Does Winamp suck?

[lazygamer]

I've heard some people diss it. Does it suck? If so, then why? What's a good alternative if it isn't so good.

[choasforages]

well, i fing it useful to use. i don't really know any good alternatives on the windows platform, maybe realjukebox or something of that maner

[Chooco]

i don't see anything wrong with winamp. i think it works great  

[trc3]

Winamps not to shabby in my opinion... Works good for what its ment for.

[sporkme]

WIN amp

yes

[mobrien_12]

Winamp also runs on linux, although I prefer XMMS.

[Calum]

yes, winamp sucks. BUT it does not suck so much as, for example, freeamp. freeamp is open source and free, but sucks on both windows and linux. freezing and crashing it's way hopefully through nearly a whole song, and having a really stupid way of compiling playlists.

re: winamp on linux, really? what a fucking oxymoron! is it called linamp?

re: winamp replacement, not realplayer. it is spyware, just like winamp is AOL fuckware (and probably spyware as well). No, get XMMS on linux and get Music Match jukebox if still running windows (but really man, how 20th century, et c)

i am a hypocrite. i have winamp on my windows side. it was the first mp3 player i tried when i got the machine, and i hated it. i tried about 30 other ones, ditching them all when they crashed, fucked up or whatever. Don't get PhatMan either. it does do what it says it does, but it makes yr machine go into a dialogue box loop which necesitates a restart at frequent intervals.

My only problem with XMMS (and why isn't it available for windows?) (or is it?) is that it only edits ID3 VERION ONE tags. it does NOT do ID3 version TWO tags. and that is <b>VERY VERY IMPORTANT!</b> why it does not do this i do not know but it REALLY PISSES ME OFF!

just my thoughts............

edit - AOL didn't own winamp till quite recently. Up to winamp 2.7 or thereabouts, NullSoft did a good job of Winamp on their own. Get a pre-AOL version, the later the better without getting into AOL territory and you'll be set. Also, don't let Winamp know you can connect to the internet or it'll pester you weekly to update to the new AOL fucked version.

[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[Kat]

I like Winamp. I have had no problems with it. For an alternative, Ultraplayer plays mp3s and CDs, but i don't know how well.

[ravuya]

WinAMP 3.0 adds a lot of worthless shit to the install package -- a video player, for one. I'd recommend staying with 2.8 if you prefer a small mp3 player.

Otherwise, if you want a big mp3 player with lots of knobs and flashing things, then go with Sonique. It's hella better at presentation than anything else out there.

Of course, you could always forget Windows altogether, move to a Linux system and use XMMS. But that would make sense...