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Will you switch from Winamp2 to Winamp3 now that it's final? |
 Nov 18 2002, 01:42
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 Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 14-July 02 From: Lommel (Belgium) Member No.: 2593  |
I feel like I'm the only one here liking wA3
 , when I did my last fresh install I decided to not install WA2 and give 3 a try.Well I haven't regretted it. Ok it loads a bit longer but hey you only start a program once don't you? Mysteriously enough I happen to find my way around WA3 with quite ease. The only bad thing it has is that the mpcplugin cannot edit tags  , this is a fault of WA3 if I understood correctly. Let's hope they fix it soon so this little trouble is also gone.WA3 also runs even stabler over here! Sometimes when I played mpcfiles with WA2 the playback would stop for no reason at all only to begin again after I hit stop and play again, I haven't had this behavior at all with WA3. |
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Nov 18 2002, 03:02
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Group: Banned Posts: 529 Joined: 29-September 01 Member No.: 37 |
QUOTE (zZzZzZz @ Nov 15 2002 - 07:17 AM) you see, winamp is intended to play music It plays music? I thought it was just intended to install AOL icons... |
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Nov 18 2002, 03:18
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Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 16-October 01 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 301 |
Maybe I'm missing something but I liked in winamp2 how one could see the total time of the playlist @ the bottom of the playlist editor. Can we still do this- I can't figure out for the life of me how to do this in winamp3. Any suggestions ?
-Jeff |
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Nov 18 2002, 03:54
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 A/V Moderator Group: Moderator Posts: 1665 Joined: 30-April 02 From: Slovenia Member No.: 1922 |
from winamp3 faq:
QUOTE Does Winamp3 sound better than Winamp 2.x? To be honest, nothing has been proven. So, we're not sure...yet. Thankfully, it definitely doesn't sound worse. 1. is there a reason to use wa3 soundquality wise? 2. is there a tool to make skining easier? (i dont feel like coding) -------------------- PANIC: CPU 1: Cache Error (unrecoverable - dcache data) Eframe = 0x90000000208cf3b8
NOTICE - cpu 0 didn't dump TLB, may be hung |
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Nov 18 2002, 04:15
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Group: Members Posts: 234 Joined: 30-September 01 Member No.: 117 |
layer3maniac: 3.0b actually doesn't install that AOL on Desktop crap anymore. Still not bad that AOL is only making them do that.
frozenspeed: Next release. (Or try 491 if you are daring). smok3: 1) Same decoders, same outputs, same EQ backend. it *should* be exactly the same. Any variation could be due to different output settings (waveOut vs DirectSound and Sound Card driver crap) 2) There have been a few, but nothing really that developed. There are some stuff in the stickies in the Winamp3 Skinning and Scripting forum |
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Nov 30 2002, 21:28
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 Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 30-November 02 From: Lancaster, CA Member No.: 3926 |
I have the new 2.81, and I love it.
I tried Winamp 3, but quite simply hated it. Too many options, too many things it doesn't need to do. I had 2.78 before this, but it didn't like XP... so I went from that to one of the 1.X Winamps for a bit. An antique, but interesting to say the lest! Geez we are pampered with all these other versions! lol -------------------- |
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Dec 8 2002, 12:06
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 Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 8-December 02 From: Zagreb Member No.: 4014 |
Still using 2.81 Winamp, it's fast and it's all you need
 I tried Wa3 and it is really slow, buggy, and this new skining arch doesn't impress me 2 much. Winamp 2.x for life! 
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Dec 8 2002, 12:40
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Group: Members Posts: 601 Joined: 19-July 02 From: USA Member No.: 2667 |
I may try out WA3 again when they add ID3v2 tag editing to it...until then, i'm going to use WA2.
-------------------- WARNING: Changing of advanced parameters might degrade sound quality. Modify them only if you are expirienced in audio compression!
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 Dec 9 2002, 08:50
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Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 8-December 02 From: Zagreb Member No.: 4014 |
Another reason for using Winamp 2.81
one word : "Milkdrop" 
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Dec 9 2002, 08:53
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 Group: Members Posts: 630 Joined: 18-June 02 Member No.: 2332 |
Milkdrop does rock
Did some serious impressing of my friends at my last party ("what is that?" "where can I get that" "that is even cooler than the 3d0 colour game!")
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Dec 13 2002, 00:40
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Group: Members Posts: 573 Joined: 22-February 02 Member No.: 1375 |
2.81 all the way.
Winamp 3 may need another year to become bug free |
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Dec 17 2002, 00:39
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 Group: Members Posts: 99 Joined: 3-December 02 From: Kiev, Ukraine Member No.: 3970 |
QUOTE (rjamorim @ Aug 8 2002 - 06:39 AM) Comments welcome. Winamp is shit, my Creative MediaSource is much better
-------------------- My sound hardware: Creative's Audigy 2 ;)
My music encodings: Nero AAC Codec 2.6.2.0 Profiles:Transparent,Extreme |
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 Dec 17 2002, 21:22
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Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: 8-November 02 From: Sarov, Russia Member No.: 3719 |
No, thanks.
I'm a Winamp 2.X skinner and I like the way it works. Other limitations for me: Fat, heavy, unstable, no golabal hotkey plugin I like, hard to skin (well, I'm sure I could learn skinning it, but what for?). Many famous Winamp 2.x skinners won't turn to WA3 too, so don't expect lots of nice interfaces. I'm sure, Nullsoft won' be able to make a stable and fast release for at least one year (Winamp 2.X is still buggy a bit, some previous versions were almost impossible to use, as there were too many bugs).. So, don't use this stuff... At least now 
-------------------- http://sacrat.blogspot.com
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Dec 30 2002, 19:28
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 Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 5-November 02 From: Stockholm, Sweden Member No.: 3696 |
Probably not.
WA 2.xx works good enough for me since I'm just using it to listen to mp3's. |
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Dec 30 2002, 19:34
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Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: 29-September 01 Member No.: 38 |
QUOTE Will you switch from Winamp2 to Winamp3 now that it's final? no, but as soon as fb2k plays SHNs, I will likely abandon wa2.xx for good... |
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Jan 24 2003, 19:28
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 Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 1-December 02 From: India Member No.: 3948 |
 No Way
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Jan 26 2003, 20:50
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Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 24-January 03 From: Suffolk, UK Member No.: 4714 |
Winamp 2.81 for me still. I don't always like saying it, but in this case, the old saying "If it ain't broken, don't try to fix it." is definitely true.
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Jan 26 2003, 21:02
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 Group: Members Posts: 218 Joined: 12-October 01 Member No.: 278 |
After I last reformatted and reinstalled WinMe, I've not bothered with WinAmp 3. I still like CoolPlayer for the most common types of listening I do. Honestly, foobar2000 seems one of the best reasons I've yet encountered for moving from the 98 kernel to Win2k (WinXP? -- NOT!).
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Jan 27 2003, 15:53
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Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 25-August 02 Member No.: 3195 |
I'm still sticking to Winamp 2.xx, Winamp 3 is too slow on my old computer, and using Win98 doesn't help much. Foobar2k is incredible, I use it, but there's something I use, like a firewall that causes it to malfunction. Winamp 2.xx is the most stable, and best sounding player ive come in contact with!
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Jan 27 2003, 15:57
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Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 1-October 01 From: Falkenberg Member No.: 3810 |
never in an eternity!
Foobar does all I'd ever like and is better in most aspects aswell. -------------------- http://davidnordin.wordpress.com/
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 Jan 27 2003, 16:24
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 Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1203 Joined: 10-February 02 From: Endless Water Member No.: 1305 |
No. using WinAmp2 60% / fb2k 40% right now. I'll completely switch to fb2k very soon.
-------------------- A riddle is a short sword attached to the next 2000 years.
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Jan 27 2003, 17:42
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 Group: Members Posts: 574 Joined: 15-December 02 From: Rijeka, Croatia Member No.: 4090 |
Winamp3 - NO WAY... foobar2000 and Winamp2, soon I will switch to foobar2000 only soon (still need WA2 for some things). I just hope that zZzZzZz is working on new version, and that's why he hasn't updated anything for such a long time, and that he hasn't abandoned it for public and started developing for himself.
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Jan 27 2003, 17:55
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 Group: Admin Posts: 2530 Joined: 26-September 01 From: Denmark Member No.: 21 |
QUOTE (RIV@NVX @ Jan 27 2003 - 05:42 PM) .....and that's why he hasn't updated anything for such a long time, and that he hasn't abandoned it for public and started developing for himself.  How often do you want releases???! Do you know another program that is updated as often? And yes: Peter is working on foobar as he always is. |
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Jan 27 2003, 19:50
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Group: Members Posts: 574 Joined: 15-December 02 From: Rijeka, Croatia Member No.: 4090 |
QUOTE (Jan S. @ Jan 27 2003 - 08:55 AM) QUOTE (RIV@NVX @ Jan 27 2003 - 05:42 PM) .....and that's why he hasn't updated anything for such a long time, and that he hasn't abandoned it for public and started developing for himself. How often do you want releases???! Do you know another program that is updated as often? And yes: Peter is working on foobar as he always is. Well, I am completely OK with anything, but I got kind of used to the frequent updates I am glad that he still works on it.And, no, I don't know anyone who updates it so frequent. This post has been edited by RIV@NVX: Jan 27 2003, 19:51 |
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Mar 25 2003, 17:53
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 Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 24-March 03 Member No.: 5645 |
I've switched to foobar2000 because org winamp SSRC's author, Peter, is now building foobar2000.
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