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WinAmp's Death Greatly Exaggerated
robyannetta writes "In a previous story, we heard that WinAmp was
down for the count. Apparently, this is not the case.
Here is a note by Eric Caoili that says "No we weren't axed. We haven't even seen anyone with an axe. There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it.""
What's not a joke is that any news is good news.
For one brief instant we all figured winamp was dead. The internet news sites picked it up, people were downloading every version known to man for archive, and we were all focused on winamp once again.
Welcome to the world of the rumor-feeding news cycle.
We have been played.
1) We don't have the source 2) If you are seriously proposing that WMP is as good as Winamp 5, I want some of whatever you're smoking. 3) It's still nice to know it's still around, even if it is a commodity,
My Systems
to everyone who came out to show their support for us and who defended us when everyone was calling us gay.
That is a nice little bit of homophobia from their press release. Real professional guys. Sheesh.
No, not flamebait (although I'd mod you all the way down to Antarctica if I had any points left) - just plain wrong. You have GOT to be joking about WMP. That piece of shit is so bloated it's not even funny.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- G.B. Shaw
Actually I dumped BloatAmp after v3.0 came out. Just another good example of how feature creep more often than not kills a good piece of software. I tried iTunes but again Apple (like Real Networks) likes to stuff crap down your mouth as a part of the install and to this day I still cannot uninstall the damn thing, it always gets stuck at a certain point. Right now I am using WMP 10 and it does everything I want, it plays my mp3's and that's all I want.
3rd party audi player
er...a BMW?
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- G.B. Shaw
to everyone who came out to show their support for us and who defended us when everyone was calling us niggers.
Still think it is funny?
I bet you wouldn't hesitate to jump in if the target was poor white southerners.
"Right now I am using WMP 10 and it does everything I want, it plays my mp3's and that's all I want."
Annnd sets the stage for massive DRM nazism in the process. Good choice!
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Considering the original Winamp team consisted of Justin Frankel, I'd say no. ;)
Uh ... AFAIK, you can easily turn that off. And even if it is on, it is anonymous.
Winamp, OTOH, has stayed nimble, acquired more features (like streaming video and media library) but without any detrimental effect on performance or stability. This is why Winamp is amazing and the developers are amazing. WinAmp is more stable than a llama suffering rigor mortis. I'm not impressed with iTunes because of its sluggishness and overcomplicated interface for doing something damn simple - playing an audio file or stream. Plus, iTunes and WM friends of mine aren't able to play my ogg vorbis streaming icecast station so I'm not too impressed by that either.
It lacks one of winamps greatest features, The skinning!
Winamps skinning is so great because it enables anyone with some grasp on using paint to make a skinn that still is usable. The limitation that you cant do all cool and nifty stuff(as you can in modern mode, or many other players) is a good thing. That means that you won't see skins with reduced functionality(because the skinner was lazy) or have everything aranged in a weird way(because the skinner was incompetent) or that fills up half your screen with uneccescary bloat(because the skinner had to put a photo of his idol in it). (I don't like the modern skins to Winamp that much either, although the default on is decent)
Now that combined with the flawless playback and fileformat support and the plugin system and the small memory footprint is what makes Winamp the gratest player IMO.