― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Sorry about the obscene amount of screenshots, I was trying to get across an idea of how the windows are set up.
― Patrick Allan (adr), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.winamp.com/customize/component/2001/11/10/S/large_image/Oxygen_2.jpg
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Did you just upgrade from MS-DOS 5?
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I keep my mp3 files organized into windows folders and then click on the file itself when I want to hear it. Winamp starts playing it back immediately. That's all I care about!!
So why is Winamp better than the others for your purposes, Spencer? (I admit I switched to QCD because it had built-in OGG support but I think it might also have better mp3 playback plugins.)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
hahaha
it's a windows thing, it really is. Remember Winamp 3, anyone? The buttons were actually invisible. They phased buttons out of the design. you were supposed to already know where the buttons were, and take some kind of perverse pride in being well-versed in this bad interface. It's a badge of geekdom or something.
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.winamp.com/customize/component/2004/10/10/S/large_image/AC_Milan_2.png
ihttp://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=76717&download=yes&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winamp.com%2Fcustomize%2Fcomponent%2F2001%2F8%2F18%2FS%2FRush_Hour_2_Roselyn_Sanchez_Style.wsz
(god, I hate Windows "power users".)
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, QCD would be just fine. I didn't find it to be any faster than winamp so I just stuck with it. I got an OGG plugin for it. The best thing about QCD is the CD playback without any skips.
No. I use XP Pro with a lot of RAM and no matter what, winamp is faster to launch than iTunes. It's the one thing I really care about with mp3s, sorry if you hate me.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
So sleek and sterile...
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, Chaki, I use 2.9 too! Although someone told me that if you use v5 with the old skin that it's just as fast.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Tabs being placed at the bottom of the window and what else?
(The only thing I've ever hated is the random button).
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
That's because most people have no taste.
I use XMMS. I have no idea what the theme I use is called, but I like to think it looks pretty good:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/sleepycaitlin/xmms1.pnghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/sleepycaitlin/xmms2.png
(I opened XMMS specially to take screenshots for this thread, and that was the section of the playlist that randomly came up. Clearly, it could tell what I wanted it for.)
Frankly, I can't see what's wrong with placing tabs at the bottom of a dialog.
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
but -- and I think this is jon's point -- most of them are quite bad, and having thousands of options does not improve this. "Freedom of Choice," you know, like Devo said. Eventually you just get tired of browsing skins and pick something that's terrible looking.
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, the thing is, the skinning is considered a big fun feature, rather than a one-time choice. Like, I think there are people who sit around skinning thier winamp player all day, and it's just stupid, but it's one of the big features of winamp, dontcha know. The skin it somes with basically forces you to modify it, it's so damn ugly. So you go to the website and are immediately overwhelmed by thousands and thousands of choices, none of which look all that great...
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I used the WinAmp Ipod plugin for a while, but I found it to be a bit sluggish and not so great for ID3 tag editing. EphPod's an improvement, seeing as how it's free and all, but if you're looking for the real deal for Windoze AnaPod is the way.
― J (Jay), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Happy 25th anniversary to @Winamp!The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!⚡🦙⚡Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass! pic.twitter.com/sLYQUa0g5P— Daniel Albu (@danielalbu) April 21, 2022
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 April 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
Lol
― H.R. MacGufnstuf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 April 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
i always expect more from DJ Mike Llama after that, but he peaked with the Llama Whippin' Intro
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 23 April 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
I still use it! Just for double-clicking files in Windows to listen to individual tracks or preview things. I don't use it to organize music or listen to albums or anything. But whenever I double-click an audio file in Windows it pops up and it's somehow comforting that it functions and looks exactly the same as it did when I started using it 20+ years ago.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 24 April 2022 06:11 (two years ago) link
it remains my main music player tbh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 April 2022 06:17 (two years ago) link
scrolling back and reading dog Latin's Mac woes, i think i had similar problems when i changed job and settled on Vox, which has worked fine ever since
― koogs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
I've been using Winamp since the late 90s, and it's still my main music player.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
My one complaint, which isn't really a complaint to be honest, is that the Media Library is really overspecced for what I use it for - namely managing multiple playlists. It seems like an overly complex early 2000s file explorer, kind of at odds with the main window and Playlist Editor.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:11 (two years ago) link
Foobar 4 life motherfuckers
― Number One shlong in Devon (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 April 2022 12:00 (two years ago) link
!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-new-version-after-four-years-in-development
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link