How did you discover QCD?

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

The ultimate question to life, the universe, and QCD is naturally: How did you discover QCD? I happened to be browsing one day for better media players than winamp and by chance did i come across QCD :D. Let Paul and Matt know how you came to discover this marvellous player. ;)

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

oops this was supposed to be a poll. Oh well, no harm done

[tupperduck]

Myself, I first read about it on the Opera message board. People were talking up what a great media player it was, so I gave it a shot. Shortly thereafter I uninstalled WinAmp and never looked back.

[-swt-]

just surfed through some Skin-Pages and found some QCD-Skins...
so i visited this page, and started using QCD :cool:
well... that happens about 3 :confused: Years ago...

silent greets

[Tokelil]

Well good question since Im not sure. Im not even sure how long ago it was that I used it for the first time.

I can see that I started promoting it the 12/15/2000 - 9:24 am (http://www.fileflash.com/?action=info&program=683) so I guess I started using it a few weeks/months before that. Im not sure why though, since non of my friends has used it for more than a year.

[chicubs]

I found it on cnet during my great quest to find "the one"...I had tried just about everything out there. K-Jofol was the best until it died.

[plover]

IIRC, I found it in the Pricelessware freeware list at www.pricelessware.org .

[acozz]

Saw it mentioned in an article at Webmonkey.

[billy]

ah i remember the day clearly... i was rawely sick of winamps crappy cd playing ability, so i asked a friend if he knew of any decent cd player programs.. and he said "i think qcd is a pretty good thing", and so the saga began... i downloaded qcd 1.2, and it has been on my system ever since, through the early days of version 1.. to the buggy days of version 2, through the rebirth days of version 3... and the stable maturity of version 4.

ahh.. memories.

[Hanzo]

Well back a few years ago I got tired of looking for players when I flipped from Winamp to Sonique and I thought at that moment that Sonique was the right player.

My dad found QCD and I copied the file on several floppies and installed and at first I thought it was another copy of Winamp but I decided to give it a try. Needless to say that it was just right, fast, small, powerfull and an excellent sound that even my untrained ears can notice.

That was in version 2 or something... now we've got 4.11 and the latest build that I haven't tried yet ;)

[Toe]

I was searching around on Hydrogen Audio for some different music players to try. Downloaded many, kept one. ;)

[cudelleirbag]

I think I found out about QCD 1.2 on www.windows95.com before it became www.winfile.com before it was bought by CNET

CL

[Young Twig]

I used to look on download.com for good freeware and when I saw the freeform skinnable QCD with its 97% rating, I had to try it.

[MrZebra]

WinAmp was crashing way too often at work. Since all my music is in Ogg format, I went to it's Ogg's website looking for an alternative. http://www.vorbis.com and on the right hand side, there was a link for Quintessential Player. It pointed to this website and read about it, tried it. Got used to it and after a few weeks, deleted WinAmp. I then started converting all my friends to it.

I remember telling my parents about it for the first time on my birthday (Back in May) My sister didn't care too much for it, WinAmp is good enough for her. My dad on the other hand, was a succesful convert.

I have always been the kind of person that uses alternate software, I never use what the majority uses and like to promote what I use.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

I then started converting all my friends to it...My dad on the other hand, was a succesful convert.

Lol We are the QCD priests! :D

[ChiBangin101]

I found QCD while searching for an alternative to WINAMP and Sonique. QCD beats them both. I love Xymantix's skins, Graduate is genius.

[Qaz]

I got pissed about winamp when it started messing around MP3-tags. So, when I read a review about QCD in this one Finnish computer magazine, I thought I should give it a try. Haven't felt sorry for that decision. This happened last summer. ANd useless usage stats show that it's been started 107 times since and been on about nine and a half days.

[blackspawn]

I saw a news report about QCD in unitethecows.com (it was the favourite player of one of the members there) so I gave it a try. It stands to reason that after that, no other music player has ever been in my system :)

[rorythedog]

The ultimate question to life, the universe, and QCD is naturally: How did you discover QCD? I happened to be browsing one day for better media players than winamp and by chance did i come across QCD :D. Let Paul and Matt know how you came to discover this marvellous player. ;)
I found QCD with a reccomendation in computeractive.co.uk. I have to say that one of the reasons I have stuck with it is not that the program works superbly, which it does. Rather, it is the genuity of both the programmers and the forum contributors that is keeping me here. Superb, and keep it up. You might not know how rare this camaraderie is in this day & age. If you're up for it, you could visit "computeractive.co.uk" and if you look at their forums -Reader helps/windows - (sorry, I don't know how to cut & paste yet), you'll see an object lesson in "how not to do it". Anyway, keep up the good work. Sgurr Alba.

[thetribe]

I used to use MusicMatch Jukebox but wanted a "Listening To.." script that would show my full playlist too, couldn't find what I wanted until I came across Now Playing by Virtual Prince so downloaded the player to go with the script and liked it so much it has stayed with me. :)

And now thanks to the AMIP script 'everyone' can see what I'm listening to when I want them too. MWAHAHAHAHA. (sorry :o )

**Listening To: [03 - Love On The Rocks With No Ice by The Darkness] from the album [Sessions And B-Sides]**

[Jansu]

I was somewhere online (think 'twas DC) b*tching about WA and it's properties, a few years ago. Then a friend gave me a few links to keep me quiet... Been using QCD ever since =)

- J

[Worker]

To whom it may concern;

Damn good question. The first QCD version I came across was the old 'Windows CD Player Replacement' 1.28 (which I still have installed- not often you find such a player with a CDDB plugin), but I can't recall exactly where it was that I did. It may have been through a chiefly-unrelated Star Fleet Battles website, SFBNexus (Star Fleet Battles, for those viewers who may not wargame, is an 'alternate past' Star Trek miniature boardgame, chiefly concerning starship combat, which has been steadily chugging along for a good 15-20 years now, which explored the development of the original series' races ships, cultures and progress [both canon and non-canon] to the point where the storyline had changed to the Federation having a strange combination of TNG and TOS style designs, chiefly modifications of the latter, by the time TNG would have come about), in which a pair of SFB skins for Quintessential 1.28 were featured. There was, if I'm remembering correctly, a link to the old QCD webpage, and a note praising QCD as well as the old $10 shareware registration fee.
Again, I don't know if this was the first time I'd come across it. I do know that I was thoroughly impressed with it, even if a couple of years later I realized what kinds of leaps and jumps QCD had made when I visited the Quintessential homepage a couple of years ago (I think I first glommed onto the 'modern' QCD with v3.51), which I do remember clearly. Although I'll generally use Winamp 2.8 for MP3 playback and management, QCD is set up as my default CD player as well as the player for less-common formats (like Ogg Vorbis, which I find WA doesn't do nearly as well with its own plugin) and being blunt, I enjoy using QCD a fair bit more. Winamp- for the sake of comparison- didn't have real free-frame skinning until v3.0, which runs abysmally slow on my box (yeah, I know, a p1-166MHz is just me being lazy about upgrades) while QCD is speedy as anything and visually is almost always a treat to watch it do its thing. QCD Player is as good as the CD-ROM drive it's slaved to, and given how old mine is that's a feat I've rarely seen. :)
If anything, QCD has probably been one of the best sidetracked webpage visits I've had the pleasure of diving into. I honestly think QCD could still make good and honest money as uncrippled shareware (like it was a number of years ago, and I probably would've registered my own copy by now had QCD not gone freeware by the time I went looking) as opposed to freeware, but far be it from me to look a gift-player in the mouth; if Quintessential feels comfortable doing it this way I certainly won't argue the point one way or another. :)
Hope that fits the topic. Be well!

-Worker
-SUPERIOR MUTANTS!

[buvypapy]

I got my first QCD from a magazine cover CD (it was from the 3.x family, the last stable version before the loads of dev builds that ended on 4.0). Much earlier I was using Sonique, but only for MP3's; Sonique wasn't so good for CD's and used to stop on each track and to make very irresponsive visuals.
So I decided to give that QCD version a try and... I became amazed! Definitely I'm using the actual version 4.11as the only player for near all my audio needs (except for wavs and not-supported formats), also for its excellent CDDB integration (now I know what CD's I'm hearing!) and its customization facilities, much easier than those from other players!

[Jencatd]

I found out about QCD on another forum I go to. One of the members was raving about how much easier it was to read at screen resolutions higher than 800x600 than Winamp. I later switched to a higher screen resolution (1024x768), tried to read Winamp, and thought I was going blind. I remembered QCD, installed it and realised I that I wasn't going blind, Winamp was just too small! That was Version 4.01, I now have Version 4.11 installed, and am very happy with it when the CDDB's working properly. I use it for all audio (and CDs) except for the odd obscure formats I find that Winamp supports.

[#The fREaK!]

I started using Winamp a few years ago. Then my friend started using some DSP plugins. I tried a few and then, after I found the MuchFX2 plugins, I started using multiple ones. Then Winamp started crashing. It could crash about ten times a day when I used it alot.

One day when I was looking for new plugins, I came to the homepage of the Multiple DSP Plugin. There I saw that there was a version for a program called Quintessential Player. When I started getting really annoyed with the crashing problem, I started looking for an alternate player. Then I remembered Quintessential Player, and went back to the homepage of the Multiple DSP Plugin where there was a link to QCD's homepage. So I went to the QCD homepage and decided to take a look at the site to see if I found some more info about QCD. When I got to the plugin page and saw that QCD was Winamp DSP compatible I decided to give it a try. I installed QCD and ran it, and as I went through the options, I noticed that it was quite similar to Winamp.

I then copied the plugins I was using from the Winamp plugin folder and putted them in QCD's plugin folder. Then I loaded them and tested QCD's stability. I used QCD for many hours that day without having a single crash. That convinced me to keep QCD. Then I told one of my friends who where using Winamp about QCD and convinced him to try it. He too, thought QCD was superior and kept it. Since then, I have been using QCD.

[DeltaGuy]

We were talking about Winamp on another forum that I frequent, and someone mentioned that they had once used a Winamp Alternative called "Quintessential CD Player". They said it was a piece of pathetic garbage that wasn't fit to be on his computer, so, naturally, I tried it out to prove him wrong. I'm glad I did. So really, no one converted me at all. Note that my previous player was Windows Media Player, not WinAmp. I've always thought Winamp was a piece of AOL filled pathetic junk, and Winamp5 proves this quite well...

Lol We are the QCD priests! :D I prefer being called a missionary...
Hmm...
DeltaGuy: QCD Missionary, Mozilla Missionary, Web Standards Missionary...
The list just goes on...

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

good stuff :)

[Tag]

I "upgraded" Winamp to Winamp 3. I was never happy with Winamp as it was way to fiddly and winamp 3 was just a joke.

So I trawled though the D/loads at Cnet and found QCD had a silly positive rating and I though I'd have some of that.

So I got thank winamp for screwing up and pointing me in a much better direction.

[Spikescape]

I read about it here (http://pcworld.com/reviews/article/1,aid,113745,pg,9,00.asp).

[sld]

I've always thought Winamp was a piece of AOL filled pathetic junk, and Winamp5 proves this quite well...
It does? The Winamp 5 installation I have is so AOL-free, that one would think Nullsoft is still an independent company!

[MadRocketeer]

Cnet download.com. Decided to search for an alternative MP3 player - a little change a scenary from the usual Sonique/Winamp rivalries. Decided to give QCD a try along with about a dozen other players. QCD, along with Freeamp (now Zinf), K-Jofol and that Korean player with a name that started with S were the picks of the bunch.

[zektor]

I found it a few years ago just by hitting search engines looking for alternatives to Winamp. Not that I was dissatisfied with Winamp at the time, but I just wanted to add a little more flavor to my MP3 playback experience and try something else. Glad I did!

[apollo2011]

I found Quintessential Player when it mentioned in PCWorld Magazine as top Media Player for Free on the internet.

[Cabinessence]

I think it was when I was looking for a replacement for Winamp. Tried Sonique for a while, but it was "too much" for me. Tried Foobar - hated it.

[Zayoos]

I found QCD on CD added to CD-Action Magazine few years ago, when i didn't have internet yet. I am using it since then :)

[Roj]

The ultimate question to life, the universe, and QCD is naturally: How did you discover QCD? I happened to be browsing one day for better media players than winamp and by chance did i come across QCD :D. Let Paul and Matt know how you came to discover this marvellous player. ;)I found it years ago when I was looking for a CD player. I used it as that for a long time and never upgraded. I first used Tinamp and then CoolPlayer for MP3s and then OGGs. When CoolPlayer died and I became interested in lossless, I started looking for another player (Tinamp played lossless but I really don't like listening to my music with a veil in front of it) and decided to try QCD when a MAD plugin became available for it (I won't waste my time on anything that doesn't use MAD). To my ears it was slightly smoother than CoolPlayer and had a bit more definition - it was easily less muffled than Tinamp + MAD. I never bothered to look back after that despite the silly rhetoric aimed at it by lesser beings (one suffers the ignorant - one neither humors nor encourages them). :)

[collector]

A friend mentioned it to me the other week.
I downloaded it, looked at it and it was love at second sight.
The first sight was the original qcd-skin.
After using 1by1 I was used to clear explorer-looks and I found my favorite skin in bbx.. Today I found my missing comp-wide.dll and now all is great.
Only encoding cd to mp3 is a bit weird

Great program

[Hanzo]

Only encoding cd to mp3 is a bit weird

Great program
Yes... I miss the counter that appeared in the encoder or when you converted file formats, however I have not tried lately, I could be wrong.

[Draders]

I was searching for a good alternative to WA on downloads.com since its like the only player that doesnt have unicode support and didnt expect much, but this player had a high user rating and i liked it so im using it.

[a-1wave]

My dad introduced me to it, he discovered it at download.com. I think that he was also trying to find an alternative to Winamp, we had tried Winamp but found it to be unsatisfactory, not to mention offensive (opening soundbyte: "Winamp, it really kicks the llama's *bleep*".) After trying QCD, I think it was version 3.50, we loved it and I use it every day. I use it to listen to music and also Old Time Radio in mp3 format, it works really good for OTR. And just for kicks, according to the usage stats I have used it 454 times, played 6432 tracks, average time I've used it is 1:17:09, and for the grand total of how long I've used it, (drumroll please), 24 days, 7:52:51. Also my current favorite skin is the newest form of MMD3, my favorite colors are green and blue and even though I usually hate pink, I'm going to break down and say the pink mode is pretty cool. :) All in all I think that QCD is the greatest media player ever.

[ianjohnson_nz]

I bought a license to QCD version 2 in December 99. Cost me $10. I ended up going back to version 1.27 because I preferred it, I loved that it was so small on my screen, I could stop it flashing, and I could hide it away in the task bar. I've been using it ever since. Recently I've been looking at buying an iRiver iHP140 so I've been researching ripping my CDs, and installed QCD 4.11 yesterday.

So now I'm in a quandary. I can't decide what format to use :confused:

[Roj]

No quandary at all:


OGG.

[hedge]

No quandary at all:


OGG.
Yeah, ogg using quality setting 6.0 or so, with EAC or CD-Ex, good combination...
But i have an ipod, so i use lame mp3 -alt preset standard, works well too...
i definitely can't tell the difference, i don't have super hearing or anything.

[ianjohnson_nz]

Hi

That's the way I'm heading.

Using QCD, is it possible to get it to set the artist's name to surname, then first name (I know, I know, picky picky!). After all, someone's going to all that effort to load the artist's name into the separate fields in CDDB.

Thanks for your help!

ian

[Mootang]

Hi

That's the way I'm heading.

Using QCD, is it possible to get it to set the artist's name to surname, then first name (I know, I know, picky picky!). After all, someone's going to all that effort to load the artist's name into the separate fields in CDDB.

Thanks for your help!

ian

You could always edit song's tags so that the last name is the first and so forth. http://www.quinnware.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif

Just a little switcharoo and time on your part.

[Protocol]

Roj told me about it on another Forum...
And I love it.

Thanks Roj :p

[femme4jc]

I had been using Fusion player for awhile, husband preferred winamp....when we got our new computer I went looking on cnet for my Fusion player when I came across QCD listed under the top-rated media player downloads. Downloaded it, fell in love, and we use nothing else for our music files. DEATH TO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER!! space hog, irritating, and does anyone really use all their stupid extra features?

Oh, love the QCD skins too :D

[jkrzok]

I was never really satisfied with any other music player until I found QCD. It sounds silly but a very small feature in QCD caught my eye, the total playlist display in the main time display. When Winamp went to 3.0 they lost the total time display (only availble in the playlist anyway) so I started looking elsewhere. I tried Sonique, Jet, Musicmatch, Virtuosa, A2, etc. I even (shudder) paid for some of them, thinking they were what I wanted. But I still kept looking. So this little thing, the time display, caught my eye but the longer I used QCD the more I found to like in it. Sound quality does seem better to me. You can record mp3 streams with it. Converting mp3s to wavs is fast and easy. Support in the forums is outstanding. I could go on, but it's bed time.

Thanks to all in the Community for a great player; I can finally stop looking.

[rpc9943]

Qcd was the end of a search for a minimal cd player that was better than winamp. That was 1.2 version era. Been with it since.

RonC

[nddst]

I found an email I sent in 12/99 where I had lost my original registration. I would be interested in knowing if Paul has that info. I bet I registered pre 1.27 era and paid for it. (To this day one of the handful of shareware I have paid for).

Great product, excellent support and the Quinn brothers design fancy web sites.
-nddst
n.p. Nothing: Baby's sleeping.

P.S. I added a link to Quinnware to my home page in hopes someone will find it and love it, too.
http://home.comcast.net/~nddst/

[madjo]

Last year around june I found QCD through a link on a friend's website. I tried it, and loved it immediately. Never even looking back at Winamp.

[rsplitter]

Just got QCD today. I found out about QCD through xymantix.com :calm:

[traveller]

As far as I can remember, I found it on one of the major download sites (Download.com?). I was looking for something to replace WA3 and foobar, both of which had gone insane (probably my system's fault, but it got me here, so there must have been a good reason). I love the programme, and really enjoy the forums; lots of interesting and knowledgeable people. :heart:

[hyp3rvyp3r]

I discovered this glorious player while I was at a lan party we throw every week. Somebody had it in their shared folder, and by seeing the name, i asked what it was.... he said to me "only the best player in the world!" so i grabbed it off his pc and installed it. A year later, I only use other players if i must, but that rarely ever happens. You get some of the best skins, plugins and overall performance from this one player.

[quinnman]

The discovery of QCD was a bright day in my life :)
I'm still thankfull to the magazine CHIP in with a test of audio players was published and they were brave enough :laugh: to remark that there are better players than Winamp, but only QCD passed their strict requirements.
It took not much time from reading this to installing QCD and following deinstalling of Winamp and since then I converted :) many my friends to QCD.
This is our quest. :)

[Assmongrel]

A friend of mine told me "Hey man, found an mp3 player thats way better than winamp! if you try it, you'll never go back!" yadda, yadda, yadda, here I am, spreading the word of the greatest music player that I've ever used... the customizability... the low system load... the brothers putting in the work every day to keep it the best player on the internet... keeping up with feature requests and bug squashing... great stuff!

[tupence]

There was a thread on the MozillaZine forums about other good free software and someone mentioned QCD being so much better than Winamp. I gave it a go and they were right. :)

[countryjoe]

i found qcd when i was on msn searching for a new media player. i've used winamp and windows media 9 series but qcd is the best that i have found so far. it's got some cool skins too, but i like the default skin in runt mode, i can bring up the playlist and select the song that i want to start playing. i use enhancer for my dsp reverb. :cool:

[Willow of Oz]

Unlike most, I was quite happy with my media players at the time.
Media player doesn't bother me for video, and I use it to this day. Winamp was fine for music, both 2 and 3.
I was going to go into a mass-ogg ripping mode, and wondered what I should use. I ended up at the ogg page and found a link to this thing called QCD.
Downloaded some version, probably a v4.10, or near enough. Haven't used it that long :-)
Anyway, around that time then I tried QCD, also tried foobar (mentioned on some Ars Technica forum) and kept up the winamping. There was stuff in QCD that was nice, but several aspects that seemed either difficult or buggy. Then there was a dev build. Tried that and woohoo, fixed up some bugginess in the encoding process. But introduced some other bugs. Then another build came out, fixing some bugs, introducing others (or redesigning and moving / hiding things). And then shortly I noticed that there was a build that had fixed stuff up and not broken more things, and it became more my default player. Now I evangelise it at work (two people and counting).

[Bench]

well.. i was looking at the ogg page for my euhm.. endwork? well.. i have to make an essay on a technical subject for graduation and i chose ogg.. so i went to the page and saw a link, clicked on it coz i thought the name 'quintessential' was rather interesting.. this happened late september/early october last year.. since then i'm using quintessential and lately winamp is begining to vanish into the background.. if winamp didn't have that easy access to internet radio's i wouldn't be using it anymore.. perhaps you could take it as a hint ;)
grtz and tnx for qcd :)

[Roj]

Media player doesn't bother me for video, and I use it to this day.
Might I acquaint you with Media Player Classic:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

[duckie]

Might I acquaint you with Media Player Classic:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

I definitely second that. I'm using it for just about everything now, it handles even troublesome formats like Quicktime, Real and DVDs without any hassles.

[Graziano]

I had the clunky ol' MusicMatch preinstalled with my Dell. I went looking for a lean and mean player on the CNET downloads and noticed QCD's tremendous user rating which prompted me to give it a shot.
I never looked back.

[Veloxi]

I was looking for an alternative to winamp, and surfed to some of my favorite download sites such as Download.com, Webattack (now Snapfiles), and Nonags. On each of those sites, QCD had great user ratings and what not, so I download it. 2 years later, it's still my default music player, and one of the first things I download and install on a new computer. Love this program.

[Morrolan70]

I stumbled across QCD a year or so ago, when looking into the Spinamp plugin. Spinamp acted a little funky with Winamp, so just for giggles I tried out the QCD version.... needless to say, Winamp's a faint memory... :silly:

[Willow of Oz]

[QUOTE=Roj]Might I acquaint you with Media Player Classic:

Well, I've gone there now. And their homepage is under construction, so they can't tell me anything about it.
I gather it plays media stuff.
I guess I'll have to try it out to see what makes it worthwhile.

Ah, the trials and tribulations of life...

[krazyd]

[QUOTE=Roj]Might I acquaint you with Media Player Classic:

Well, I've gone there now. And their homepage is under construction, so they can't tell me anything about it.
I gather it plays media stuff.
I guess I'll have to try it out to see what makes it worthwhile.

Ah, the trials and tribulations of life...

I find MPC can play pretty much any video better/easier than anything else :)
See here for a bit more info...
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1045531002

[cronik]

http://www.bsplayer.com/

it's a well made media player, with lots of options, skinnability, and it plays stuff smoothly on my lousy computer. i can't get mpc to play movies as smoothly as bsplayer, so i hafta say bsplayer is my fav.

[gren99]

i originally played with QCD 1.2x in the late 90s when i went looking for a freewareCD player with proper imdb support. i didn't go with QCD at the time because i didn't feel like spending $10 at the time and wound up using the MS deluxe cd player for a while (it was part of the win98 pluspack, if i recall right. about the only thing worthwhile from that pack).

when mp3s started taking over, i tried winamp again for a while (i used winamp in the pre-1.0 stages as my mod file player) then happily switched to sonique (which i thought sounded better than WA2) and when sonique was more or less gutted by lycos, i was kinda looking for a multipurpose audio player.

what ultimately got me back to QCD (which, at that time, hardly even resembled the program i had last seen in the late '90s) was the fact that i had picked up a software package to help inventory my growing CD collection (which at the time must have been around 6-700 discs, it's around 1100 now). i forget the name of the actual app, but it eventually evolved into the 'music collector' app that collectorz.com offers (this was before they had like 6 different collection tracking programs -- the CD tracker was it at the time).

well, even back then QCD was the only program that a had a full-fledged plugin for said program that would transfer the data of a newly inserted CD right into my CD database, thereby saving me a ton of work. based on the prospect of making my CD cataloging a lot easier, i downloaded version 3.x of QCD and haven't really looked back since. in my expierience, people who use QCD regularly really tend to wind up evangelizing it. i've gotten about half a dozen of my friends to try it and to a man (and woman), they all just love using it -- and so now THEY tell their friends about how great QCD is and...:)

[J44xm]

http://www.bsplayer.com/

it's a well made media player, with lots of options, skinnability, and it plays stuff smoothly on my lousy computer. i can't get mpc to play movies as smoothly as bsplayer, so i hafta say bsplayer is my fav.Same here. No install required and highly configurable. My favorite.

[WockaWocka]

Some mass circulation computer mag, maybe PC Computing Magazine, mentioned Q with a good recommendation. I was getting pretty tired of WinAmp's fickle behavior, and was thoroughly annoyed with mutual interference between WinAmp and Windows Media Player, so I ditched them both.

[Brenky]

I was totally fed-up with WinAmp, so I searched and searched for what seemed like forever until I found Quintessential. That was about, uh, a month ago, but now I'm kinda obsessed with it. Hehe. But that's okay, I recommended it to a lot of people. :cool:

[traveller]

I was totally fed-up with WinAmp, so I searched and searched for what seemed like forever until I found Quintessential. That was about, uh, a month ago, but now I'm kinda obsessed with it. Hehe. But that's okay, I recommended it to a lot of people. :cool:
Welcome to the family, neighbour. This little program does become an obsession, doesn't it? It's nice to know that your ideas are listened to, and the community is great:heart:

[Brenky]

Welcome to the family, neighbour. This little program does become an obsession, doesn't it? It's nice to know that your ideas are listened to, and the community is great:heart:

Ah, you're from Osoyoos. Nice place.

Anyways, everyone here seems really nice. Thanks for the welcome!

[Neo]

Might I acquaint you with Media Player Classic:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
This might be a dumb question, but I downloaded the Zip file and it's just the application... is there no installer? What's the deal with this? How do I substitute it for my normal Windows MP?

Also, is BSPlayer a more spiffy version of this? I like the looks of BSPlayer will it play Quicktime too?

[Qaz]

Also, is BSPlayer a more spiffy version of this? I like the looks of BSPlayer will it play Quicktime too?
Browsing their forums showed that it does that too. it needs some codec to be installed first. It seemed like very nice program when I downloaded it.

[Neo]

Browsing their forums showed that it does that too. it needs some codec to be installed first. It seemed like very nice program when I downloaded it.
Which codecs are needed?

[Qaz]

Quicktime alternative: http://www.megacodecpack.com/

You can get the real alternetive from the same place, so no need for RealOne player or whatever it's called nowadays.

[traveller]

Quicktime alternative: http://www.megacodecpack.com/

You can get the real alternetive from the same place, so no need for RealOne player or whatever it's called nowadays. There is a version of the megacodepack which includes both MPC and BSPlayer, and installers for both.

[Neo]

It's a bit confusing, not sure what to use... QCD has some video options and BSPlayer and Classic Media Player have others. I hate having too many similiar yet different programs on my system. What am I to do? Hmmmm!

[traveller]

It's a bit confusing, not sure what to use... QCD has some video options and BSPlayer and Classic Media Player have others. I hate having too many similiar yet different programs on my system. What am I to do? Hmmmm! When in trouble, or in doubt,
Run in cicles, scream, and shout!:confused:

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

It's a bit confusing, not sure what to use... QCD has some video options and BSPlayer and Classic Media Player have others. I hate having too many similiar yet different programs on my system. What am I to do? Hmmmm!

QCD for audio
ZoomPlayer for video

Dump the rest ;)

[zminos]

I was looking arround @ download.com and found QCD and in the comments section everyone was saying this is awesome, so I downloaded it installed it and I've just now uninstalled Jet Audio. JA got me to stop using WMA. ;)

:bulb: so now I have to work out the video side... so then I have a full one stop solution I can use and recommend to others :coffee:

:grin:

[Neo]

QCD for audio
ZoomPlayer for video

Dump the rest ;)
I just tried ZoomPlayer, not bad... but it didn't work well with streaming Real Audio.
I'm still looking.... :paranoid:

[Quad341]

found qcd by a random post by a user on the clone.cd forums. after initial download, i never looked back

[hmv83]

techtv.

[acozz]

techtv.

TechTV mentioned QCD? Cool.

[Heigar]

techtv.
Techtv, is one of the few channels on tv that i can watch all day long.(except for reruns).

[jkrzok]

Techtv, is one of the few channels on tv that i can watch all day long.(except for reruns).
Until they got rid of Leo Laporte.

[Inthewoods]

Until they got rid of Leo Laporte.


Man, you can say that again. That "G4TechTV" merger just BITES. I watch one show, Patrick, Kevin and the gang.

[jkrzok]

Leo signed to do a Call for Help type show with Tech TV Canada. I hope it van be imported.

[Kr0nyk]

Used Winamp from 1998 - 2002 and then realized there were alternatives after searching with Google.

[Neill2LL's]

I was looking for something to replace Musicmatch (too many adds, too big, too slow encoding.) saw a download review at Computeractive website, checked it out on download.com and went for it. I'm impressed.

[Stargazer]

I found out about it from a software downloads newsletter -- Sofotex (http://www.sofotex.com) They never fail to have some cool tool. Get on their newsletter list! You'll not be sorry.

[Random]

The ultimate question to life, the universe, and QCD is naturally: How did you discover QCD? I happened to be browsing one day for better media players than winamp and by chance did i come across QCD :D. Let Paul and Matt know how you came to discover this marvellous player. ;)

So, you've read "A Hithciker's Guide to the Universe"?

I discovered QCD by Google. I was sick and tired of Winamp...too many crashes

[Inthewoods]

So, you've read "A Hithciker's Guide to the Universe"?

I discovered QCD by Google. I was sick and tired of Winamp...too many crashes

I believe it's Galaxy rather than Universe :biggrin: and..........42

[Random]

I believe it's Galaxy rather than Universe :biggrin: and..........42


Yeah, you're right...
Great book.