Winamp Sucks

also, i've never ever had any problems running any version of winamp on any pc, even really super shitty ones.

The iPod support is simple & sturdy enough, but has a majorly annoying "feature" that if you leave the album tag* blank, when transferred across to your iPod, it guesses(?) and steals the track title info.

This is getting in the way of trying to separate albums & non-album material. Grrr.

The non-album stuff is in a playlist, it _shouldn't_ be showing up elsewhere.

iTunes really isn't flexible enough for me, but I do understand why more people use it.

Going to muddle through & maybe uninstall the iPod support & reinstall the old plugin (worked fine, but was annoying to configure) :/

*note: none of these files are in the Media Library, so it shouldn't be that that's causing problems unless there's some intermingling going on.

Either way... fixed, but Winamp's in-built iPod (and other devices) support is nowhere near good enough (fully featured) or usable (see crap like above) as the iPod (only) plug-in.

:(

Since I upgraded my version of Winamp recently, I've noticed that I am getting a glitch pretty frequently when I load web pages! This has never happened before that I can recall. Should I be using something else at this point? Has Windows Media Player gotten any better? I may try it regardless, as I am sick of what Winamp is doing.

yep, same here. i thought it was soemthing to do with my outboard soundcard and not necessarily the new winamp as when i use my internal soundcard there are no problems, but now you mention it.

windows media player is still horrific, i'm sure
i am down w/musikCube.
foobar2000 is probably the best out there but you have to set up a lot of stuff (like the layout) yourself, which can be a drag

I've been using VLC for about a year now, after a solid 10-13 years of winamp use. The kicker was that whenever I recorded something in Ableton and played it in Winamp it would make it really loud and apply nasty compression to it. VLC doesn't.

I am a Mac ricer now.

Winamp has been sturdy for me. I usually pirate a copy of pro for burning cds - I find one on soulseek. Then I download i-pod support from some 3rd party. But I can't say I've had webpage or audio problems. Winamp's organizing system/playlist making is tops and i-pod and cd-burning is easy to use.

i used to use winamp, but foobar2000 is definitely the way to go. i don't use music player library systems, though, so ymmv. i prefer to just browse my files in folders on my hard drive.

yeah same here. the cool thing about foobar2000 (and to an extent musikCube) is you can play around w/it to best suit your listening/organizational habits.

Went Mac too, but before that I was really into MediaMonkey.

does anyone use songbird? i installed it (on my mac) but found it not that big an improvement over itunes; it plays flacs though if you are into that.

Hey fellow Winamp guys, is the problem you're having that you get a popup error message that's obviously caused by Winamp but attributed to your browser?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1932236&start=0&tstart=0

sort of, but not really.

http://lifehacker.com/5356619/itunes-finally-adds-watched-folder-to-automatically-add-new-music

works if you let iTunes manage... etc

I'm thinking my problem had less to do with Winamp than with Firefox. I went back to Windows Media player (after being confused about how to make a connection between MusikCube and my mp3s and not feeling like having to figure it out) but I am still getting frequent pauses/glitches in the sound when I load certain pages while listening to music. But I just switched to Opera and it doesn't seem to be happening now. Also, Opera seems really great in general. I like how quickly things are loading. I definitely see a difference. (I will probably re-load Winamp and see if the problem returns when I use it with Opera.)

I use Opera, but I get the popup error message I mentioned above. I should just learn my lesson and never update winamp, 4 out of 5 times it just causes problems.

technical question

I right click on a folder to play it in winamp. It contains subfolders as well as files. Let's say it has these:

Folder A containing files a1, a2
Folder B containing files b1, b2
Folder C containing files c1, c2
file d1
file d2

(with the x1's being alphabetically ordered before the x2's)

Winamp plays or enqueues them in this order:
c1, c2, b1, b2, d1, d2, a1, a2

putting the folders in reverse order, and inserting the un-foldered files before the first folder (which is played last).

I would like to play them in this order: a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2, d1, d2.

How do I change this?

Click the 'Misc' button at the bottom of the playlist editor, go to sort and select 'Sort by path and filename'.

I think this is what you're after.

What OS and Winamp version are you on? They get enqueued in alphabetical order for me (though with files and folders interspersed, so a file beginning with T appears between folder S and folder U) on Windows 7 and v5.572 of Winamp.

I remember having a similar problem on XP if I selected all the contents of a folder and dragged them into Winamp, but that was Windows' fault not Winamp's. Not sure if this is the same problem though, seems like it shouldn't be the same problem if you're right-clicking the containing folder instead of selecting and dragging the contents.

I'm on XP, and I can confirm that Windows will do screw-y things with filename order. I use Winamp 5.56 and enqueuing a folder by right-clicking on it always results in odd results. But when I drag the folder to the Playlist Editor window, it always stacks the files alphabetically.

^ Yes, but you have to drag the whole folder and not the contents, because if you select the contents then whichever file you select last is "highlighted" in Explorer, which will put it first in the list it sends to the target app (then the other files may appear in reverse order too)

iirc

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ironically, at some point during me posting to this thread, Songbird went a bit nuts and placed a Teenage Panzerkorps mp3 in the middle of a Low album in its playlist. which was slightly jarring

xp yeah, drag folder, not contents. I'm massively anal about organising my music into folders anyway.

it really whips the llama's ass

The main advantage of winamp is the ease of finding things in your library quickly, the library sorting and small text interface. The program is almost entirely designed for people who don't like to label/sort their music all the time. But I have never been in a situation where I've wanted to load an entire folder with subfolders and miscellaneous files through My Computer.

However, since my last harddrive erase (and loss of tons of music) I have just stuck with WMP even though I'm not a big fan.

Oh, I forgot to say (or think) that I never used the library in Winamp, just the playlist. So if this is a library issue, no idea.

The library sorting and finding is what I like about Songbird, so maybe it is a bit weird that I never even tried Winamp's library in many years of using Winamp.

xp and winamp 5.601, using windows explorer as a library. james mitchell's suggestion doesn't work.

winamp classic is still the best - quickest mama unlike the bloated itunes

Winamp Modern is also pretty zippy as long as you don't use the Media Library. Bento/Big Bento can both shove it though.

all I know is when I wanna hear "tears before bedtime" the app opens in seconds, I hit "j" and type in the track and voila! there it is. itunes takes so long to open

I still use winamp more than itunes.

https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/

I've been using this a little bit, but mostly because I have all my media dumped into Plex: https://medium.com/plexlabs/introducing-plexamp-9493a658847a

i actually still use winamp at home

same lol

I don't have any need for it any more but Winamp >>>> iTunes.

man, I used Winamp up until very recently and it never went wrong. Don't know why I use AIMP now and it's always failing to detect what sound card I'm using (I swap all the time)

Still using WinAmp 5.61, see no reason to change. It opens quickly, can handle massive playlists, doesn't crash (or at least it's never crashed for me), and does what I need with minimal fuss.

i also still use winamp

although it still forgets to be always on top all the time

I want to go back to winamp because aimp doesn't have the mini mode, so I always have to go and find it, and it doesn't understand that if I drag some mp3s in, they should stay in the same order. But where can I get winamp now? The only website I can find doesn't have any download links.

winamp 5.6.4.318 for windows installer (inside a zip)

lol @ me

the minute I post this there will probably be some kind of world-shattering exploit revealed, but until then I feel pretty comfortable saying winamp is a perfect piece of software

winamp was great which means it still is but i haven't looked back from foobar2000.

tried several times to get foobar the way i wanted it and failed; no doubt i'll give it another shot when winamp stops working

k otm

http://www.winamp.com/ -> "follow this link to get updated news" -> http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=374929 -> second post = download links for the latest version?