Trying to find audio-player replacement after quality issues with mplayer classic

[A_Pleite]

Hi,

I recently noticed that mplayer classic seems to have huge issues playing audion on my laptop. I hear strange distortions as if I am running everything way too loud, but they appear alrady on the lowest settings. Ironicly the quality appears to be much better in wmplayer10. So now I am looking for a replacement player, at least for audio, since I dont know where I could start about fixing mplayer classic.
I would like an audio-player that emphasizes a bit in quality, especially for bad (laptop)speakers and not too high quality mp3s, that has straightforward ways in making playlist (I guess thats basic).

I would also like to see a big pre-cache, if that exists at all for players. It does for bittorrent. The idea is to only read from the hd every x MB, into the memory, so that the rest of the time the hd is not running and doesnt suck energy and burns my lap.

Any recommendations?
thx

[videomixer9]

As to precaching you can use Haali Media Splitter for anything, it has a setting for the input buffer. The value is in KB, if you watch e.g. lots of videos with 175mb filesize set it to 179200 and it'll read in the whole rest of the file into the memory.

[Leak]

I recently noticed that mplayer classic seems to have huge issues playing audion on my laptop. I hear strange distortions as if I am running everything way too loud, but they appear alrady on the lowest settings.
Try changing the output sample format of MPC's audio decoders in "Options/Filters/Audio Decoders" or disabling all filters containing "AAC", "AC3", "DTS", "LPCM" or the word "Audio" in their name on the "Options/Filters" page.

[mod]

Use 1by1.

No graphics, no colours, no visualization..

Just add plugins and play every audio file.