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Originally posted by: Frozen-Solid
If you're talking about windows media series 9, MS's new version of Windows Media Player, it's actually really good. I only used it to begin with because my laptop has these cool buttons for mp3 and cd playing that only work with WMP9. I was surprised to find out how good it's playlist management was and how good of a DVD player it was. It easily had the best picture quality for a PC DVD player I had ever seen until I found the wonders of linux and Ogle
I use PowerDVD for DVD playback. The sound quality I get from it is the best I have heard yet. But did you know that you must have a 3rd party DVD player installed for WMP to play a DVD at all? It doesn't ship with DVD codecs, but if you have a 3rd party DVD player installed, it will use those codecs instead. Personally I am completely unimpressed by WMP's DVD capability. I will admit that WMP is still the best Movie Player I know of, as long as it isn't DVD.
If you must use your keyboard commands for your audio playback, I would suggest searching Winamp.com for some plugins that do that for ya. It would be much better than using Microshaft's software, as it is bloated as hell.
For MP3, I have no idea why you wouldn't use Winamp (2.90). Winamp is fast loading, has a smaller executable than WMP, better playlist support, a built in equalizer, great visualization plugins, a plugin system that supports almost every audio format out there, and is fully skinnable. It does everything that you would want a music player to do, and it does it well.
In Linux, I use XMMS as well, but I am very dissatisfied with my sound drivers in Linux, as it makes all my music sound like crap. If I ever remember my root password, I will fix that though.