So I decided to look around for music players now I have the sound working on the RecRoom PC.

So I decided to look around for music players now I have the sound working on the RecRoom PC.

In the past I've used a variety of players including WinAmp, Foobar, Clementine, and most recently aTunes. The common denominator was the ability to have an icon/controls in the task bar (or work properly with the media keys on the keyboard), the ability to sort music files as I like, and customisation with notifications. Fairly straightforward. Listening to net radio was optional because I have a licensed copy of RadioSure (see http://www.radiosure.com/) for that.

First up I tried Groove Music. OK but nothing special. Then I tried Clementine. That was my preferred music player under Win7 but I started using aTunes instead because Clementine was having issues on my old Win7 PCs. I used Foobar 2000 for almost 8 years but it's for folk who like to mess around with code first and hack stuff to death. Anyway, Clementine worked, but kept throwing "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in" error messages at me. That'd be distracting, and a quick search showed that there was no proper solution! Then I tried the first one on this list - Dopamine. It looked like it could be incredibly good, but after installing it it would crash instead of running, giving no explanation! So, I decided to try MusicBee.

The last time I looked at this is was some version before 1/0, and it was very buggy and S-L-O-W. This time around it runs smoothly. Of course my PCs now have 4x the ram they used to have, so that might have something to do with things, but I'm impressed with it this time around.
https://beebom.com/best-music-players-windows/