Alternitave to Windows Media player

nidave · Wed 25 Jul, 2007 20.22

does anyone know of an iTunes like alternitave to synching playlists to a windows mobike device WMP is a pain in the arse to set up playlists for and manage.

marksi · Wed 25 Jul, 2007 20.49

I use a program called Herbert for my Philips MP3 player though I don't know if it will work with other makes. It's nice and simple to use. WMP doesn't support my player and the software that Philips supplied with it was the shoddiest lump of software shite I have ever seen. It's a pity cos the player itself is really quite good.

Luke-H · Thu 26 Jul, 2007 08.48

Winamp is my choice of Windows media software. It's great.

marksi · Thu 26 Jul, 2007 10.12

No, Winamp USED to be great until it became aggressive and tried to take over file formats you didn't want it to. I now refuse to install it.

nidave · Thu 26 Jul, 2007 10.38

It has to be able to synch with WMP Mobile on my phone - WMP 10's method of creating and synching is a pain in athe arse.

lukey · Thu 26 Jul, 2007 11.24

marksi wrote:No, Winamp USED to be great until it became aggressive and tried to take over file formats you didn't want it to. I now refuse to install it.

It's never really been that agressive when it comes to snatching file associations. It asks on install just as pretty much any media player does, and by default will maintain those ones unless you disable that option. But, in my experience it plays completely fair - I have it playing all my music formats which it keeps, and it respects my keeping it away from video because it's really quite rubbish at that still

Jamez · Thu 26 Jul, 2007 15.15

Zoom Player is really good.

Go and get it.