I think most people have moved on to other programs past VLC. I think the “informed nerd choice” is MPC Classic now for videos, but don’t quote me on that.
For music, the last time I checked it was MusicBee. Intensely customizable, tons of skins, visualizers, and some (kinda janky) support for WinAmp visualizers.
I use EAC- Exact Audio Copy. It’s definitely more hardcore than the average person needs, including features for testing the physical capabilites of your disc drive and having settings for detecting and attempting to re-read CD sectors that have errors, but after you set it up you can easily rip to .flac (lossless, technically the best format to rip to, but larger) or to .mp3 vbr0 (99.9% of people can’t tell the quality difference from flac, and it’s much smaller size).
Why would you do that in Windows Media Player when Winamp is clearly installed with a shortcut right there on the desktop?
I think winamp and all those skins are still available…
Yes! Here is winamp: https://winamp.en.lo4d.com/windows
Skins: https://winampheritage.com/skins
I use VLC for this now. I wonder why VLC doesn’t have so many awesome skins. It does have a few lame visualizers built in.
I think most people have moved on to other programs past VLC. I think the “informed nerd choice” is MPC Classic now for videos, but don’t quote me on that.
For music, the last time I checked it was MusicBee. Intensely customizable, tons of skins, visualizers, and some (kinda janky) support for WinAmp visualizers.
Interesting. Thanks.
I’ve been ripping with windows media player. Any recommendations for a better ripper?
I use EAC- Exact Audio Copy. It’s definitely more hardcore than the average person needs, including features for testing the physical capabilites of your disc drive and having settings for detecting and attempting to re-read CD sectors that have errors, but after you set it up you can easily rip to .flac (lossless, technically the best format to rip to, but larger) or to .mp3 vbr0 (99.9% of people can’t tell the quality difference from flac, and it’s much smaller size).
I know EAC and have used it. Have it on this PC, actually.
I’ve been just doing quick and easy rips to flac with Windoze Media Player.
I’ll have to try ripping to flac with EAC. Sounds like an adventure.