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The best lite music player for windows ever!
Support every possible formats, works with a plugin system making it customisable and fast.
No default in my opinion. The fact there are not really any skin is good.
Really good support for tags, with masstager, freedb, compatibility with 'various artists' albums by showing in any case the album name, and the song title / artist.
Dithering for 24 bits cards, have a little better sound, lot's of useful features.

Here is a screen of mine :

by configurating it, you can get something looking better, that's just i love ugly think when they run fast.

Give it a try, it's free like winamp, but I really forgot winamp a few days after installing foorbar!

http://www.foobar2000.org/

Foobar is great if you like a playlist-driven player (which, really, makes the most sense when you think about it). You can do things to make it pretty like Winamp but you shouldn't lose any functionality in the process.



There is a screenshot of a more recent setup I made. Kidnap'd into an xlabel in Litestep to ditch the titlebars and window borders.

I haven't been using it so much since I got another Xbox to put in my computer room, but for casual listening, it's still tops.

I use foobar on the computers that run Windows. It's nice and lightweight. The only problem I have is that a lot of plugins haven't been compiled with the newest SDK, so sometimes it's hard to get plugins to work with the newest version due to this. Just a slight annoyance.

Winamp used to be a good media player when it was still 2.X. However, since then, it has "gained weight", and has become a big hulking piece-of-crap program that I despise. Seriously. why would you want to use Winamp to play videos? It seems like there is always a battlefield between these huge bulky programs as to which gets the file association.

When I'm on Linux, I use mplayer for to play single files, and either xmms or beep-media-player to make and play playlists. If I'm bored and just want random tunes, I turn to amaroK, which is the greatest database music player ever.

That's the biggest issue with Foobar... when a new version comes out, every plugin breaks. It's worse than Firefox used to be with extensions. So every time a new version is released, there is a mad dash to get old plugins updated and it seems like every time a few of the really useful ones are left in the dust (foo_text comes to mind).

On my machine it uses quite a lot of memory, winamp is the best choise %)

Yeah - i guess it really depends what your used to. Ive just always had winamp and its always done the job. For linux though i like to use Amarok. Its not perfect but it would be great if i could mash Winamp and Amarok together to make the ultimate music app.