After 15 Years Of Whipping The Llama’s Ass, Winamp Shuts Down

me too, but my preferred movie player of choice is splash player, well worth giving it a try.
there is a free version also but it has less features.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

TVeblen said:

jimbo45 said:

I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

jimbo

Yep. I do!

Agreed.

In W7, I use:

• MPC-HC as my main video player
• VLC as my backup video player (and when I want to hardsub videos)
• Winamp as my main music player

In XP, I use:

• MPC-HC as my main video player
• VLC as my backup video player
• WMP 10 as my main music player (IMO, the last good WMP version)
• Winamp as my backup music player

In Linux Mint 16 MATE, I use:

• VLC as my main video player (and when I want to hardsub videos)
• Banshee as my music player

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

Indianatone said:

TVeblen said:

jimbo45 said:

I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

jimbo

Yep. I do!

Yep I do too. Winamp for music. VLC for video etc.

+1
Absolutely. When I got Windows 7 I reached for Winamp immediately after discovering what a piece of junk WMP12 was. I'll keep using it as long as I can install and run it.

I have been using winamp since win98, it was better back then as an audio player. Once support was added for .wma's I would say winamp was at it's peak. Since the addition of the media library and all that came with it, although I still used winamp it had lost it's edge as a fast light player that would play anything you could throw at it.

Well theres my 2 pence worth. I still use winamp and will continue to do so.

M1GU31 said:

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

Hi there.

I HATE ICHOONES !!

Also it's nearly (or almost) impossible to get GOOD UNCOMPRESSED music from them these days -- OK nothing wrong with some compressed formats for listening on portable music devices on the go (while travelling) but I like HIGH QUALITY UNCOMPRESSED music on high end equipment - and ICHOONES often has stuff riddled with DRM so it's a hideous mess if you want to move / play music on other devices.

Huge Mass storage devices are ridiculously cheap these days so there's no problem keeping uncompressed music and then compressing it as and when you need to for Ipods etc. Remember also every time you process a LOSSY compressed music format such as edit it etc you get LOWER quality - so eventually the mp3 or so will degrade to barely listenable after a few edits -- FLAC / WAV is uncompressed so you can use this as your master copy and make mp3 copies as often as you like --- some of you will soon want better than the 128 kps mp3 that ICHOONES often has.

@Sub Styler

- you don't have to use Media libraries in winamp - you can simply use it as a basic Audio player. It seems to play FLAC,WAV,APE,OGG, MP3 (and probably others) without any problems -- I don't have any other formats other than some ATRAC Minidiscs and I don't bother with Windows Media format either, but If I'm playing minidiscs I do it via a professional Studio quality minidisc player connected directly to a stand alone high end audio set. For Computer listening I'll continue to use Winamp until it no longer functions. (Minidiscs are still great for recording at concerts / live gigs etc - even though it's old technology - the newer stuff just doesn't have the recording quality).

BTW there's no LIMIT to a folder size you can play in Winamp -- I've set up some disks as "Spanned Volumes" in Windows so I've got an aggregate of a few older 750 GB disks as a spanned set of a 3 TB data space (you don't need RAID 0 in Windows - Windows spanned volumes does it better and you can have DIFFERENT size volumes in the set as well). This is my main Music folder -- I can set Winamp to play the entire 3TB if I want to !!!

If you do span volumes though remember to have backups as a loss of any volume in the set results in the loss of the whole data space - HDD's are reliable these days if they are used for things like music libraries or user data rather than for the OS itself - taking backups every so often will ensure you won't have a problem --you don't need to backup the entire thing in one go - just backup various sub directories every so often,

Cheers
jimbo

It also has a nice built-in format convertor too (I sometimes need to covert FLAC into other formats).

M1GU31 said:

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

This is not an insult or meant to start any kind of a flame war, but only an Apple user would say "why add or change stuff it just works". Just working has never been good enough for me. iTunes is an abomination that takes over and organises your files as Apple sees fit and does not have a place on any of my systems. Even Quicktime has grown into an overblown monster that installs extra crap that is not needed.
There I said it. Perhaps you should try Winamp instead of itunes. Winamp plays music and it plays it very well and does as it is told.