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I'm just wondering which audio players are popular around here for playing mods... and hope to maybe discover a hidden gem among them.

MPT for sure :)

I don't listen much to mods so when I do I use Modplug Tracker. If I did listen a lot I'd probably use XMPlay.

I actually use both mptracker and XMPlay, but i only use mptracker for songs with vst's and when i'm too lasy to render to ogg so i can play it in xmplay :P

I use xmplay because i can control it with my keyboard, without the app being active, so i can set volume next song etc, while in game. :)

Quote from: "LPChip"I use xmplay because i can control it with my keyboard, without the app being active, so i can set volume next song etc, while in game. :)

In Winamp you can set global hotkeys too for virtually anything (even starting visualisations or bringing up preferences dialog). This feature is there pretty darn long (at least two years as separate plugin, since 2.9 builtin I think).
(Yeah, I can't help it, Winamp IS my fav player :P )

If winamp wasn't that cpu heavy, and it played songs like xmplay did, and its appearance was like xmplay, and had a filename as xmplay.exe then i'd probably use it too :nuts:

So no one else has an issue with XMplay? The clarity is nice but yesterday I discovered that it mutes channels. I play the song on a different player and lo and behold, everything is there like it's meant to be. :(

A rather restricted one. According to the available choices, I pick MPT of course. The most reliable.
But choosing a playback depends on the circumstances on the moment. For a quick playback of a module, I've associated the necessary extensions to the ole ModPlug Player. If I want a more detailed view on what's going on during playback, I open the file with OMPT. Besides this I already have Irfan View and JetAudio on board, capable to serve as a module-player as well, if it's more efficient in that particular session.
I try to avoid using commercial products like winamp as much as possible.

QuoteSo no one else has an issue with XMplay? The clarity is nice but yesterday I discovered that it mutes channels.

Interesting. Does this mean that XMplay is capable of muting/unmuting channels during playback ?

VST's work fine in XMPlay i used to have some of your tracks on ther in one of my playlists. weird.

If i can find a player that suits my tastes better than XMPlay, i would use it.

Quote from: "residentgrey"VST's work fine in XMPlay i used to have some of your tracks on ther in one of my playlists. weird.

If i can find a player that suits my tastes better than XMPlay, i would use it.

No they don't.

Only the standard DirectX plugins that come with modplug will work in XMPlay.

k doesnt matter now anyhow i lost all the tunes i managed to find, and make... :(

I found another really cool player, called Spider player. Plays MP3, wav, wma, ogg, m3u, and mod files including mo3. The sound quality is clean, too. I like playing with the effects menu and applying Reverb and Echo to the song, or slowing down the speed. http://spider-player.com/

Edit: ooh, it seems the makes of XMplay collaborated with these guys (says so in Credits!)

I use ModPlug only when I'm tracking and I need something from other modules. But when I listen to modules just for fun, I use Winamp. It's the best media player!

Quote from: Dictator on July 14, 2006, 14:04:36
I use ModPlug only when I'm tracking and I need something from other modules. But when I listen to modules just for fun, I use Winamp. It's the best media player!

But MPP sounds much better! Winamp doesn't play some of my songs correctly, but MPP can :(

And Winamp is bloated. It's far from being the best anything, except maybe the best piece of crap. :P

Quote from: Jojo on December 02, 2010, 06:23:42
And Winamp is bloated. It's far from being the best anything, except maybe the best piece of crap. :P

Hence, why I don't select all features during installations. :)

A force of habbit, I use winamp as my primary music and video player.

>winamp
>as video player
(https://i.imgur.com/UQbwB.gif)

Quote from: psishock on December 02, 2010, 13:47:16
>winamp
>as video player
(https://i.imgur.com/UQbwB.gif)

Ewww! VLC and MPC for me.

Quote from: antVLC and MPC for me.

Quote from: psishock on December 02, 2010, 15:18:10

Quote from: antEwww! VLC and MPC for me.

Haha. What movie is that from? I would had used CHiPs' Jon and Ponch's thumb ups. :D

Quote from: antWhat movie is that from?

i have absolutely no idea. :)
I'm using reaction images depending on the right situation, and updating my database constantly from random sources, while stalking over the net .

Winamp works and I don't feel like switching programs when I dont have to. But whenever I file can't be played (like during download), I use vlc.

Quote from: Rakib on December 02, 2010, 20:53:03
Winamp works and I don't feel like switching programs when I dont have to. But whenever I file can't be played (like during download), I use vlc.

Ditto for me. Winamp for MP3 and OGG. MPP and then maybe XMplayer for MOD, IT, S3M, XM, 669, etc. K-Lite Codec Mega Packs' MPC for videos unless it has problems, then VLC. All are updated as well. :)

So far I have to say that MPC never failed on any videos here (well, apart from some really obscure mid-90s codecs which even VLC doesn't support). I did try VLC for a month but I just couldn't get used to it and it didn't support all the codecs I rely on (Lagarith being one of them), so I've ditched it and am using MPC now again. Yes, back to "codec hell", but at least it works.

There is the problem, codec hell. I don't want that. Another player that plays "all" videos are gom player. Anyone else tried it?
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html

Quote from: Rakib on December 02, 2010, 21:52:46
There is the problem, codec hell. I don't want that. Another player that plays "all" videos are gom player. Anyone else tried it?
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html

Yeah, that's always the problem. I stick with bundled one like K-Lite, use VLC as a backup (doesn't splatter all over my systems), and MPlayer (rarely in Windows, but used a lot in Linux/Debian like VLC).

Quote from: Rakib on December 02, 2010, 21:52:46There is the problem, codec hell. I don't want that.

Why do you stick to Winamp then?

I know winamp is using codec but as I wrote if I have a file that can't be opened by winamp I try vlc, but I can't remember last it happened to me, except during download.

Quote from: Rakib on December 02, 2010, 22:14:54
I know winamp is using codec but as I wrote if I have a file that can't be opened by winamp I try vlc, but I can't remember last it happened to me, except during download.

I didn't know Winamp used codecs. I thought that was all local like VLC does.

The last time I checked Winamp used DirectShow filters, which is exactly the kind of codecs that MPC also makes use of and K-Lite codec pack installs.

Quote from: Jojo on December 02, 2010, 22:19:04
The last time I checked Winamp used DirectShow filters, which is exactly the kind of codecs that MPC also makes use of and K-Lite codec pack installs.

Interesting. That explains why K-Lite Codec installer tells me to shut down Winamp during its installation!

Only if you go pro. But nowadays 90-95% av all videos today are different variants of mpeg-4

Quote from: Rakib on December 02, 2010, 22:34:16
Only if you go pro. But nowadays 90-95% av all videos today are different variants of mpeg-4

So what does Winamp use for demuxing and decoding then? Directshow is a common and easy way to decode all kinds of codecs, including h.264 and the like.

XMplay.

I love its soft style and the plugin support