Solved Audacious vs. Winamp for music

Audacious or Winamp for Mp3's?

both.

my music work uses audacious more.
my music play is on winamp more.

Speaking of media players...doesn't anyone use xion? I know the program is a bit outdated but the design interface is better than the other guys...I stopped using it after invested in spotify

Hi folks.

The issue might come down to simply the issue of tagging of ripped music -- the old Winamp uses a much better music db for retrieving especially classical music info -- while the other uses freed.db etc.

For merely just as a media player VLC (free as always) works fine both on Windows and Linux - identical GUI and functionality and can play almost every known codec in the universe.

I used to use winamp a lot but I prefer now the paid version of dbPoweramp which rips CD's fine and retrieves album art etc - I still have loads of older CD's which I'm digitising to flac.

Nero's CD ripper (yes Nero is still around) for around €7.00 a year uses the gracenotedb as well if you can't find any other music db to "auto tag" your files -- in C21 manual tagging is much tomuch of a chore !!!!

Other than that the choice is probably more on what GUI you like rather than the specific application. I used tolike Winamp years ago but dbPoweramp suits me fine -- I'm not against decent paid software if it does the job properly and is "sensibly priced" - and doesn't incessently nag for upgrades, bury extra for new features etc etc.

A bit O.T here on a Windows Forum but if any of you have any Linux experience or running Linux VM's then a great Free program k3b does most of the stuff the other programs do but also have a few extra features like creating DVD's, audio cd's, ripping tracks etc wuth a decent GUI.



Cheers
jimbo