Music players

[hannigan_rex]

So I have reset my computer and am now looking for a program to play all the mp3s I saved. I have Window Media Player, but it doesn't do much for me. I like iTunes okay. I haven't had WinAmp since college. It worked then, but I don't know about now. Any suggestions?

Comments

[glaciermf5]

What ver. of Windows Media Player do you have? I use the latest one and like it more than iTunes or WinAmp. But I haven't tried any others.

[hannigan_rex]

9. I had 10 before. It was okay. I'm tempted to go with winamp because Mark knows how to make skins for it and I like the idea of making my own skin.

[josefblind]

I like Winamp because it runs at a reasonable speed on my aging computer (which I can't say for the other two).

[jpfed]

There's this wonderful command that programs used to have called "File-Open..." I use that one almost every time I run any program, first thing. It's really great- you get to look through your files and folders for the file or files that you're interested in opening

[hannigan_rex]

It has file-open, it's just that the later editions are trying to hide things like that to look more (I'm totally stealing this term for like everything now) "magic-box" like. You know, that style that Apple is mastering? That style that makes people not know how things work they just do "intuitively" (if your intuition has been mapped by Steve Jobs).

So one of the reasons I stopped using winamp is because I heard that they were becoming not freeware once long ago. I've since learned this was never true. Or is there a real truth somewhere in the middle?

[jpfed]

I'm surprised to hear that Windows Media Player actually does have a File-Open...

Winamp is still free. You can even get old versions of it if you don't like the newer versions.

[nerdcodegeode]

Happy Birthday!

PS Winamp! It's free, good, and pretty-able!

[hannigan_rex]

Thank you. It is a happy birthday.