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Best Media Player?

20 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/best-media-player.17240/

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Udaya Maurya Original post #1
Oct 20, 2005 at 9:35 AM
I want only one or two media players on my system.

Please tell me two or one media player which can play nearly all the media files, i.e. maximum.

Sorry, I forgot I'm also looking for such a player which shows the pre-substituted lyrics of the song instead of the visulisation, also tell how it happens... :roll:
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Oct 20, 2005 at 9:46 AM
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30370&highlight=media+player
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cybermanas #4
Oct 20, 2005 at 11:19 AM
Try Winamp 5.1 myriads of skins,plugins etc. and can play every audio format you can think of. For video use WMP10+KL CODEC PACK
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cybermanas #5
Oct 20, 2005 at 11:32 AM
You can also try Quintessential Player.The interface just rocks,great use of animation ,uses less resources than Winamp (around half) ,can play every commonly used audio format (mp3,mp3pro,aac,mp4,m4a,wma,ogg) and by the way it's completely free and there is no pro version like others have.It's a worthy try.

www.quinnware.com
infra_red_dude
Oct 20, 2005 at 6:09 PM
vlc player. or install any codec pack and be happy wid the good old media player classic!
S
Oct 20, 2005 at 6:52 PM
there's a sticky in the same section on the same topic by dr, look properly b4 u post.
U
Oct 27, 2005 at 4:38 PM
shwetanshu said:
there's a sticky in the same section on the same topic by dr, look properly b4 u post.

Sorry :(

But...

I'm also looking for such a player which shows the pre-substituted lyrics of the song instead of the visulisation, also tell how it happens...:roll:
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KoolFirE #10
Oct 27, 2005 at 6:10 PM
The Best Media player is Media Player Classic. Its free and plays all formats.
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Tech&ME #11
Oct 27, 2005 at 6:48 PM
Udaya Maurya said:
shwetanshu said:
there's a sticky in the same section on the same topic by dr, look properly b4 u post.

Sorry :(

But...

I'm also looking for such a player which shows the pre-substituted lyrics of the song instead of the visulisation, also tell how it happens...:roll:

You can see lyrics in Windows Media Player 10, but you will have to manually insert the lyrics first and then play the song normally. See the help files for reference.
M
Oct 30, 2005 at 11:58 PM
infra_red_dude said:
vlc player. or install any codec pack and be happy wid the good old media player classic!
agree!!
himtuna
himtuna #13
Oct 31, 2005 at 10:58 PM
iTunes
Creative Media Player
Windows media pl. (Hardly)
reddick
reddick #14
Oct 31, 2005 at 11:11 PM
'Winamp 5' n 'Windows Media Player 10' RULEZ!!!
Tapomay
Tapomay #15
Nov 1, 2005 at 5:22 PM
Real Player 10.5 is also good.
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gxsaurav #16
Nov 1, 2005 at 5:33 PM
Real player, can also play Quicktime & Windows Media files, granted that Quicktime is installed

infact Real player can play anything, as long as the codecs are installed, it is really the compleate Media player, as it playes everything

for normal tasks, i would recomend, Real alternative & Quicktime alternaitve with VLC or Windows Media player, or simple a compleate codec pack with WMP
vignesh
vignesh #17
Nov 1, 2005 at 5:44 PM
Winamp and amarok..
S
Nov 1, 2005 at 7:16 PM
Winamp plus and MP 10 with all the codecs installed does a good job...

Regards...
vignesh
vignesh #19
Nov 1, 2005 at 8:43 PM
Media Player classic is an opensource player that plays all the formats you can think of..
Vishal Gupta
Nov 2, 2005 at 12:23 AM
WMP with K-Lite Mega Codec pack is perfect!!!

But the problem is WMP interrupts playing songs during other system processes.

Thats why Real Player also required.

Thus "Real Player + WMP + K-lite Codec Pack" is the BEST combination :D