Alternative to winamp

[Floppyman]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an audio player that is similar to winamp, that will work under win2k. Any Suggestions? TIA.

[Statica]

From my Linux machines, I use a windows port of Freeamp (www.freeamp.org)

Its very small, clean interface and doesnt clutter up your registry with crap, does what its supposed to - play multimedia, and it does it very well at that.

[Charliey]

Floppyman, just a question, whats wrong w/ winamp?

I use it under win2k, it works great for me, just wondering why you dont want to use it.

[Floppyman]

It sometimes pops at random. Also when I load an intensive program like wcpuid it pops/scraches for a second. Now I have tried freeamp and sonique and both do the same. The only player so far that does NOT do this is M$'s very own Media Player.

[Carl Price]

A lot of Winamp's ills can be fixed by the cpu priority bar. Go to preferences/options and on the first screen there is a slider bar near the bottom called "process priority class". Change this to realtime and it should solve your problems.

[Floppyman]

Thanks Carl...

Changed it to both "high" and "realtime" and it still scratches for a sec when a program like wcpuid is loaded. Any other ideas? Thanks again.

[Skinny Boy]

I use the Nero Media player, have none of the problem's you describe, on w2k. Don't know if it's free, but I received it with my Nero software. HTH.