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As I have mentioned before, having the proper music playing while working is simply a fundamental requirement of producing a tranquil and serene workplace.
For years now I have used Nullsoft's Winamp (which I understand may have recently been purchased by AOL), a half decent media player, sufficient to handle the workload of my MP3 playlist and certainly much more functional than Microsoft's colossally bloated giant; Media Player.
However, there is one thing about Winamp that has always bugged the living daylights out of me, even with the settings maxed out for random song play, it never has truly produced a random song listening experience.
I have fiddled with other media players over the years, but had never come across a player with truly satisfied, until today that is, when I discovered the ultra simple Foobar2000 on a list of 10 top ten freeware downloads linked on Digg.com.
Foobar2000 isn't pretty, or skinable (yet), but it has what counts; an ultra small memory footprint, lots of little add-on goodies to satisfy our inner geek, and truly random play! (Heaven!)
Plus, it is downright polite about creating file associations when you install and doesn't try and take over your entire system like some other media players.
Posted by Dylon on March 31, 2007 12:54 PM |
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