I used to be a WMP camper, but got tired of it eventually (always ran kinda sluggish, froze constantly, etc) and switched to Zune. Thats be working more or less OK for the past few months and i highly enjoy the online profile that lets friends see what i'm listening to, favorite songs, artists, etc. But it still runs a little sluggish, even on my laptop. This is something i was fine with, until i was driven over the breaking point last night when i tried listening to some music over Zune while playing Sacred Gold, but it refused to launch (freezing everytime i tried).

Now i'm trying to see if there exists a good media player out there that has a clean and simple user interface, is easy to use, not resource intensive and well...suggest me something good if it exists please :)

Thanks!

P.S. No Quicktime please <_<

VLC

Seconded.

VLC is a good choice.
WinAmp works well for just audio.

Only one better than VLC, and it's Media Player Classic Home Cinema. Download CCCP, which comes with it, and provides all of the video format support you'll need.

EDIT: For a music specific player, I recommend Clementine. It is simple and awesome, with built-in lyric support and artist info pulled from Wikipedia, very clean interface, built-in last.fm support if you're into that sort of thing... I highly recommend trying it.

CCCP (Media Player Classic Home Cinema) for video and foobar2000 for audio

Well, I use...

Windows Media Player (but you already don't want that), and VLC for what WMP cannot open (I tend to not install codecs and plug my installation with crap).

I'm an Itunes junkie, that's not necessarily what you're after though.
For single songs (ie. no library management), I randomly use Quicktime and Windows Media Player (yes WMP has library, but I don't like it), for video I use VLC or WMP.

VLC has an audio library feature but it's rather rudimentary in my opinion. I use it as a back up player for videos because it plays anything but my main player is still WMP, despite its many flaws.

I use foobar200 for listening to music, it's pretty simple to use and not as much of a resource hog as WMP.

I'm tempted by Clementine may give it a go.

For music: Winamp
For videos: AVS DVD Player

Another vote for VLC, not only for windows, also for Linux.

Music: Winamp
Video: GOM Player (VLC or WMP if gom doesn't like the video)

GOM Player is another good built-in codec media player I would add to the list.

But I also recommend you to get Real Player, install first real player and then VLC to make it the preference one... Why I recommend Real Player? Because it allows you to download videos from youtube and other webs. ;-)