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I loved using Winamp over say Windows Media Player in the early days of MP3s. You could throw hundreds or thousands of tracks into your playlist and could scro

I loved using Winamp over say Windows Media Player in the early days of MP3s. You could throw hundreds or thousands of tracks into your playlist and could scroll incredibly quickly through them, even on relatively slow PCs of the day. In an age before Spotify where to have vast collections was appealing, all my friends could scan each others' playlists and immediately start playing a song. The speed of the software really did help discover new music. Scroll, double-click, scroll, double-click, scroll, double-click.

noisem4ker 7y ago
Same experience today with foobar2000. Faster than any webapp could ever be. And, by the way, to have a vast collection is still just as appealing.
- eikenberry 7y ago
  Collections are still very appealing as Spotify doesn't have large enough catalog to cover my normal playlist, let alone my extended collection.
- mkgolden 7y ago
  Foobar2000 is the bee's knees
  - bexsella 7y ago
    It really whips teh llama's ass...
szemet 7y ago
winamp played my files without glitches too, but made my PC barely usable with nearly 100% cpu load (AMD K5-133 / playing 128kbs stereo mp3-s). On the other hand: mpg123 on Linux played the same files with less than 50% cpu load! ;)
- Synaesthesia 7y ago
  Time to upgrade to that 300mhz proc
vijucat 7y ago
The v5.666 build (Dec 2013) works just fine even now. Never makes an Internet connection, blazingly fast. I personally love the keyboard shortcuts for finding music, queuing it, pause, play, etc; Very intuitive.
- lcnmrn 7y ago
  5.8 beta is available for download on http://winamp.com/ http://winamp.com/
  - cosmodisk 7y ago
    Oh my...I thought it was dead ages ago. I don't really listen music too often nowadays, apart from an odd evening with YouTube,but I do miss the speeds Winamp used to operate on.Blazing fast,even on some crappy pentium PC with a little bit of RAM...
utexaspunk 7y ago
It really whips the llama's ass!

noisem4ker 7y ago

Same experience today with foobar2000. Faster than any webapp could ever be. And, by the way, to have a vast collection is still just as appealing.

eikenberry 7y ago
Collections are still very appealing as Spotify doesn't have large enough catalog to cover my normal playlist, let alone my extended collection.
mkgolden 7y ago
Foobar2000 is the bee's knees
- bexsella 7y ago
  It really whips teh llama's ass...

szemet 7y ago

winamp played my files without glitches too, but made my PC barely usable with nearly 100% cpu load (AMD K5-133 / playing 128kbs stereo mp3-s). On the other hand: mpg123 on Linux played the same files with less than 50% cpu load! ;)

Synaesthesia 7y ago
Time to upgrade to that 300mhz proc

vijucat 7y ago

The v5.666 build (Dec 2013) works just fine even now. Never makes an Internet connection, blazingly fast. I personally love the keyboard shortcuts for finding music, queuing it, pause, play, etc; Very intuitive.

lcnmrn 7y ago
5.8 beta is available for download on http://winamp.com/ http://winamp.com/
- cosmodisk 7y ago
  Oh my...I thought it was dead ages ago. I don't really listen music too often nowadays, apart from an odd evening with YouTube,but I do miss the speeds Winamp used to operate on.Blazing fast,even on some crappy pentium PC with a little bit of RAM...

utexaspunk 7y ago

It really whips the llama's ass!