Computer Hope

Software => Computer software => Topic started by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 10:49:50 AM

Title: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 10:49:50 AM

Hey does anyone use Winamp anymore? For videos and/or audio? It has a new interface but it seems it's the same. It's kinda weak but simple. Skinning is easy but it doesn't have the power and features as the others out now. Even Real and Windows Media Player is as old but still going strong. Winamp is like a cool friend but you don't want to date the person. You don't want to use it for your media. Does it cut it for you anymore?

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: macdad- on March 20, 2009, 11:24:11 AM

I use it...since my computer is older and i can't get Itunes(i can but its an older version which cant connect to my Ipod 3G Nano)

It's pretty slick, doesn't eat up as much mem as Itunes.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 12:29:23 PM

Winamp is good but still faltering. I love it but sometimes I am ashamed to be using it. All the people who were using it longer than I have have turned against it. It's good but that kinda look doesn't work for Winamp. I wish, hope and pray for WMP12 to come out, like now! Tired of version 11 and I hope I can still use my older skins, especially ones from skinsfactory.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: macdad- on March 20, 2009, 12:37:13 PM

Who knows....Hopefully Win Media Player will add support for syncing with Ipod

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 12:43:43 PM

I was hoping they would allow Xion Player could play videos too. It only plays audio and i think .mp4 files. It's a great software and not over the top. I want to make my own skins for any media player or program I want. I tried to make VLC skins but the program couldn't work with me. I did succeed in using Winamp skins for VLC but it looked ugly and fake. I hated it. Uninstalled both sets of files. I just want my own feel to it, not just what some other person created. I appreciate my own creations better. I wish Yahoo! Music Jukebox were still around and not canceled. It just needed to support video playback and images too. It really suped up MusicMatch. The colour was great. Nice purple. Real Player was good too but it's trying to do so many things at once. It also tried pathetically to copy WMP11. Not cool! It has features I love and can be powerful most of the time but the look needs to change and this Rhapsody is dumb. It also looks stale. Nothing to be excited about. I hope that in the future the whole media players on your PC goes away. It may be streaming media to your TV, laptop or hardware mp3 or mp4 players. I think that's why Apple is smart. It tries to centralize everything so we don't get bombarded with so many players or software. PCs suck up enough power anyway.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 01:04:20 PM

I just remembered something...No one talks much about Zune these days. The program is goofy and it doesn't play many video files. The colour is lame. It should be black or multi-coloured. Maybe grey and black or mercury but unique.


I have an mp4 player which looks pretty much the same as an iPod which plays videos. But can I go somewhere and have them change the colour of the exterier. Maybe paint the USA flag on it or so? Or is it not possible? The colour is silver/grey but I wanna spruce it up a bit.


Please assist.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 20, 2009, 01:06:48 PM

wait a second- what's wrong with WMP? I can't think of any players that even come close in my book...

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 01:18:20 PM

WMP is good and I have used it for a while. I just wish that they would allow playback for other files and include codecs and plugins in their setups and all. The look for WMP11 is okay but boring now. WMP12 is new so it looks good and will look good for a while to me. I think WMP should be all that it can be.

Peace out!

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 20, 2009, 01:41:13 PM

err- there are plugins for wmp. right now I can play NES NSF files, SNES SPCs, N64 USFs, OGG, MP3, WMA, etc etc.

and all the video's I've tried worked fine too.

I cannot remember what version of wmp I have though...

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 02:13:57 PM

Thanks for the help BC_Programmer . I am using version 11. I hope they can release version 12 very soon. I don't want to bash WMP but MS love to play games with their users and delay things. If you do know how to get a proper working setup program I would appreciate it much.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 20, 2009, 02:20:28 PM

woops I meant to say winamp, not wmp!

a setup program for what?

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 02:31:59 PM

I was asking about Windows Media Player 12. I have seen screenshots of it online and they all look legit. It's in the Win 7 beta software but I don't have access to that.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: patio on March 20, 2009, 05:14:07 PM

It is a hacked beast that you will have issues with...this was explained in your other post.
MS has not released it yet and the ver. that is in Win7 is a work in progress...

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: wii.live07 on March 20, 2009, 06:09:40 PM

Patio, thanks for the update. I have made a note of it.

Title: Re: Winamp Unsung Hero?
Post by: patio on March 20, 2009, 07:11:49 PM

You're more than Welcome.