Recommend me a player to replace itunes

I want the most basic player there is, with a simple interface that can display the records by its cover, like itunes does, and that can scan my portable hd, from which i play my music, without needing an additional app (itunes folder watch).

I know itunes sucks, i just woke up now to realize the potential of open source software. Better late than never, they say...

Foobar2000

  On 6/11/2012 at 1:56 AM, mcbpete said:

Foobar2000

That was my first thought, because it can read FLAC as well.

How is the interface compared to itunes?

I managed to get my foobar to look like itunes using an extension. I think it's called columns ui. I haven't added a search function, but I'm sure it's possible to do so.

i don't want extensions.

i want a simple program that can offer me some visual options and play from my portable hd. i don't want it to look exactly like itunes either. it's just my reference for a music player.

If there is one of course.

You actually used itunes? On windoez?

  On 6/11/2012 at 2:30 AM, Kanakori said:

You actually used itunes? On windoez?

and for 3 years

Winamp

I forgot to say i using win7 and would love suggestions based on actual arguments rather than naming the player you use, poll reply style

aimp

foobar2000 - Interface is very quick, feels very native. You can drag into it, out of it, large amount of functionality and tools a right mouse button away... No UI bugs ever. It's very quick to do pretty much anything (converting, retagging, auto-renaming, queue management etc.) You can change the layout very easily from the UI and add different panels like a cover panel. I think foobar2000 is the best out there by far because of its large feature set, flexibility and unmatched raw speed.

I mostly use MPD + ncmpcpp these days because I'm on linux. But it doesn't come close to foobar2000.

Foobar2000

LOL at using iTunes on Windows for 3 years

Thank you Enter a new display name.

Always good to have you reminding how dumb i am!

I still use WinAmp because I'm old and dumb.

  On 6/11/2012 at 3:21 AM, ruiagnelo said:

Thank you Enter a new display name.

 

Always good to have you reminding how dumb i am!

ive been using itunes.

i like the search bar at the top, that's how i pick what album to play. I can't remember winamp doing that, but I haven't used winamp for at least 5 years.

Does winamp or foobar have a search bar like that?

Every music player has

  On 6/11/2012 at 2:42 AM, Ego said:

foobar2000 - Interface is very quick, feels very native. You can drag into it, out of it, large amount of functionality and tools a right mouse button away... No UI bugs ever. It's very quick to do pretty much anything (converting, retagging, auto-renaming, queue management etc.) You can change the layout very easily from the UI and add different panels like a cover panel. I think foobar2000 is the best out there by far because of its large feature set, flexibility and unmatched raw speed.

+1 for all of this. The one thing i'd add rugalo is to reconsider your (hereto justifiable) objections to extensions, skins 'n shit; foobar is extensible via components which actually add useful functionality instead of bloat. For example, you'd want the facets component for the Default UI to get an iTunes-like hierarchical library viewer w/ covers, etc. Here are some screenshots of my setup to give you an idea:

Winamp

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I still use WinAmp because I'm old and dumb.

i'm gonna try that ..Fooo bar 2000 thing out

i just drag and drop folders onto wmp, doesn't compute why all the fuzz...

  On 6/11/2012 at 3:04 AM, Enter a new display name said:

LOL at using iTunes on Windows for 3 years

unlike doing the same fucking shtick for 6 years on an internet forum

i like clementine. http://www.clementine-player.org/

foobar is good, but i don't really care for messing around with extensions. it's too configurable, for me.

i use it on ubuntu btw so YMMV.

using foobar2000 now. i have had it for a while a couple of years back and remember enjoying the fact that it is so light and quick.

the customization options offer quite a variety without needing skins and additional stuff.

how's the converter compared with dbpoweramp?

because i am thinking that i could also get rid of it, and have everything in this little player...

edit: also, having a real time running spectrogram is a nice detail

I downloaded winamp essentials pack after some fiddeling with foobar

Now I'm fresh! Winamp is the HEAD!