# Music Player Alternatives?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/music-player-alternatives/207279>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [November 16, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/music-player-alternatives/207279 "2006-11-16T05:15:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/music-player-alternatives/207279/1 "2006-11-16T05:15:52Z")

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Herro.

I have recently found that iTunes, Winamp, and WMP all do not fit my needs as music players. Each one has goods and bads. Here are a few lists that sum up my thoughts.

[SIZE=“5”]iTunes[/SIZE]

[SIZE=“4”]Things I Like[/SIZE]  
[LIST]  
[_]Its library management  
[_]Its playlist management  
[_]And I **love** how you can select a song from the library to play a song, and the library becomes the playlist. It doesn’t generate a new playlist (unlike Winamp and WMP. This is important because of the next point -  
[_]I can type the name of the artist, and the playlist/library auto selects that song. Winamp can do this, but it’s only for the library, not the playlist. WMP is the same with winamp.  
[/LIST]

[SIZE=“4”]Things I Hate (and I mean hate, not dislike)[/SIZE]  
[LIST]  
[_]No queueing songs (not in the normal playlist/library anyway. the party shuffle is another thing, and not useful for normal library playing)  
[_]It is bloatware.  
[_]It is laggy.  
[_]It takes way too much memory.  
[_]It is slow.  
[_]It uses way too much CPU time.  
[\*]It is bloatware.  
[/LIST]

[SIZE=“5”]Winamp[/SIZE]

[SIZE=“4”]Things I Like[/SIZE]  
[LIST]  
[_]Queueing. I love this feature.  
[_]It used to be fast, but now I’m noticing lagginess. I don’t know why. I am using the most basic skin. It could be because my library collection is getting bigger and bigger and Winamp’s playlist just gets laggy when that happens?  
[/LIST]

[SIZE=“4”]Things I Hate (and I mean hate, not dislike)[/SIZE]  
[LIST]  
[\*]Library is separated from the playlist. Can’t select a song from the library and expect it to play/queue in the playlist.  
[/LIST]

[SIZE=“5”]WMP[/SIZE]

[SIZE=“4”]Things I Like[/SIZE]  
[LIST]  
[_]It is fast. It is actually the fastest of the 3 players that I am experiencing right now.  
[_]That’s about it :-/  
[/LIST]

[SIZE=“4”]Things I Hate (and I mean hate, not dislike)[/SIZE]  
[LIST]  
[_]Library is separated from the playlist. Can’t select a song from the library and expect it to play/queue in the playlist. (same as winamp)  
[_]I **HATE HATE HATE** this: In the Now Playing playlist, the artist is not shown. like WTF. How the heck do I recognize whose song this is out of 5000? ■■■■ it WMP.  
[/LIST]

* * *

Hmm that about sums it up. So basically, I want a music player that is:

[LIST]  
[_]Fast (Only WMP, and sort of Winamp, has/have this)  
[_]Has library management (WMP, Winamp, and iTunes have this)  
[_]Library is a playlist (only iTunes has this)  
[_]Queues (Only Winamp has this)  
[_]Can type the name of an artist, and the playlist/library automatically selects the first song that matches what I typed (WMP, Winamp, and iTunes have this; but only iTunes incorporates this into the playlist)  
[_]Shows (at least) both artist and song name in a playlist (Winamp and iTunes have this)  
[\*]For Windows  
[/LIST]

There I’m not that picky. I just want a player that has all those :geek:. Does anybody have any suggestions? I only need the player to play music (mp3) files, nothing else is necessary, but it needs to have **all** of those points above. 🔗