Multimedia file managers ala itunes/foobar2000?

[TakuSkan]

I've been searching the net for some kind of video manager that could organize my library of video media files in the sophisticated way that foobar2000 does for audio, and not something as monstrous as iTunes does for audio and video.

MediaMonkey and MovieManager seem to come close. And there's always the fall-back to Winamp. But I'm wondering if there's something I may have missed, like something out of SourceForge that might support the widest range of popular video file formats, and launch a system default media player instead of incorporating that into the video manager application.

I'd love to be able to choose between launching MPC, mplayer, smplayer, VLC, Potplayer, or WMP to play a particular video from within such a program. But I'd be satisfied with something that at least could catalog all my files, maybe offer setting things like ratings and play count in an external file, and launch the system's default media player for each file type.

Have I missed something like that out there somewhere? Anyone know if such a beast exists?

[smok3]

total commander (shareware) lets you define internal associations (but only based on ext i think), make buttons or menu items with parameters, snap:

http://shrani.si/t/0/dp/3XIc6leZ/totalcommandercustom.jpg (http://shrani.si/f/0/dp/3XIc6leZ/totalcommandercustom.png)

and gazillion other things that are file related.

p.s. and it makes a very decent file manager as well (if you have to use windows that is)

Basically /me zen would be: There is no media managers, there are file managers.

[hello_hello]

I'd love to be able to choose between launching MPC, mplayer, smplayer, VLC, Potplayer, or WMP to play a particular video from within such a program. But I'd be satisfied with something that at least could catalog all my files, maybe offer setting things like ratings and play count in an external file, and launch the system's default media player for each file type.

For the above I just put shortcuts to each media player in the Windows SendTo folder. That way I can open a file using a specific player with the right click, sendto menu.
I can't help you with a media organizer as I just use folders (with the free version of xplorer² (http://www.zabkat.com/) as my file manager as it's dual pane and each pane can have multiple tabs), but there might be something here:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/category_6_201.html