quintessential is a great mp3 player. beats real n winamp bigtime. windows media player is not worth comparing to, it sux. quintessential plays lot of other formats as well, may require plug-ins occasionally [reqd plugin for mp4 files]. it also plays video usin divx, but like lotr said, VLC is the best for video.

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win98,128RAM
LW 4.9.37 basic with cable 128kbs d/l speed 16KBps
EZ antivirus, safetynet firewall.
home user, no router.
...ancient machine in top order!