Any good media players (besides itunes and winamp)?

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I currently use itunes, but it installs components all over the show.

So when my notebook HDD crashed, instead of me thinking everything was safe and sound on my external HDD (where I thought everything was installed) I in fact lost my entire play history because Quicktime was installed on the now dead HDD, not my external one. Itunes refused to work and I had to re-install. But it doesn’t give the option to specify where to install all components, so it will be the same story if the notebook plays up.

The problem with winamp is that some songs are ripped for itunes, so their filename is, e.g., “FDLG.mp3”. They show up in itunes with song names etc, but in winamp there is no info.

So I need a media player that plays all formats and will hopefully have the filename-to-file info recognition of itunes. :grumpy:
 
Cool, it plays MP4's too. Pity its doesnt have 'star' ratings like itunes, but at least it is simple i.e. less can go wrong 👍

How do you guys sort songs by preference?
 
Sorry, I don't use fb2k. I use Winamp. ;)

I just suggested it because I know it's a great player and figured it would work for you.
 
I'm using Zinf (formerly FreeAmp) for mp3's and MPlayer Classic for videos, which are both open source, but I don't have a clue whether all formats you need are supported or not.
 
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How do you guys sort songs by preference?
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I use multiple playlists so I can set each on shuffle.

Also I like how it can be sent to the tray in Preferences->Display->Default User Interface, bottom right corner.
 

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