mp3/ogg-vorbis software?

[baseline bum]

It's been a while since I've used Windows, but I went back and put Windows 2000 Pro on my computer a couple of days ago. Since I've been out of the Windows loop a while, I wonder what mp3 players everyone uses.

Winamp sucks. I want something where I can organize my music through ID3 tags, do things like show album covers when a song is playing, show stored lyrics, etc. I thought iTunes would be a decent bet, but it doesn't support ogg-vorbis, which is the codec I use to rip all my music from CD (it's better quality than mp3 at a lower bitrate). For anyone who uses GNU/Linux / *BSD / Solaris, basically, I'm looking for something like amaroK.



Is there anything similar for Windows with the flexibility of amaroK? amaroK can basically play anything since it uses xine,arts, and/or gstreamer as its backend. There's no port to Windows since QT isn't available under a free license on Windows (thus, kdelibs will NEVER be ported to Windows).

[ChumpDumper]

I'm playing ogg files through my iTunes - let me see if I can track down the plug-in I used.

[baseline bum]

Does it play decent? I've read the ogg plugin for iTunes is very bad and introduces a time delay between every ogg file.

[ChumpDumper]

http://xiph.org/quicktime/

I'll let you know if there's lag in a minute - I only have a few ogg files on the laptop. Sounds fine through headphones, but it's no audiophile setup.

[baseline bum]

Thanks. That's a different plugin than the one I was referring to.

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, no crossfading -- it's pretty much like the space between tracks on a CD. That could be annoying if you have all ogg files. I usually have it on shuffle, so I'm not too put off by it.

[baseline bum]

The other plugin would introduce a ridiculous 6-7 second time delay.