Windows Media Player 10

[ngreen]

I like WMP 10 over the previous versions. I was sold on it from the beta product. Microsoft put a lot of thought into it. Really overall I find it to be the best media player.

iTunes is not bad but can't compete with it for features. I like the music store in iTunes good for linking between artist you like and artist you don't know you like. I like iTunes organization of files, and it is fairly good at ripping CDs. I don't think it syncs well with players other than the ipod and it put the annoying ipodhelper/itunehelper.exes in your tasklist regardless if you have an ipod or are running itunes. Was cool in the dorms because of the ability to share and play over a network.

Winamp is good for audiophiles. Seems to be the best audio player of the big names. Could do without its video. Options are more confusing than some of the others. Doesn't sync well.

ROP - Use classic media player instead. Real doesn't serve its purpose well (streaming media). I can't see someone falling in love with it for a media player. Plus I could never figure how to watch multiple streams for robots. Classic media player I had four streams open.

Musicmatch- only one that syncs my mp3s. I had trouble with setting up the new one and it just really isn't my style of player. Not bad sounding for a player and probably falls somewhere behind winamp in my music players.

WMP 10 - The best choice to simplify to one media player. You can say they copies itunes but only with the skin style. They've worked on their searching, not as good iTunes. Covers largest ranges of mp3 player syncing, file formats, nice new tabs for moving around. Still not as good as I would like but better. A wide range of stores to look at from walmart to musicnow.

It's not perfect for me but it's ahead of the competition for now. If iTunes became a full player they might compete. But they aren't. I don't really like quicktime, no I don't want to go pro.