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Hi guys this is Fojoheartthrobe back to blogger posts again.
It's been a long time since then.
This article is pretty straight forward about the music players that are good to use for windows PC.
The way I've chosen these two as best is based completely only on the looks, style, and some playback options available like the lyrics, artwork freedom and playlists.

#2 Zune

Zune is the second best for my expectations. Zune is a music player that has the best visualizations than any other music apps. The developers are from @microsoft. So no doubt about the bugs and other compatibility issues. The Zune brings a lot of style to your living room and has less options than ITunes.

UI

As far as the GUI is considered Zune takes the first palce.

The GUI is kinda like the metro UI style.

The playback is crystal clear.

The visualizations are cool mooded with the album arts at the behind changing periodically like tiles.

The songs can be favourited with the heart icon next to the song control pane.

And the most cool thing about the player is that the equalizer like visualizer at bottom of the screen. That is soooo coooool.

playback screenshot

the start screen gives you a tailored structure of what you listened, your pins and playlists of musics ans videos.

start screen with quickplay screen

The start screen has two options to switch between. One is the quickplay and the other is collections.

Collections provide you your complete song collection from your library and some other custom directories from your HDD that you can change in the settings.

The start screen with collections screen

the settings screen that lets you choose the directories  to search music, images and videos

You see those text in the images so small because My screen if a full HD screen. for other resolutions it won't be so.

video playback

The video playback is also good with Zune.

#1 ITunes

As Zune came from the microsoft kitchen, ITunes came from the Apple garden. But ITunes came out first for the connectivity purpose of the IPhone with pc and mac. Itunes's GUI is not that awesome as before because, owing to it's new look and the conversion from itunes version 10.x to 11.0 the unique feature of itunes called coverflow. Yes the coverflow feature has been cut off. Yet the visualizations have got much better than it was before.

The freedom to change the album art work, the freedom to add lyrics, finding match songs via genius are some of the reasons to stick with ITunes.

the start screen with album view

Unlike Zune ITunes provides a different kinda look which makes me feel like metallic UI themed.

As I've said ITunes provide a lot of options other than Zune. 

visualizations of ITunes

And the visualizations rock.

You can feel a lot better when you just stare at the visualizations.

mini player

The mini player is also provided by Zune and the choice to make it visible on top of all windows can be made in both music players.

But the mini player cannot be resized in Zune whereas it can be resized in ITunes.

One more thing is that Zune does not provide keyboard navigation facility.

And ITunes scan be completely controlled by keyboard.

However, to say "best" is next to impossible because, everybody have their own likes and dislikes. These two are best I've ever seen.