It’s fucking Apple!
Apple seem to specialise in half-arsed software ports to other platforms. I say that because I have never used a mac so I have to talk peoples word for it that it works well on their own OS. It doesn’t work well in Windows.
I have a Zune and an iPod, of roughly the same generation, and the Zune is much nicer to use and comes with much nicer software. However, I still prefer Foobar when it comes to a full-on music player.
Now there is amarok for Windows too 
I believe Apple may be trying to make you buy something.
Winamp 4 life
stereo tool and milkdrop 2 are epic plugins
Walkman, case closed.
Time for my reasons for using Songbird.
Nice easy customizable interface, fast as ever(and even faster with an add-on that optimizes it), easily customizable for easy browsing of either extremely large or smaller music libraries. eh shuns apple because they pissed him off and isn’t afraid of loosing some community. Tagging the meta-data for entire albums and individual songs is fast.
[COLOR=‘Black’]eh also doesn’t have memory leak or crash like iTunes on Windows
:hmph:
But VLC is a movie player, isn’t it? It does not have a nice interface to play your music collection.
VLC can play music too.
It can play almost every media format.
But it just doesn’t have the library management that other media players have, otherwise it would be a killer application.
That is what I had in mind when I made my observation. I use Smplayer (frontend for mplayer) as a movie player, and I already used it some times to play music, but it is definitely not good as a music player.
WMP. Why use anything else really? Customization isn’t a big thing for me, mediaplayer is minimized half the time anyway.
Performance. WMP is a memory hog compared to foobar2000. Also, much nicer and handier interface.
Well, taste is not arguable, but, whenever I hear the words “Windows Media Player”, the image I have in mind is a heavy, slow, counter-intuitive, ugly blueish program. It has too much ornaments (sorry if term is wrong) that actually make the program ugly and difficult to use IMHO.
I used to use Monkey Media Player a while ago, it has an interface which is very similar to Amarok.
EDIT: Argh! :ninja:'d (in some points)
Yeah, maybe your right when your talking about older versions, but the newer versions with windows 7 seem fine to me. Currently, WMP is set to shuffle all songs, and is using 26, 000K of ram with 0 CPU usage, in modern computers, i’m pretty sure we can spare that, seems as firefox is using 173, 000K.
Also, in the newer versions, i like the “Now Playing” mode, which is minimalistic interface with all the options you’d need really.
Winamp…but only for the device support. Using iTunes for an iPod is akin to torture.
Is anyone familiar with other options for iPod syncing/device support? I was using Rockbox for some time, but I like the ability to sync my playlist with my device because I have more music than storage space.
Foobar2000 has a plugin for iPod support. And paddy, foobar2000 just has way more features and plugins than WMP. If you’re fine with WMP, then I can understand why you’re not going to bother changing, but once you use foobar2000 for an extended amount of time, you’re not gonna want to switch back.
Winamp is even better than iTunes if you have ml_ipod plugin.
Winamp. All the way.