So I'm back to Winamp 2.95

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This is awesome. Fast, unintrusive, lots of cool plug-ins, 5MB ram usage right now listening to shoucast.
 
Can't say I use Winamp much these days, mainly Last.fm scrobbler and Mediamoneky.

Saying that the times I do use it to tag all my mp3s from gracenote iirc? it does an awesome job.
 
Winamp 2.xx - Classic
Its great for a lightweight media player. Agreed about the playlist.

Shame then went downhill after version 3 :(
 
Mattus said:
The media library's rubbish though. And who really cares whether it uses 5 or 50MB RAM these days?
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I must admit, I do, I know it's silly but I became an enthusiast in an era when you tweaked every last setting to perfection to absolutely minimise system resource use so you could maximise it for your main applications, rather than have the background apps using much at all.

I still do the same now, even though, in reality with a quad core cpu and 4GB of ram, I hardly need to. It's just a psychological thing with me, I imagine it is for many others as well.

I have never gotten into making use of Media libraries, I still do things the old fashioned way, I have a directory structure that I created (originally about the time Winamp came out actually), I can navigate to any piece of media I want very quickly, I choose want I want and make a custom play list and then just play it.

I have a purpose built media computer and server, yet I still don't use a media database on that either, I manually select everything I want by navigating my directories the old fashioned way. I have never had any use for these fancy programs that build a whole database of your media and put album art and other stuff in (I find they slow me down tbh), actually it makes me laugh when I read about how people are unhappy with x application because the media browsing "experience" isn't particularly fulfilling (which reads to me, I don't find the boxes my dvd's come in sensual enough and they are the wrong colour damn it!). I couldn't be less interested in that sort of thing, all I am interested in is actually watching/listening to the media in question, and doing it efficiently and at the best possible quality.

I like Media Player Classic HC and Foobar these days, although I still use Winamp 2.8 on my laptop and desktop since I don't use FLAC's on those. Although I imagine you can get a FLAC plugin for WA 2.8 ?
 
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I've always found Winamp 5 lite to be slim enough, I always use classic skins, with no agent

just opened mine, using around 3mb
 
Cheers for that. Must admit, winamp 5 is unresponsive sometimes and it does my nut in. All I want it to do is play my music!
 
wush said:
I find it hard to associate bare-bones-player with anything but Foobar.
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Winamp 2.5e install is 588kb. Cant get much smaller than that really

Edit - it would be excellent if all driver installs were this big. Im sure theres no need for nvidia drivers being 50mb +
 
Even winamp has too much stuff really. The kenwood skin does look nice but all thats needed really is a box to drag files into to create a playlist. A play, pause, stop, rewind and fast forward button
 
here's some skins that I made for winamp.. (edited another skin to make it)

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http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/LR_Royale_Black.wsz
http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/LR_Royale_Blue.wsz
http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/LR_Royale_Grey.wsz

Playlist text size set to 9
 
I use Winamp 5 lite, the tiny download that's buried deep on the winamp site.

Winamp 2x doesn't support FLAC does it? I couldn't live without FLAC support.

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