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[listersgirl]

I have recently been the target of much mockery because I use Windows Media Player to listen to music. Of course, the person doing the mocking is a certified Apple freak, so it's not surprising that he would prefer iTunes.

But now I'm curious. Is one player better than the other? What about other things that are out there? I use WMP because it was there, but now I have piles of music on my computer at home and I'm thinking about playlists and things like that, and I don't want to build them all on one system only to change my mind.

So, Wise and Wonderous Interbets, pick a system for me! I am at your disposal.

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WMP ..

[xiz111.livejournal.com]

That's Windows Media Player, to the TLA crowd (Three Letter Acronym, gah!) is, in and of itself, not a bad player .. it's a bit resource-hoggy, and has a lot of doo-dads that really aren't necessary for simply playing music, but by itself it's fine.

Ther are alternatives .. Real Player is probably the best of the rest .. it's a little easier to use, and does pretty much everything that WMP does. There's another program called WinAmp, which works well for playing music, and, I believe, burning CDS. ITunes is fine, as well, though I had limited success with it, for burning audio CDs ..

Apple evangelists, though are a bit like Linux evangelists, in that they're often not so much in favour of Mac and/or Linux, but simply violently opposed to anything Microsoft. That there's anything wrong with opposing Microsoft, as it is a huge, powerful company and produces mediocre, buggy software, which over 90% of the computing world uses .. but, sadly, in the world of computers, it's ubiquitous, and you'll run up against it everywhere.

So, there ya go.