"TURN THAT OPTION OFF THENWHAT IF I WANT IT ON NORMALLY?"well if you want it BOTH ways, you can hold down apple key to temporarily over-ride that setting :-)
-- Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (AlanTrewarth...) (webmail), March 21st, 2006 12:23 PM. (Alan) (later) (link)
while dragging in the mp3 i mean obv-- Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (AlanTrewarth...) (webmail), March 21st, 2006 12:23 PM. (Alan) (later) (link)
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
NEVER HAVE TO.... UNTIL YOU MOVE STUFF IN YOUR PRECIOUS FILESYTEM
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
WHAT IS IN YOUR "#MIXES" DIRECTORY
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
iTunes would be a LOT more pleasing to me (and even convince me to maybe give up using a well-organised , uncomplicated dir structure as non-program backup organisation) if the inbuilt ID3 tagging functions weren't woefully inadequate & inconsistent & requiring of constant micromanagement, compared with many dedicated Windows ID3 programs.
― file under cozy techno (fandango), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I never said iTunes is difficult to use. Just that it doesn't do some things Winamp does. And the things it lacks tend to unfortunately be things that make my life easier & happier.
― file under cozy techno (fandango), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
here's one i prepared earlierhttp://www.lolrider.com/lol/shoutcast.jpg
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
turned it off. and...http://www.lolrider.com/lol/lol.jpg
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.lolrider.com/lol/visualisation.JPG
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
also, i've never ever had any problems running any version of winamp on any pc, even really super shitty ones.
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
The iPod support is simple & sturdy enough, but has a majorly annoying "feature" that if you leave the album tag* blank, when transferred across to your iPod, it guesses(?) and steals the track title info.
This is getting in the way of trying to separate albums & non-album material. Grrr.
The non-album stuff is in a playlist, it _shouldn't_ be showing up elsewhere.
iTunes really isn't flexible enough for me, but I do understand why more people use it.
Going to muddle through & maybe uninstall the iPod support & reinstall the old plugin (worked fine, but was annoying to configure) :/
*note: none of these files are in the Media Library, so it shouldn't be that that's causing problems unless there's some intermingling going on.
― Delivering over 43,973,865,717,760 bytes per day | What are you sending? (fandan, Friday, 31 March 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Either way... fixed, but Winamp's in-built iPod (and other devices) support is nowhere near good enough (fully featured) or usable (see crap like above) as the iPod (only) plug-in.
:(
― Delivering over 43,973,865,717,760 bytes per day | What are you sending? (fandan, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Since I upgraded my version of Winamp recently, I've noticed that I am getting a glitch pretty frequently when I load web pages! This has never happened before that I can recall. Should I be using something else at this point? Has Windows Media Player gotten any better? I may try it regardless, as I am sick of what Winamp is doing.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 19 March 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, same here. i thought it was soemthing to do with my outboard soundcard and not necessarily the new winamp as when i use my internal soundcard there are no problems, but now you mention it.
― dog latin, Friday, 19 March 2010 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
windows media player is still horrific, i'm surei am down w/musikCube.foobar2000 is probably the best out there but you have to set up a lot of stuff (like the layout) yourself, which can be a drag
― hobbes, Friday, 19 March 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been using VLC for about a year now, after a solid 10-13 years of winamp use. The kicker was that whenever I recorded something in Ableton and played it in Winamp it would make it really loud and apply nasty compression to it. VLC doesn't.
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 19 March 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I am a Mac ricer now.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 19 March 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Winamp has been sturdy for me. I usually pirate a copy of pro for burning cds - I find one on soulseek. Then I download i-pod support from some 3rd party. But I can't say I've had webpage or audio problems. Winamp's organizing system/playlist making is tops and i-pod and cd-burning is easy to use.
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 19 March 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i used to use winamp, but foobar2000 is definitely the way to go. i don't use music player library systems, though, so ymmv. i prefer to just browse my files in folders on my hard drive.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 19 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah same here. the cool thing about foobar2000 (and to an extent musikCube) is you can play around w/it to best suit your listening/organizational habits.
― hobbes, Friday, 19 March 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Went Mac too, but before that I was really into MediaMonkey.
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
does anyone use songbird? i installed it (on my mac) but found it not that big an improvement over itunes; it plays flacs though if you are into that.
― akm, Saturday, 20 March 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey fellow Winamp guys, is the problem you're having that you get a popup error message that's obviously caused by Winamp but attributed to your browser?
― DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 20 March 2010 07:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1932236&start=0&tstart=0
sort of, but not really.
http://lifehacker.com/5356619/itunes-finally-adds-watched-folder-to-automatically-add-new-music
works if you let iTunes manage... etc
― fndgo, Saturday, 20 March 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm thinking my problem had less to do with Winamp than with Firefox. I went back to Windows Media player (after being confused about how to make a connection between MusikCube and my mp3s and not feeling like having to figure it out) but I am still getting frequent pauses/glitches in the sound when I load certain pages while listening to music. But I just switched to Opera and it doesn't seem to be happening now. Also, Opera seems really great in general. I like how quickly things are loading. I definitely see a difference. (I will probably re-load Winamp and see if the problem returns when I use it with Opera.)
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 28 March 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I use Opera, but I get the popup error message I mentioned above. I should just learn my lesson and never update winamp, 4 out of 5 times it just causes problems.
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
technical question
I right click on a folder to play it in winamp. It contains subfolders as well as files. Let's say it has these:
Folder A containing files a1, a2Folder B containing files b1, b2Folder C containing files c1, c2file d1file d2
(with the x1's being alphabetically ordered before the x2's)
Winamp plays or enqueues them in this order:c1, c2, b1, b2, d1, d2, a1, a2
putting the folders in reverse order, and inserting the un-foldered files before the first folder (which is played last).
I would like to play them in this order: a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2, d1, d2.
How do I change this?
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Sunday, 6 February 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Click the 'Misc' button at the bottom of the playlist editor, go to sort and select 'Sort by path and filename'.
I think this is what you're after.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
What OS and Winamp version are you on? They get enqueued in alphabetical order for me (though with files and folders interspersed, so a file beginning with T appears between folder S and folder U) on Windows 7 and v5.572 of Winamp.
I remember having a similar problem on XP if I selected all the contents of a folder and dragged them into Winamp, but that was Windows' fault not Winamp's. Not sure if this is the same problem though, seems like it shouldn't be the same problem if you're right-clicking the containing folder instead of selecting and dragging the contents.
― cellular nekomata (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm on XP, and I can confirm that Windows will do screw-y things with filename order. I use Winamp 5.56 and enqueuing a folder by right-clicking on it always results in odd results. But when I drag the folder to the Playlist Editor window, it always stacks the files alphabetically.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
^ Yes, but you have to drag the whole folder and not the contents, because if you select the contents then whichever file you select last is "highlighted" in Explorer, which will put it first in the list it sends to the target app (then the other files may appear in reverse order too)
iirc
</nerdy>
― cellular nekomata (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ironically, at some point during me posting to this thread, Songbird went a bit nuts and placed a Teenage Panzerkorps mp3 in the middle of a Low album in its playlist. which was slightly jarring
― cellular nekomata (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yeah, drag folder, not contents. I'm massively anal about organising my music into folders anyway.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it really whips the llama's ass
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The main advantage of winamp is the ease of finding things in your library quickly, the library sorting and small text interface. The program is almost entirely designed for people who don't like to label/sort their music all the time. But I have never been in a situation where I've wanted to load an entire folder with subfolders and miscellaneous files through My Computer.
However, since my last harddrive erase (and loss of tons of music) I have just stuck with WMP even though I'm not a big fan.
― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I forgot to say (or think) that I never used the library in Winamp, just the playlist. So if this is a library issue, no idea.
The library sorting and finding is what I like about Songbird, so maybe it is a bit weird that I never even tried Winamp's library in many years of using Winamp.
― cellular nekomata (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xp and winamp 5.601, using windows explorer as a library. james mitchell's suggestion doesn't work.
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
winamp classic is still the best - quickest mama unlike the bloated itunes
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Winamp Modern is also pretty zippy as long as you don't use the Media Library. Bento/Big Bento can both shove it though.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
all I know is when I wanna hear "tears before bedtime" the app opens in seconds, I hit "j" and type in the track and voila! there it is. itunes takes so long to open
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I still use winamp more than itunes.
― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link