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kazi_saki · May 13, 2008, 12:32 PM // 12:32

What's the best music player to use while playing games?

Cuz i'm getting sick of WMP

Best overall btw. As in performance, speed, memory usage...everything

Blackhearted · May 13, 2008, 12:46 PM // 12:46

I'd say winamp myself. It doesn't seem to give any games problems, playing music or not, and i never close the thing.

I'd definitely NOT look at itunes though, if speed and performance is what you want. My exp. with itunes says that it's generally slow and sluggish. But then again that's how all windows ports of apple's software are so... yea.

Malice Black · May 13, 2008, 12:51 PM // 12:51

Separate stereo.

Online players suck.

Akasuna no Sasori · May 13, 2008, 12:52 PM // 12:52

itunes works fine on my computer. but it's definitly not the best choice...
i'd say winamp too... but well if you got a good comp +i nternet connection
your game runs fine
(got around 60fps with itunes on)

Krill · May 13, 2008, 01:49 PM // 13:49

Foobar for sure. It uses minimal resources and is super easy to bind global keys to so you can adjust volume and control tracks in game. A keyboard with media controls will also do this obviously, but not everyone has one and they don't always function properly. I could also get into why foobar > everything else from an audio enthusiast and tweak freak perspective but I'll spare you that.

netniwk · May 13, 2008, 02:18 PM // 14:18

Itunes works just fine for me.

IrishCB · May 13, 2008, 02:22 PM // 14:22

Winamp hands down; its been around a lot longer than most of these new ones, like resource hungry itunes. Never had 1 problem with it.

Utaku · May 13, 2008, 02:38 PM // 14:38

I like musikCube a lot.
iTunes is crap, I usually reboot on Linux to use Amarok instead when I want to change my iPod's content.

Mr. G · May 13, 2008, 04:56 PM // 16:56

Ventrillo

its what my guild uses, only thing better than listening to music while playing GW is the entire team listening to the same song ^^

Brianna · May 13, 2008, 07:34 PM // 19:34

I use winamp, I love it. It's very customizable and you can tone it down to use less system resources if you are limited to them, which is awesome. Like for example, I noticed the Classic Skin seems to run better on lower-spec'd systems than say the Bento skin. And it never lags, with iTunes up, my songs used to lag-skip all the time, and I just never liked WMP, but WMP11 is more usable than the older ones.

I haven't used anything outside of WMP, iTunes, Winamp, and the Zune client (Don't use the zune client, takes up so much resources.) So I'd definitely have to say Winamp hands down, it has to be one of the best players out there, especially because of it's customization - you can tweak it to your own flavor.

And making playlists is super easy, I just put the name of a band into a playlist, and dump all of their cd's into the playlist in order by the dates they came out. Couldn't make things easier really, it's just a drag and drop situation, no hassle. And I have my Logitech G5's macro buttons set up to change songs while I'm gaming, so changing songs is even easier than having to look at my Zune on my desk and all.

Oh yeah and, Winamp Llama ftw.

kazi_saki · May 15, 2008, 10:21 AM // 10:21

kewl! thanx for the opinions peeps! Sounds like i'll give winamp a try. foobar sounds fun too btw

Delightful Shaz · May 15, 2008, 10:36 AM // 10:36

itunes

in combination with my g15, I controll the music on the lil screen on my keyboard

Fril Estelin · May 15, 2008, 10:44 AM // 10:44

I remember reading a GWG thread about adding your own music to a DirectSong install and I'm wondering whether it'd be feasible to actually use this as a in-game music player, with a nice and practicle interface ...

kazi_saki · May 15, 2008, 11:01 AM // 11:01

lol.

that sounds nice!

Can you link the thread?

Fril Estelin · May 15, 2008, 11:21 AM // 11:21

Yep, it's in this thread (search FTW):
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10069916

In the "Custom" Soundtrack" paragraph, with a link to the following post (the guy apparently already did some nice GUI):
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...1&postcount=71

-Loki- · May 15, 2008, 12:41 PM // 12:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by arienrhode

Foobar for sure.

This .

Blackhearted · May 15, 2008, 12:41 PM // 12:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delightful Shaz

itunes

in combination with my g15, I controll the music on the lil screen on my keyboard

While we're on the subject of media players and the g15..

Winamp paired up with this is a personal favorite of mine. Nice control over winamp, as well as a bunch of other useful things too.

AidinSwiftarrow · May 17, 2008, 02:16 AM // 02:16

I just use Itunes. Works fine for me though...

Randvek · May 17, 2008, 02:35 AM // 02:35

I go with Winamp, but keep it in classic mode. Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems to get a little memory heavy if you try the modern skins.

Yuhe Ji · May 17, 2008, 02:42 AM // 02:42

I just use WMP or Winamp (or occassionally Yahoo! Music Jukebox). I would have to say WMP comes up the fastest and requires the least loading, but I just don't like the way the songs are listed.