WinAmp - What a great app!

swinnie

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Back in the days when I had an 800Mhz Laptop with 256Mb I had to use WinAmp to cast to a SHOUTCast server, and hated using the program, it was clunky and very difficult to read. And more than anything, I had to physically click 'Stop' and THEN close the program, or my system locked up. Needless to say, since that day I have been using Windows Media Player (don't laugh!)

But, I have got back into doing SHOUTCast Casting again and now I have a decent computer, and I needed to get my own casting software, downloaded and installed WinAmp and the SHOUTCast DSP Plug-in and found a decent skin, and I am really pleased with WinAmp. It has come a long way since I was last using it! What have I been missing!!!!
 
Winamp is great, apart from the non-random shuffle that stops working properly after a week of installing...:p
 
Pfft. If it works with 5.53 it should be OK with 5.531. You have got insurance on your PC yes? :p

Doesn't Winamp install Shoutcast for you if you so wish? I know I definitely would block that being installed as I don't need it.
 
p4radox said:
Winamp is great, apart from the non-random shuffle that stops working properly after a week of installing...:p
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I'm having a problem with shuffle and that if I skip a track, listen to one, the next track seems to be the artist I skipped. Almost like "oh you didn't like that song? Well what about this one by the same artist?"

It doesn't do it often but imo it's not random enough.

I love winamp though and I'm having a hard time finding a Linux alternative. I use the clearONE beta skin as it's the right size and docks and hides at the top of my screen. It's not polished off though and I can't find skin like it :(
 
winamp lite guys, it's the way forward :p

blackamp.png


here's a skin i made for it (botched someone else's skin)

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



or the bluer one

blueamp.png


http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/LR_Royale_Blue.wsz
 
swinnie said:
It was definitely VLC. I uninstalled it and everything worked fine.
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you can un-select active-x/mozilla plugins when you install VLC, and you can also choose which associations you want it to have :)

I've never experienced your problem, but it might be because I don't just click yes to everything without looking when I install ;)
 
uvmain said:
you can un-select active-x/mozilla plugins when you install VLC, and you can also choose which associations you want it to have :)

I've never experienced your problem, but it might be because I don't just click yes to everything without looking when I install ;)
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Good call. :)
 
swinnie said:
I have tried VLC, but it mucked up my file associations in Firefox, so I got rid of VLC.
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Don't bother with VLC...

I've got Winamp v5.531 for all my Music needs (with the mlipod.dll plugin for my iPod as its still better than the included winamp plugin)...

And MPC-HC v1.1.0.0 for everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) else!!.. :cool:
 
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