Decent music player

pinkegobox · 24 Oct 2006 at 01:56

questions for the wmp people in here...

say i want my entire library on shuffle.... and so the "now playing" list is a just a dirty mess of all my songs. I want to play, i dunno, "radiohead - creep" next... is there an easy way to do that? the only way i can see is to scroll all the way through the songs till you find it. (as opposed to the winamp "j" jump feature, which searches all songs in the current playlist and lets you jump to it).

also, is there an alternative for winamps "q" enqueue feature. that lets you queue a few songs up, without messing up their order in the playlist, and then once finished all enqueued songs just continues playing everything with shuffle.

as far as i can see there is no easy way to do this in wmp, and searching for songs in a playlist (which, with a library of over 10000 songs) is one hell of a task.

if you can answer those, then wmp11 wins. otherwise, it just doesn't come close to winamp. (oh, and i'm finding wmp11 jumpy on vista rc2)

Welshy · 24 Oct 2006 at 02:07

sorry for not replying guys, i went out for a few

Getting fed up with Winamp mainly because i dont like the way it sorts the music, and it's playlist functionality. Also, when ive changed skins in the past, the media library disappears off the screen, and the only way to get it back is to do a reinstall of WA, which i dont realy want to do.

I'll try out your suggestions, thanks guys

Energize · 24 Oct 2006 at 02:13

If you hate the way it sorts music why don't you just have the music in folders by artist? Thats what I do, very fast to find what you want and you don't have to load up the program and enter the library first.

Al Vallario · 24 Oct 2006 at 02:19

iTunes.

/runs

*av

bledd · 24 Oct 2006 at 02:21

Energize said:
The loading is negligible anyway, as for space, well winamp uses more becuase you already have wmp installed.

nliteos.com my friend

Welshy · 24 Oct 2006 at 02:24

Energize said:
If you hate the way it sorts music why don't you just have the music in folders by artist? Thats what I do, very fast to find what you want and you don't have to load up the program and enter the library first.

I do have my music sorted nicely into artist folders, but it seems more work to go through the folders than using a well designed tree within the program itself