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Anyone suggest a good music player that is a Metro App (windows8)

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MDuh

Yes I know I can just use foobar or winamp, but I just want to try these so called metro app if they are any good.

Don't care if it is paid or not I just need it to play tons of music files (especially flac, alac, ogg) and can read multiple playlist filetypes (.fpl, m3u, .wpl, etc)

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AllRoCol

MediaMonkey?

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MDuh

Tried that but it wants me to put my NAS drive on the library.

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AllRoCol

Plex, but Plex is overkill for your situation and needs additional effort.

What is wrong with the built in Music one? I hear it is pretty good.

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MDuh

doesn't read playlist, doesnt read flac, alac, ogg

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AllRoCol

I really think you have two choices. Suck it up and fix your MediaMonkey problem or join the rest of us that don't use Metro, at all.

I can't actually use the Windows Store because I have it turned off and the web version is limited. I see Music ++ and Music 2.0 as possible options. Music ++ looks promising, though I am not sure it plays your own stuff (It looks like it does).

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MDuh

music++ is only streaming. music 2.0 has no flac nor playlist :/
Flex looks promising but I can't try it. 5$ too steep

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AllRoCol

It says you can download the music, so it can't be just streaming. I just don't know if it plays your stuff or just stuff it downloads.

Plex is nice. Basically you use a centralized server and send it to anywhere you want. You might not like that, though. It is similar to XBMC, just centralized from a single server, sending the same info to all devices.

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ShadowStealer7

Xbox Music is the one I use. Added benefit of streaming any song from the interwebs

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SuicideBroccoli

+1, just use the built in app :P

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MDuh

don't need streaming, I need a player that plays flac, alac, ogg and reads playlist. I don't stream music

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MercuryHunter

Groove Smart Music Player? :D I have no idea if it can support those though, but it is quite a cool app :)

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MDuh

meh I give up, this fucking metro apps doesn't read .m3u .fpl playlists files
I guess I'll wait for the VLC Metro app

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AllRoCol

Giving up is no fun, but nothing will top MediaMonkey (Out of the available options). and you didn't like it, so well, not a bad move to give up.

Some final finds, no guarantee they are any good. 4u2Play and PlaylistX.

4u2Play might have some potential.

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MDuh

I gave mediamonkey a second chance and found a final nail on the coffin for it. The playlist type .m3u doesn't handle unicode characters well so It fails to detect all the music in the playlist

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Efreak

It's not Metro anymore, it's Modern now.

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Closed 11 years ago by MDuh.