better music player for Win8

[Thorin]

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...

[Tom]

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...

Well, I normally wouldn't push linux apps for someone that doesn't use linux

For music you have things like foobar2000, winamp, and Amarok

[Lazybones]

I use Plex Web its not the best but available everywhere. As Tom noted foobar2000 and winamp are still common options....

[Tom]

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.

[Melbosa]

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/.

[Mr. Analog]

VLC or the Plex media client

[Darren Dirt]

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).

[Mr. Analog]

VLC is dead simple, most of the time I just right click on the directory and choose play with VLC

[Tom]

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.

[Darren Dirt]

How's this for a far more modern interface for media enjoyment?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/266430/ ("Anarchy Arcade (3D 'Desktop')")

[Mr. Analog]

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.

[Darren Dirt]

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 .

[Mr. Analog]

LOL

[Darren Dirt]

... come to think of it, also -- to a lesser extent -- the classic BTME. Good times, those "demo" video series from >20 years ago... back when it took a wall of machines to render that kind of output

[Mr. Analog]

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