media players?

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Ive been fighting RealPlayer for some time, it freezes, I reload a fresh copy it freezes and all my libraries are gone.

Windows Media Player somehow takes over at times and I don't care for it either, as it doesn't play a bunch of stuff I was given that played on Real PLayer.

Anyone have suggestions of a decent simple Windows 8 Media player? I consider myself low usage.... lol mainly due to spending most my time Task Managing and reinstalling RealPlayer...
 
Who still uses RealPlayer? The thought gives me shivers . . . eah . . .
Anyway, try Foobar2000. It may take a while to customize it to your liking but it's a great player.
 
I don't what happens, I tend to blame windows updates, because somehow the real player gets messed up then somehow Windows Media PLayer is the default...

and it seems the os doesn't like having several of the players? I don't know and am not very good with pc software troubleshooting. usually its a full reboot after a unch of time is lost and the "playlists" are wiped out.

I know....never use your HR pc for internet is a rule, but on this one I do.

I might try a couple new ones, if they can play my RealPLayer stuff, I'll do it.

thanks for the suggestions..
 
Lol @ RealPlayer. I remember using RealJukebox to rip MP3's back in 1999/2000, it could only do 92 kbps :D
 
TimOBrien said:
VLC Media Player
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This ^^^.

The only trouble I ever had with VLC was that I put an update into a window XP machine once, little note book thing I take on planes, and movies would jog a little, went back a version and everything OK, they fixed it with a small update a few days later. I use VLC all the time for movies and some sound files. I must admit I use Itunes for most audio playing when I am just listening to music from the computer, not studio work.

Alan
 
witzendoz said:
This ^^^.

The only trouble I ever had with VLC was that I put an update into a window XP machine once, little note book thing I take on planes, and movies would jog a little, went back a version and everything OK, they fixed it with a small update a few days later. I use VLC all the time for movies and some sound files. I must admit I use Itunes for most audio playing when I am just listening to music from the computer, not studio work.

Alan
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Another one for VLC here.
 
Real Player is a fossil. Another vote for VLC here. Although if you update the codecs in Media Player it works just fine.
 
well Im trying WinAmp and VLC now.

moved everything to Windows Media Player and it froze up several times each time I use it, requiring a restart.

thanks for the inputs... real player I had some old stuff I wanted to keep and some didn't like the files, where real player did. geeez it was locking up and a mess.

if VLC farts out I'll know I have a virus or something probably..
 
well Im still having audio problems with winamp... audio will be playing and it abruptly stops and the audio is all frozen, no songs will play nothing will play. I can surf or do other things fine, its all audio issues only.

starting to wonder if its my Windows 8 (with cnet Win 7 app), or the HP off-the-shelf system?
or maybe my Line 6 UX 2 drivers and marriage with above?

resetting frequently to "unfreeze" the system works for a bit.

maybe too many audio softwares now? I don't know.

Real PLayers froze, Window Media froze, WinAmp freezing... Suppose I could try VLC next.

Any recommendations on default settings, or any ideas welcome.

(my daughter just bought a Mac Book because she hated WIndows 8 so much... Im starting to wonder too I never had this happen so often with Win XP)

edit: with VLC all audio stopped working except for my interface and reaper. I deleted all the downloaded audio-media players.
I reloaded the HP pavilion "beatsaudio" drivers and its working with Windows Media Player (where I started...arrrrgg).

Im wondering if theres a USB driver issue, with Window 8 or this store-consumer pc is worth the $250 I paid for it? lol

anyway updating.. I wont consider this issue fixed until it runs for a few months without freezing up.

edit 2: (25 minutes later)
well it froze up again and wont play.... interface and reaper plays fine as usual. Just Youtube audio frozen and my mp3 in windows audio files wont play again, the player just freezes up?

edit 3:
Read VLC got the best overall rating for Windows 8.
removed everything and reloaded VLC Media Player. Set VLC as Default.
Restarted the pc for the 20th time today.... its played 4 songs without freezing! a miracle! geeez fn ell ?


EDIT 4: VLC media player was working when I went to bed. When I woke up the Audio doesn't work. Seems the song title can be clicked on but no sound.....
Interface and Reaper works fine.

RESTART will work temporarily for VLC media player.

EDIT 5: After [playing several tunes without issue, let pc sit for 10hrs or so....no internet connection.
Went to play some VLC MP3 tunes and player shows activity, but no sound again through the interface.

of course a restart will fix it....arrrg WTF?

EDIT 6: all roads lead to Microsoft and there I found many posts about the same issue. the audio sound disappearing after 1minute to several hours.
I also uninstalled an reinstalled all audio drivers.

But here is what appears to be the very odd problem in Windows 8
 

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I hate Windows Media Player with a passion!!!

It simply refuses to play certain songs/videos when you click on them in a playlist, but simply double clicking them from Windows Explorer opens them in WMP and they play perfectly! Go figure.

I've been using VLC recently and it's a whole lot better.

Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one - WMP9 was the last decent version
 
I haven't had one issue since, so it probably wasn't any of the media players btw... probably the fact I didn't know how to setup the pc (and deselect Window garbage)

I have everything moved to VLC which is ok, (but I don't care for the skin much. ..orange/white stripped road cone?)
But I wont argue everyones thumbs up on it, and it seems to work so far.

Thanks for all the inputs for sure!
 
Ah yes bad memories of RealPlayer - VLC is great and plays any audio or video file you care to throw at it.
 
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