Best Music Media Player Install This On

MPC-BE a fork of both MPC and MPC-HCis a strong, lightweight player with a sleek, seekbar preview (just like what youd find on, say, YouTube.) Advertisement As Lifehacker reader Shuffy writes: I use MPC-HC using madVR as the renderer.

And while you can probably just pull it up in your operating systems default player, theres no reason why you should limit yourself to the boring ol Windows Media Player or Quicktime.

Advertisement There are plenty of awesome third-party media players that offer a host of benefits you cant get in your operating systems default app.

They might be easier to use or prettier to look at; they could be more compatible with all kinds of obscure codecs you want to play; and they might even offer killer features, such as a built-in video converter or even bookmarks for jumping around to your favorite parts in a movie.

There are a lot these apps can do that your regular apps cannot.

There are also a lot of media-player apps, so we recently reached out to get your thoughts on the media player apps you love using.

Advertisement VLC Screenshot: David Murphy GO Media may get a commission Super Mario 3D All-Stars Buy for 60 from Best Buy This ones a no-brainer, right If youve been around a computer for the last decade or so, youve probably heard of VLC.

And if they havent, youre all about to get a crash course in all things VLC.

Best Music Media Player Install This On

There are two huge reasons why youd want to install this on your system: its a regularly updated, open-source app thats free to use and, more importantly, it can handle just about any file you throw at it.

As Lifehacker reader Json Cox wrote:.VLC is the video monolith.

Advertisement And Lars Vargas only operates on reflexes and endocrine said: For video, its VLC.

Nothing else comes close to customizability and consistency, not to mention it plays pretty much everything.

Advertisement WingcommanderIV, who gets bonus points for that Kinja name, echoed similar thoughts.

And, no, I dont think anybody is spying on you: The only correct answer to this is VLC.

Though I have a problem with VLC on Xbox where it keeps blacking out my screen randomly.

Ive wondered if its someone like spying on me blacking me out for watching pirated videos.

Does VLC on Xbox allow people to monitor that Advertisement Getting the drift As one reader wroteand Ill paraphrase this oneif theres a problem playing a video in VLC, thats a good indication that the video has an issue, because VLC plays everything.

Audio. Video. You name it.

Want to convert video or audio It can do that too.

Tweak your viewing experience with all kinds of crazy filters and effects Sure.

The power of this cross-platform app (including Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android) cant be beat.

MPC (and its many variants) Screenshot: MPC-BE Advertisement A long, long time ago, there used to be a great open-source media player called Media Player Classic.

Unfortunately, active development for the app ceased more than a decade ago.

But then, the open-source community lept to its feet and forged onward A forked project, MPC-HC, was born.

And that went well for quite some time, until this project fell by the wayside in mid-2017.

Not to be deterred, yet another variant of Media Player Classic exists, and its being actively developed as of when we wrote this article.

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