Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Sebby wy is it time to switch to vlc? I dont really understand what you mean. Vlc from what Ive seen seems like a better option than Wmp or even more Itunes for playing stuff, though it oes not seem half as customizable or easy to use as
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi,Does anyone know the reason why winamp is closed? well, because I heard some people says, AOL wants to sell winamp to Microsoft. that was the reason.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=159385#p159385
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Would all you minimalist software nuts consider moving along to MPC or VLC? Because I say its time. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=159389#p159389
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I would think you could play flac on android considering the number of media player options. I dont have any flac files though, so I cant give you anymore specific information than that without googling an testing one.URL:
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Heres link to the official site on the matter. Bring winamp back, there is:http://www.savewinamp.com/URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=157487#p157487
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Thanks for the site. Well Ive signed the petition, and indeed the fact that its already got close to 43 thousand signatures should say something, indeed Im pleased its got this kind of support.URL:
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
for playin music I only use winamp. its really the best thing out there.I really hope they open source the project, or sell them to Microsoft, though im not sure if Microsoft is going to treat winamp so well, since they got there own player,
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hello,Sorry for joining the topic perhaps a bit late.Me too, I dont like itune and the way apple manages audio stuff. In fact, they volontarily made itune harder to use on windows than mac, you know why, and you know also why they made
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Could you post the link for that save winamp site, if theyve got something to add a statement Id be glad to put my ore in, though I dont know about the forum from your description.Btw, I just had a great example about why the Iphone alt tags
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Could you post the link for that save winamp site, if theyve got something to add a statement Id be glad to put my ore in, though I dont know about the forum from your description.Btw, I just had a great example about why the Iphone alt tags
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Could you post the link for that save winamp site, if theyve got something to add a statement Id be glad to put my ore in, though I dont know about the forum from your description.Btw, I just had a great example about why the Iphone alt tags
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well, I have bookmarked the Save Winamp website and just signed the petition I think last week. To the forum owners credit, he got right back to me when I wrote him regarding their inaccessible CAPTCHA. He even offered to set up my account
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well Arcadia I will agree that does seem to be a major advantage of android. @Sebby, I disagree on Itunes access in windows. All those tree views are a pain, and theres no way to get to things easily without using them or change the view,
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Um, for me, I used for several years now. and I cant wait winamp is going out.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156785#p156785
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Um, for me, I used winamp for several years now. and I cant wait to see winamp is going out.:(URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156785#p156785
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I didnt know iTunes made you sort things in to their library. I guess I thought there was some way around it, which I guess people have figured out but only kind of. Having to make things go through iTunes is one thing I thought about when my
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well, the reason for Im purchasing music through iTunes is that i dont know of any online stores which have that much epic music which is accessible with screenreaders.Purchasing music is very, very quick and easy, at leased both on the
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well Slj, accessible and windows Itunes are not good concepts, (Itunes is usable but not easily), it seems Apple just havent even tried which is not good. On the mac Ive heard it is a much different beast. This is one reason I wanted to know
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I dunno. I think Apples accessibility is as good as its going to get on Doze; tab will get you to all the controls, even the LCD readout IIRC. And there are shortcuts for pretty much everything in the program, like in most Apple software.
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Nice to know if Ive ever actually tempted to buy anything through silly itunes. Regarding radio, Ill try that tuner radio thing, though to be honest the only stations I particularly listen to are classic fm, and occasionally radio 4 when
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi.Regarding to getting purchased things transfered from your phone into iTunes, its very easy, as soon as you have your phone syncronised. Just go to the file menu or whatever its called in iTunes, and choose to transfer purchased from your
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi,Foobar2000 can be set up to use hotkeys for rewind and fast forward.RobURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156589#p156589
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
You actually dont have to play it through ITunes Dark, even music purchased through the ITunes store. I use WinAmp for that all the time. All you have to do is navigate to ITunes\ITunes Media\Music and there you go. You just find the artist
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Dark, if you buy music on the phone, just transfer purchases, or better, go to iTunes, Store menu, Check for Available Downloads. You can go to general preferences, or perhaps store preferences, to make this the default behaviour always, so
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hmmm, sebby, what has Itunes preferences got to do with getting things out of Itunes and into other folders on my hd? What i was more wondering is where Itunes put them and even if it is possible to just copy them across since I dont want to
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Dark, iTunes preferences controls whether downloads are automatically done upon purchase. So, as you were asking what happens when you buy from your phone, thats how you enable them. Or do it manually using the Store menu. Once downloaded,
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I radio? meh. I just wanted something as background with vaguely nice music and some news, not to go and buy random stuff. Againthis sounds like Apple saying our way or nothing! which is irritating. Ill look into the downloads thing if I ever
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Does anyone know if thers another media player that has rewind and fast forward hotkeys like winamp does? I mostly like winamp because it loads things and starts playing them much faster than windows media player or especially iTunes. I also
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi.Regarding putting books, music, podcasts and stuff on an iPhone and iPod touch, I dont understand why people feel like messing around with iTunes. Yeah, iTunes is great if yu like libraries, but if you dont, its just a huge mess.As Ive
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@SLJ: Ah, no, you see, when your friend pops in his USB media player, you go to import the contents from the device, and iTunes will helpfully steal^H^H^H^H^Hcopy the files over for you, which you then play. And, by default, it will do that
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi all,Yet again, I have to suggest Foobar 2000. It allows you to have a library, which is great if you are tagging your music like me, but even if you dont, you can use the folder structure sorting method. In this case, the library tree will
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
robjoy wrote:And airplay... One of the worst inventions of Apple. A proprietary format that works only if you have Apple devices. But of course this is not surprising. With Foobar, you can use UPnP, which works everywhere. Android, wireless
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi.Lol, Airplay works only with Apple devices? Hmm, youre right when speaking about streaming from devices, but streaming to devices such as speakers, youre wrong. Bose, Sony, Philips, Samsung and lots of other companies have made lots of
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@SLJ, for FTP client I just want it to be high-quality and accessible. I know Panic do good work, so is it nicely accessible? Unison, sadly, was partially accessible and then went backwards to being more-or-less useless, so Im a bit
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Sebby wrote:Fact is that UPnP is a horrible, bloated, incompatible mess, and thats despite the fact that its fully published.Bloated, yes. But only because noone actually modernised it, yet. Incompatible, how so? Those hardware that support
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Yeah, Transmit is very accessible indeed, and it have a ton of awesome features. Its an app which might take some time to get used to though, but its fully accessible, or at leased the features Im using are.Yeah, Disk aid is a very nice app,
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I have heard good things about Foobar but havent tried it, so cant comment on that debate, but to be honest all this Itunes import into library crap, retag this, restructure that, and sink the other is needelss over complex, and just seems
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
The way itunes handles tags blows my mind, not for being handy and easy to use ( (TM). It blows my mind for hands down being one of the most stupid programs ever.. Feed it an album and it will up and split in to three albums just cause it
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Exodus: agree; iTunes should be split up. Its monstrous now; you load it up and it wants to sync. I now sync all my stuff by just closing and re-opening iTunes.@Dark: iTunes Music is 256K AAC, no DRM. Not a problem. I used to play it on my
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well Sebby, its more getting the stuff out! of itunes and back onto my hd that is the concern as opposed to quality or anything else. Believe it or not there are! things that I dont want to play through my Iphone, like say when i want to use
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
thats good to know Slj. I wasnt sure about this though Id be interested to know where the files get put in windows since even if I did! decide to get something through Itunes, I wouldnt want to play it through itunes due to the aforesaid
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi.Ok, whats the big deal about a combined headphone and line in port?It doesnt seem like such a big problem, since you can just connect a patch cord from the single port to the other device and use stuff like sound flower and line in to
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi.Ok, whats the big deal about a combined headphone and line in port?It doesnt seem like such a big problem, since you can just connect a patch cord from the single port to the other device and use stuff like sound flower and line in to
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hello,@Sebby:Sebby wrote:robjoy wrote:Sebby wrote:Fact is that UPnP is a horrible, bloated, incompatible mess, and thats despite the fact that its fully published.Bloated, yes. But only because noone actually modernised it, yet. Hey,
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Chris, well the bookport always seemed over expensive to me for what it did, as usual the word access means a couple of extra zeros, though I confess Ive not looked into the device and its more specialized capabilities as much as I could
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Chris, well the bookport always seemed over expensive to me for what it did, as usual the word access means a couple of extra zeros, though I confess Ive not looked into the device and its more specialized capabilities as much as I could
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi Dark.Well, fair enough though the BPP isnt too expensive, not compared to the ridiculous prices of other products for the blind which I refuse to buy. Just thought I could suggest a pretty good player/recorder/podcatcher/web radio player
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
i am using winamp and i like it when i started learning winows thanksURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156270#p156270
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Im afraid sebby I utterly disagree, since to be honest all that library playlist sharing crap is stuff I dont need, and it annoys me to have it around the interface. Winamp lets you hide and show just what elements you want, and the basic
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Im afraid sebby I utterly disagree, since to be honest all that library playlist sharing crap is stuff I dont need, and it annoys me to have it around the interface. Winamp lets you hide and show just what elements you want, and the basic
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Im afraid sebby I utterly disagree, since to be honest all that library playlist sharing crap is stuff I dont need, and it annoys me to have it around the interface. Winamp lets you hide and show just what elements you want, and the basic
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Dark, thats exactly what Im saying--youre resisting the migration to a centralised library, and are then surprised when more mainstream players dont appear to meet your needs. Well, of course they dont; you still find files using a
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I use ITunes mostly for syncing music or books to my IPod. I find WinAmpl easier for when I want to listen to music on my computer. And ITuens doesnt play Nintendo NSF or Game Boy GBS files. LOL.URL:
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well Sebby I just never see the point in all the library stuff. Ive already got my stuff organized on my computer in folders, directories and files I personally like, why should I mess around with ratings and libraries and stuff? This
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well Sebby I just never see the point in all the library stuff. Ive already got my stuff organized on my computer in folders, directories and files I personally like, why should I mess around with ratings and libraries and such? This
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Fair enough, Dark. Youve obviously made your mind up. Personally Ive made the move, and love having everything easily accessible in one joy-filled application. Sure theres lots of other stuff floating around on my disks that will never go in
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Ive never used iTunes so cant comment on that. If memory serves me, it is accessible though with System Access and JAWS on the Windows side. I have, however, used Foobar2000 and it didnt work that great for me. Dont know why though, perhaps I
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@jjgeek, well the issue isnt itunes beeing accessible, its that to access it its interface is a pain, and not straight forward. that is the problem. its doable, but with roughly 10 times the trouble of winamp. @Sebby, I agree different people
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@jjgeek, well the issue isnt itunes beeing accessible, its that to access it its interface is a pain, and not straight forward. that is the problem. its doable, but with roughly 10 times the trouble of winamp. @Sebby, I agree different people
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Ok I can see both sides of this in a way. If you have all of the ID3 tags correct on all your audio files, then they will go in to ITunes right. The main problem is that the ID3 tags on MP3s dont fully have all the needed data that Itunes
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Ok I can see both sides of this in a way. If you have all of the ID3 tags correct on all your audio files, then they will go in to ITunes right. The main problem is that the ID3 tags on MP3s dont fully have all the needed data that Itunes
Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi all,As youve probably already heard or maybe not, the Winamp media player is gonna be dead passed the Dec 20th 2013.As far as I know, the reason is unknown, at least for now, but winamp.com and all other according websites will go down and
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
n thats sad nooo!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156192#p156192
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Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I dunno, it was inevitable, really. WinAmp is old school, and theres really nothing you can do with it that you couldnt do with even Media Player. And, of course, iTunes is now a compulsery download for most people, which means anything goes.
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Well to be honest there is an unofficial build on andrelouis.com/programs.Its not the latest but concidering you wont be able to get all the plugins you used to you may have to use that version.I use winamp as a chip player as well as mp3 and
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
I have a lot of nostalgic feeling for winamp. I used it for a long time like many here, for many years. Ive now switched to Foobar 2000 though, 2 years ago in fact and I havent found anything that foobar cant do that Winamp can, and more
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Im a Winamp user to my fingertips. I downloaded the latest version and will port it to my external hard drive so that I have it when the time comes to get a new laptop. Winamp is the only reasonably accessible way to play all the video game
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi,There is nothing ever that can beat Foobar 2ks capabilities. Its like comparing Firefox to IE. Combine that with Mediaplayer Classic and you have a media centre on your pc that plays almost anything you can throw at it, even zip, rar, 7z
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi, I use winamp simply because in foober you have everything thrown at the screen, and when foober is open and you click on a file the foober window appears again. I like winamp because when you open a file, then switch to a new one, it
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
One thing I like about winamp is that I could set all of the eq without having to tab through the controls. Having each slider assigned to its on sets of keys was handy. Granted, I pretty much ditched all the online stuff that came with
Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
Hi! I just signed the petition AOL: Keep Winamp alive or let it go open source on Change.org. Its important. Will you sign it too? Heres the link: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/a … e_petitionURL:
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