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Is there any other music player with a media library organizer as excellent as Winamp's? I don't mean that contentiously, but rather I just haven't enjoyed any

Is there any other music player with a media library organizer as excellent as Winamp's? I don't mean that contentiously, but rather I just haven't enjoyed any other. Enter text into the search box, and it will filter simply massive playlists as you type. The instant feedback is great in filtering, especially if I forgot what an album was called but knew some other esoteric detail. But I don't use it as a Swiss-Army chainsaw anymore. I just use it for listening to music in Windows. It's pretty good at that. (And version 5 isn't that bad - it's just version 2 plus 3 after all!)

gcp 14y ago
As other people have pointed out here, foobar2000 pretty much embodies the feel people had about Winamp in 2000. Though there's some large philosophical differences, like the total lack of skinning, and a much better API.
- raverbashing 14y ago
  well, when on linux I use: mplayer mplayer /path/to/folder/* can't beat that for simplicity
conradfr 14y ago
I still use it as well. Never really had the need to change since its debut ! One thing I've always done is having a video player AND a music player. I don't like launching a video that mess up my playlist. I pause my music, watch video and resume audio afterward. Back then, before WinAMP, I think the only player was the "official" Fraunhofer Institut player, which was very basic. It was a time where CPU consumption mattered, when encoding a mp3 would take up to an hour :) I like the Media Library coupled with the playlist. I like the Bento Skin. I like controlling it from the taskbar. I like that it plays EVERY format out there. I doesn't come with stupid "sound enhancement" settings by default. I listen to Shoutcast radios at work. That said, there is annoying bugs that have not been fixed for ages, which is never a good sign for a software : - notification suddenly not showing and you have to refresh the skin (F5) - the media library artist list messed up and when you click one, another one is eventually displayed (some kind of sort with artists' name beginning with "The" I think). -- In 2008 we "worked" with AOL to have Shoutcast radios in a tablet (pre-iPad era). They were a pain in the ass just to display the Shoutcast logo, while absolutely not helpful in the technical side. -- And Justin Frankel develops Reaper these days, a DAW that I happily bought.
- caf 14y ago
  The Fraunhofer player was WinPlay3 (which they since attempted to airbrush from history).
  - conradfr 14y ago
    Yes that's the one, thanks ! I didn't know they "memory holed" it, funny.

gcp 14y ago

As other people have pointed out here, foobar2000 pretty much embodies the feel people had about Winamp in 2000. Though there's some large philosophical differences, like the total lack of skinning, and a much better API.

raverbashing 14y ago
well, when on linux I use: mplayer mplayer /path/to/folder/* can't beat that for simplicity

conradfr 14y ago

I still use it as well. Never really had the need to change since its debut ! One thing I've always done is having a video player AND a music player. I don't like launching a video that mess up my playlist. I pause my music, watch video and resume audio afterward. Back then, before WinAMP, I think the only player was the "official" Fraunhofer Institut player, which was very basic. It was a time where CPU consumption mattered, when encoding a mp3 would take up to an hour :) I like the Media Library coupled with the playlist. I like the Bento Skin. I like controlling it from the taskbar. I like that it plays EVERY format out there. I doesn't come with stupid "sound enhancement" settings by default. I listen to Shoutcast radios at work. That said, there is annoying bugs that have not been fixed for ages, which is never a good sign for a software : - notification suddenly not showing and you have to refresh the skin (F5) - the media library artist list messed up and when you click one, another one is eventually displayed (some kind of sort with artists' name beginning with "The" I think). -- In 2008 we "worked" with AOL to have Shoutcast radios in a tablet (pre-iPad era). They were a pain in the ass just to display the Shoutcast logo, while absolutely not helpful in the technical side. -- And Justin Frankel develops Reaper these days, a DAW that I happily bought.

caf 14y ago
The Fraunhofer player was WinPlay3 (which they since attempted to airbrush from history).
- conradfr 14y ago
  Yes that's the one, thanks ! I didn't know they "memory holed" it, funny.