AKICILJ*: media players?

[parallelgirl]

Can anyone recommend a good (free or very low cost) media player? I want to be able to copy and burn CDs etc, and ideally print jewel cases. I'm having woes with both Windows Media Player (eeeeevil!) and Real Player....any recommendations?

*All Knowledge is Contained in LJ, as lovecraftienne would say...

Comments

[barakta]

VLC is versatile and free.

[bondagewoodelf]

I wasn't aware that VLC could burn.

[parallelgirl]

thanks, I've downloaded this and will investigate!

[as_alas_i_was]

I have no advice; I just think it's funny that I initially read your entry title as "media prayers" and did a bit of a double take.

[parallelgirl]

*grin*

[drdoug]

I like Apple's iTunes. It doesn't print but I used it happily for ripping/burning even before I got my first actual iPod. It's free but only as-in-beer, and not without quirks. But CoverFlow is very pretty.

[thehalibutkid]

I like apples itunes as well.

[parallelgirl]

thanks both, I'm going to download this for organising tracks, as well as VLC :)

[softfruit]

I use MPCstar for playing. I have no advice on burning/copying, but MPCstar seems to play back anything I damn well throw at it.

[parallelgirl]

thanks :)
*blows a mistletoe-kiss*

[earwigmc]

VLC, yes. i've used infrarecorder to burn and been satisified (open source i think. def free). i get on ok wiht media player, tho jsut for watching. find real player annoying. have used nero to burn in the past and found it so so.

VLC

[parallelgirl]

thanks, that's the one I'm going with- it turns out to be the one we use at work, too- as soon as I went to the site I recognised that little traffic cone!

(plus tbh, when you recommend a product I tend to feel pretty confident about going with it 'cos your research is/was always so thorough ;) (like, I think you're prob a bit more impulsive these days, but I trust your nose for these things!))

Re: VLC

[earwigmc]

=nods= re the traffic cone =smile=

and =nods= re slightly more impulsive these days =smile=

but, yes, i do tend to look into things quite thoroughly still, and i also listen and learn from others, and try a thing or three and make my own opinion.

i think in some ways it's easier with some softwares cos yo can download them, install them, try them, and then uninstall them if it doesn't work out. i did that with a host of programs for talking with ipods over on ubuntu (to date, i'd recommend banshee for that purpose on that OS).

i forgot to say in my original comment that i do not lie itunes for windows. tho i think one of your other commenters did, iirc.