Alternative Audio and Media Players
Most of us are familiar with the more popular media players (Creative Zen V 1GB Portable Media Player White/Orange-)
out there, like Winamp, iTunes and Windows Media Player, but recently I have been recommended two that I have never heard of before. One of these is called foobar2000 and the other is GOM Player. I decided to install both of these on my test machine (actually Windows XP Pro installed in VMware) and see how they worked.
First off I must say that I was much more impressed with foobar2000 than GOM player. Please bear in mind that foobar2000 is strictly an audio player but GOM does both audio and video.
The first thing I tested with both was how easy it would be to add many items to the playlist/library. foobar2000 let me add all my songs by selecting the music folder (has all my music in it). When I tried to do the same with GOM it did not work, I had to drill down to the actual album folder (music > artist name > album name is the format I use) before it would let me add anything to the playlist. This would be an extreme nuisance for me so that would pretty much write off GOM as a player that I would use.
Another thing I don’t like about GOM is how it always looks like it’s ready to play a video. I don’t like it when a media player stays in that format (I didn’t play with it much so maybe it can be changed). I guess since foobar2000 only plays audio this point is moot but I felt like I had to at least mention it. I’ve included some screenshots below so you can take a look for yourself.
foobar2000
GOM Player
Cheers!
~TheNerd
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