Bad News for Winamp lovers
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. i have been using since 2.xx. actually rarely used 3 but now using 5. Even now it's playing as i am typing here
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gxsaurav
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I tried QCD player, but it isn't as good as Winamp,
I didn't like the skinning engine if QCD, first we can't use Winamp skins with it, then the QCD player doesn't supports alpha blending in the Skins, third the Winamp DSP plugins like DFX don't work even if they claim it works
Hey, but I think Winamp is not compleately dead, AOL had a Media Player named AOL Media player whose beta I tried, it looks a lot like Winamp, maybe it's the same code, & now AOL is using AMp to make some money
This is just a guess, maybe, AOL is taking the Winamp code, & converting it to a compleate Media Player, remember Winamp even supports Video files, so it's like we will soon have AMP or AOL Media Player, which will be based on Winamp code, but will be commercial, it will have all the features & skinning engine of Winamp, I hope for the same & freeform engine of Winamp. I have a screenshot of it
*www.sapartyboys.com/amp.jpg
As U can see it looks a lot like itunes, I mean UI wise, so maybe Winamp isn't dead compleately
I didn't like the skinning engine if QCD, first we can't use Winamp skins with it, then the QCD player doesn't supports alpha blending in the Skins, third the Winamp DSP plugins like DFX don't work even if they claim it works
Hey, but I think Winamp is not compleately dead, AOL had a Media Player named AOL Media player whose beta I tried, it looks a lot like Winamp, maybe it's the same code, & now AOL is using AMp to make some money
This is just a guess, maybe, AOL is taking the Winamp code, & converting it to a compleate Media Player, remember Winamp even supports Video files, so it's like we will soon have AMP or AOL Media Player, which will be based on Winamp code, but will be commercial, it will have all the features & skinning engine of Winamp, I hope for the same & freeform engine of Winamp. I have a screenshot of it
*www.sapartyboys.com/amp.jpg
As U can see it looks a lot like itunes, I mean UI wise, so maybe Winamp isn't dead compleately
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gxsaurav
Guest
& here is the page for AOL Media Player
*stream.info.aol.com/aolmedia.html
*stream.info.aol.com/aolmedia.html
sreevirus
Certified Nutz
NikhilVerma said:
indrajit said:
i have tried v. 5.04 and i had it installed on my PC till last month...and i wasnt just bluffing when i said it was a resource hog...it comes in second after WMP....amp used to suck up 12 to 24 mb of memory while WMP still uses upto 28 to 30 mb (sometimes even more)...
and i didnt feel the need to have winamp installed when i cud do many things together with QCD/foobar2000 playing gr8 quality music. i really dont care much abt skins...i just like to hear good music, the looks of the player is a second priority....and QCD skins arent bad at all...
and both QCD and foobar use upto a max of 3.4 mb while playing the music (when minimised to tray, foobar uses only a little bit greater than 1 mb)...so, i wud naturally prefer these over winamp. the interface of foobar may not ppeal to everyone, but u get loads of gr8 funcionalities in foobar (the special version offers even more functions), only u must experiment with it...
ah well, to each his choice....
no mike, he has his brains in place (ya, i know most of the times its out of place but...djmykey said:
)try foobar special...it sorts the playlist properly...who needs skins when u can change the colors...heres how i made my foobar look like:
*img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/sreevirus/foo1.jpg
*img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/sreevirus/foo2.jpg
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alib_i
Cyborg Agent
it_waaznt_me said:
bad ..
Winamp is not fot ppl whu love to skin their players more than playing songs on them
I'm a muzic freak .. i love listening to songs and no player matches the speeds and simplicity of winamp
the best part of winamp is that you can take winamp to any level of perfection using plugins ..
no player can match winamp's skills if proper plugins are installed
and yet u can always have the no-resource-hogging -dead-simple and fast media player
i play real media too in winamp
and sreevirus ..
just keep winamp5 in classic skin ..
u can use all its features
and still the memory usage is minimal
djmykey
Let the music play.....
hey cmon sree it doesnt hog ram im using it on modern skins man it rox cmon.
Sreevirus wrote:
Hey i tried foobar 2000 its playlist was not good at all. Winamp has the most flexible playlist. Drag and drop a file into the list and it gets enqued but foobar its not like that u gotta go thru menus and stuff thats y i told that. And yes i like a cute player rather than a player that looks like another explorer window open and playing songs.
Sreevirus wrote:
Hey i tried foobar 2000 its playlist was not good at all. Winamp has the most flexible playlist. Drag and drop a file into the list and it gets enqued but foobar its not like that u gotta go thru menus and stuff thats y i told that. And yes i like a cute player rather than a player that looks like another explorer window open and playing songs.
adithyagenius
I WANT MORE FPS!!
sreevirus said:
adithyagenius
I WANT MORE FPS!!
Also forgot to mention. It is the only player in background which doesn't allow u play games with decent framerate. I had avg scanning my sytem without affecting my framerate. Well there is Real player too which i don't use becoz it is bugged.
beyondthegracefgod
Broken In
Winamp for me is more as a cult nothings gonna replace it.
Been using it for the past 6-7 years.
It sang wen i passed 10th 12th all my engg days.
The sound and feel of winamp with izotope will never ever be recreated by any other shitty player.
Been using it for the past 6-7 years.
It sang wen i passed 10th 12th all my engg days.
The sound and feel of winamp with izotope will never ever be recreated by any other shitty player.
adithyagenius
I WANT MORE FPS!!
beyondthegracefgod said:
Being emotional and nostalgic about it? I will try other players and there is a possibilty that other players will be better. Then I can switch over leaving behind emotional people with their oudated players.
Eh, what are you talking about? Foobar2000 does support drag and drop and its playlist is as flexible as winamp's. And besides why do you even want to look at a player? Aren't we supposed to listen to songs? My fb runs completly in the background, and I fully control it with my keyboard (I used my num pad keys, plus the multimedia keys my keyboard came with). So now I can just simply enjoy my songs- insead of worrying about looks, windows, playlists etc.djmykey said:
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About Winamp 5, it is really sad that happened. Blame it on AOL.
I'm mainly worried not for Winamp, but for NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). In my opinion NSIS is the best install maker ever- The biggest advantage it has over all others is that its easy to use, small, less overhead and has really good compression. I do hope that NSIS will continue to be developed and improved.
*img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/dextersgenius/signature1.gif
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gxsaurav
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NSIS, well quite good, But I still prefer Windows Installer 2.0 & now 3.0, da best
NSIS doesn't revart the PC back to it's original state when the Program is uninstalled, while Windows installer does, besides compression rate depends on the maker, he can use dam high compression rate but it will take more time to encode the file, still less time to decode
AOL, GO TO HELL
Although, i thing for sure, i will use the AMP if it comes out as standalone, after removing the AOL junk
NSIS doesn't revart the PC back to it's original state when the Program is uninstalled, while Windows installer does, besides compression rate depends on the maker, he can use dam high compression rate but it will take more time to encode the file, still less time to decode
AOL, GO TO HELL
Although, i thing for sure, i will use the AMP if it comes out as standalone, after removing the AOL junk
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