I think it very much depends on what one is doing. I have to say, that I am also in agreement with those who say that winamp is still the best, for the following reasons. 1. especially with the window-eyes app for it, it does give a lot more information than others I have used, such as track percentage when fast-forwarding/rewinding, volume percentage, etc. 2. it seems to have more add-ons for playing various file formats than others, which certainly for someone like myself, who has audio and video files of all different formats, is a big plus. and 3. another big plus for me, is even with out any add-ons, it plays a lot of formats, both old and new, where as a lot of other players have turned there backs on playing older formats, mainly from my point of view, .voc, .au, .iff, .aif, .mod, .xm, and .s3m files. winamp is just about the only thing that will play these now.
Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:15 AM Subject: Re: The new version of winamp Naturally! I use VLC here and that is just as straight forward and I’m sure there are other players that others use that are straight forward. I’m not saying VLC is the best player either, its all down to preference of course but to say that other players aren’t straight forward to use just isn’t true. I did buy Winamp Pro, that’s how much I liked Winamp at one time however that was quite some time ago and since that time Winamp became very bloated and I started having crashes when I tried to play video, not just on one machine either and I discovered the incidents of Winamp crashing weren’t isolated so time to go looking for other players. I also enjoy using Windows Media Player and a lot of people I’m sure will say that this player is straight forward. And don’t tell me that Winamp has features that no other player does because that’s just not true. And finally I’ve not tried the latest Winamp for Windows though I have downloaded the Mac and Android versions so may look at those a little later on, anyone here tried the Windows version yet? Perhaps you mightn’t be so wrapped in Winamp once its installed on your Windows system so I’ll be most eager to hear the. > On 24 Dec 2015, at 12:06 PM, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > wrong you are, winamp is absolutely the best media player used, i use it > every single day. It's simple and straight forward. I like things to be > simple > > On 12/23/2015 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: >> Winamp will always be the best player for screen reader users and >> keyboard users so you are a very big lier. if the new winamp is better >> and still accessable I would conciter using it but if not I will just >> keep using version 5.66 >> Brian Sackrider >> >> On 12/23/2015 4:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: >>> Don’t care any more as there are so many good alternatives anyway, the >>> best thing that every happened in the media player world was the >>> announcement made that development would cease on Winamp and as yet >>> I’ve not heard any convincing reason as to why anyone should mourn the >>> loss of this software. >>> >>> If a new company has taken Winamp over and development has started >>> again then all well and good but I do think the player became far too >>> bloated is is very much over rated. >>> >>> >>>> On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:16 AM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona >>>> <hank.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> its about time they released it >>>> had no idea that they released a new version >>>> >>>> On 12/23/2015 2:12 PM, Larry Higgins wrote: >>>>> Hello listers, >>>>> >>>>> Just wanted to know if any of you have used the latest version of >>>>> Winamp from Radionomy? If so, how accessible is it with screen >>>>> readers? I found out that the there is apparently only two versions, >>>>> pro and light, and the pro is around $19.00. >>>>> >>>>> I might consider springing for the Pro version if I knew that it was >>>>> actually worth it, or maybe another way of putting it, if it >>>>> wouldn't break all of my presets and WE scripts/apps. I'd far >>>>> rather use the old version for as long as I can, rather than >>>>> destroying a perfectly working Winamp listening environment. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> ********** >>> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of >>> the halfwits in this world behind. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
