I've had it with iTunes and Windows Media Player and Real Audio.

I need a music player that is very simple and lightweight. I've got a library of 30-40K songs, but playing through a 5 year old PC. It takes iTunes about 20 minutes to get going and then wants to update every single time. Agonizing. WMP and RA aren't much better.

I don't need any bells and whistles - I'm not going to catalog every song or make dozens of playlists. I just want to be able to double click an icon and start listening to music.

What do you use?
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You can go old school and use WinAmp.
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Funny....I'd forgotten all about WinAmp. But since my first post I found mention on interwebs of WinAmp lite. It is playing right now and I think it is exactly what I was looking for. I used WinAmp many years ago, but long since forgot about it. The WinAmp Lite I just installed looks a lot like the early WinAmp. Fast, slick and I can do other stuff while it plays, catalogs, etc. So far, so good!
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I love WinAmp!
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Download VLC media player then it plays everything windows wont and its free.
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If you just want to play albums straight through like the old days, take a look at 1by1.
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

A very fast, small (the entire installation is about 180KB), very low memory footprint & low cpu load program. Not a lot of frills, but what it was designed to do, it does quite well. One thing it won't do though, is play FLACs.


Now, if you want a few more features and formats, Foobar2000 is an excellent choice.
http://www.foobar2000.org/

Might lighter footprint than other comparable programs with very accurate decoding.


Both programs are freeware.
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Whippin' the llamas ass.

Man - I haven't heard the name "WinAmp" in a looong time :-):-)
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This!
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I only like VLC player for movies. Windows media player for everything else.

Although for FLAC I do use VLC.
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I have been using Winamp for over a decade and still love it.
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KM Player works great too
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll demo them and decide. At least, I intend to. WinAmp Lite is doing exactly what I wanted so far. When I get a little time to play w/them, I'll try the others. Thanks, again.
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I use WinAmp
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WinAmp for the win here as well.
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