Media Players - Which do you like best?

[Elodan]

I was talking to my friends the other day and we were discussing the many options for media players out there (WinAmp, Real Player, Quick Time, etc.). Made me curious.

Which one(s) do you use and for what?
How easy is it to use?
What are your likes/dislikes?

Thanks.

 

[Staffan]

I use Zoomplayer (you can probably find it with some googling). My favorite feature is that you can quickly go 5, 20, or 120 seconds forward or backward, with the "." and "," keys (combined with shift and control for longer times), which I think is a far easier way of handling time-jumping than clicking on a bar.

 

[Steel_Wind]

I've tried dozens. I prefer Winamp.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Video - VLC
Music - Winamp

 

[Orius]

I generally go with Windows Media Player. It handles most of the file types I come across without any problems, and I don't have to bother downloading a player or anything like that. About the only time I have to use anything different is when I encounter the occasional QuickTime file.

There is one player I will absolutely not touch and that is RealPlayer. I despise RealPlayer.

 

[Bront]

Video - Media player or DIVX
MP3s - Winamp
Other - Usually media players.

 

[Agamon]

For videos I use Windows Media Player or DivX. Most other files, WinAmp.

I don't use iTunes for the simple fact that they Apple makes you download it if you want to download QuickTime (which you must to watch a QT video). That just rubs me the wrong way.

 

[Redrobes]

Video - VLC
Audio - Winamp
Images - IrfanView

Oh and I treat RealPlayer with about as much affection as any other kind of spyware.

 

[RichCsigs]

For audio I've always used WinAmp, except when I'm on the Mac at work then I use ITunes (mainly because the winamp for Mac sucks).
For video I just use whatever loads up when I click the file (either Windows Media Player, Quicktime or Real).

 

[ssampier]

For video, it varies. I guess I'm a shill, but use the "official" players: QuickTime, Windows Media, and RealPlayer.

For music, I (heart) MusicMatch. Runner-up is Tray Player (Winamp works well, but I really don't like the way it works). Way down the list is Windows Media-You-Must-Use-WMA-you-clod. iTunes I don't care for.