WMP 11 Vs iTunes + QuickTime

[raina_rocks]

The default sound engine of WMP is quite good, its your own personal subjective choice that u don't like it. You cannot change the default sound engine of Winamp or VLC, can u? But you can do that in WMP.

dude i m no expert at using wmp..... n i admit it...... n i kno tat u cant change default sound engine in winamp or vlc..... but talkin bout a normal user who cant learn much things.... he will never like hw wmp sounds esp wen u r listenin 2 rock.....

 

[gxsaurav]

but talkin bout a normal user who cant learn much things.... he will never like hw wmp sounds esp wen u r listenin 2 rock.....

Strange, all the audiofiles I know here, including a DJ seems to like WMP for audio.....yaar, what kind of rocking music u like in Rock?

 

[raina_rocks]

Strange, all the audiofiles I know here, including a DJ seems to like WMP for audio.....yaar, what kind of rocking music u like in Rock?

i usually listen to metal...... mostly death metal like.... . sepultura,dimmu borgir....etc...... n ;lots of nirvana , metallica.....
but i hav seen these songs sound better on winamp n vlc.....
i use winamp fr audio n vlc fr vedio......

 

[aryayush]

Strange, all the audiofiles I know here, including a DJ seems to like WMP for audio.....yaar, what kind of rocking music u like in Rock?

WOW! Only gx_saurav can type that word! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I did not know this forum had audio files.

 

[raina_rocks]

yeah winamp does have an edge in death metal....slipKnoT fan here...

tats wat im tryin 2 say...... but gx_saurav maanta hi nahi hai yaar......
i tried stickin 2 wmp but cudnt.....

 

[gxsaurav]

tats wat im tryin 2 say...... but gx_saurav maanta hi nahi hai yaar......
i tried stickin 2 wmp but cudnt.....

If its only about that genre then u should have specified, I m not too much into music so never heard such songs.

 

[goobimama]

I'm dumbstruck. How is it that rock sounds better in Winamp? Its more to do with what plugins you use I guess. Winamp does use its own plugin set, which is different from a system wide Directshow thing... Anyway, I've always stayed away from Winamp. The EQ is a pain cause one can't make smalltime improvements in it.... Foobar2000 is much better.

 

[tarey_g]

WOW! Only gx_saurav can type that word! Ha! Ha! Ha! I did not know this forum had audio files.

Hehehe, seriously GX start using some spell chk dude.



btw, Winamp 'was' the best music player, now its just crap. Itunes is the worst, i tried it because of all this hype and was disappointed, why i have to install shi1t with it which i really don’t need . Currently using default WMP11, good library functions, simple cover art/ lyrics display. Has some flaws like not remembering the last playlist and stuff like that . I used to hate WMP in the winamp times , and never thought of using it but surprisingly it has improved and i am using it from last one year. I have KL codec installed on the system , so now wmp even plays the almost dead format 'real media' too. Fine with me , southpark comes on RM .

VLC cant be used as a music player, no management options there. But i use VLC for playing quicktime mov files, its way better than installing the crap quickitme player on your system. Besides VLC plays anything , so when i get strange format video files , i just play them in VLC. Never used foobar , so can't comment on that.

 

[gxsaurav]

Hehehe, seriously GX start using some spell chk dude.

If I use spell check, what amusement will be left here?

Winamp 'was' the best music player, now its just crap.

The skinning engine is still the best with PureXML.

Has some flaws like not remembering the last playlist and stuff like that

Lat Playlist played? It shows here fine.

its way better than installing the crap quickitme player on your system.

i just finished watching the august 7 Apple event on Mac Quicktime. Have to say, Quicktime is really good on a Mac, but sux on Windows. Apple really doesn't know how to make or port softwares. They should learn to port cross platform apps from Adobe or Autodesk.

 

[iMav]

yup i agree i enjoy quick time on mac but not on windows ...

 

[goobimama]

It is a weird thing after all. I used to hate quicktime as well. But then when I moved to Mac, it makes perfect sense. I can't use any other player on the mac. I wonder why this is... cause I still don't like Quicktime for Windows...

 

[aryayush]

Same goes for iTunes, I guess.

But I love Safari on Windows as well.

 

[goobimama]

Ah...could be that one can't play all these avi's and stuff very easily on quicktime for windows? I don't know how it works, but it doesn't use the systemwide codecs isn't it?

 

[iMav]

its slow too ...

 

[gxsaurav]

Ah...could be that one can't play all these avi's and stuff very easily on quicktime for windows? I don't know how it works, but it doesn't use the systemwide codecs isn't it?

Nope, QT has its own engine & a decoder has to be in the form of QT Component which is different for Windows & Mac. Means Mac component will not work in Windows.

Apple should learn how to make Windows softwares first. Arya's case is different, he doesn't like customising so Safari seems good to him ...lolz

 

[goobimama]

Safari's good for me too. Firefox takes down the entire Windows session when it crashes. Have to hard reboot. So far safari has been excellent.

 

[gxsaurav]

Safari's good for me too. Firefox takes down the entire Windows session when it crashes. Have to hard reboot. So far safari has been excellent.

What do u do with FF? It never takes the OS down here when firefox crashes.

 

[iMav]

if ff had any such problem it wudnt be so widely used ... goobi its ur pc and not ff

 

[abhijangda]

wmp is best

 

[goobimama]

Well what can I say. ***t happens. Every time I reinstall Windows, there has to be some problem or the other. This time its this firefox thing (was there last time as well).