Anyone Remember Winamp?: New Winamp Will Stream Songs To Yo

Lee · Post by **Lee** » September 16th, 2007, 16:29

I like that skin, better than the old one. The main reason I still use Windows Media Player though is because of the controls you get on the task bar when you minimise it. Does Winamp do that now or not?

Post by **HereComesPete** » September 16th, 2007, 16:31

Not as standard I don't think, but there will most probably be a plug in somewhere that gives the mini bar thing. I have media controls on my keyboard that work with whatever media player is open, which is nice.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 16th, 2007, 16:32

Lee wrote:I like that skin, better than the old one. The main reason I still use Windows Media Player though is because of the controls you get on the task bar when you minimise it. Does Winamp do that now or not?

I'm still a fan of winamp classic.

no taskbar control minimising thing that i saw.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » September 16th, 2007, 18:16

Where did you get 5.5 from? Official site only has 5.35

EDIT: Nevermind, 30 seconds googling and it's downloading

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 30th, 2007, 2:21

I just noticed this thread whilst looking for anything on sound cards, I'm dream speccing again instead of sleeping, anywhoo, 5.5 has a sort of itunes style mini-player, it has a scaleable jobber for making it so you can stick it at the bottom of a screen above the taskbar, and you'd only lose a line of text from a webpage. I just put it on my other screen, but there you go.

Also, winamp is still win!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 30th, 2007, 2:34

HereComesPete wrote:I just noticed this thread whilst looking for anything on sound cards

x-fi prelude > x-fi > audigy 2 zs > audigy > SB live

all good cards

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 30th, 2007, 2:55

I've put an x-fi xtreme gamer oem thing in my ebuyer quote. Along with some 7.1 oem creatives, I'll tape some of the many speakers to my swivvely leather chair.

Also, whats the difference between the gamer and the music version of the same card? Is the gamer one designed to offer less quality but more response compared to the music one?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 30th, 2007, 2:58

fuck knows. it might just be xram or not, I dunno.

Post by **deject** » October 30th, 2007, 3:11

HereComesPete wrote:I just noticed this thread whilst looking for anything on sound cards, I'm dream speccing again instead of sleeping, anywhoo, 5.5 has a sort of itunes style mini-player, it has a scaleable jobber for making it so you can stick it at the bottom of a screen above the taskbar, and you'd only lose a line of text from a webpage. I just put it on my other screen, but there you go.

Also, winamp is still win!

Windowshade mode FTW

as far as the X-Fi's go, here's Creative's line-up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-fi#Current_X-Fi_line-up

also, as Berk said, the AuzenTech X-Fi Prelude is the best consumer soundcard you can buy. They're still pretty much 100% sold out here.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 30th, 2007, 3:24

I had my prelude preordered for like 3 months, they really are rather good.

Post by **TezzRexx** » October 30th, 2007, 10:27

spoodie wrote:I use Winamp to play random mp3 but if they're keepers I import them into iTunes. That's right, iFail.

Fix'd!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » October 30th, 2007, 13:28

Post by **Dog Pants** » October 31st, 2007, 17:53

The only problem I have with Winamp is that the volume control is the windows volume control, so if I want to turn the music down while I'm gaming I can't. I do like Winamp and I've used it for years, but until they sort that out I'll be sticking with Media Player.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » October 31st, 2007, 18:05

Dog Pants wrote:The only problem I have with Winamp is that the volume control is the windows volume control, so if I want to turn the music down while I'm gaming I can't. I do like Winamp and I've used it for years, but until they sort that out I'll be sticking with Media Player.

Really? I know mine used to do it in like....version 2/3, Winamp volume doesn't affect other apps for me, either on this pc or at home.

Edit: Also, my output plugin is set to DirectSound, Wave I think affects the volume.

Post by **Dog Pants** » October 31st, 2007, 18:31

Hmmm, maybe I'm on an old version. I shall look into it.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 31st, 2007, 18:41

Something I do like about Fista (which can probably by done by free third party software) is that it has a volume control for any program that makes sound.
You can make Winamp loud and mute Firefox. Very woo.

Winamp 5.5 just annoys me though. It seems to take forever to start too.