Media Players - What Do You Use and Why

My Favorite Features of WMP 10

Published on December 24, 2004 By Essencay In Personal Computing

Note: This author has never used any Media Player other than Windows Media Player and welcomes comments from winAMP users to show what your favorite features are in that software.

My Favorite Features of Window Media Player 10:

- Organize the media content and build a wide variety of playlists on your PC -
I have 244 hours of music from my CD collection using 19.63MB...don't know if that is a lot or not

...that I have been able to easily manage with the built-in playlists and playlists I've created myself.

- Play, rip and burn CD's -
Every new CD I buy gets added to my collection on my PC just by popping it into my CD-ROM and WMP gets the details off the net.

- Windows Taskbar Toolbar support -
One of the best features...WMP can minimize to a useable player right on my taskbar.

- Skinning support -
There are many great skins out there. Many of which come from The Skin Factory available right here at WinCustomize.

- Synchronize your media with portable devices -
I don't have a portable music player, but my wife does and she really enjoys this.

Features I Don't Use, But Are Available in Windows Media Player 10

- Purchase and download music from Online Stores -
I prefer to purchase CD's and use a Music Service to make my purchases.

- Listen to online radio -
Another feature that I don't use mainly because I'm on dial-up and can't afford losing bandwidth while I'm browsing.

Comments (Page 3)

Jafo

on Dec 26, 2004

Developer BlueDev yes, me too. The buggy-ness of V3 put me off going beyond 2.9x ...so much so that I chose to ignore V5 as well. If I wanted free-form skinning in a media player I'd just go back to their 'origins'....KJofol...

Sleeping Dragon

on Dec 27, 2004

I sing in the shower, but my puter is not waterproof, so when in use: Winamp

PixelPirate

on Dec 27, 2004

I first started with Winamp 2.x, actually the second reason for me to begin skinning. And I've used that ever since. It was fast, there were lots of skins and lots of options. WA3 wasn't that bad, but still slow. Then they added the best of 2.x and 3 and released WA5. Mmmm, just perfect. If I wanted it fast I could use 2.x skins and if I wanted some eye candy I could use a modern skin. Plus support of ripping your CD's. Easy to configure and make playlists. Something I've always hated with WMP. I only use that for video. Maybe because I never wanted to sit down and explore the possibillities of WMP, but I think that has something to do with me getting used to use Winamp

Oh Yeah, iTunes is supposed to be used on a Mac

CerebroJD

on Dec 27, 2004

I use WMP10, but thats mainly because when I use my skins, the memory footprint is pretty small. Believe it or not, I can get it down around 5-6 meg, and thats with my 700 song playlist loaded.

My main reason for using it though, is because I skin it.

butch123

on Dec 27, 2004

WMP 10 does all i need

WARCRY

on Dec 27, 2004

i dont use wmp never liked it i use winamp and itunes and foobar

joeKnowledge

on Dec 27, 2004

Now that I think about it, I use MMJB to rip CD's. I did use WinAMP to do that ONLY because I wanted to save the files as ACC (the one that iTunes uses) because I wanted to get an iPod... funny thing is that I don;t know if iPod will even play them (never did the research, just assumed)

so MMBJ to rip, WinAMP to play. WMP doesn't get much use unless I want to use a specific skin. then I eventually go back to WinAMP

Why?
MM3D skin for WinAMP (there are others, but that one ALWAYS makes me come back)

craeonics

on Dec 28, 2004

foobar. It's not skinnable *shock*, it looks very basic *horror*, but it's light-weight, has a great playlist, is oh so flexible and does almost exactly what I want.

I don't need to see my player, I just want to hear it and control it via hotkeys.

GreenReaper

on Dec 28, 2004

Well, maybe if the foobar guys get an API together you can have a shiny little desktop widget to control it as well.

Redneck21

on Dec 28, 2004

I used Windows Media Player before my sound card went out on me

Evorg

on Dec 28, 2004

WMP 10, it's free and does everything I need

Although I am really interested in DXPlayer

or even a Denon with Wharfedale's

TheSkinsFactory

on Dec 28, 2004

DesignCaddy: while i can't help you make the iPod run with WMP i can tell you a little trick so you can use the songs you purchased any way you like. Which is your right. Burn a cd with the songs you bought from the iTunes music store. Once they are on the cd they become the CD's format. All you have to do is play the cd and rip the songs off as mp3s or WMAs using WMP. It's ridiculous to think Apple has any right to tell you or to force you to use their player after you paid for the music.

GreenReaper

on Dec 28, 2004

TSF: Why? They have the rights to say what you do with the content, because those are the conditions under which you get to use the music. That's what you paid for. You didn't pay to be able to listen to it in WMP. If you don't like their conditions, don't buy the music from them. And if it's not available from anyone else, complain to the other people selling music tracks. And if they say the music labels won't let them (chances are that's the source of the restriction, as Apple certainly don't seem to have subsidised the player), complain to them. And if they don't care, complain to the musicians they represent. And if that doesn't work, start listening to something else.

Corky_O

on Dec 28, 2004

If I use the media player instead of my stereo or tv, I generally use WMP10 because it just works.

If I make a screenshot I generally use Winamp because the skins are much more fun.

I burn data files with XP's built-in packet writing feature.

Music and Video burning is given to Nero 6 all the way.

Bebi Bulma

on Dec 28, 2004

I use classic winamp 2.91 for mp3s, and usually Zoomplayer for media (it's small and compact and just about all I need), but there aren't many nice skins for it.

I just updated to WMP 10 and I have a few really nice skins for that so I've been using it recently.

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