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Finray wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

FFLink13 wrote:

Windows 7 Media Player supports M4a.

Not sure about FLAC, though.

Can't do FLAC and most video formats.

I will most likely be testing WMP on Windows 7 more, to see how it fares up.

What's FLAC?

Also, someone want to send me different formats via XFire so I can test them on WMP 12? (That's what W7 has right?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec

Best sound quality for compression available. The difference between MP3 and FLAC is huge.

And I can tell you now, WMP doesn't support it. Whatever version.

I use Winamp, because it is fast, has hotkeys, and works.

I find that pretty much all music players do the exact same thing, so pick your flavor.

CrazeD wrote:

I use Winamp, because it is fast, has hotkeys, and works.

I find that pretty much all music players do the exact same thing, so pick your flavor.

Not really true. Winamp is not as fast as WMP, Media Monkey or Foobar.

Many music players have certain core features and then lack others. There is no "full" music player. I doubt there ever will be.

Winamp is nowhere near the best you can get. Just by facts, not by opinion.

Jenspm wrote:

I always ask myself....

Why can't they make a media player that has it all?


I mean, WMP is pretty awesome, but why don't they have FLAC support? I imagine it's not at all hard to implement (Or am I being ignorant here?)

Nope, isn't hard to implement. The reason for them not implementing it is because it's Open Source. Corporations like MS hate Open Source.

I ask myself that as well, but I guess it's because every programmer for each player has different aims.

i like itunes tbh

nice organisation, simple, plays mp3 and m4a which are the only formats i use

"smartplaylists" (auto playlists where you set up a load of criteria and songs that match them get in the playlists) are also useful and work well

and it works with my 3 ipods and isn't ugly like winamp, i also like the quickview thing where you have a box at the top containing a list of all your genres artists and albums. However on W7 i do occasionaly swap between WMP and iTunes, WMP12 and iTunes are just as good as each other really, WMP12 does most things that iTunes doesn't and vice versa, so when you have both it's pretty good

(inb4 LOLITUNES IZ GAY HURR)

Mekstizzle wrote:

Because of this thread, I went and downloaded a FLAC album and then downloaded winamp to see what the fuss is about. Yeah, it is pretty good quality, although my ears can't really make the difference between FLAC and 320kbps, although I guess Beyonce's album isn't exactly the best example for FLAC.

But thanks to w-bb being down it was the only one I could acquire via other means...

I probably will go ahead and do FLAC from now on though, time to find Carter III on FLAC

Afaik, the difference between FLAC and MP3 at 320Kbps is only really noticable when you have quite expensive speakers (like moar than £200). I don't have these so I don't download in FLAC, simply because it's too huge to bother with - 3 times the size of an MP3 320 judging from a quick scan through the torrents on what.cd.

add this as a huge con under itunes: MAJOR Vista x64 issues.  and i mean major.  i've spent at least 2 full days of my entire lifetime trying to resolve itunes and vista x64 issues.

CrazeD wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

I use Winamp, because it is fast, has hotkeys, and works.

I find that pretty much all music players do the exact same thing, so pick your flavor.

Not really true. Winamp is not as fast as WMP, Media Monkey or Foobar.

Many music players have certain core features and then lack others. There is no "full" music player. I doubt there ever will be.

Winamp is nowhere near the best you can get. Just by facts, not by opinion.

Are you kidding? WMP is a lot more resource heavy than Winamp.

Plus, AFAIK, WMP doesn't have hotkeys.

Maybe, not on Windows 7 though.

Also, Media Monkey has hot keys, I am pretty sure Foobar and the rest do as well. I know Songbird does and aTunes.

What are hotkeys (with reference to media players)?

I see. So relatively irrelevant if you have dedicated media keys on your keyboard.

Finray wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

Maybe, not on Windows 7 though.

Also, Media Monkey has hot keys, I am pretty sure Foobar and the rest do as well. I know Songbird does and aTunes.

What are you talking about resource heavy?

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa17 … yusage.png

Misread Finray. I meant it wasn't. CraZeD said it was.

Yes, completely irrelevant, Liq. I have a G15, that's perfect.

CrazeD wrote:

liquidat0r wrote:

I see. So relatively irrelevant if you have dedicated media keys on your keyboard.

Sure, but I don't.

In Winamp, alt+ctrl+page up/down = next/previous song, home = pause, insert = play, end = stop...etc. There's a lot.

And, they work anywhere, even in games. Very awesome if you don't have media keys.

Sure, just like JetAudio, Media Jukebox, Media Monkey and all of them have. It's absolutely nothing special. A feature which is in most decent music players.



Going to go into more detail about things like this once I have finished my overview of all players.

QQ; why don't my keyboard hotkeys work with anything that isnt wmp?