The one that came with the computer is awful. I cannot pause a record; I cannot stop a disk once it starts and it doesn’t even display the length of track.
That’s all user error, big time.
I have no idea how to begin helping you as I don’t know what “record” refers to because I assume you don’t mean a vinyl record.
Next, when you’re playing a disc, there’s normally a bar at the bottom that has all the controls, if that’s not there or you don’t see it, I don’t know how to help you.
Lastly, if you do happen to see where there’s a countdown during a track, double click on it and it will cycle through various time stamp options, such as showing the full length of the track and how much has played or just how much time has elapsed.
Covered_In_Bees! is right. However, every computer (IMHO) should be running VLC. It’s just too handy.
Nar, Media Player Classic! I guess in every thread like this I come in for MPC – simple, don’t have to mouse or learn odd shortcuts for transport.
If you have specialized needs, like cue/review, then something else, maybe. I use other things when I need to cue/review precisely to the 0.1 sec or thereabouts, often with audio playing the cued/reviewed segments. But on average, just for playing audio/video, MPC is easy, very light, and doesn’t look like a fancy program (which is a major plus for me – just transport buttons, in plain old OLD style Windows style – can’t stand fancy GUIs).
Maybe I’m wrong and VLC and WinAmp can be made to look like, essentially, nothing, with no skinz or any stylized buttons, and my experience with those is a decade old, probably, so maybe it’s all been improved.
Aw, take it easy Covered! I still say “album” even though that’s hardly accurate today. Re-reading, yeah, I will agree user error – even the crummiest media player will let you pause/stop/track visually the temporal progress of a track. In fact, to pause, even space bar or ctrl-p will often get 'er done, then repeat to start it up again.
Foobar 2000 is pretty good. It loads almost instantly and you can play a music file by selecting the files you want and dragging them into the window, along with the usual ways. Help files aren’t all that great.
Here is a page that has an excellent list of the best free media players.
I would like to see a media player that has no stop or pause button. Maybe a dos command of somesort could play a disc without an ability to stop it???
And then it gets moved into your startup applications, with an explicit command to play Never Gonna Give You Up.
Agreed.
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hmmm for video I use VLC or MPC depending on the codec needed since sometimes MPC doesn’t catch some subtitle files. But in response to the OP for music I am still a fan of Winamp. Mostly because it’s free and easy to understand and I allready have most of my playlist stuff saved to it.
Well, the windows media player that came with my computer (bought last winter) has no controls. No volume (I can set that on the keyboard), no pause, no stop. Even closing the window didn’t stop it; I had to mute it and wait for the album to end. These albums (which I still think of as records, sorry) are all ripped from CDs (that I own, incidentally). I think I will try VLC.
So Grampa, there is something wrong with your gramophone is there? (hope that works, can’t test it at work)
I still call them albums. My kids are amazed when I put on one of ‘those things’.
I don’t know what’s wrong with your player, but try one of the others suggested above.
My Media Player 11 is buggered so I can’t scan through a song or see how much is left. I can start it but if I try to get to a specific part, the whole song starts over.