I use it on my Vista install and enjoy it. The new library management is great. Most of my tracks are downloaded from napster, so I need to use Windows Media Player, which is fine, because I prefer it to anything else I've used, it syncs with my MP3 player beautifully too. I haven't gotten around to installing WMP11 on my XP install yet, but I will in the not too far distant future

I gave up with WMP after v6. I tried Winamp3 but reverted to 2. Now I use 5 Lite. Never tried Foobar.

MPC for video, VLC seemed too awkward.

Bsplayer for the videos is really nice.
VLC cant use properly DIVX/XVID features like deblocking,dering.However I am able to use portable VLC on the machine in my job because there are no right to install anything

I have even tried to stream to other computers in our office the video and it worked like a charm with VLC without anything to install and like 3-4 easy clicks.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

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.

I agree about VLC, I think it is the best video player out there, perhaps it is beat by mplayer (I've had some files that simply would not play on VLC that would with mplayer. But over all for muisc I still use Windows Media Player (I know, I know, I should be flogged) but I just like how when I minimize it I still have the controls on the task bar. If and when a 3rd party program does that I'll start using it.

Foobar for music here and for video i use mplayer (favorite) of MPC.
Mplayer doesn't have a graphic interface, but it has thousands of features.

OK just tried Foobar2000, jeez, I mean I don't like overstyled applications but does it have to be so fugly?

Small memory footprint? Task Manager reports:
Winamp - 16MB
Foobar - 30MB

(both with the playlist loaded and music playing)

C'mon, somebody convince me this is worth switching to?

Me I like WMP. I had win amp along time ago. it was ok & all
But since WMP came with the operating system and all I really do is listen to online radio (it works good with LFS with little fps loss)... do I really need the other stuff?

I love Banshee for listening to music in Linux, too bad they wouldn't port it to windows, it is practically iTunes for Linux minus the media store (iPods do work too, to an extent). In Linux and MacOSX, I use VLC for Videos and Banshee/iTunes respectively for music, and windows, Media Player Classic / Winamp. VLC sometimes depending on the file. Winamp is nice because of how it can be styled.

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Mplayer doesn't have a graphic interface

That's one of the main features for me, opening a video results in a window playing the video, no buttons, no skins, no menus. Strong streaming features too, i've set most mime's to "send url to player" in Opera, works great.

mplayer is nice to use in linux too with the no GUI, just going via the cli "mplayer <movie>.avi -fs -zoom