

Anything that more than 5% of people will use is already included, if possible. Supports far more codecs than any other player. Foobar is by far the most feature packed player out there. I don't get it when people say foobar is featureless and takes a lot of tweaking. It's an offshoot of Amarok created by people who didn't like the change in direction they were seeing starting a few years ago. If you prefer open source and cross platform Clementine is pretty nice. It's more attractive than mediamonkey but in my experience it is less geared towards very large libraries than mediamonkey.Īlso check out Aimp2 which is in my opinion kind of a mix between foobar and musicbee, aesthetically speaking. It's got some decent sound profiles if you have crap desktop speakers and wouldn't bother with an equalizer. I always recommend it to people who find it easier to find/play music from a single interface. I don't personally use Musicbee but I've installed it for other people several times. Mine is just a minimalist album art browser that I navigate with tabs. I always see pics of musicbee showing all the columns and they make it look very messy, but it's very configurable itself. Just for reference, here's my own config. They've just added theater mode too which does a pretty good job of emulating those sexy foobar configs you always see online (but which I never managed to get working myself!) I've been frustrated by music players since I began using computers, and musicbee is better than anything I could have asked for. Sorry for the bump but I really want to praise musicbee. People talk about its customisation qualities, but to me it was more a case of it being so bare-bones you had to add a lot of basic functionality to it afterwards, and even then it'll never have the aesthetic or usability cohesiveness of bigger players. dlls to support even the most simple things, even worse when you find they're not supported, and even then, doing a lot of basic things took me way too long (tagging, library updating, syncing with my clip, etc). It's a great player if all you need is the basics and you enjoy tinkering, but it doesn't support quite a few things, and the amount of tinkering to get it functional is insane. Things tend to mellow out as the matches go on, but it's virtually impossible to ignore.I'm always surprised at the love foobar gets. Without fail, every match seems to start with a string of profanities, racist or homophobic comments, and other offensive commentary. Right off the bat, you'll need to shut off the in-game chat due to the surprisingly high number of toxic players. Finally, though not a technical issue but still something that needs to be addressed, there's a huge issue dealing with troublemakers in the game. There are also some issues with collision detection, such as falling through stairs or getting stuck behind an open door, both of which can sometimes cause the player to be fused with the environment, stuck and forced to restart. More than a few times, the game has frozen, only to immediately disconnect from the match completely. For starters, the game doesn't have the most stable network play. That's not to say there aren't some real problems with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds that can hurt the overall experience. In spite of its quirks, and sometimes because of them, it's just a lot of fun to play. And yet, like a cheesy B-movie, somehow it all still works. It's not uncommon to see someone unload a shotgun into another player at point-blank range and miss completely, only to be killed in return with a punch to the face. Weapons will occasionally act in completely uncharacteristic and unrealistic ways, sometimes launching players through the air instead of killing them. It's also a game with more than a few glitches. The reality is that the game isn't exactly the best-looking game out there by a long shot, with stiff character movements and environments that feel like they've just been thrown together on a whim. Take that experience, turn it into a video game, and you've got PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in a nutshell.

Not those deep dramatic Best Picture nominees, but those explosion-fueled nonsensical action flicks with acting and effects that no one can take seriously, yet everyone still has a blast watching. Think about some of your favorite, cheesy cinematic guilty pleasures. Somehow, even with technical issues and immature players, this game manages to package a lot of addictive fun into its constantly shrinking borders.
