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I'm not sure what you mean by "Also, very few of them take laptops out"



In THEIR case, they use either an iTouch or an iPod Nano rather than taking their expensive laptops to a gig to be stolen while they load out. That requires them to start and stop every song by hand. For you, you would have playlists compiled running on a laptop and use the spacebar to toggle the MP3 player on and off.

Look into VLC as your player. Someone mentioned Winamp. (Was that Mac that said that?)

Personally I totally HATE Microsoft Media Player, because of the overall philosophy of Microsoft and how they want to take over the world. All of that "Should I download album art" crap.... I can't think of even one situation where I'd give any sort of a damn about album art. Just play my song. Without all of those ridiculous "Visualizations" dancing all over my screen. And don't show me different "skins". Just play my song. Yet Micro$oft has all that extraneous garbage ON by default and you have to dig through many screens to find out how to turn them off. Just like how Windows comes THEIR way and you have to tweak. I believe software should always come plain vanilla and you customize it. But they didn't ask me, so.....