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

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » September 14th, 2007, 11:00

Anyone Remember Winamp?: New Winamp Will Stream Songs To Your Wii

Wow, Winamp! Forgot all about it. Presumed it was dead. Seems it's not, and it's making a big comeback. Most of it involves various iTunes-killing ideas, but one should be of interest to you: the new version will stream your music library to your Wii. Just in case you're the type who'd actually use that kind of feature.

Winamp's 10th Anniversary Version Edition Will Challenge ITunes [Wired, via Boing Boing]

Author: Luke Plunkett
Category: Anyone Remember Winamp? Music Nintendo Wii Winamp
Publish Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:00:00 EDT
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Source: Kotaku

Post by **HereComesPete** » September 14th, 2007, 13:43

I still use winamp, feels less intrusive and hogs the system less that wmp, I suppose there's lots of others with good functions (like foobar, media player classic, quintessential player, hmm there's a lot really) but I do like winamp.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 14th, 2007, 13:54

Winamp is still my general medial player of choice

IMO the playlist dealy is utterly perfect, video playback is fine, if not great at scaling. oh, and it still sounds like sex (especially with asio)

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » September 14th, 2007, 13:56

This is ace news, as my Wii will be connected to my amp and floor-speakers in my sitting room, and I currently have no way of getting media from my PC to my TV. If they can now make it stream video, I will be a very happy man indeed.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » September 14th, 2007, 14:01

Closer reading of the article implies that it streams the music via the web, so would video be too bandwidth-greedy to be a possibility?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 14th, 2007, 14:08

Lateralus wrote:Closer reading of the article implies that it streams the music via the web, so would video be too bandwidth-greedy to be a possibility?

Video would be doable on some connections, but it'd be shitty quality.

I thought I saw a wii-mod thing that allowed for streaming video a while ago, but your best bet is still an old chipped xbox, IMO.

eion · Post by **eion** » September 14th, 2007, 14:18

HereComesPete wrote:I still use winamp, feels less intrusive and hogs the system less that wmp, I suppose there's lots of others with good functions (like foobar, media player classic, quintessential player, hmm there's a lot really) but I do like winamp.

I've been using Winamp ever since I started using MP3s in mid-1997, before version 1 was even released (I think I started on 0.92). It has lots of lovely plug-ins, I'm very familiar with the interface, it's easy on resources, it works well and it sounds good. That's all I need.

I use Media Player Classic for videos, though. For some reason I just don't like Winamp for video, plus Media Player Classic has lovely scaled output and plays DVDs (which I don't believe Winamp does).

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 14th, 2007, 14:32

eion wrote:I use Media Player Classic for videos, though. For some reason I just don't like Winamp for video, plus Media Player Classic has lovely scaled output and plays DVDs (which I don't believe Winamp does).

Winamp doesn't scale too well, or play DVDs, But I still swear by it for my general viewing purposes as the playlist is the best thing ever.

I use MPC for dvds and HD though.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » September 14th, 2007, 15:16

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

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » September 14th, 2007, 16:32

Lateralus wrote:Closer reading of the article implies that it streams the music via the web, so would video be too bandwidth-greedy to be a possibility?

Video is already possible with Orb (and various others, I think). I tried it out a while back. It wasn't bad, even on my anorexic broadbean connection.

eion · Post by **eion** » September 14th, 2007, 17:32

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

I think I need to go and pray.

Post by **deject** » September 14th, 2007, 18:06

Winamp ftw.

Post by **FatherJack** » September 14th, 2007, 21:28

I've never stopped using it for music, it's excellent. Sucks at videos, but I have plenty of video players.

I like how it doesn't act like your Mum and try to make you tidy all your music up into order.

Post by **HereComesPete** » September 14th, 2007, 21:51

I'm waiting for my mum to come and see the new house, she'll be straight onto the fact that its a shit tip around my pc.

Post by **deject** » September 15th, 2007, 0:40

FatherJack wrote:I've never stopped using it for music, it's excellent. Sucks at videos, but I have plenty of video players.

QFT

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » September 15th, 2007, 10:46

I've tried a few different aps through the years (QCD, WMP, Real) but I always seem to keep comming back to winamp. I concure with the general though of winamp = win.

Post by **tandino** » September 15th, 2007, 12:15

Given that my Wii is next to my PC, and my PC is close enough to my telly for a TV out connection, I see no need for any of this lark. Also my PC is 5.1 surround whereas my telly isn't. But aye, it's all about the Winamp.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 16th, 2007, 15:35

Just installed winamp 5.5

New skin is...

um...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/1392575556/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/139 ... 4489_o.gif" width="650" height="162" alt="winamp2"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/1391677185/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/139 ... 550057.jpg" width="500" height="343" alt="winamp"></a>

Post by **HereComesPete** » September 16th, 2007, 16:26

Doesn't look too bad, clean lines, better than all those crazy ass ones that hurt the eyes.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 16th, 2007, 16:28

It's also quite slow on track changes. which is a bit fail.