Winamp 5 Beta

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benthebear

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how good is itunes? .... i've never use itunes before and maybe i will give it a try if you guys recommend it.

iTunes is pretty good. A lot of people complain that it is a memory hog. I guess I don't have that problem seeing how I have 1Gig of RAM. You also get to Rip and Burn CDs at max speeds for free.

This modern skin for Winamp 5 is cool looking, but it looks like a compact WMP9 to me.

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Mike Frett

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It's still bloated, I mean 10.7mb to play music? WA2x only takes up around 5mb, So one of the problems about winamp 3x being bloatware has not been fixed.

I remember all the excitement with Winamp 3 looked just like the posts on this forum, And 3x failed.

I still think people will want 2x because it's the best no doubt.

Simple as that, Watch if you don't believe me...

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Michael

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Ya, I'm not really obsessed with how much ram programs take up, because I have 512meg. iTunes is pretty nice, but like the fact that WinAMP minimizes to systray. I don't like that iTunes doesn't do that - other than that, I think it's pretty good. Plus, installing it also updated Quicktime or something, and it doesn't flicker on my computer anymore :)

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Well, I'm using Winamp 5 with a 2.x skin, and minimized while playing a 192KBps MP3 it uses 2.3meg of ram. I say that is pretty good. iTunes for me uses around 15meg maximized and 5meg in that little mode.

damn, 15 mb is a lot, THE PAIN!!!!

seriously, how much is 15mb in a 512mb system? :rolleyes:

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spacey

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warning to anyone using itunes, be careful you dont let it reorganize your whole mp3 folder if you don't want it to.

[sd], its not a lot. but you have to ask yourself, do you really want all those new features. are you going to use them?

i personally haven't used itunes, but from what i read. it doesnt have any features i would use so i'll stick with winamp.

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LUTZIFER

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It's still bloated, I mean 10.7mb to play music? WA2x only takes up around 5mb, So one of the problems about winamp 3x being bloatware has not been fixed.

I remember all the excitement with Winamp 3 looked just like the posts on this forum, And 3x failed.

I still think people will want 2x because it's the best no doubt.

Simple as that, Watch if you don't believe me...

Well if a person uses Winamp5 with just Winamp 2x skins, even with the xtras like cd ripping/burning, etc. etc. it doesn' consume any more resources than Winamp 2x itself. So there's definitely no point for people to not use WA5.

Also, WA5 consumes way less resources than Winamp3 when using freeform skins.

Winamp5 is still Winamp 2x as far as I'm concerned, and still perfoms just as awsome as it always has. Anything extra can be removed anyways if the user doesn't want those features, but why not, they make Winamp even cooler.

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warning to anyone using itunes, be careful you dont let it reorganize your whole mp3 folder if you don't want it to.

[sd], its not a lot. but you have to ask yourself, do you really want all those new features. are you going to use them?

i personally haven't used itunes, but from what i read. it doesnt have any features i would use so i'll stick with winamp.

well, personally I tested all the features in iTunes and I will use most of them for sure, the only one Im not very interested is music store, so for me iTunes is perfect

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can anyone suggest how to get winamp to sound as good as foobar? honestly I didn't think the difference was this drastic, but foobar sounds just so much fuller and richer and I'm not talking placebo effect here because I am trying to find every excuse to go back to winamp.

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Zonteck

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using a wa2 skin with wa5 makes wa5 very smooth.

@ bangbang - do you have winamp's equalizer on? (with a preset)

in wa5, just press alt g in main window click presets, load one for your music tastes, and then click on. i also use the dfx enhancement for wa which makes it sound even sexier.

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using a wa2 skin with wa5 makes wa5 very smooth.

@ bangbang - do you have winamp's equalizer on? (with a preset)

in wa5, just press alt g in main window click presets, load one for your music tastes, and then click on. i also use the dfx enhancement for wa which makes it sound even sexier.

I don't like using equalizers, I don't even use the one in foobar. I like my audio raw and untouched. It's a shame. Winamp5 is so beautiful looking and something I want to use, but my ears won't let me.

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i dont understand how music from a 16bit audio CD, lossy encoded, can sound better in foobar regardless if the soundcard is 16bit or 24bit

then again, i don't have a 24bit sound card...

I don't now either but if you coulod hear it, you would be like whoa

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RazerBack

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i dont understand how music from a 16bit audio CD, lossy encoded, can sound better in foobar regardless if the soundcard is 16bit or 24bit

then again, i don't have a 24bit sound card...

I don't now either but if you coulod hear it, you would be like whoa

I had the mad mp3 plugin, deleted the in_mp3.dll, copied over the mad.dll (I cant' remember the file name, not ath home right now, at work right now) from a previous winamp install that I had backed up, now using 24 bit on an Audigy card, works fine.

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psyko_x

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oh my god my system is running at a crawl now because winamp 5 uses 3 megs more ram than 2.x! i honestly can't believe some of u are bitching about something so stupid. first of all its beta and second i guess if u have 128 megs of ram you have reason to be worried about ram but im sure if u have a system like that u'r not using it to do photo/video editing or to play games like UT2003...probably just doing something like word processing so does it really matter that much? its 2 percent of u'r ram if u have 128megs. if u wanna make up the difference maybe u could try decreasing the size of u'r mouse pointer. :rolleyes:

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