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!
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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
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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.
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