It's official, WMP is a better MP3 player than Winamp.

[notfred]

The only two MP3 players with good management of playlists and libraries that I've come across are iTunes for OS X, and WMP 9 for windows. Winamp has just fallen too far behind.

 

[pulse8]

I don't use playlists often so I'd rather use Winamp.

I grade media players based on how they play media and not how they organize them. Explorer does a fine job of organizing them for me.

 

[her209]

WMP 8 sucks.

 

[Anubis]

nope winamp 3 still ownz

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1
nope winamp 3 still ownz

When I run Winamp 3 it gives me a null pointer exception

 

[Codewiz]

Winamp3 and WMP both have issues with streams that change bitrate midway through. WMP also can't handle ID3v2 tags changing during the stream correctly.

I am still using winamp 2.81 because it actually handles all of the above correctly.

 

[flavio]

What about sound quality? That's the important thing.

 

[KingNothing]

I tried using Winamp 3 and WMP 9 today after WinXP somehow borked Winamp 2.81. My basic opinion is that Winamp 2.81 is better solely because of the J key. You know, quick searching your playlist? I don't see the point of all this advanced playlist nonsense if you can't move around in it easily.

Winamp 2.81 forever as far as I'm concerned.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: pulse8
I don't use playlists often so I'd rather use Winamp.

I grade media players based on how they play media and not how they organize them. Explorer does a fine job of organizing them for me.

They all seem to do a pretty equal job of just playing an MP3 to me. If I want to find a song in WMP or iTunes, I can jsut type the first few letters of it's name into the search box. If I want to find it in winamp, I have to scroll through over 1000 songs and look for it.

 

[Dari]

I prefer winamp. Windows media tries screws with my files.

 

[FuZoR]

I perfer WMP9 over winamp 3...
but i use winamp 2.81!!

 

[ElFenix]

winamp supports making playlists a lot better than any version of wmp i've ever used.

 

Winamp 2.8 loads up in the blink of an eye and just plays music. WMP is all big and stuff.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8
I don't use playlists often so I'd rather use Winamp.

I grade media players based on how they play media and not how they organize them. Explorer does a fine job of organizing them for me.

They all seem to do a pretty equal job of just playing an MP3 to me. If I want to find a song in WMP or iTunes, I can jsut type the first few letters of it's name into the search box. If I want to find it in winamp, I have to scroll through over 1000 songs and look for it.

Actually, if you're playing in Winamp, all you have to do is hit J and then type in the song you want.

 

[Davegod75]

i like wmp9 but it hangs or is slow to change songs sometimes when i hit the next button?

Anyone else experience this?

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: dwell
Winamp 2.8 loads up in the blink of an eye and just plays music. WMP is all big and stuff.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8
I don't use playlists often so I'd rather use Winamp.

I grade media players based on how they play media and not how they organize them. Explorer does a fine job of organizing them for me.

They all seem to do a pretty equal job of just playing an MP3 to me. If I want to find a song in WMP or iTunes, I can jsut type the first few letters of it's name into the search box. If I want to find it in winamp, I have to scroll through over 1000 songs and look for it.

Actually, if you're playing in Winamp, all you have to do is hit J and then type in the song you want.

In winamp 2, and it still doesn't work as nicely as WMP or iTunes, IMO.

 

[hollowman]

Originally posted by: dwell
Winamp 2.8 loads up in the blink of an eye and just plays music. WMP is all big and stuff.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8
I don't use playlists often so I'd rather use Winamp.

I grade media players based on how they play media and not how they organize them. Explorer does a fine job of organizing them for me.

They all seem to do a pretty equal job of just playing an MP3 to me. If I want to find a song in WMP or iTunes, I can jsut type the first few letters of it's name into the search box. If I want to find it in winamp, I have to scroll through over 1000 songs and look for it.

Actually, if you're playing in Winamp, all you have to do is hit J and then type in the song you want.

In winamp 2, and it still doesn't work as nicely as WMP or iTunes, IMO.

Well, like I said, I wouldn't know about those because I just load up whatever songs I want directly from explorer.

 

[neomits]

WMP9 is all I've used since it came out

 

[kuk]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8
I don't use playlists often so I'd rather use Winamp.

I grade media players based on how they play media and not how they organize them. Explorer does a fine job of organizing them for me.

They all seem to do a pretty equal job of just playing an MP3 to me. If I want to find a song in WMP or iTunes, I can jsut type the first few letters of it's name into the search box. If I want to find it in winamp, I have to scroll through over 1000 songs and look for it.

Then I don't think you are familiar with the jump function. Press J and type the name of the song. Fast and easy.
Edit: Too damn late ... hehe

 

[Supermercado]

I use Winamp 2.81. There's nothing that I need it to do that it doesn't already do.

Edit: F3 also works for jumping to a specific track.

 

[AndrewNF]

Originally posted by: Davegod75
i like wmp9 but it hangs or is slow to change songs sometimes when i hit the next button?

Anyone else experience this?

Yep, I have this problem on my work computer, running wmp9 in windows 2000. Wmp9 at home in Windows XP doesn't, though. What OS are you using?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dwell
Winamp 2.8 loads up in the blink of an eye and just plays music. WMP is all big and stuff.

that too. i have winamp make a tiny little sliver of a bar at the top of the screen, i can see time remaining, the playback controls, and the song name in it. take up 600x20 pixels or so

 

[GoodToGo]

Winamp 2.8 is better but the best is WMP 6.something. Very fast to load and in addition plays divx movies without issues.