Audio Player Software for Windows

[The One]

Why? Do you use it to organize your library, too? What is its best feature for you? Etc.etc.

[Biffo]

I use foobar2000 most of the time and Windows Media Player reluctantly. I use VLC for videos, never tried it for audio.

[North Star]

I use Windows Media Player, chiefly because I'm used to it. I like the ways for organizing and cataloging the music by genre, composer, album artist, artists on a specific track, details about when I've last listened to a track, and how many times I've listened to it. And I'm glad it supports FLAC nowadays (I had foobar for that earlier).

[Mandryka]

Windows Media Player

Haven't used it for years, I remember vaguely that it was pretty good though

Foobar2000

No, not for searching or streaming, I use it for playing music on my computer and for some audio file operations. It is outstanding for tagging and for converting media formats.
JRiver

No, I believe it's good but you have to pay and so I haven't felt the need to try it

MediaMonkey

I don't like the UI. It takes a long time to fire up.

Winamp

No

VLC

I use it to work with video, that's all. It's good for ripping sound from video.

iTunes

Terrible on windows. I won't let it in the house.

MusicBee
Aimp
Groove Music

Don't know the above three.


The one I like is the Logitech Media Server, though I don't know if there's a way to use it to play directly from windows without something like chromecast audio or the squeezebox. I'd be surprised if there wasn't, it's just that I haven't felt the need to explore how to do it.

https://www.mysqueezebox.com/download

[Rinaldo]

Winamp, since 1998. Never had a reason to change, does everything I need, although I don't need much (FLAC playback, easy tag edits and scrobbling to last.fm). I don't use any libraries, just organize my music into a folder with A-Z subfolders that's pinned to my taskbar and that's it.

[Gurn Blanston]

Even though I am a paid 'owner' of MediaMonkey, I still use version 3. I saw a comment further up that he didn't like the interface. That must be version 4. I installed it, then uninstalled it and went back to version 3, which has a very nice interface.  I only use it to play music. I rip in dBPoweramp and tag in MP3Tag, both of which I feel are ideal for my purposes. No need to twist a different product to make myself comfortable while I already have a program that does just that.

[bwv 1080]

Amazon, because that is where my all my music is hosted

[Mirror Image]

None of the above. I rip my CDs to my iPods using a high bitrate and use my iPod to play the music back through a headphone amplifier. I'm quite pleased with this arrangement.

[The One]

I use JRiver and Foobar2000 for different purposes but I am uncomfortable with both lately. JRiver has a few weird, simple yet unfriendly features that turns my way of listening into a torture sometimes (especially "playing order" scheme is a joke). But I like vst plug-ins to closely watch the sound, too, of which JRiver is strong about and the panes/columns/display/interface are the most adaptable for classical music. Foobar2000 is very capable but I'm tired of hassling with every bit detail to get a simple response back. I've always used Tag&Rename to tag my computer-stored library. EAC to store to harddisks and CUETools for the errands

[Baron Scarpia]

foobar2000 (playing cue/flac file mostly made with EAC). I use iTunes, but not on PC.