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Re: CHAT: Winamp versions

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2004, 10:43
Quoting Axiem <axiem@...>:

> Some people said: > > > > So, is 5 a follow-on from 2, or from 3, or what? I've been incredibly > > > unwilling to upgrade from 2 until I know whether I'm better off not > > > bothering. > > > > Winamp 5 contains aspects of Winamp 2 and Winamp3. 2 + 3 = 5. Also, Winamp > > 4 would've implied a progression of Winamp 2, Winamp3, Winamp 4, whereas > > it's more like Winamp 2, Winamp 5 (and Winamp3, Winamp 5), IIUC. > > > > Basically, yes. To sum up: I highly recommend upgrading. > > Geek talk: Winamp 2 rocked the house. It was fairly powerful, and very > widespread. It was a great goodness. However, the developers weren't > completely satisfied; there were a lot of things Winamp 2 couldn't do. So > they created Winamp 3. Winamp 3 was horrid, and most people hated it. But > they did have a couple cool features. The best one (IMNSHO) was the > ubercoolnew skin ability. As I recall, they also integrated the Media > Library, but don't quote me there. But, as I said, Winamp 3 was not much > liked, and they still developed Winamp 2.
I appear to be the only one who likes Winamp3; all my offline friends hate it. Now, I'm no doubt a 'causal user', who's never cared for the advanced features of either '2 or '3 (I've yet to change skin in any of my 3-4 installations on various computers), but I do like the ability to have multiple playlists loaded.
> Then they came out with Winamp 5. Basically, they took Winamp 2 and added > all the cool stuff of Winamp 3. 2+3=5, as has been noted. I myself was > doubtful, until I took it for a spin. It operates almost exactly like Winamp > 2.9x, except the skinning engine is muchly improved. As well, the Media > Library operates almost seemlessly, and is ubernifty. Theoretically, it can > play video, but I haven't messed with that. They also have a universal > hotkeys plugin native (instead of having to download one), which basically > means you can control Winamp by your keyboard from anywhere in Windows, > without having to be focused on winamp. And they left in one of my favorite > features: the ability to "stop playback after current song". > > So yes. I highly recommend 5. My only complaint is that it lags a bit, > skin-wise, if I've been doing a whole lot. However, I'm using a Winamp 3 > skin ("Modern" skin, they call it). And since I do most of my control by the > keyboard, it doesn't bother me much.
I guess I should be checking out '5 some day. Andreas

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