...which would it be?

I know that this topic has been addressed many, many times, and at the risk of creating a redundant post/poll, I'm posting this poll.

I know that a similar poll was conducted near the beginning of this year (see this) and that sto-helit.de wrote a nice brief summary of the pros/cons of the various most common media players here but I'm curious to see how opions have changed, if at all, with CorePlayer having been released and its initial bugs worked out.

So...even if you currently have several media (music/video/etc) players currently installed on your device, vote for the one you'd choose if you could only have one.

Then, I'd be interested in seeing which players you have used at all and why you voted for the one that you did.

If this is going to cause an "Oh no, not this subject again" type of response, then just don't respond and try to forget that the thread exists .

Happy voting.

Phillip

 

Again... my question is 'WHY'? Core's good for video but is crap for sound, IMO - at least, its playlist features aren't nearly as complete as the competition's. Pocket Player 3's great for sound, but a CPU hog and is so-so with videos. WMP is functional, has AVCRP support right out of the box... and that's it.

It depends on what you do - if you do primarily videos, then Mort and a lot of the others you've listed won't play them at ALL. If you do audio... that's another story. And that's the problem with this poll - you're trying to compare apples, oranges, and bananas, and in doing so risk shutting out some very good players because they can't handle all the media you're throwing at them. Heck, WMP can't handle MKV or MP4 files, which leaves CorePlayer as the sole survivor... but as noted earlier, I think it's horrible as an audio player. TCPMP also has its own issues there (I watched it crash repeatedly while being used as an audio player).

 

My vote is...

I still don't know. A week ago, it would have been 40th iPlay - that player is awesome. However, with some of the big problems with CorePlayer having been worked out in the 1.04 release, I'm going to have to spend more time comparing.

I'll vote soon, but not yet.

P

PS - I'm sure Menneisyys will be working on a comparison of media players (or updating an old comparison) to include CorePlayer. I'd be interested to see what he concludes.

 

I said why above - I saw the poll from the beginning of the year and wanted to see whether anything has changed since CorePlayer came out (although I don't suppose that a sampling of 138 out of the entire population of media player users around the world really is enough to get a good picture of the real situation...).

That's all. If you think it's silly, then no need to vote.

P

 

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For my needs, I agree

    

For videos I use coreplayer but for music pocket player. I am hoping that as coreplayer is further developed it will replace pocket player for music, but I doubt it!

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until coreplayer has ac3 support, tcpmp =)

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TCPMP for the plugins! Really, xvid encoded video with ac3 sound - there's pretty much no other player that will support this. (and it's free!)

I love TCPMP!
Good quality freeware.

I can't seem to find TCPMP as freeware anywhere... it wants me to pay for it. A link would be great. I keep going to their main site and it comes up with a network error every time.

Found it never mind.

I have been going back and forth a lot between CorePlayer and Pocket Player. These two seem, for me, to be the best players out there. Pocket Player can be a CPU/memory hog. BUt CorePlayer has had its own, well documented problems.

Sometime after the new year (probably in February once things quiet down a little), I plan to write a Pocket Player vs. CorePlayer comparison. We'll see who comes out on top.

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Great, looking forward to it

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