This software used to be my favorite media player years ago. And no, it’s not BullShit! It had all the features you need to play your avi files, mp3 files and other types of media files and more. And it is reasonably fast as well. And compared to the sub-par Microsoft Media Player, it was like superb. And from my experience, no other player even come close to it. Sure, Winamp was great for playing audio files, but it still lose to BS Player when playing video files.

But that was years ago. Now with so much competition, it has lost out a lot. I personally feel that BS Player is now a bit of bloatware and it’s kind of slow when playing video files when compared to other software. If you take Media Player Classic to compare, the speed difference is very apparent. Yes, it supports a boatload of media formats, but so does other media players out there. And with Microsoft’s Media Player maturing with a huge amount of features, BS Player has not kept up with the competition at all. I mean, it’s just like Netscape. People tend to use the media player that comes with their Operating System if it suits them fine. They won’t think of changing to another software. Worse, BS Player comes with advertisements (aka Adware aka Spyware) now. If you don’t want the advertisements (served by SaveNow), you need to pay for the “Pro” version.

I am currently using Media Player Classic to play all my media files. It supports a variety of formats and even allows the use of “subtitles” too. And I don’t have any problem playing files using this lightweight software. It doesn’t come with adware either. So why should I use BS Player? The developers need to really improve more on their software first before I would consider using it.