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Small low resource music player?

Winamp used to be my favorite audio application, but now it's just a pig. It's got a ton of added features I don't need or want, and it even screws up my file associations when I play a file. Worst of all, it takes about 15 seconds to spin up.

Is there a good, simple, lightweight alternative to Winamp that will quickly play audio files with a minimum of muss and fuss?

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Probably Duplicate: superuser.com/questions/49652/small-low-resource-music-player :) – Phoshi Oct 4 '09 at 8:53

marked as duplicate by hyperslug, Diago Oct 4 '09 at 13:49

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Foobar2000

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That does indeed look promising, thanks. – Robert Harvey Oct 4 '09 at 0:37
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You could use Winamp Lite. It's the Winamp you know minus all the bloat you don't like.

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Yeah, I don't see much of a performance bloat with all the addons disabled like with Lite.. it launches instantly and is just as swift and zippy as the oldschool 2.x version - it even takes my old skin so it looks good ^^ – Oskar Duveborn Oct 4 '09 at 12:22
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Well, personally, I just use older version of Winamp. From the days when it was lightweight, fast and just useful :)

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And vulnerable to malicious audio files ;p – Oskar Duveborn Oct 4 '09 at 12:23
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I have a different perspective on computer security. I stopped protecting myself from every kind of virus, spyware, ... whatever exists with all kinds of antivirus, anti-this-and-that, ... and bloated software which usually "kills" it more than the malicious file does, and just keep an image of installed software handy. If something occurs, just replace the whole thing. ... There is nothing more memory-hogging than an antivirus these days. Media players are catching up though. – ldigas Oct 4 '09 at 15:17
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Spider Player, VERY low footprint (less than 5 MB RAM, less than 8 MB disk space), extraordinary sound quality (internal 32bit sound processing), crossfading, custom hotkeys, radio directory.

Supported audio formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, M4A, AAC, AAC+, AC3, MPC, MP+, MPP, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, TTA, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDDA, WMA, MID, RMI, KAR, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX.

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Spider Player is freeware and a portable version is available.

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VLC player-- that's my choice.

And it's open source

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XMPlay is really good, with skinning etc and a smaller footprint, just a few hundred KBs.

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