It does take a little bit to set it up. But once you get it the way you want it, it is very accessible! Try out that website for some beginner stuff; if you need more help I'd be happy to help you. bb
-----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:06 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Subject: Re: The new version of winamp I have foobar on my machine but really haven't come to grips with it. I had heard you could do all that but hadn't really figured out how. It sounds cool though! On 12/24/2015 1:54 AM, Brett Boyer wrote: > All I can say is foobar 2000. > Yes you have to set it up yourself but once you do it is so customizable that > it can beat anything winamp can do. In fact, you can manage multiple > playlists at the same time, copy files from windows explorer, and make your > won hot keys for every single command in the program including menu bar, > context menus, now-playing context menus, and many many more. > Here is an article > I have been a foobar user for over 4 years. > And yes, I still have winamp on my machine and use it form time to time, > probably because old habbits die hard. But if I have to do anything for my > radio show, or out in my living room where I have tv shows, music, my Howard > Stern live streams, karaoke files, and a playlist for when particular guests > are over. I can do all of this inside of foobar without having to load > playlists over and over. > The beauty part is managing multiple playlists in a tab style that makes my > life a lot easier. > Good luck to you though. > If you do find the article of interest, since it's written for the general > community I'd be happy to help you out figuring out accessible ways of doing > things that the article doesn't cover. > http://winamp2foobar.blogspot.com/ > I hope you find what you're looking for! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Barry > Chapman > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:03 PM > To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Subject: RE: The new version of winamp > > Well whether Winamp is the best or not is a matter of opinion, but I can say > that I don't know of any other player which has all of the features that I > use on a regular basis. Just a few that come to mind are: > > 1. Ability to play, pause, stop go back a track and go forward a track with > one finger of my left hand. This is important to me when I use Winamp to > stream and need to use my right hand to control my mixer. > > 2. The ability to move forward and back in five second increments with one > finger. > > 3. An option to stop playing after the current track in a playlist. > > 4. The ability to locate a track in Windows explorer and add it to the Winamp > playlist, either after the currently playing track or at the end of the > playlist. > > 5. The ability to search for a track in a playlist and move it to after the > currently playing track. > > 6. The ability to delete tracks from a playlist. > > 7. The ability to save a modified playlist. > > 8. The ability to cross fade tracks with a configurable plugin. > > 9. The ability to equalise the volume of all playing tracks with a > configurable plugin. > > 10. The ability to have title information show up in Edcast when streaming. > > 11. The ability to find the length of a track in time as well as being able > to find out the elapsed time and time remaining of a currently playing track. > > 12. The ability to select a sound card other than the default for the output. > > 13. The ability to edit and modify ID3 tags in MP3 files. > > 14. The ability to review tracks in a playlist by arrowing up and down. > > 15. The ability to search a playlist for tracks containing key words. > > 16. The ability to press enter on a track in Windows Explorer and have it > start playing without the focus moving from Windows Explorer. > > 17. The ability to set a placemarker in a file when using JAWS. > > 18. The ability to set bookmarks for streams. > > 19. The ability to play a wide range of audio formats. > > 20. The ability to jump to a specific time in a track. > > 21. The ability to play the last few seconds of a track (possibly a JAWS > feature). > > 22. The ability to easily get information about streams and tracks, such as > the bit rate. > > I'm sure there are other features that don't come to mind immediately. If > Dane or anyone else can tell me of another free or low cost player which they > know will doo all of the above as well or better than Winamp, I would be > willing to give it a try. > > Thanks, > Barry Chapman > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane > Trethowan > Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2015 12:01 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Subject: Re: The new version of winamp > > Well it won’t be the worlds best media player if its not accessible will it > <smile> and there are plenty of people who would dispute your generalisation > regarding Winamp being the World’s best media player. > > >> On 24 Dec 2015, at 11:44 AM, Brian <n8...@att.net> 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. > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > >
