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- hater2win, on 10/19/2007, -14/+239I've enjoyed Winamp's evolution since I first started using it around 7 years ago. It truly is the best media player around and these features only help reestablish that position. Even after the project got taken over by AOL, it was and is the best media player around.
- vsaint, on 10/10/2007, -6/+171Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass.
- geminitojanus, on 10/19/2007, -8/+149MAFIAA lawsuit in 3.. 2.. 1...
- StandardsDT, on 10/19/2007, -23/+119If Apple was to start streaming your music collection over the internet they would do the following.
1. A One time Charge of an additional 30 cents per song to stream music you already purchased through itunes.
2. Charge a monthly fee for streaming through their servers.
3. Up the price for a streamable, DRM free song on itunes.
4. No other file format Support. - cam18, on 10/10/2007, -4/+67True. Even with all of the features they've added over the years it's still what it began as...a lightweight player that plays about every type of audio file there is...
- thebankshow, on 10/10/2007, -2/+55Nice, but I'd like to see how Songbird turns out.
http://www.songbirdnest.com/ - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+48iTunes -did- stream over internet a few years ago, but the feature was "removed" by those villains.
- synthox, on 10/10/2007, -14/+58On a date with Rosie O'donnell?
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+44...and offers an extensible plugin interface to do almost anything imaginable with the audio data coming into or our of the player...
- dpdesign, on 10/10/2007, -2/+39Actually, iTunes used to let you stream over the internet, for free, willy-nilly, as of about version 4. This feature was removed (or rather, crippled to operate only on one subnet) after complaints from the RIAA.
- dukeeeey, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38streaming over the internet sounds pretty cool
i used to stream my music over remote desktop but that is hardly ideal :] - BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -1/+33It's kind of hard to justify the ancient AOL hate these days. Everything they had going for them is dead, and they only exist now because they knew when to jump ship and start catering to an audience rather than continuing the old attempt at an overpriced monopoly.
They work for US now. - NinjaBoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Man I LIVE for the milkdrop visualizations. I try and use different players, but without the milkdrop they just aren't the same.
- louiedog, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Winamp is lightweight. Foobar is more like featherweight.
- rupprupp29, on 10/19/2007, -2/+325. Make it nice and shiny, throw in a few bells and whistles
6. Profit - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28You probably downloaded RealPlayer by accident
- justok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20...buffering...
- starvo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Which was kind of silly of you, since AOL politics and nefarious shenanigans aside, Winamp 5 (Especially the lite version) is a fine product, and a great lightweight media player. I love it on windows, and I just keep hoping that they port it to the Mac eventually.
- niteskunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21AOL bought Nullsoft, but AOL doesn't develop Winamp. Your loss, man.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19What ads??
- meepus, on 10/15/2007, -4/+22While I
- nodonoug, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18and I thought I was the only nerd who did that.
- SeBBBe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Yeah, it's an awesome media player and I love it as well, but it really sucks that it's not multi platform. I use both Windows and Linux and I always try to find software that's available on both platforms. Right now, I don't have a good solution for media players :/ Perhaps now that AmaroK is going multi platform, I can use that? =)
- secleinteer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Yeah, Winamp's a lot better than that bloated piece of ***** iTunes.
- dark_helmet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15XMMS isn't really developed anymore, it was based off of winamp 2, its becoming quite dated.
- Ub3rg33k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14While you ... ?
- Optimaximal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Advertisements? Where?
Winamp became 100% free for the basic version ages ago. Winamp Pro costs money and *may* be ad-supported, but who uses that anyway? - khellendros1984, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Ever heard of vlc? You don't have to install codecs with that. It comes with them all. MUCH better video player than winamp.
- ucg1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Does xmms have a library feature? I don't understand why people continue to insist on recommending players that don't have music libraries. If I wanted a simple music player there are a huge number of good options. But I don't, I want a music player that does it all. Call it "bloat" if you will, I call it functionality.
- zdiggler, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17I used winamp from the those days you have to download MP3's from local BBS!
- louiedog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Well they did release verion 3 which was asstastic. Then they came out with version 5, all of the awesomeness of 2 with what was good in 3.
- MaxPayne3476, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12IF ONLYYYY Winamp supported mac ;( I ***** hate iTunes
- viserov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I agree.
- TemporalRift, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12It did sync with the iPod (Through the now official ipod_ml plugin) until this most recent set of players, and it'll probably regain that functionality within a few weeks now that the protection's been cracked. Switch away.
- hackop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I'm not sure what you're referring to. I'm a WinAmp user, have been since v2. I just popped open my WA 5.2 and am hunting for the adverts. Oh, do you mean the two small banners, one under Shoutcast Radio and the other under Shoutcast TV? Because, really, that's it. Personally, I never even click on those two sub-sections anyway, so I never see adverts while using the software. I have iTunes installed as well, and use it ONLY to sync my iPod. I swear and gag each time I have to deal with Apple's piss-poor media library management. And I'm not one of those people who have messy libraries either. Mine is in perfect order and I don't dare let iTunes touch it for I'm in for a long cleanup. In case you were wondering Letter\Name\Album\Track is what I use and what iTunes will obliterate every time.
- awfulshot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13foobar2k looks nice if you know what your doing but i have no clue how to make it look nice and have attempted to follow guides word for word but it just doesn't work. winamp looks and works just as good as some fb2k and it requires no knowledge of column and what not the other strange things are.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Of all the different memetic outbursts people post on digg, I think "I see what you did there" is one of the most unfunny and obnoxiously overused.
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13While streaming over the open internet might be kind of new (though even there I can share music locally from iTunes to anyone else on the same subnet) I have to wonder how the writer thought they would not be ridiculed by touting support for newfangled "MP3 Blogs" without ever mentioning the term - Podcast! Come on!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15Winamp is not lightweight anymore.
- grumpyrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Version 3 was the Windows ME of Winamp.
- seventoes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Nice job breaking the chain, ass
- Optimaximal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Winamp has supported proper iPod management for a while now - there's also http://www.mlipod.com/, which was the iPod plugin before it became bundled.
You sure you aren't just looking for a reason to stay with iTunes? - PRlME, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10remember trying to make skins
- c130commnav, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11They havn't sued over shoutcast...yet
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Ah, memories.
- ucg1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Songbird has some great ideas, but is far from having a stable fully-functional product. I got excited when I first discovered it, but after trying it I think I'll come back in a year and see how they're doing.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Dude, ***** XMMS. Seriously. Not only is it still using the god-awful GTK1 toolkit, but it hasn't seen a stable release in over 3 years and was still pretty damn buggy when I tried it out last year.
- carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9right, because songbird came up with the idea.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10yea less than 5 megs minimized to tray and streaming. how 19 ***** 99.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yeah foobar2k can look really incredible with a bunch of retooling, but personally I've already gone through all of the crap on my old laptop and I don't feel like doing it again. Also it doesn't play videos from what I remember.
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