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Recommend a stand alone m4a player

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ScottD

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Hello all,

Can someone recommend a good stand-alone m4a player for the PC? I would like to start using itunes to convert all my CD's to m4a's and for transferring to my ipod, but I am still old school in that I find it quicker, especially when jumping around from song to song, to open window explorer and double click on a song to play on windows media player when I'm working at the computer. This is because most of my music is currently in mp3 format... some good quality, some not so good quality.
I need the equivalent easy-start player for m4a's instead of having itunes start up every time I double click on a file. I realize some of you will think I should just learn how to use itunes efficiently... I will get there eventually but until then... any recommendations?

Thanks,
Scott
 
There are dozens. If all you want is a simple player, Media Player Classic Home Cinema is perfectly capable of playing back AAC audio in MP4 containers. foobar2000 is a bit more elaborate, being a playlist-based audio player with library management functionality, but it would work fine as well.

As for iTunes, just keep it running at all times. You won't need to launch what is already running.
 
foobar2000 is about as "lite" as it's going to get for m4a (meaning the standard iTunes AAC files using AAC compression) and it plays them natively. If you're using ALAC (Apple Lossless, same principle as FLAC, Wavpack, Monkey's Audio, etc) then you'll need to get the ALAC Decoder and drop it in the foobar\components directory wherever you have foobar installed.

I use iTunes only for managing the audio collection I have for exporting to my iPod touch, and not much else. I load the libraries in foobar2000 when playing it on the PC.
 
Thanks for the recommendations! I will try a couple of those out.

Scott
 
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