Audio/video?
PC/Mobile?
Why those?
What did you use before?
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Myself:
PC
Audio - winamp - v2.8.0
Was the most efficient/simple player I could find using under 7 mb of ram to play a song
Sometimes I wish it displayed the album art and other fun doodads (like foobar2000) but I realized I wouldn't be staring at it while working on stuff
Video - bomi
Thing is jam packed with keyboard shortcuts which you can customize to your liking
Saves the position you were last at upon closing - keeps a playback history of items you've opened with it - double click to full screen - has played everything I've thrown at it so far without issue
Only thing I didn't like about it at default was that when opened with nothing playing it displays its logo in the center with a bright red background filling in the rest - quickly found the option to disable that
You have to pan to one of the three sides with your mouse for the tools to pop up making it unobtrusive as you can input all your actions via the keyboard shortcuts
I adore this one the most of all I've listed here
Mobile
Audio - Default android/lollipop music player generically named - music - v5
I really enjoy mobile players since their UIs tend to favor album art which I find important when browsing through my collection deciding on what to play. Anyway this came loaded on the phone I got which saved me the hassle of searching for others as I've been using it ever since.
Dark UI - does this nice backdrop thing - simple
A con - the status bar notification is white but I'm blaming that on lollipop
Video - MX Player Pro - v1.7.39
Though I don't like its filer browser the player itself is very sleek
Honestly I just found the first dark UI player on the store and have kept with it
Supports dual audio/subtitles and also played everything without fuss
Swipe up/down to increase/decrease volume/brightness depending on what side of the screen you swipe. This is probably very standard now but it sorta blew me away when I started using it.
Quality of video is bad but the player looks like this
Since mobile developers constantly chug out media player applications I feel like a dinosaur mentioning these despite only a few years having passed
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For the longest time I thought wmp11 was the king of all things in need of playing
PC/Mobile?
Why those?
What did you use before?
[hr]
Myself:
PC
Audio - winamp - v2.8.0
Was the most efficient/simple player I could find using under 7 mb of ram to play a song
Sometimes I wish it displayed the album art and other fun doodads (like foobar2000) but I realized I wouldn't be staring at it while working on stuff
Video - bomi
Thing is jam packed with keyboard shortcuts which you can customize to your liking
Saves the position you were last at upon closing - keeps a playback history of items you've opened with it - double click to full screen - has played everything I've thrown at it so far without issue
Only thing I didn't like about it at default was that when opened with nothing playing it displays its logo in the center with a bright red background filling in the rest - quickly found the option to disable that
You have to pan to one of the three sides with your mouse for the tools to pop up making it unobtrusive as you can input all your actions via the keyboard shortcuts
I adore this one the most of all I've listed here
Mobile
Audio - Default android/lollipop music player generically named - music - v5
I really enjoy mobile players since their UIs tend to favor album art which I find important when browsing through my collection deciding on what to play. Anyway this came loaded on the phone I got which saved me the hassle of searching for others as I've been using it ever since.
Dark UI - does this nice backdrop thing - simple
A con - the status bar notification is white but I'm blaming that on lollipop
Video - MX Player Pro - v1.7.39
Though I don't like its filer browser the player itself is very sleek
Honestly I just found the first dark UI player on the store and have kept with it
Supports dual audio/subtitles and also played everything without fuss
Swipe up/down to increase/decrease volume/brightness depending on what side of the screen you swipe. This is probably very standard now but it sorta blew me away when I started using it.
Quality of video is bad but the player looks like this
Since mobile developers constantly chug out media player applications I feel like a dinosaur mentioning these despite only a few years having passed
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For the longest time I thought wmp11 was the king of all things in need of playing
