I've been using it for quite some time now, and i think it's a big improvement. It's a bit weird in ID3 tagging sometimes but the library management has improved big time. And the search feature is incredibly fast.
I use MPC for quicky opening specific media files, but WMP11 when I want to listen to music/play videos for a longer period of time, I never liked Winamp.
as much as i liked it it used 45% of my cpu opeining .wma lossless files, so i didnt install it on my clean install, plus i couldnt get it to auto sync my mp3 player when i plugged it in
No program should demand more than 5 mb RAM and more than 0.5 secs to load just to play (a few thousand) mp3s. Billy handles music and VLC handles videos.
I dislike WMP because it's bloated. It has fancy looks that I don't want and fancy features that I don't need (like CD burning). It does everything, but it does it bad.
I never understood why people like winamp so much. I hate it
iTunes for my music because it's simple and easy to use. I don't care if it takes up a little more memory than alot of players. Media player classic for videos because it opens and closes fast and is just great in every way.
FooBar2000 v0.8.3 for me in Windows (I dislike the newer versions). Small memory footprint and all it does is what I need. VLC for almost everything else.
Why? 0.9 is final already and additional components works with it.
I really recommend foobar for everyone who has tired of Winamp. Though you need some hours of customizing because with default layout/look it's really horrible... My foobar looks like this and I don't even want to think how impractical (and resource thief) Winamp was when I used it.
I feel foobar 0.9.x does too much and as such is surplus to my requirements. The only real thing that interested me about 0.9.x was the way of changing the volume quickly. I tend not to change the volumes much now. There was a small bug with 0.9.x where by it didn't play a few things properly, but I believe that was the fault of a third party library.
At the end of the day I don't care about skins, I don't care about libraries. I'm over all the hyped things. All it does is stay hidden and play my music; the only time it pops up is when I want to pause something. For those reasons alone I don't use WinAMP, Songbird, iTunes (although I have other reasons for that), WMP, etc.
i think ill stick to windows media player 10 until i hopefully get new windows soon then maybe ill try 11, WMP 10 is only thing i know how to use properly... winamp used to crash on me after about 4 hrs... realplayer takes too long to install... had wmp10 for about a year and never got bored of it