Best program for music play back

[Waitey]

Works laptop has got a really old version of media player on it?

Anything new?

 

[Scrooge]

Download the newer media player? Or itunes?

 

[tyranical]

I recommend winamp tbh, its much better than windows media player it does not seem to hog as much resources as wmp does.

 

[Waitey]

I need something that can be minimised to the toolbar and still have controls.

I might get media player 11.

 

[McBunny]

foobar 2000

 

[cadab]

foobar 2000

^^ this

 

[McBunny]

foobar is by far the best especially with the plugins for direct sound not an issue on your laptop though

 

[oska]

foobar 2000

This

 

[tyranical]

Like this waitey? So out of the way, yet has all the buttons you need can view the playlist in a dropdown menu etc.

 

[Waitey]

Seems like only media player will do what i want of it. Foobar just minimises to a tab and not controls.

 

[McBunny]

minimize to tray then right click icon next pause random etc

 

[Andy.]

Foobar looks okay but it wont change tracks without the application being in focus with media keys. iTunes and WMP both allow you to skip thought tracks when the app is minimised which is a must for me.

 

[tyranical]

Winamp also allows this as my picture shows. It's perfect IMO but apparantly not good enough.

 

[McBunny]

Foobar looks okay but it wont change tracks without the application being in focus with media keys. iTunes and WMP both allow you to skip thought tracks when the app is minimised which is a must for me.

like i said just right click on foobar in systray to skip tracks etc

 

[Revels]

Or download the FoxyTunes plug in for Firefox and it just sits on the bottom bar and you don't have to change windows.

 

[Liambo-235]

Winamp does this.. Dunno how to achieve it because it was a work mate that did it. But it can be done and is a great program.

 

[Andy.]

like i said just right click on foobar in systray to skip tracks etc

Sorry, should have been clearer. I like using the media keys on the keyboard, and not using the mouse to click on the taskbar.

 

[McBunny]

media keys on the keyboard oooh look at you mr posh ;0

 

[Andy.]

Its how I roll. lol

 

[Darren85]

Use iTunes.. To get the controls to appear on the Toolbar, Right click on the Toolbar, Goto the top and click where it says 'Toolbars' Should have options for iTunes once installed, Click to tick, open iTunes and then minimise and it will show in the toolbar..


Edit: Also works for Windows Media Player