Thread: Which is your favourite Media Player?

Originally Posted by Nick_H

Is not using Windows a good reason?

Oh yes, definitely... That was for Windows.
My vote goes to VLC for Ubuntu/Linux. Banshee is nice too.
And i never used MAC till now, so no comments. :|

:lol:

But seriously... I never used WMP because I don't like an over-fussy interface to a media player, and I hate being told, sorry, you don't have the codecs to play this: buy them!

VLC, then, came as a pleasant surprise, and I just stuck with it for a long time. Whilst it is not a "fussy" (over-decorated) interface, nor is it the easiest to get anything but the basics from. It is very powerful: discovering that power is not always easy.

I would still agree on VLC for Linux... except for this gapless playback issue, which destroys classical or live rock replay.

This is one of those, surely-this-is-just-basic issues. I do not understand why it is a problem with VLC. I do not understand why it is a problem with several Ubuntu media players.

If you can't play a CD, or a ripped CD, and have it sound just like it would on a CD player ... the media player is terminally broken.

/rant over: Happy New Year