murve33 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I dunno if this has been advertised here yet, but I recently switched from iTunes to Songbird and it was the best decision I've made in a while. There's a shitload of addons and skins, it functions as a browser, it can be integrated with last.fm and maybe spotify too, it fetches lyrics for you, it shows news/concerts/photos/stuff about the artist that's currently playing, when surfing the web it grabs audio files on the website and adds them to a playlist, compatible with many phones/iPods/Linux/Mac, and probably a bunch of other shit I can't think of. You all should try it out. My two friends, who previously used Windows Media Player and Winamp, are using it now. http://www.getsongbird.com/system-requirements.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 sounds like all the things that turned winamp into bloatware. i just want my music player to play music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 hmmm that sounds pretty intriguing to me. i'm too lazy to give a crap about what browser i use (IE), or what media player (itunes), but this sounds worth the download, particularly because i'm bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 sounds like all the things that turned winamp into bloatware. i just want my music player to play music. Yea, it's all about the sleek interface and features. I happen to like that shit though. Hence why I was using iTunes in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 also because you look like a happy little fluffy cloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Songbird is ok, i like some of the features, interface is nice, seems like it might have good media management but on initial glance a few things annoy me: takes 2x the memory as winamp (120mb) and you can only have ONE watch folder? thats seriously stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beariksson Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 foobar 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 but on initial glance a few things annoy me: takes 2x the memory as winamp (120mb) and you can only have ONE watch folder? thats seriously stupid. Woah, 120? Mine generally doesn't go over 85. Watch Folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 but on initial glance a few things annoy me: takes 2x the memory as winamp (120mb) and you can only have ONE watch folder? thats seriously stupid. Woah, 120? Mine generally doesn't go over 85. Watch Folder? i might have more plugins enabled, and come to think of it 120 isnt too bad considering its a running a browser as well. Watch folders are folders that you can set the program to watch for new files. For instance i have a soulseek directory, a torrents directory, AND a music folder which i put new tracks into regularly. If these folders aren't watched, new tracks dont get added to my media library and i have to add the manually. also i'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate what a steaming pile foobar is. What an ugly, confusing, unintuitive, and backwards program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Donkey Rhubarb Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Nuff said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 i might have more plugins enabled, and come to think of it 120 isnt too bad considering its a running a browser as well. Watch folders are folders that you can set the program to watch for new files. For instance i have a soulseek directory, a torrents directory, AND a music folder which i put new tracks into regularly. If these folders aren't watched, new tracks dont get added to my media library and i have to add the manually. also i'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate what a steaming pile foobar is. What an ugly, confusing, unintuitive, and backwards program. Ohhh, right. Yea, one watch folder is pretty stupid. While on this note the other downsides are no drag-n-drop from the player to a folder, which I got used to in iTunes. Edit: Except you can select a song in your library and see the folder it's in. So it almost makes up for it. And there's no visualizer, except I think there's a contest going on having to do with the design of one. Nonetheless, the good outweighs the bad in my honest opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Enter a new display name Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 You know you are not gay when you use foobar2000 as your main media player. ITUNES LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 okay i just downloaded this, as iTunes is obnoxious. But are other players less suck? no. yeh the interface is okay i guess. i successfully synced it with the existing iTunes library, now what is there to say, it plays songs and grabs all sorts of pictures/text from various sources. i like the standard theme visually. then something happened. then it's updating the library again. then every song in the library has a duplicate. /deleted.. the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 okay i just downloaded this, as iTunes is obnoxious. But are other players less suck? no. yeh the interface is okay i guess. i successfully synced it with the existing iTunes library, now what is there to say, it plays songs and grabs all sorts of pictures/text from various sources. i like the standard theme visually. then something happened. then it's updating the library again. then every song in the library has a duplicate. /deleted.. the end. That's fucked up. I didn't actually use the iTunes thing. I just moved my iTunes Folder contents to the songbird folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smuckers Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 when i first got my mac i spent a while searching for alternative media players to itunes and eventually settled with songbird. think it's pretty rad myself and like the add-ons available, but most of the add-ons central to my listening enjoyment aren't compatible with the newest version, so i'm not updating til that changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Should I switch from itunes to foobar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest placidburp Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I like this, I can now sing along to Alice Cooper's "Muscle of Love" now with the help of the lyric thing. huzzah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 foobar is great, plays music gapless too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 VLC FOR LIFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 yeah vlc for me. Its even got a playlist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alky Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 winamp isn't really bloatware if you don't let it be, i use it with the classic skin that's been around since winamp started basically, and the funcitonality is basically identical to what it was 10 years ago. the main thing i use in winamp which keeps me from wanting to try other media players is the f3 search when you have 20,000 songs or whatever in your entire collection, scrolling to the track you want is pretty retarded. plus it depends entirely on all of your tracks having proper naming conventions / correct ID3 information for them to be ordered correctly such that you can find them. in winamp you can just hit f3 and type like "ap" for example and it'll list all artists/tracks starting with or containing those letters, and the list gets shorter in realtime as you type more letters and terms. basically you can locate + play any track or artist in your gigantic playlist within seconds. or is this standard in other media players? (i know other media players have search features but i dunno, winamp's is just so damn efficient and awesome) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 foobar rulz em all if u dont agree its just cos ur not smart enuf to figger it out and yes, alky most players have that feature lol.. i also keep two boxes, sorted by artist and one by album for skipping quickly with much less scrolling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 i don't see whats so wrong with itunes other than no flac (a huge downside) but then again i have a mac and an ipod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest raan Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Songbird is cool but foobar is still the king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobDobalina Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Should I switch from itunes to foobar? unless you're addicted to eye candy, yes. Extremely light on system resources, plays every format imaginable, powerful tag editing / library organizing features, and you can customize it to be as complicated (or minimal in my case) as you desire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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