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Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5!
An anonymous coward writes: Having been a loyal iTunes user for quite some time, after seeing the report on Ars Technica about the newly released Winamp 5 Final, I simply had to try it out. It's pretty amazing, rivaling iTunes in many ways on Windows (mainly, speed). Ripping, library, etc: They're all there. Plus it comes with a slew of of new scriptable features. Simply put, it's dead sexy. Get your copy now! Note, last link requires some other OS.
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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.
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http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp5 0_full.exe brings up 404.
Looks like someone at Nullsoft saw the HUGE load and pulled the file.
anyone got a Mirror?
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When I go to http://winamp.com it looks different than when I go to http://www.winamp.com Why?
I'm still using Winamp 2 because they later started to degrade the project with bloating. Is this one really good, and is there any whiff of "DRM" to tell me what I cannot do with my own content on my own machine?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I have used WinAmp in the past, and like most apps with "skins", it flashes, blinks, doesn't quite work right, and is generally retarded on Windows machines. Does this version finally work OK? Does anyone else have these problems?
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For me, iTunes sets the bar here, as far as anything I've tried on Windows. It's so easy in iTunes to drag songs to other playlists. Why does iTunes get this SO right, and nobody else comes close?
What I like to do is listen to my entire collection on shuffle, most of the time. Occaisionally I'll hear a song that I'd like to add to one of my playlists (coding music playlist, one for my next roadtrip, etc). In iTunes this is easy. In Winamp it's possible but kind of a mess, and you can't drag from the playlist window to the list of playlists in the Media Library window. And I diskike the "let's have a different window for everything" interface concept of Winamp in general.
Those are nitpicky concerns, but for a music player they're pretty vital. It's got to be easy to use, since I have it open, off to the side, while coding... if I have to devote a lot of thought to futzing around with somebody's kludgy interface, it's a big distraction.
Not that iTunes is perfect. Chugs like a mofo when you've got 50-60GB of music imported...
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I used to use Winamp all the time, so when 5.0 was released, I jumped and downloaded it.
Only to find out it doesn't seem to play WMA lossless.
I have 60GB of free space and a pretty darn good 7.1 speaker system on this computer. I don't need to compress the music I listen to into a lossy format, so I went with WMA lossless when I re-encoded my collection.
So, unless I've found a bug, Winamp 5 is out for now. (But it does stay installed, just in case)
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Ok. I'm a winamp2 nut. I refused winamp3. So naturally my first reaction when I heard about 5 was, screw that! winamp2 forevar!
But I couldn't resist trying it. So I downloaded the free winamp5. I must say that this is an appropriate analogy.
windows2000:windowsXP::winamp2:winamp5
winamp 5 can be turned into winamp2 with a few mouse clicks
windows xp can be turned into windows2000 in a few mouse clicks
winamp 5 can run every plugin, skin and visualization from winamp 2
windows xp can do everything windows 2000 can do
winamp 5 has more options and more features than winamp 2
windows xp has some stuff in it that win2k don't got
The audio quality is identical. On my fast pc the speed is identical. I don't need cd burning or ripping because I have CDex and Nero, so I don't need to pay for the pro version, which only costs 15$.
My faith in nullsoft has been restored. I'll try winamp 5 a week and see if I find a reason not to use it.
Oh, the minibrowser is gone (yay!) but it is present in the media library (boo!), but you can click one button and it will go away (yay!). So it's all good.
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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?
Just downloaded the 'lite' version and gave it a whirl. I ripped my Coldplay CD at 192 Kbps and it sounds GREAT in ITunes, crystal clear (using default setting). I played the same file under Winamp5 default, and it sounds really muffled. Is it just me or other people are experiencing the same thing? As it stands right now I'm sticking w/ITunes.
Just curious. How good is the mp3-encoder it uses and has it got error correcting cd-ripping?
If it's not as good or better than the Exact Audio Copy / Lame combination, the cd-rip feature is not worth paying for. (I read that you had to pay for the cd-rip version.)
EAC/Lame is fast, easy and makes good mp3's for free. =)
But the global hotkey does seem interesting...
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I take exception to the "nobody else comes close" part. J. River's Media Center has been doing everything iTunes offers for years, and with much more of the versatility that /. readers seem to crave than iTunes will ever give you.
Yet if you're really attached to the look of iTunes, someone made a dupe.
I've been using both iTunes & the Winamp 5 betas for about a month now. I've also been attempting to digitize and organise my library of CDs and LPs for about that same amount of time. At first I attempted to use iTunes for all my purposes. It's fantastic for organising genres and editing tags. It's also great for ripping CD's. It's very fast and seemless cddb fetching is a big plus (though CPU intensive). What people here may not know is you can rip to not only AAC or MP3 but uncompressed WAV as well. This is particularly handy as I encode all my MP3s using LAME as I want the best quality MP3s as possible. My usual method is this:
1. Rip CD in iTunes to WAV files
2. Remove WAVs from iTunes and encode to MP3 using LAME
3. Using WinXP (right click properties), apply batch Tags (artist, album title etc) to MP3s.
4. Import MP3s back into iTunes and apply remaining tags/picture.
I've attempted to do the same thing using Winamp, but iTunes has two real advantages. 1. It rips CDs without $$$. 2. Its clean interface makes organising genres much more easily/intuitively.
Where Winamp shines is playing individual files (outside of my collection) and those of oddball extensions. Either way, we're all better off now than just a few months ago.
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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. :)"
Isn't there a Linux port under way? Has anyone tried that out and can share their experience?
... us early adopters who actually paid for WinAmp back in the day?
:)
If I'm not mistaken, you could purchase WinAmp back then with free upgrades for life. 2 monthes later, they honored that contract by making it free. Now that the Pro version isn't, I want my free upgrade
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Umm... as the title of this article clearly states:
"Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5"
The new version of Winamp is basically Winamp 2.x with the features of 3.0. I guess Nullsoft has a sense of humor regarding version numbers.
Why not? Any setting where one would have a DJ, pure tonal quality is not going to be a concern. In any case I can think of for a DJ, a FM radio will do almost as well. Clubs, Weddings, School Dances; these are typically noisy places. Any well encoded MP3 (something at 160kbps or better) is going to be near indistiguishable from a CD or wave file.
Yeah so you can tell the difference on your home theater. Now try that on a couple of speakers in some large reception hall with lots of people holding conversations.
Not having to crate around thier cd collections should be a good enough reason for any DJ to use a notebook loaded with MP3s.
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3. Using WinXP (right click properties), apply batch Tags (artist, album title etc) to MP3s.
When you do this, is it just working with the filesystem metainfo that is available for all types of files, or is it actually working with the ID3 tags in the files? My initial thought was the former, but if it is the latter, then props to Winderz cuz thats pretty fsckin' cool.
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