I agree with most of you, winamp for music and windows media for video. Though i like winamp the most, as you can watch video in winamp too... And as i have a lot of music, i usually store all of it in one only winamp list, (i load it all once) and then i click on shuffle and i start listening to random bands.

Windows media i generally use it for radio, although i just listen to one or two stations, i dont usually do that, becouse theres never the kind of music i like in radio, some times the stations playin are actually harder to find, or i just havent dig well enough.

I dislike wmp, its really slower, a lot, and its not as personalizable as winamp. Well its not that i hate it, couse its useful sometimes, but i go rather for nullsoft winamp. I used to run v2 but there it said that later versions had fixed some security bugs so i upgraded to v5. I dont use plug ins anymore, just skins in some machines.

i have both, but i prefer windows media player because dont have so many windows, but the winap have more codecs (the codec OGG vorbis) and better sound.

I always use Windows media player for movies and stuff but when it comes to music i use winamp because its much better to use its easier easy features.

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first time we opened WMP it will conquer most of desktop area, whilst WinAmp only took a portion of it.
That's why I thought WinAmp is better.

Anyway, in functionality I don't really think much of it because I used them both for listening music.

I know it's been said before (by other people) but I guess it just lends to the truth; I use Windows Media Player for videos and Winamp for audio.

Winamp has an arguably better playlist and a much better equalizer with highly functional presets. An example is the preset for Headphones/Laptop speakers, it greatly improves the sound quality/clarity.

The one thing Winamp has against it are the memory leaks...

This post has been edited by Renaissance: Sep 6 2007, 03:43 AM

I have them both but I prefer Winamp as it seems to take up less virtual memory space than Windows Media Player plus the skins for Winamp are quite cool looking.

man you just have said my words! winamp is my absolute favorite. i dont like windows media players. for me its a crap. i dont like the interface of windows media player. winamp is cool. its a good looking player with lots of good skins and i really like the sound quality. i have few plugins which does the fancy editing for me and i like the surround sound system that i make with those plug ins. for slower pc's (like my p3, its always better if you use older versions. well 5.3 is still okay but sometimes it slows down the computer. but you know nothing compares with good sound.

I think it was the fact that it was back in the day when winamp was first coming out I didn't get a good grasp of how to use it, but for my needs WMP was good enough, of couse I use other programs to watch movies, such as interactual and cineplayer (when I need to). I did like to listen to the radio on WMP though back when I was in Washington while killing time at the office, I picked up a lot if techno radio stations and junk. Now I don't listen to much radio to begin with except for Sports radio and stuff, did have a classic rock binge last year but thats about it though.

This post has been edited by Saint_Michael: Sep 10 2007, 11:43 PM

Window Media Player I use.

Reason is Window Media Player need not install and it features is enough.