Convince me to use Winamp.

10-02-2004 8:02pm #1

Originally I used WMP 9 for everything then after advice from people on boards.ie I switched to Windows Media Player Classic for videoand I'm glad I did. I still use WMP 9 for music what are the main advantages for Winamp and is it easy to set up playlists and use in general?

zAbbo · 10-02-2004 8:11pm

Media Library, there you go

Creamy Goodness · 10-02-2004 8:13pm

easy to set up playlist
uses less ram than WMP9
has global hotkeys (handy if playing online game and your dead for a round eg CS)
plenty of skins/plug ins

tman · 10-02-2004 8:14pm

switch to winamp or the puppy gets it!

Emboss · 10-02-2004 8:16pm

if you need convincing you don't deserve to use it.

10-02-2004 8:21pm

Well I haven't even tried it yet. I just wanted to know is it really that much of an improvement? I'll try it but from reading some posts some people prefer earlier versions of it. So should I just go for the latest version, or is an earlier version better?

tman · 10-02-2004 8:28pm

you must be thinking of people that prefer winamp 2.xx to 3.xx.

anybody that prefers 2.xx to 5.01 (the latest) is fooling nobody but themselves.
5.01's media library is so much better:)

/edit
oops, 5.02 seems to be the newest:rolleyes:
http://winamp.com/player/

Dun · 11-02-2004 5:03pm

Still on Winamp 2.91 here, which was the last of the 2.xx series, as far as I know. I had version on 5, but the media library kept crashing it when I tried to import any more than a few songs at a time, so I reverted. Might give the updated version again, but right now, Winamp 2.91 does me fine. Never even found out it had Global shortcut keys til a couple of months ago - well handy.

Convince me to use Winamp.

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