Recommendations on a good MP3-Player

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 5:51 pm

I was looking for an MP3-Player for my computer. I used to use napster but now that it's basically gone to hell I'm probably just gonna uninstall it. I figured if it's only good use was to play MP3's (currently anyway), I'd get something a little fancier, something that looked better.

Just curious what your guys recommended? Just looking for something that plays them well, but is simple. I also wanna be able to make playlists. The look of it doesn't matter much, but it would be nice ot have somethin' that looks cool so when friends come over they can be like, "wow! What's that? What does it do?" blah blah

TIA.

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 7:07 pm

HT,
I kinda like the way Musicmatch Jukebox works out. Even works pretty good for rippin CD's, if it recognizes your CDRW.

http://www.musicmatch.com/home/

sethpa

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Mar 22, 2001 7:46 pm

mediaplayer7 hay it works and it is very customazible...granted U wont catch me with it on My computer.

Greg

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 9:59 am

sethpa - I tried it and it's pretty sweet. I downloaded a couple skins for it. I like how there is a simple mode to keep it nice and small. I have the music-match thang that my Live! Platinum came with and I use that for rippin' CD's.

Nexus_7 - bah! No MP7 for me...

kenada · Post by **kenada** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 4:27 pm

I'm just in time to shamelessly plug <a href="http://www.freeamp.org/">FreeAmp</a>, which creates a handy database out of all your MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files using the ID3/Ogg comments embedded in those files. One can then make custom playlists by dragging songs/albums/artists from the database list and dropping them in the playlist window. FreeAmp also has places for your favorite streams and can save those streams to disk IIRC. I myself recommend v2.1rc6, which is much better than any of the v2.0.x series.

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:20 pm

I'll check into it.

Anybody else use anything different?

madthumbs · Post by **madthumbs** » Fri Mar 23, 2001 6:44 pm

I like WinAmp with the MAD plug in, and DFX rocks! I can't imagine leaving winamp.

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 12:59 am

<b>madthumb</b>, your right about the DFX plug-in. I have been using it for awhile now. What does the MAD plug-in do?

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 1:03 am

Ahh I see. Thanks for the tip.

http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Sat Mar 24, 2001 4:57 pm

I never liked winamp much... :-/

GAZZA · Post by **GAZZA** » Tue Apr 03, 2001 8:10 pm

hhmmm another vote for winamp here

LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Wed Apr 04, 2001 8:33 am

yeah..winamp here. No reason to use anything else? Great little free program! cant go wrong with that