Point taken and that's fair enough. By the way there's another difference between VLC and Winamp, one is being actively developed and the other hasn't been for quite some time <smile>.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Byron Stephens Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? I don't even use any equalizers at least not software, but a twenty band hardware unit I would and will. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? > For what its worth from me and thanks for starting this discussion. > Its been a very long while since I used Winamp, why did I stop using it? > Because Winamp kept crashing when I tried to play video files recorded > in standard TS format from my video TV tuners that I use still ttill > this day though different models obviously. > So then began my search for a new player that was easy to use and did > what I believe a player needs to do, play the track when I press play, > move to the next track or skip through a track when I press or hold > the forward button etc. > VLC did these things and many more besides. > I grant you, VLC is not the friendliest App to get around but one can > get around much of it using the JAWS cursor or whatever your thing is > called on your Screen Reader. > If I had my way equalisers in players wouldn't be present. > I know I sound harsh but the amount of times I've seen equalisers > abused to the point that people manage to stuff their speaker systems > up causes me to perhaps take this view. > A good sounding pair of speakers which don't cost all that much these > days shouldn't require any additional medaling in the form of an equaliser. > I went to someone's house the other day, this chap had what I would > call a perfectly serviceable pair of Altec Lansing computer speakers, > well at least I would have termed this speaker system in that way when > it was bought but after this chap had applied God only knows how many > equalisers in the audio chain? Well this respectable speaker system > had been turned to the sound of mud literally, sure! Enough bottom but > for what, to demolish the house and perhaps Next doors dwelling too? > It certainly didn't sound good. > And the top, well it was there but incredibly harsh to the point that > my ears felt sore just trying to listen to the thing. > Where was the Mid-range? Lost somewhere in the cocofany of noise. > Anyway back to the point of VLC and I'm very pleased to say that the > developers are slowly but surely making accessibility fixes as updates > roll out and I reckon they're doing a fair job since VLC is an open > source package. > I use VLC on other devices such as my Apple Mac machines, iPhone and > iPads and Android with pleasing results. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of JM Casey > Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 8:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? > > The VlC equalizer is certainly a lot less convenient to set and save > settings than the Winamp one using a screen-reader. One can easily > adopt any of the presets, but saving your own settings requires > messing with the not-too-accessible filters within the preferences > dialog box. Actually the whole design is weird and I wish that Video > Lan gave the ability to easily save and load multiple equalizer > settings in VLC. > > Just curious, but why not have both programmes? I watch a lot of > movies, especially with my sighted partner, and VLC is without doubt > an awesome video player and far more versatile and just better at this > than winamp ever was. However, I still use Winamp for my audio needs > and it works exceedingly well for this purpose even in Windows 10. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian > Olesen > Sent: October 5, 2018 5:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? > > Hi all you nice audiofiles, > > Well I use VLC myself, but I have an old fascion student, who prefers > Winamp. > > I want to persuade him to do the switch. > > But how is it with information about timing lenghth of files in > minutes and seconds and such. Can we easily get to that info also in > VLC? > > Are there other fields where VLC lacks information compared to Winamp? > > Is it actually the other way around? > > > > Best regards > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1296): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/1296 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/26843789/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
