Winamp 5.5 released!

I dislike it... and I'm being as amiable as possible about it. 

I think that it (Winamp 5.5) is on a par with both Foobar and Creative Labs Organiser (Bundled with my Creative mp3 player.)

Each have different pros and cons. I'm not fussed with the visulisations/plug-ins.When I play music through my PC I;m usually working or surfing on it so visulisations are surplus to requirement.

The tagging and album art sections are impressive though.I feel a bit disappointed that you have to pay for the upgrade to rip and burn CDs in mp3 format when this is standard on most players.

I'm impressed with the media section on Winamp.The free Winamp downloads are an excellent idea.

Edited by Man Erg - November 02 2007 at 07:23

I'll never understand how people can be that stubborn. Well, you don't know what you're missing!

1. What do you mean by "sober"? The new Bento skin is very minimalistic.
2. What's the problem with visualisation and arts? They're more like the light show of a rock/metal concert than a work of art.

^ no problem, the tendency to bash other people's recommendations is common around here. You tend to get a thick skin!

I've had my fair share of heated debates ... I've found that often I can make my point more effectively by letting the opposing views stand as they are. In this case people can try out Foobar, Winamp, Milkdrop etc. and make up their own mind. I love watching Milkdrop ... there are hundreds of presets, some are quite artistic, some are funny and hilarious, some aren't good at all IMO. The plugin even has a built-in rating system which you can use to vote out the presets you don't like. And if you're good at Maths you can even create your own presets, which is what some of the VJs do which you mentioned too.

I'm very impressed with Winamp 5.5. I backed up all of my files from my mp3 player into it yesterday.It's much easier to use for that purpose than the other players that I have (Foobar,Windows and Creative Labs).

Angelo wrote: andu wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: andu wrote: Being fair to Winamp (except for it's visual design, which I find more or less kitsch), I must say that it does have many of the options which make my Foobar so great. But only if you pay for them...  Such as? Ripping CDs to Mp3? Yeah - not. Why would you want to do that if you get FLAC, Ogg and others for free.

Well, there is one reason - my dear MP3 player only accepts MP3 and WMA

5.5 works fine with me, James. and I'm using XP.

Milkdrop is cool, but I don't see that much difference from similar visualizations across WMP and WinAmp.

Sonic Digital Home Media for all your CD burning processes....

I downloaded 5.5. 30 seconds into the first track I listened to, it crashed. Not exactly a convincing start seeing as how I never had any problems with the previous version I had.