Alternative to Winamp

fester · 13-05-2003 7:47pm #1

I Been using winamp 2 forever.
Any other music programs i've happened upon have been terrible. Winamp 3 doesn't do it for me. All i want is a simple and functional audio player!

What do you use?

tman · 13-05-2003 7:59pm

winamp 2.81 all the way, easily the least resource hogging music player i've tried

/edit
woohoo, winamp 2.91 has finally arrived...
http://classic.winamp.com/download/

Ruu_Old · 13-05-2003 10:25pm

i agree with tman, but if u want a change.
Click here for Sonique

hope it helps

Spunog UIE · 13-05-2003 11:32pm

ah back in the day when they were the two main types...wait a minute they still are. Think winamp is still the best tho, still i miss the pitch adjuster

The Sonique site is a bit crap, and having to sign up to download, what a jip!

RicardoSmith · 13-05-2003 11:49pm

I'd have to vote for Winamp 2 aswell. 3 is just bloatware. That said I'm using MusicMatch Jukebox at the moment because I prefer its tagging functionality. But when I've my collection tagged, I'll be going back to Winamp 2. Or I'll have written my own by then.

daveg · 14-05-2003 9:53am

Steinburg's mymp3 is quite good.

Hobbes · 14-05-2003 12:23pm

I thought music match was spyware?

You could try XMMS. Dunno if it's out for windows though, but works fine.

tman · 14-05-2003 2:09pm

Originally posted by Gideon
Think winamp is still the best tho, still i miss the pitch adjuster

i use a plugin called ntpitch for adjusting the pitch of a tune.
very handy for those times when you just want to play a song at +16%:rolleyes:

RicardoSmith · 14-05-2003 4:53pm

Originally posted by Hobbes
I thought music match was spyware?

You could try XMMS. Dunno if it's out for windows though, but works fine.

Spyware how so?

RicardoSmith · 14-05-2003 4:54pm

Originally posted by tman
i use a plugin called ntpitch for adjusting the pitch of a tune.
very handy for those times when you just want to play a song at +16%:rolleyes:

Why would you want to do that?

tman · 14-05-2003 5:10pm

beats me, i just seem to find it therapuetic

it rarely goes over +8, only if i'm felling pissed off about something.

fester · 14-05-2003 5:58pm

Originally posted by tman
woohoo, winamp 2.91 has finally arrived...
http://classic.winamp.com/download/

Sweet. I thought they were going to stop updating winamp2! I'm downloading the new one at the min... 37%.... 38%... come-on!

fester · 14-05-2003 6:30pm

just been trying winamp2.91, and i likee it. Internet TV, humm!

THis should keep me entertained for a while.#

I think Sonique is a bit too flash for me!

Stark · 14-05-2003 7:09pm

winamp3 has been abandoned. Instead they're backporting all its features to winamp2. I think when they've finished doing this they're going to call the result Winamp5 or something.

RicardoSmith · 14-05-2003 7:21pm

They should look at adding features that are useful instead of all the fluff!

tman · 14-05-2003 8:00pm

i can only download the lite version in college (they've got some kind of restriction on files over 500k:mad: )
no real difference between this & 2.81...
i'll have to d/l the full version at the weekend, ho hum.

fester · 15-05-2003 12:24am

Originally posted by RicardoSmith
They should look at adding features that are useful instead of all the fluff!

To be fair now, all the features are useful.
The Library is deadly, still need work though.
As far a video is concerned, i wish they didn't add that feature but i'll probable use it a good bit anyway!

dahamsta · 15-05-2003 1:00am

I thought that Kevin was taking the mick, but no, he's not. Bizarre.

adam

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