What's the best freeware media or audio player for the best sound from my music???

BadBeatz78 · July 30th, 2009, 09:32 AM

Need some help...right now I am using Windows Media Player 11, and I really don't like the way my music sounds, especially when I burn my songs to CD or sync them to my MP3 player. What I would like, is a freeware program that will not only play my downloaded audio files with the absolute best possible sound, (hopefully something much better than WMP10 or 11), but also be capable of burning CD's and syncing files to my MP3 player. When I listen to my music from my PC, I'm expecting that the program be able to reproduce near same sound quality/likeness of the music as I have just heard, when it is burned to CD or transferred to an MP3 player. With WMP I don't get an accurate copy of what the song is supposed to sound like. This is the biggest complaint I have with WMP10 or 11. If one program can't do all that I am hoping for, could you possibly suggest 2 separate programs that would be compatible and could accomplish these tasks fairly easy?

**Whir** · July 30th, 2009, 09:34 AM

foobar2000 for a player and such.

However, you will never achieve the same sound simply because your listening devices are different.

BadBeatz78 · July 30th, 2009, 09:48 AM

foobar2000 for a player and such.

However, you will never achieve the same sound simply because your listening devices are different.[/quote]

Thank you. I understand what you're saying. For example a song that I have downloaded from say Bearshare and played with their player and then burned to CD also with their program sounds so much better than letting WMP import the song and then burning it. I am just trying to find something...anything other than WMP! Again, thanks for the info.

**Whir** · July 30th, 2009, 10:14 AM

WMP probably converts it with lossy compression before storing it, which will definitely degrade the sound quality. Not to mention, I have noticed that when you burn with WMP and have modified the equalizer, it will actually burn those equalized settings into audio (though not mp3 discs). At least it's done it to me before, perhaps they've changed it since then.