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Why Winamp is just meh
This is my first forum post. This looks like a nice community!
I thought I would just ramble about how bad Winamp is, at least in my case. Now firstly, this has nothing to do with my hardware, as a 3 GHz C2D and 4 GB of RAM is more than enough to use Winamp. In addition, I'm only 13 so I just missed the glory days of Winamp. With that said, let's get into it.
Winamp is not a bad media player. It's very nice, in fact. Sure, VLC and others have surpassed it, but it is still a good media player with good features. But unfortunately, when Radionomy bought it out, that's when things went south. Development and improvements to Winamp have been very few and far between if any, and the Winamp web page has said "There's More Coming Soon" for over 2 years now. It's pretty clear that they don't care much anymore. When Winamp was owned by Nullsoft, it needed improvements, but Radionomy, obviously, couldn't care less. The only redeeming factor of Winamp today are those cool visualizers. Other than that, it's a mess. Now, it could be the version I'm using, but it's a pretty recent version, if not the latest. Here are the issues I faced:
Slow, laggy UI,
Crashes when I try to rip a CD,
and above all, CD playback lags when browsing the web.
Windows Media Player 12 here in Windows 7 does a much better job of everything - and it can rip CD to more formats, and do so without crashing.
I think Radionomy needs to put some more love into Winamp, because it's currently a sad mess.