Media players... suggestions...

mishelle · 18th June 2008, 9:18pm

Ok, is there any such thing as a media player that plays both itunes and mps / wmv ?

Preferably a dj type program to mix and select tracks. I am using ITunes at the mo and its such a pain in the arse to use!

Any suggestions?

pANDAS Radio · 18th June 2008, 9:23pm

Tried Virtual DJ? It doesn't play videos but it's good for mixing and beatmatching, it also remembers your settings and the bpm for any tracks you play.

Draven · 18th June 2008, 9:31pm

Not sure about beat mixing, but I've always used Winamp and love it to bits.

tiger62 · 18th June 2008, 9:45pm

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Originally Posted by Draven

Not sure about beat mixing, but I've always used Winamp and love it to bits.

Seconded!
I'd be totally lost without winamp been using it for years :-)

MarkMono · 18th June 2008, 11:19pm

I happily recommend Jetaudio to most Window users.

Does everything, almost never crashes (which is the problem I initially had with winamp) cos its dead stable and has a really pleasant, simple interface.

Wreakin_Havok · 18th June 2008, 11:40pm

i've just moved to winamp cos i just had bullshit problems with iTunes all the time... winamp seems to be running much faster and smoother.

altho the audio control bar thing doesnt seem to be compatible with firefox 3 just yet.. maybe it is.. i've not looked.

Draven · 19th June 2008, 12:15am

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Originally Posted by Wreakin_Havok

altho the audio control bar thing doesnt seem to be compatible with firefox 3 just yet.. maybe it is.. i've not looked.

Get FoxyTunes. Allows you to control Winamp through Firefox.

pANDAS Radio · 19th June 2008, 5:15am

For a media player then Jet Audio is the best, as long as you have the codec installed then it'll play any format. But they did mention that they wanted something for mixing, for that I'd use Virtual DJ as it's really easy to get used to.

Jet Audio beats the pants off Winamp because it's far more user friendly, crashes less and plays more formats. It's also better with videos than Winamp. The only thing that Winamp does which it doesn't is "Force Mono", but who needs that anyway?

Download it here.

Draven · 19th June 2008, 10:23am

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Originally Posted by pANDAS Radio

The only thing that Winamp does which it doesn't is "Force Mono", but who needs that anyway?

That's good. There are other bands out there than Yer Maw.

sorry couldn't resist.

**djtoast** · 19th June 2008, 11:04am

the ultimate solution for mixing video is Video SL - you need a £900 dj mixer though and the software is £400 on top of that... so it may not be the solution you're looking for...

but isn't it cool?

some demos here:

http://createdigitalmotion.com/2008/...-visual-vinyl/

pANDAS Radio · 19th June 2008, 5:19pm

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Originally Posted by Draven

That's good. There are other bands out there than Yer Maw.

Damn, I remember that band.

mishelle · 19th June 2008, 6:06pm

I dont need to play videos. Its just being able to play both itunes and mp3 together. Does Jet audio do this?

pANDAS Radio · 19th June 2008, 6:13pm

Yes. I thought you wanted to play videos because you mentioned wmv (windows media video).

As long as you have the codec installed then you can play just about anything with JetAudio, that's easy to do with things like the K-Lite codec pack.

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jetAudio supports all major digital audio/video file formats, and CD/DVD*/VideoCD.

Supported file formats are :

<Audio File Formats>
Windows Sound (WAV)
MPEG Audio(MP1, MP2, MP3) including mp3PRO
MPEG Audio Playlist (PLS, M3U)
Windows Media Audio (WMA)
Ogg Vorbis Audio (OGG)
Apple Audio (AIF and AIFF)
SUN Audio (AU and SND)
RealMedia (RA, RAM, RM, RMM)
MIDI (MID, RMI and KAR)
IMS (Module Karaoke)
Module Format (MOD, S3M, XM, MTM, STM, IT, ULT, 669, FAIR, MED, MDL, MDL, NST, OKT and
WOW)
Monkey's Audio (APE)
Musepack Audio (MPC)
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Speex (SPX)
True Audio (TTA)
WavPack Audio (WV)

<Video File Formats>
Windows Video (AVI)
MPEG Video (MPG, MPEG)
Windows Media Video (ASF, WMV)
DivX Video (AVI, DIVX) *
Ogg Media (OGM) *
Matroska Video (MKV) *
MP4 Video (MP4) *
Flash Video (FLV) *
QuickTime (QT, MOV and MP4) **

* Requires additional codec from third party
For example, you should install DivX codec to play DivX format video files.

** Requires QuickTime 4 or higher

Supported disc formats are :

Audio CD
Video CD
DVD

(Note) DVD playback needs DVD decoder from third party.

Full product overview is here.

mishelle · 21st June 2008, 1:43pm

Ok I downloaded jetaudio... works smashingly, apart from one thing. The music randomly halfs its tempo at the start of songs. Not all songs, I havent checked but it might be when it changes format from m4a to mp3 or something. I know I can restore the tempo by pushing ctrl + f1... but is there a permanent setting that i can stop this from happening?

**djtoast** · 21st June 2008, 2:18pm

If you don't need to do video, definitely get the free Serato Scratch Live software from their website:

http://www.serato.com/downloads

and have a look; without paying £400 for the hardware you can't control it with decks / CD players but it's still GREAT just using the laptop.