^ Well, but there's one thing which is really great in Winamp. It tracks how many times have I played a particular song, and I can just select the songs to play, which I have listened many times. Thus avoiding manually adding my fav songs.

But even then, I havn't used Winamp for like, 2 years! May be try it once, I upgrade my system!