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[dino-m]

I use Windows Media player?

[truman69]

i use windows media player all ways have always will lol easy and simple to use i say

[Amezis]

What?!? WMP is like IE: It sucks... Winamp is faster, it's cusomizable, and really good if you listen at songs online... I used to listen at online radio, and WMP used alot of time to connect etc, but winamp connected immediately...

WMP = IE
Winamp = Firefox

[round]

neither i use quicktime, windows media is great on the pc but doesn't look so hot on the mac.
round.trap17.com

[millertime]

i use winamp and wmp. for videos i watch them on wmp but winamp is for mp3s. winamp definately uses less system reasources which either way doesn't bother me because i have a gig of ram, soon to be more.... but its just easier to use in my view. windows media player can play a few more file formats then winamp and there are some videos that play in winamp but in a funky way like they skip around and lag for some reason, but in windows media player, they play just fine.... but if i had to vote on which one was my favorite, i would have to go with winamp!

[snlildude87]

Amezis, on Mar 11 2005, 03:57 PM, said:

What?!? WMP is like IE: It sucks... Winamp is faster, it's cusomizable, and really good if you listen at songs online... I used to listen at online radio, and WMP used alot of time to connect etc, but winamp connected immediately...

WMP = IE
Winamp = Firefox

You have never been so right. I use Winamp all the time when I'm listening to music because it has the hotkeys feature, so I don't have to go to the interface everytime I want to pause or go to the next song. I only use Windows Media Player when I want to play a video because I had a hard time when I tried playing the Ashlee Simpson lip sync video on Winamp.

By the way, what skin do you guys use on Winamp? I use the Haxbox skin because it goes with my Windows skin (StyleXP).

[doom145]

Winamp: This program is very new(came out in late 1999)and it is plain boring. You can just upgrade the skins(yepee, i am g** and i like silly little skins..lol..thats my impression), and all u can do is listen to mp3....lOl.my fone and my mp3 player can let me listen to music. It also has like loads of bugs that needed to be fixed but u get patches for that which is annoying and finding them is the hard bit. This program also has 3rd person listening to ur computer if u try and get music of it. It will pass on a trojan. Winamp also consists on problems that CAN NOT be fixed under no circumstances...I h8 this program

Windows Media: You can do anything with playing media with this. You can watch movies/play music/listen to radio. It has a variety of help and online support which is really good. The skins on this rock but I dont care because I have media player 10. THis really brings out the music of wat u r listening to and it just makes u feel like u r there(it also depends on ur sound card). The only problem with this is that it passes info to ms on the activity u do unless u block the firewall of ur pc. I really do like this proggy as it works on most pcs and it doesnt need much doing to make it work

so overall pick windows media...LOL

[Sprnknwn]

I don´t like Windows Media Player. It isn´t useless at all... but in general terms Winamp is much better, as said. More compact, faster in connection, gives you more control and it needs fewer resources.

For audio Winamp... for video, VLC

[Rik©]

doom145, on Mar 11 2005, 10:02 PM, said:

Winamp: .....and all u can do is listen to mp3

I don't know which winamp you are talking about but i can watch movies with it too.... and listen to streams/radio....

doom145, on Mar 11 2005, 10:02 PM, said:

..... u get patches for that which is annoying and finding them is the hard bit...

For updates and the latest version just visit www.winamp.com
And for support just visit the forums @ winamp.com

There are many skins and plug-ins (ogg-vorbis encoder, l.a.m.e. encoder, 5 Channels Output) for winamp... so i choose Winamp

Greetz,
Rik©

[thugnature]

well i used wma then got into winamp but then got sick of it jus cuz of the way its designed and it takes slow to loadd. Wma takes like 2 seconds to open up and i have music playin in 1 sec. I like wma better now cuz its just fast and just simple.

[-chukie-]

well i think that the winamp its faster than media player well in my computer is more faster than the mdia player because i got an slowly computer :S

[Spathi]

i'm more of a WMP fan. for one, the .wma files are smaller in file size than .mp3 files in most cases and tend to have higher quality. plus WMP can minimize w\ controls in to my taskbar, which is nice for when i'm too lazy to reach over my keyboard and hit the pause\stop\skip\previous buttons.

i don't care much for winamp. all of my music is in .wma form, and last i looked winamp dosent play those. plus the last time i tried it didn't react to my keyboards play\stop\skip\previous buttons, and it's a pain in the behind to use for those of us too lazy to use it for more than 20 minutes.

i'll stick with WMP

[Styx]

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  i'm more of a WMP fan. for one, the .wma files are smaller in file size than .mp3 files in most cases and tend to have higher quality. plus WMP can minimize w\ controls in to my taskbar, which is nice for when i'm too lazy to reach over my keyboard and hit the pause\stop\skip\previous buttons.

i don't care much for winamp. all of my music is in .wma form, and last i looked winamp dosent play those. plus the last time i tried it didn't react to my keyboards play\stop\skip\previous buttons, and it's a pain in the behind to use for those of us too lazy to use it for more than 20 minutes.

i'll stick with WMP wink.gif

look again. get the latest version of winamp (5.08e) and you shouldn't have any problems with bugs, wma files, most videos, etc. WMP is nice sometimes, but i'd pick winamp over WMP anytime. for videos, i use neither program. either WinDVD6 Platinum or DivX.

[Rik©]

Spathi, on Mar 12 2005, 11:55 AM, said:

i'm more of a WMP fan. for one, the .wma files are smaller in file size than .mp3 files in most cases and tend to have higher quality....

Have you ever considered .ogg? (ogg vorbis)
It's open source and has very good quality (even at 96kbps vbr).
I love it and most of the music on my pc is in .ogg format.
Even some software houses use this free format in some of their games. (Unreal Tournament 2003, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2,Serious Sam: The Second Encounter)

If you want to compare .ogg at low bitrate with other formats yourself you can visit this page:
http://www.xiph.org/...bis/listen.html

Greetz,
Rik©

[carrot]

i use WMP all the way. i guess its just because i am so used to it that i dont feel like switching it. the only thing i cant stand about it is the fact that it takes so much friggin work to get it to sync with an ipod. oh well. maybee in the new revamped minis they will just let u do it and not have to actully (gasp!) try. we can only wish....

[lovexshe]

Video for WMP, Audio for Winamp.
I have around 2000+ songs on my computer, its better to manage with winamp than WMP, i only use WMP to watch videos and ripping.

[xboxrulz]

neither for Video. I use Real for Video and Winamp only plays music; that is if I'm using Windows. If I'm using Linux; XMMS is my music player and Kaffeine is my Multimedia Player.

xboxrulz

[Aphromode]

I only use Windows Media Player for watching movies.. and i use Winamp for Music.. that's it

[Cif]

I use winamp because it's faster and configurable. With a nice skin it's also beautiful
For watch video, i use Media Player Classic, a powerfull program with a lot of options.

I think WMP is heavy, slow and poor of options...

[Galahad]

I use winamp for all of my audio, and wmp only if I have to take a look at some WMV, otherwise, I use MicroDVD or Bsplayer...

WMP is just... it sucks big time

[heavensounds]

Well in my opinion WINAMP is better because of his internet radio which i really listen a lot and you can get ANY music you want...on the other hand it is not that good for movies because you cant put subtitles in and stuff...for video WMP is better although BSPLAYER is the best for movies...

It is nice that WMP is nicely integrated in the XP system so it maybe starts faster and is more compatible with windows, but again winamp is more customizable in my opinion and looks better;)

After all it is everybodys choice which to choose, because you usually get used to one of them and then use it all your life

Have a nice day..

[rakkertje22]

If i should chose I had chosen Windows Media Player, but I am using an other program:

Musicmatch Jukebox. A great program with much more posibility's!

It's easy, quick and it doesn't slow your computer down while playing music.

So that is why i am using Musicmatch Jukebox

[iwuvcookies]

I dont' know what winamp version yalll used but they have video support on Winamp for sometime now. I think it plays alot of the audio formats except quicktime and ram. It has more functions on the control panels. You can search for a song on your playlist, make a webpage playlist, a bunch of skins, and compact.

[spacemonkey]

For listening to music, I usually prefer Winamp over Windows Media Player, or anything else for that matter. Yes, you can play videos in Winamp but for some reason I just can't seem to like it. I have to admit that I never really try to accept Winamp as a tool for watching videos, so I don't know what exactly I might be doing wrong, but every time I try to use Winamp to play a movie, it clears my playlist and I have to go load it up again the next time I want to listen to music. So, I use Winamp for music and Windows Media Player for video. That way, there is no interference.

[Unregistered 017]

Neither.

Music Match 10 Gold is superior. It plays everything you want, takes less CPU usage, and does alot of file converting and extra cool options. *huggles his program he bought*