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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 l
by 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).
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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.
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And Justin Frankel develops Reaper these days, a DAW that I happily bought.