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Not for me!

Still using it daily. People laugh every time they see it. But it does what I want, it's lightweight, and has some great commercial plugins.

I still use it as well. I didn't realise it was something people laughed at - WMP takes up too much screen estate, iTunes has far too much bloat, and I don't need a music player with the complexity and learning curve of emacs.

"iTunes has far too much bloat" - this is exactly why I stil have WinAmp installed. I use iTunes for organizing my music, downloading podcasts, syncing with my iPod, etc. But I also record my own MP3s - songs, voice memos, etc - and opening them in iTunes is annoying. It's slow, and it immediately adds them to my library, which I don't want.

If I double-click an MP3, it opens immediately in WinAmp. For most anything else, I use iTunes.

What are they using? Besides iTunes.

iTunes and WMP, mostly.

To be honest, I don't know what else people are using. It's one of the places I've had to do the least research in software. WinAMP has been a stalwart for over a decade.

Most people that I know use foobar2000.

Yeap, foobar2000 is basically the "standard" now.

And a surprising number of people now use Spotify or Pandora for their primary music interface.

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