I bought some computer parts recently, and I also bought Win8 to run on it. I don't really like the Windows Media Player in Win8, so I'm looking for an alternative. What do you guys use to play music on your (Windows-based) computers that you'd suggest I try? And Tom, I threw that "Windows-based" bit in there because I'm sure there's better alternatives on Linux, but I'm not running Linux... :P
Quote from: Thorin on March 07, 2015, 09:14:01 PM
I bought some computer parts recently, and I also bought Win8 to run on it. I don't really like the Windows Media Player in Win8, so I'm looking for an alternative. What do you guys use to play music on your (Windows-based) computers that you'd suggest I try? And Tom, I threw that "Windows-based" bit in there because I'm sure there's better alternatives on Linux, but I'm not running Linux... :P
Well, I normally wouldn't push linux apps for someone that doesn't use linux :P
For music you have things like foobar2000, winamp, and Amarok (https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Windows)
I use Plex Web its not the best but available everywhere. As Tom noted foobar2000 and winamp are still common options....
Oh, I also use Play Music. I have a subscription. It's music selection isn't always the greatest, or maybe thats just its dumb selection algorithms, but when I'm listening to a generated playlist, it starts to repeat a little too often.
With winamp dead and foobar2000 getting dated I looked for an alternative music player in the last 2 years. Mixxx is what I use. Is a digital DJ board that I've used at weddings and is a very decent easy to use music app... And it's open source and on Windows, Mac, and Linux: http://mixxx.org/download/.
VLC or the Plex media client
Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 08, 2015, 02:53:51 PM
VLC
Agreed. But I'm too lazy to keep up with what is the latest greatest cool apps for things like media playing. Been around forever and runnable as a portable app, that's what had me sold on it years ago (can be run from USB stick or even from your %TEMP% folder if needed).
VLC is dead simple, most of the time I just right click on the directory and choose play with VLC
I don't use players like vlc because I'm lazy. You have to actually change the playlist yourself :( with players like amarok (or services like Play Music), you just setup a smart/dynamic playlist and it just keeps going and going and going.
How's this for a far more modern interface for media enjoyment?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/266430/ ("Anarchy Arcade (3D 'Desktop')")
Quote from: Darren Dirt on March 09, 2015, 03:13:34 PM
How's this for a far more modern interface for media enjoyment?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/266430/ ("Anarchy Arcade (3D 'Desktop')")
dat interface
I've had it with ALL THESE WINDOWS - *I want ROOM SERVICE*! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker! I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel... in Tokyo.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 09, 2015, 03:21:09 PM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on March 09, 2015, 03:13:34 PM
How's this for a far more modern interface for media enjoyment?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/266430/ ("Anarchy Arcade (3D 'Desktop')")
dat interface
I've had it with ALL THESE WINDOWS - *I want ROOM SERVICE*! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker! I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel... in Tokyo.
Faintly reminded me of the "futuristic" 3D navigation virtual-reality interface depicted in the Michael Douglas / Demi Moore movie "Disclosure" -- e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkyV7d5t8o .
LOL
... come to think of it, also -- to a lesser extent -- the classic BTME (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFiXKA7muME). Good times, those "demo" video series from >20 years ago... back when it took a wall of machines to render that kind of output ;)
Or rather each film cell was rendered in like an hour+
That's how the did Reboot, they had a huge render farm putting out each frame painfully slow
Now you can just rig it in Blender