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is there any other program better than this one to listen to my mp3 and audio cds? I am tired of it cos its always making mistakes |
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Winamp is what I swear by. Tons of skins and plug ins and all around awesomeness. Preferably NOT Winamp 3, I've heard it's not as good as Winamp 2... My current skin is: |
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beatles of course !! |
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All the Aphex Twin skins suck horribly, totally unusable. This one's brilliant, though. For all you Metroid geeks. |
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my problem is that with windows media sometimes the pc falls down... it just dies and I have to reset... is that due to something apart from some mistake in my media player? |
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That happens to me sometimes with other music programs. It's best to use Winamp, much easier to use, and WMPlayer seems to take up more CPU power... and it just sucks. Too many useless features weighing it down. |
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Have a Winamp skin editor but its two hard to figure out, someone make a xltronic skin, with my avatart in it. :) |
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thanks ophecks |
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Ophecks --show the aphex twin skin if ya can......... |
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Here's an example of one. There's 12 Aphex skins there, they all suck, you can barely make out the buttons. |
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And there's only ONE Autechre skin... a bit better than the Aphex skin, but still pretty ugly and user-unfriendly. |
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I personally like Windows Media Player...version 9 (the newest one) is the best yet. True, it is a memory hog, but I have few problems with it's stability. The new WMA9 format is loads better than MP3, almost a third smaller file sizes, and better quality at lower bitrates. |
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"better quality at lower bitrates" - this is true of practically every newer, more technically advanced codec introduced since mp3 (ogg vorbis, musepack, AAC), but does it mean that Windows media is "loads better"? Nope. |
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It is when you have hundreds of CDs digitally captured on your PC and it takes up 23GB with wma rather than 60GB with MP3 :) MP3 is good for convenience, but for personal use, WMA suits me fine. Plus, WMP9's new playlist features are neat - you can generate playlists based on a number of criteria. Doesn't really matter - whatever is best for you is what's important. |
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Hopefully Windows Media 9 has improved the high-frequency cutoff that was in 8. You might be in for a surprise if you ever try to play your files on a decent stereo system (or any 64 Kbps codec for that matter). |
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lossless compression is getting better these days as well, hopefully sometime soon we wont have to re-archive our music selection every couple years |
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Amen to that. After that problem I've never looked at Mw format again,God bless Winamp3(not 2) |
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my friend swears by ogg, do any of you agree it's the best? |
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quite many people swear on ogg. i don't notice real difference but i believe. |
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Ogg is very very good, but I still think that lossless is the answer, we're talking about overall quality gains that range from a fraction of a percent to 1 or 2 percent with each "revised" lossy compression format. Im going to keep using lame vbr until a deadly lossless comes out, monkeys audio is getting pretty good-seems to cut most files at least in half |
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I don't think ogg is the best at anything - except for its licensing requirements (none). But it is not bad and should continue to improve and get more support. |
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