Oh no! I've never had any freezing issues, hopefully it was a fluke. If it doesn't have any gamebreaking technical issues, I'd definitely say that it's my favorite media player, of everything I've tried. Let us know if Winyl turns out to be the direction you go in.

There is also Banshee (http://banshee.fm/)
It's the default media player in Ubuntu, but it's multi-platform. I'm not a fan but you might like it

Sure your laptop isn't being problematic rather than the media player?

You could try Media Monkey I guess.

Don't think it's the laptop as Clementine's been running just fine aside from the initial freeze-up which could be attributed to the hundreds of items that had to be imported into the media library which is when the freeze occured.

I quite dig it so far, lol.

iTunes.

I'm just fucking with you, it's terrible.

I've been using it extensively for the past day and it works almost flawlessly, what little trouble i've encountered is most likely due to my game and not the player itself (i.e whenever i switch from the desktop to Sacred Gold, whatever i'm playing skips a couple times). I really dig the clean and clutterless UI.

I might return in the future for a video player (Clementine doesn't play videos, does it? i don't see any mention of it on the site) but for now i'll just keep WMP for videos.

Thanks a lot to everyone's suggestions, while i didn't try each and every player suggested (VLC and Winyl come to mind) i do appreciate everyone popping in with a suggestion.

mp3blaster.

*Sun glasses*

I used to use media player classic with a mega-codec package on windows. It was basically a freeware open-source WMP clone modeled on the old windows media player 6.4 GUI, the idea being that versions after that became untenable bloatware (and I agree). Though I've had trouble getting all the codecs to work, so about a couple of years ago I switched to VLC player and haven't really looked back. Luckily I can use it on linux too, when Mint's bundled movie-player doesn't work.

For an audio player whilst I was still on Windows, I was always partial to vuplayer, a very under-the-radar but versatile, lightweight, bloat-free little player. I think it's really worth checking out. I wish it worked on linux, otherwise I'd still be using it (using Exaile now for music, which is a serviceable player). Give it a look-see at the project website.

http://www.vuplayer.com/ The guy has stopped updating it since 2007, but really, simple audio players on computers haven't changed that much over the years.

For video I use VLC Media Player because it just works without having the need to install ten million codecs.

For audio I use MusicBee which is a lot like MediaMonkey (my previously used player) so it has very good library sorting and filtering and decent podcast management but also adds something I use daily and that is the ability to listen to Last.fm stations (even if you're not a subscriber) as well as scrobbling tracks from radio streams.

Yes, most of my life revolves around Last.fm and so far no other player has been as accommodating as MusicBee.