Best Free Media Player?

[Jesus Jones]

I'm sure this has been asked a dozen times before but since upgrading my GOM player it is full of advertisements.

I have VLC which is fine most of the time but takes a will to get going and windows media player i never use. Is anyone familiar with Zoom player?

What's worth downloading?

Cheers

[Kwang]

VLC Player is certainly not the slowest, here's some benchmarks









* Couldn't play all our test files. Included for reference only.

[fiddler]

I use winamp on one computer and media monkey on the other.
Prefer winamp.
Much better and will soon switch the other computer.
The only thing I don't like is the ads from time to time.
But, it's free, so, I guess I can deal with them.

[importford]

vlc is the best
by the way, many people don´t know that vlc has many extra tools....

[Marmite the Dog]

VLC for vids, WMP for music.

[Jesus Jones]

kwang, thanks for that. Guess i'll DL one or two and have a play around.

[FailSafe]

I'm surprised you find VLC slow to start- I've never had it take more than a couple of seconds to get going (it's definitely faster than Windows Media Player- though by only a second or two- which is the other player I occasionally use- I just go with whichever my download happens to start with as I don't have a default set).

[baldrick]

VLC is probably the best - have you upgraded to version 2.0 ? it was recently released

media player classic - home cinema is also good
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema - Video Player

and the klite codec pack has a version of media player classic with it which is good

[Bogon]

I use GOM for films and Winamp for music.
GOM has never let me down.

[Bettyboo]

I've always found Media Monkey good for music.

[Jesus Jones]

I use GOM for films and Winamp for music.
GOM has never let me down.

GOM as never let me down as far as playback goes. But the adverts after closing the app are annoying despite choosing the option not to accept. VLC likewise is great when it gets going which is well over 20secs.

Jesus, are our lives this bad when we moan over 20 seconds?

[Bettyboo]

^ the missus complains about 20 seconds too...

(works perfectly for me though)

[Kwang]

VLC likewise is great when it gets going which is well over 20secs.

Uninstall it and reinstall from here.VLC Media Player - Download.com

For some reason mine went missing off my computer yesterday, so I downloaded it again and it starts instantly.

[palexxxx]

I like Winamp too, I like the graphic equalizer.

[Bogon]

^ and the way you change colours!
Mines an electric blue at the moment.

[Ozymandias]

VLC, GOM or the often overlooked Windows Media Player Classic.

Media Player Classic - Download.com

[blue]

I like VCL for videos
and Foobar for music
Foobar2000 - Download.com

Problem
I just downloaded a FLAC file ,that was hard to find
but track 1 and 2 sound ok listening one after the other
, but the split is half way through track 2
so no good as single files.
not sure if theres a proper embed cue as , my 'medieval cue splitter' prog doesn't seem to work ,
so I'm trying to join them together and then re-separating them correctly
there's a silence between the 2 tracks so should be possible,

a google search gets a suggestion using Foobar

Start foobar2000, select the relevant files, right-click to open the context menu and open the converter.
There, set up a FLAC profile in Output format,
and in the Destination submenu select Generate multi-track files.
Also set up a proper output pattern.
Then hit Convert and voilà, you got a single file FLAC with embedded chapters.

got as far as
''set up a proper output pattern''

can anyone know what that means in simple terms ??

[Bogon]

^ I use "MP3 cutter" for that kinda stuff.
Tiny download and piss easy to use.


Link...MP3 Cutter - Download FREE

[Neo]

VLC is the best imo. The tools make it for me. Had some problems with the latest 2.01 version though, which is unusual for them, so reloaded a earlier version until they sort out the glitches.

Old Version Downloads - OldApps.com

[sandystevees]

There are many types of media players are available on the internet for playing music but I prefer to Windows media palyer.It is free and easy to download.It is very good and easily to operate. It s disadvantage is some type of video format cannot be run in Windows media player.