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I was looking for some more information about this on the Winamp forums.
I happened to run across this thread which seems to have links to a Linux nsv-encoder/server for the NSV.

I'm still looking for a Linux player, if anyone has any links I'd appreciate it. I don't want to have to resort to WINE.

A look at the FAQ reveals this:

I guess there's not even the slightest chance that my old serial number from 1999 will still work, huh?
Hahahahahahahaha. Hahahaha. Haha. Hah. Ha. Sorry. It doesn't.

Or the quicker answer: No.

Take a look at this forum entry: Most Requested Features / Plug-ins

At the bottom is a link to an Ogg encoder, which is IMHO the better format. Couldn't get iTunes to work with my ogg-files without freezing (not even speaking of ripping with iTunes to ogg ...)

b4n

Nullsoft's privacy policy is listed here.

Why would you want to use your audio player to encode, and encode to mp3s at that? Get the right tool for the job, CDex to make ogg, flac, or even mp3 if you so desire. And you can go to RareWares to obtain updated dll files for encoding via CDex. I don't see any problem with a Pro version so long as necessary functionality from a media player isn't taken out.

There is also an unsupported alpha version of Winamp3 for linux here. u/p=wa3linux/llamawhip

Yep, it's winamp 3, it's buggy (it's winamp 3).. but may be we have some hope..

I still would like to have iTunes for linux..

I was excited to see some added stability to winamp so I gleefully downloaded Winamp5 and removed Winamp3. Now I cant load my bs4 playlists created in Winamp3. Whats the solution? The geniuses at Winamp want me to reinstall winamp3? What the Hell? From their FAQ: "What about my precious B4S playlists? Those are currently not loadable. However, you can convert them in Winamp3 to M3U or PLS playlists. :)"

Maybe they have updated it in the last two hours, but you can find their privacy policy at http://www.winamp.com/disclaimer.php

The changes you make about the different panels aren't neccesarily due to the new version of the software. Winamp's new skinning system, introduced in 3.0, allows a skinner to put anything he wants on any screen they desire. The placement of the equalised on main windows is just due to the skin included with the default install.

Personally, I use the MMD3 skin. It's simply GUI perfection. And still works in Winamp 5.0. What a great idea to be backwards compatible.

Check out this plugin, it does what you describe on winamp 2.

it's in there, for free too.

Another, very interesting feature is NSV streaming video.
Like the 'internet radio' stations streamed by shoutcast, there are a few internet TV stations. This my friends, is truely significant. Winamp becomes a digital-tv tuner (....i dont mean HDTV). People will be able to stream out any video they'd like -- the other day I watched a few episodes of aqua teen hunger force, some pr0n, and the movie Phone Booth.
Imagine a million streams of public access tv, mixed up with random bits of quality niche movies/shows....

THAT is what makes winamp5 cool. Now, i might just be ignorant, but is there another app that puts a selection of streaming video stations together for you to surf?

Looking at their feature descriptions, shouldn't a group as influencial as Nullsoft be pushing better slogans than "Rip/encode music to MP3", in favour of "Rip your music to hard drive", in any format the user chooses of course. Ideally, the default format would be Ogg Vorbis and could be as simple as a button labelled "Copy music". I realise that takes away some incentive to pay, but it's the right thing to do, is it not?

taken from a stickied post in their forums

http://www.winamp.com/disclaimer.php.

Nothing big there methinks.Their help page, which is available by clicking on the help in winamp is also not available see!
I just downloaded it before the /. effect (got the link from ars) , and it does look dfferent. Equaliser is no longer a seperate panel, it is part of the main panel (I am calling each seperate piece in winamp 2.x a panel, eg. main player, equaliser, playlist , visualistation etc.) .
The preferences menu is back to what it was in 2.x almost.The player appears bigger than 2.x or 3.x on my screen, I suppose it is designed for some huge resolution monitors.
Maybe some internal changes too, turning on equaliser to maximum somehow doesnt seem to cause the cracking sound on my speakers anymore, Im not sure but it does seem to do software amplification better.

When I go to http://winamp.com it looks different than when I go to http://www.winamp.com Why?

When I go to http://winamp.com it looks different than when I go to http://www.winamp.com Why?

Looks like you have to pay $15 to get MP3 encoding and CD burning functionality. Considering a lot of people want to rip and burn to save money (read: nicking songs!), this seems a pretty stupid idea if they want to go better than iTunes, and any other software which will do it for free.

See?

Also, if you're going to compare it to iTunes, mention the fact that you can't do a lot of things (like ripping to MP3) unless you pay for the Pro version.

iTunes is free, right?

So maybe somebody should mention this.

Also note, the link does appear to look at the referrer. Able to get to the file from WinAmp.com, but not from the direct link.

I noticed they're charging for the mp3 ripping... (understandable; they have to pay for the licensing) Couldn't they make a freeware 'ogg-pro' version that doesn't have to pay for the stupid mp3 licensing, and still gives people the 'pro' name? That would help ogg take off pretty seriously, I would think.

Winamp 5 is nearing release, and these layoffs (as regrettable as they are) will not effect the Winamp 5 release.

The nullsoft members who were laid off were working on streaming media.

I believe that with the advent of winamp pro (for full speed cd ripping and burning and mp3 encoding) which will cost a small amount of $. We will see winamp having a steady revenue stream that will hopefully keep the core winamp team safe.

Well, he's still around for now. http://www.winamp.com/team/finger.jhtml?who=Justin : "June 21 2003 @ 12:10pm Been back for a while now, got all the work stuff sorted out. I'm at least content now to get Winamp 5 out, we'll see how it all goes from there."

Hmm, that'd be me. Being rather melodramatic.

I was rather more optimistic about things until yesterday. Most of Winamp3 is now open-sourced (except the skinning and scripting engine), and there are people working on a fully open-source version of Winamp3, now known as wasabi.player (and much improved since the old, old release which is still on the winamp.com frontpage).

Hmm, that'd be me. Being rather melodramatic.

I was rather more optimistic about things until yesterday. Most of Winamp3 is now open-sourced (except the skinning and scripting engine), and there are people working on a fully open-source version of Winamp3, now known as wasabi.player (and much improved since the old, old release which is still on the winamp.com frontpage).

How about "never". The official line is that Winamp3 development is now stopped. Shelved. At least temporarily. And here I am sitting here trying to look optimistic. It's not "soon" any more, it's "maybe".

The golden rule of customer service is: Give the customer what they want. The customer didn't want Winamp3, that much is clear. The customer didn't care about the most powerful API this side of, well, anything. They didn't care about platform independence. The average Winamp user is only vaguely aware of what Linux is, let alone how to use it. Much less than 1% of Winamp users want Linux support.

Personally I don't want Winamp 3 because every version I tried was horribly unstable and I had to end up uninstalling it. The only really cool thing about it was the media library and that ended up in 2.x. So, I never saw any need to migrate.

If you read the winamp forums this isn't their whole team that's going away. Two of the guys that were 'let go' were the lead developers for Winamp3. From my take on it, they're still working on 5.
Read up here

A new version is imminent. Unfortunately AOL are still debating the definition of "imminent" (it's finished, just the actual release is held up for unknown reasons).

A Google search will find you lots of places to get it though.

I beg to differ. The last entry on the developer page (here) was dated 19 March 2003. I think that spells about cancelledware to me. Maintaining a website just isn't good enough.

Let's try that again. Preview button, pfft.

Two Nullsoft employees (Brennan and Aus) were laid off yesterday. Winamp will continue though.

Two Nullsoft employees (Brennan and Aus) were yesterday. Winamp will continue though.

...especially since the new Winamp is supposed to come out sometime really soon.

My people call it "iTunes."

works better then anything I've been able to use on my Windows pc here at work.

Ever tried... Winamp 2?

Nullsoft liked XMMS so much they decided to make a cheap clone of it for Windows, so there you go.

(Yeah, it's a joke, I know XMMS is the clone).

Oppps, I should have previewed. The WinAmp boards links are here. under the heading "RE: Skipping / freezing / distortion, clicking & popping during playback". Your problem sounds the same as the one in this topic.

Oppps, I should have previewed. The WinAmp boards links are here. under the heading "RE: Skipping / freezing / distortion, clicking & popping during playback". Your problem sounds the same as the one in this topic.

Hah. Winamp 3 took this crown years ago ;-)

Winamp3 has always had OGG support

MusicMatch sucks... Winamp for Windows and XMMS for Linux.

Everything else is worthless.

and for ripping CDs use CDex

and for burning... is it too fucking much to ask for you to use Nero? Is it too hard for you? At least EZCD? c'mon people.

I've tried a good deal of the stuff listed. The following are the most intuitive, free, software products I have encountered. They increase productivity, and are stable.

Freeware List: If you can think of it, it's in here.
OpenCD: Precompiled CD with all open source software.
Doom9.org: Famed site for lots of media tools.
Trillian: AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo! IM software all in one.
AVG Anti-Virus: Free AV
SpyBot (Spam Remover): Free Spam Remover/Search & Destroy
Firebird: Web browser w/ adblock & popup control.
FileZilla FTP: FTP Client
Smart FTP: Free Client, better looking, faster
Kerio: Personal Firewall, better than ZoneAlarm
Textpad: Text Editor.
PuTTY: SSH Client.
CygWin: Linux emulation.
FFDshow: DivX/XVid decoder.
TweakUI: Microsoft's famed Powertoy for Windows XP.
WinAce: Fast, high-compression (40% smaller, faster compression than ZIP).
WinAmp: MP3 player, with this skin.
dBpowerAMP: Music Converter (copies CDs to MP3)

One last thing, don't use Outlook. Find a better program: Eudora, Thunderbird, or PegasusMail (in that order) are safer/more powerful. Windows comes bundled with great software, just like Mandrake - but their internet package leaves much (security) to be desired.

I've tried a good deal of the stuff listed. The following are the most intuitive, free, software products I have encountered. They increase productivity, and are stable.

Freeware List: If you can think of it, it's in here.
OpenCD: Precompiled CD with all open source software.
Doom9.org: Famed site for lots of media tools.
Trillian: AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo! IM software all in one.
AVG Anti-Virus: Free AV
SpyBot (Spam Remover): Free Spam Remover/Search & Destroy
Firebird: Web browser w/ adblock & popup control.
FileZilla FTP: FTP Client
Smart FTP: Free Client, better looking, faster
Kerio: Personal Firewall, better than ZoneAlarm
Textpad: Text Editor.
PuTTY: SSH Client.
CygWin: Linux emulation.
FFDshow: DivX/XVid decoder.
TweakUI: Microsoft's famed Powertoy for Windows XP.
WinAce: Fast, high-compression (40% smaller, faster compression than ZIP).
WinAmp: MP3 player, with this skin.
dBpowerAMP: Music Converter (copies CDs to MP3)

One last thing, don't use Outlook. Find a better program: Eudora, Thunderbird, or PegasusMail (in that order) are safer/more powerful. Windows comes bundled with great software, just like Mandrake - but their internet package leaves much (security) to be desired.

"I'm buying a new mid-grade laptop computer, which I plan to dual-boot between Windows XP Home and Mandrake 9.x. Before its arrival in a few weeks I'm trying to think of what 'essential' software I'll need to make a usable home system. In general I'd like to spend as little money as possible (free is good). As far as my needs, think 'typical family PC' without an emphasis on gaming. I know I can get something like Open Office for word processing, presentation, etc. needs, but is there such a good thing as a good free virus checker? A good free email client? A handy web browser? What would you consider the top 10 (or so) pieces of software for a new home system, bearing in mind that I need software for both the Windows and Linux side of things?""

These are the files I keep on my "Esential CDs" that I bring around to help out other non-techs (Windows users) people. (Of course because they are financially broke after paying $200 for their Operating System, they want everything else to be free.) ;-)

Anti-Virus: The best free antivirus program I have found AVG Anti-Virus 6.0

Office Suite: (Word Processing, SpreadsThe quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped off the edge. The quick brown fox ran off with all his toysheet, Slideshows, etc.)
Open Office 1.1

CD/DVD data/audio Burner: (and doubles as a CD image creator .ISO and .CUE)
BurnAtOnce 0.99a

CD/DVD image loader/emulator (perfect for people who often misplace their CDs): (loads .ISO, .CUE, .CCD, .CDI etc. files without burning them)
DAEMON Tools 3.41

MultiMedia Player (Mpeg, Mp3, AVI, etc.)Winamp Classic 2.91

or for audio only Foobar 2000 0.7

Zip Extractor:Ultimate Zip or7 Zip 3.11

Download Accelerator:Star Downloader v1.42

Internet Browser: (other than IE) Mozilla 1.4 or Opera 6.20

System Statistics: (Motherboard, Memory, BIOS, Video, Software info, etc)AIDA32 3.80

E-mail (other than Outlook Express)Thunderbird 0.2 or Pegasus Mail 4.12

Spyware/Adware killer:Ad-aware 6 or Spybot Search & Destroy 1.2

Pop-up Killer/Browser Enhancer (for IE)Google Toolbar 2.0.102

PDF document reader:Adobe Acrobat 6.0

FTP program (other than IE and the command line FTP)Winsock FTP LE 5.08 or FileZilla 2.2.1

Internet Chat Programs (other than Windows Messenger)Gaim 0.70or Trillian Basic 0.74E

Firewall Software:ZoneAlarm 3.7.211

or if you have Highspeed Internet, a spare 200mhz PC, and two network cards laying around...ClarkConnect 2.0

CD Ripper / MP3 Creator CDex 1.51

Graphics Editor (other than Paint) The Gimp

Graphics viewer (other

AVG AntiVirus (free for home use)

Mozilla.org: Suite (browser, mail/news); Firebird (browser); Thunderbird (mail/news) [all free]

OpenOffice.org office suite (free)

Kerio Personal Firewall (free for home use)

WinAMP multimedia (free)

Trillian IM client (AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Y!) [free version available]

AdAware privacy protector (free for home use)

AnalogX random ultilities(many freebies)

There doesn't seem to be a huge lack of free products that ship with most Linux distros, and I don't use it as a general OS enough to point to anything specific, hence most of my list (but not all) is Windows only. Sorry.

-bZj

• CygWin. The Linux-like environment for Windows.
  Mozilla. Use this for mail, news, and browsing if you like.
  Firebird. for FAST browsing.
  WS FTP Light. A FREE, FTP client that works great.
  Filezilla. which is TRULY free and does sftp as well.
  PuTTY. a free SSH client for Windows.
  TTSSH. is a much less clunky ssh client than PuTTY.
  iXplorer. freeware secure FTP client
  VNC hello!? remote controll software.
  Tight VNClike the original, only FAST.
  GNU-EMacs for Windows. just trust me ;).
  Dev-C++a free C++ compiler for those who can't afford VS.
  NetHack. as someone here said, you MUST have NetHack installed on everything...
  Free-AV.free Anti-Virus software for Windows, (mandatory these days). or
  AVG Free edition. another free Anti-Virus software for Windows.
  Zonealarm. my favorite Personal Firewall,, really!. or
  Kerio. another firewall that some seem to like. or
  Sygate. yet another firewall. whatever floats your boat.
  Boingo. to see where the closest hotspot is, hehe.
  OpenOffice 1.1 the Microsoft Office KILLER :) {really!}
  Winamp 2.x for audio/video usage in Windows, stay away from the new one :).
  Mark's Adding Machine is much better than the Windows calculator.
  SpyBot Search & Destroy The best Ad-ware / Spyware removal tool we've found, "IE is unusable without".
  Ad-Aware another spy-ware app "alas poor Windoze."
  Trillian a favorite IM, since we're all chatters @ heart. or
  GAIM since trillian hogs resources, "bad piggy!".
  Gimp image creation/editing. Who needs Photoshop anyway?
  EnZip freeware Zip Utility, Stop nagging you WinZip!!
  Iview is a great little image viewer. or
  Irfanviewone of the best image viewer out there for Windows.
  Audacity is a great little sound editor.
  Virtual Dub. a great video editor.
  cDex gotta rip those cd's for the RIAA!
  MAME for games, period. Free. You can buy some ROMs, or *ahem* ask around. and finally
  XPantiSPY since XP is E-V-I-L.

And FINALLY, don't trust me! Trust the experts;

Go to the Pricelessware site maintained by the alt.comp.freeware Usenet group.
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I can only give you my top 10 and hope it ties in with other peoples:

Anti Virus - AVG - Updated regularly and free for non commercial use - FREE
Browser - Mozilla - A stable and standards compliant browser, and not tied in with the OS unlike IE! - FREE
Compression - PowerArchiver - Freeware ZIP/RAR/CAB/LHA/TAR/etc/etc! - FREE
Security - ZoneAlarm - For piece of mind when connected - FREE
Email - MailWasher - Eliminate spam without downloading to your computer - FREE
Registry - RegCleaner - An invaluable registry tool - FREE
MP3 - WinAmp - Still my fav MP3 player after all these years - FREE
MPEG - VLC - A very comprehensive media player - FREE
CD - Daemon Tools - A CD emulator, once a gamer has used this they never uninstall it! - FREE
Games - MAME - An arcade emulator... essential for people over the age of 25! - FREE
FTP & Download - LeechFTP - Unintrusive, easy to use, hard to crash (unlike BPFTP) - FREE


Well thats my two penneth anyway :o)

Software I think deserves to be on your list:

• Mozilla Seamonkey Suite Your "classic" mozilla install
• Mozilla Firebird. The smaller Mozilla browser, but still damn good
• Mozilla Thunderbird. Mozilla mail, smaller yet. Complete with built in spam filtering :)
• Winamp 2.x. Can't beat a classic
• Sun J2RE 1.4.2 Probably not necessary, but best to get it installed and out there.
• RealOne Player BASIC. Despite what you think about Real, RealOne isn't such a horrible player, and RV9 isn't a bad codec. Their marketing department needs to be hit with a giant stick though, so make sure you disable all the "automatic options" in realone. Link is to a direct download of the Realone basic player, no hunting for the free version :) CDex Damn good ripping software for windows, and one of the easiest ways to get Ogg on windows.

Yes, as said previously, Winamp 2.91. I agree that Winamp 3 blows, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with Winamp 2.91.

Yes ... Winamp 2.91. I agree that Winamp 3 blows, but Winamp 2.91 is still great, and nowhere near being outdated.

These are some of the free (speech or beer) software I'd install on a family, non-gaming machine:

• Web Browser: Mozilla or Mozilla Firebird
• E-mail: Mozilla (cross-platform), Mozilla Thunderbird (cross-platform), Evolution (Gnome), or KMail (KDE)
• Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
• Media Player: QuickTime (Windows), Zinf (cross-platform), RealPlayer (cross-platform), WinAmp (Windows), MPlayer (Windows), XMMS (Linux)
• Image Viewer: IrfanView (Windows)
• Instant Messaging: Gaim (cross-platform)
• Personal Information Management: Palm Desktop Software (great PIM suite even if you don't own a Palm)
• Other: Acrobat Reader (although I'm weary of their DRM), Java 2 Runtime Environment, Macromedia Flash and Shockwave players, Ad-Aware (spyware remover for Windows), ZoneAlarm, Sygate Personal Firewall (firewall, alternative to ZoneAlarm), Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus, FileZilla, WinRAR (not free, shareware with nag window), Ofoto desktop software (basic photo album and touch-ups, even if you don't use Ofoto's online services)

Some other software I'd install on my own desktop (dev), in decreasing order of importance:

• Cygwin, bascially all packages
• UltraEdit32 (45-day trial shareware)
• TightVNC
• Ghostscript and GSView
• Java 2 SDK
• Eclipse
• Borland JBuilder Personal
• ActiveState Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk (yes, even though they are in Cygwin), Jython
• GIMP
• POV-Ray
• At least one of Apache, Tomcat, or Plone (Zope)
• HTTrack (a website copier)