More time doing what, setting it up? It took me about an hour to get Foobar2000 configured in a way that I was mostly-happy with (tried a few "Quick Setup" themes, then made a few manual adjustments). An equivalent adjustment of Winamp would have required me to learn to make my own skins, which would have been really painful.
Windows Explorer is not a media player. If you are saying that you use Explorer to pick files to play, then I would say that I used to do that, and it does not scale well at all.