everyone do this

[iq_132]

This pic is without Desktop Alpha and at 80% quality JPG.

 

[AlphaWolf]

I ran Winamp 3, but I reverted back to Winamp 2.8, because:

It's as buggy as hell
Slow as hell, and the OTT skin support makes it slower
It's more complicated than before
It's got limited plugin support
It's essentially 'bloatware'

Those are other good reasons why winamp 3 sucks. The main reason I prefered winamp over any other one is because:

It loads fast. (no need to keep it memory resident to quickly play any music)

It has the best quality sounding mp3 plugins, you can't say the same for any other player.

Winamp 3 is effectively ruined, they realy need to go back to the old code, or if not that then severely reduce the memory overhead of the current code and add backwards compatibility for old plugins.

 

[Sukh]

Yes, i agree alpha. The amount of memory a simple mp3 player like WinAmp 3 uses is insane. It uses way more than IE6 with about 20 windows open! I mean it's totally lame.

 

[AlphaWolf]

I dunno why, but recent trends indicate that the player that you can skin the most is the best player, which explains the sloppiness of winamp3s code. Quite honestly I don't skin anything, I like it to be as simple, strait forward, small, and sleek as it can possibly be.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't stare at the player while its playing music, I just open an MP3 file and it starts playing within that second without hogging any insane ammounts of memory. Why does it suddenly have to be more complicated than that? Now we can't stop with skins, we need to "vusualize" the music and have things like barbie dolls dancing on our screen to the music. Thats why I have always hated realplayer, and why I quit using windows media player in the first place.

 

[cooliscool]

leet skin

 

[sk8bloke22]

yeh, get the MAD plugin for winamp 2, the sound quality kicks ass, cheers to alphawolf for the recommendation ages ago on irc. i still cant get over how much better things sound. Funny how some ppl notice the differences, and some dont, tho..

 

[Josep]

just cause everyone else is posting an sc' of their winamp skin, my current one

 

[adi]

woah iq i got that skin and it rocks! and alphawolf, while i mainly use winamp while doing homework etc, i still want the player to look the best it can. As for winamp components that were lost from v2 to 3, I mainly use separate programs for ripping cds etc, because IMHO they're superior and a lot easier to use.bottom line is, if you have a fast enough computer get winamp3 or some decent skins for windows media player if you like. again its all personal preference

 

[pj64er]

add backwards compatibility for old plugins.

guess you didnt read my post the first time, winamp 3 is backward compatible with the old plugins. You just need to do a little searchin' on simple ol'Google. Ive been using the *.spc input plugin for winamp3 for a while now.

and since im feeling like a nice guy heres one of the many places where you can give winamp3 old plugin support:
http://www.blorp.com/~peter/

Sukh, ive actually decided to test your mem usage claim. When playing a song, WA3 does use more memory than WA2(i ran both at the same time). However, when its idle, WA2 takes more of the pie. hmm...weird..