WinAmp - What a great app!

Kelpie · 5 Apr 2008 at 00:52

Big fan of Winamp here.

I love this skin: (MMD3) http://www.winamp.com/skins/details/122902

I've being using winamp for the last 4 years and it provides everything I need from a music player.

Final8y · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:04

swinnie said:
When I loaded a video through Firefox and it would simply say [NO VIDEO].

I get that as well until it has filled the buffer then it plays just fine

agw_01 · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:15

I love Winamp.

Been using it since version 2. Wasn't too keen on 3 (as I'm sure nobody was) but when Winamp 5 came out (features of 3, stability of 2) I jumped right back into it.

Been using it ever since.

The MMD3 skin rocks too!

thepigf@rmer · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:22

Another winamp thumbs up here, been using it for years.

.....GlassAMPfinal skin f.t.w.

nikebee · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:27

I love Winamp, but I've gotta say... I haven't used it since moving to Vista and WMP11/WMC

Begbie · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:47

Going to get attacked here, but is it easier to manage your music than itunes?

Nitro_Junkie · 7 Apr 2008 at 14:14

Just installed foobar, gotta say I do like it. Had been usuing winamp forever, 7 or 8 years but I've been having problems with it

MarcLister · 7 Apr 2008 at 15:57

nikebee said:
I love Winamp, but I've gotta say... I haven't used it since moving to Vista and WMP11/WMC

The exit door is over there.

*points over there*

Begbie said:
Going to get attacked here, but is it easier to manage your music than itunes?

I would say so. Haven't used iTunes in ages so I can't really give a proper answer but I'm very happy wth Winamp. I would say iTunes is more geared towards being a jukebox and interfacing with iPods but even that function Winamp is pretty good at.

Nitro_Junkie said:
Just installed foobar, gotta say I do like it. Had been usuing winamp forever, 7 or 8 years but I've been having problems with it

What kind of problems?

Moredhel · 7 Apr 2008 at 16:05

Begbie said:
Going to get attacked here, but is it easier to manage your music than itunes?

Well, kinda.

iTunes has more options for sorting your playlist etc. And is much easier to use to edit tags. But I use the filesystem to organise my files (fancy that!) and iTunes doesn't let me do that.

I keep my music as Artist/Year-Album/Disk x/tracno - trackname.ext

So for instance, Amon Amarth/2007 - With Oden on our Side/Disk 1/05 - Gods of War Arise.flac

I love having my music sorted by Artist > Year > Album > Track no, and with Winamp's "Sort by Path and Filename" option I can do that, iTunes just can't do it like that and I have real trouble finding songs etc.

Nitro_Junkie · 7 Apr 2008 at 17:57

MarcLister said:
What kind of problems?

When trying to play anything off a playlist it was sometimes constantly, skipping through the playlist not playing anything. Had been fine for awhile, but yesterday after I brought everything back up to uni it does it all the time

MarcLister · 7 Apr 2008 at 17:58

What OS and sound card? Could be the settings within Winamp for the DirectSound.

Hxc · 7 Apr 2008 at 18:29

I'd reccomend Winamp, no, anything, over the abomination that is iTunes on windows, it really can't deal with large playlists without gobbling system resources like a big pig

Nitro_Junkie · 7 Apr 2008 at 18:50

XP and onboard sound with an Asus motherboard, but it used to do the same with my old computer and a PCI card

MarcLister · 7 Apr 2008 at 18:50

Have you fiddled with the DirectSound settings in Winamp?

Nitro_Junkie · 7 Apr 2008 at 19:52

nope, no idea how to, can't find it in winamp either?

Glaucus · 7 Apr 2008 at 20:00

I was over the moon when they released winamp 5.5 with the bento skin. Before that I tried pretty much everything. Now winamp has everything I want straight out the box. It's great.

MarcLister · 7 Apr 2008 at 20:05

Nitro_Junkie said:
nope, no idea how to, can't find it in winamp either?

Options>Preferences>Plugins>Output>DirectSound.

AcidHell2 said:
I was over the moon when they released winamp 5.5 with the bento skin. Before that I tried pretty much everything. Now winamp has everything I want straight out the box. It's great.

Yeah the Bento is a lovely skin.

megalomanic · 7 Apr 2008 at 20:21

I'v been using winamp for past 4/5 years. Recently tried WindowsMP 11 after a fresh install, although it has improved i still much prefer WinAmp for the overall simplicity and customization. Went straight back to winamp after a couple of days

Currently using the clearONE skin, my favourite iv come accross so far.

Greenlizard0 · 7 Apr 2008 at 20:29

MarcLister said:
Yeah the Bento is a lovely skin.

It's pretty sick really, it's the skin that I've had on for the longest continuos (sic) period of time. Though for my version I had to download it from the website as I didn't want the big ones that come with the installation package.

strelly · 7 Apr 2008 at 20:51

Ive used winamp for a long time, 5-6years?!

I refused to use the modern skin for ages, then bento came along and changed everything!

Bento is fantastic!