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Recommended media player for FLAC files?

Reply #25 –
[quote name='CoolHandZeke' date='Sep 27 2008, 11:43' post='590353']
Hey, everyone...

Can you recommend a good media player that best supports flac files?

1by1 (Windows/Linux); tiny and easy on the resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1by1

Recommended media player for FLAC files?

Reply #26 –
Normally I would say WMP11 because it comes with windows, does a great job of fitting into the vista look and feel and ultimately does a fantastic job organising and playing your music.  Plus it is no where near as bloated as the likes of itunes.  However it will require plugins to play flac and to properly organise in the library.

Then again foobar works perfectly with flac and has lots of little features and extras then again the interface is just terrible and requires a lot of tweaking to make it usable.

I would say to use either this J.River Media Jukebox or Winamp.  I have never used Media Jukebox and the only thing about Winamp that I do not like is the way it handles your musics metadata.

Recommended media player for FLAC files?

Reply #27 –
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KeyKey,

How did you get the album art to show up in the bottom left corner of foobar2000?  That's cool.

Everyone else,

Thank you very much for your input.  I will start looking more seriously at J. River Media Jukebox, Winamp, and I'll even check out 1by1.

I appreciate all the feedback.   

Zeke
"He's a natural born world-shaker."  -Dragline
 

Recommended media player for FLAC files?

Reply #28 –
Quote from: FasterThanEver on
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I'm sorry dude, but none of your responses really change anything. The menus in that program are still poorly organized. It's same problems that iTunes has, same problem Microsoft Office 2003 had, before the Ribbon. It actually a pretty common problem among windows programs. That's why finding a program that avoids such a mess (foobar2000) is almost like a godsend.

And it still isn't capable of looking like windows. The same could be said of all "skinned" programs. Some however are at least capable of taking hints from the native look of the system theme. (Opera's 'Windows native' and Firefox's default themes for example).


I really just get tired of people calling foobar2000's UI "still pathetic" when it's obvious that their own pet has a clusterf--- of usability problems of it's own, and the backend of their program isn't even capable of what's asked:

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On top of that, it doesn't seem it play my embedded cue sheets...

People seem to have missed the part where the OP says "Can you recommend a good media player that best supports flac files?".
I don't use Windows, but on that platform, foobar2000 is that player, if I'm not mistaken.

exactly.
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