Replacement for Winamp

[Martyn]

I have a client who is a professional singer and a complete technophobe. She uses a net book for some if her backing music with Winamp and consistently gets in a muddle with settings and generally using it. Does anyone know of a good replacement that may suit better. Basically she has hot keys setup to pause, play etc her tracks while performing.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

The other popular ones....
MediaMonkey
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Foobar2000
http://www.foobar2000.org/

I still prefer older versions of Winamp simply because the "MilkDrop" graphic EQ plugin is simply amazing to stare at on those evenings of playing good tunes while drinking.

But MediaMonkey has a big following for "organizing".

 

[HCHTech]

+1 for MediaMonkey. Pre-ipods, I built several "music computers"; dedicated machines to store & play big libraries of music. At the time (~2000), I loved Musicmatch over all of the other choices. It had the best handling of big libraries and it was a mature software so everything just worked. Unfortunately, Yahoo bought the company (good for the musicmatch guys, bad for everyone else) and systematically destroyed it over a couple of years. Then, decided to get out of the music software business and abandoned the wreckage of what used to be a great software.

I've since tried about every offering that comes along, and MediaMonkey seems to be the current frontrunner. It's not perfect, but seems to have the fewest annoyances.

 

[Rob_NNCC]

I also use old versions of winamp. I think I have 2.9.something. Also, because old winamp plugins where awesome. On my garage pc I have a little control pad (play-pause, next track...) that hooks up to the pc's serial port. Back in the day...

Oh, ya, milkdrops is awsome, thanks for the reminder stonecat!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Anyone remember the early days of Winamp....there was a visualization plugin called the Dancing Coca Cola can?

A friend of mine that was a programmer for EA games (he did 688i Hunter Killer and some other naval sims like Janes Fighting Ships) showed me that back in the Win98 days. I've not been able to find that download lately. I think it was for 3Dfx only graphic cards...but I suspect current cards should be able to handle the OpenGL requirements.

 

[sassenach]

VLC from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html should do her - it will do everything she wants plus more. Easy to use and easy to set up and FREE.

 

[Rosco]

VLC from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html should do her - it will do everything she wants plus more. Easy to use and easy to set up and FREE.

then you can make your android a remote

 

[hmig89]

So I take it no one record ends iTunes to their customers? If they generally have an iPod or iPhone etc. I will go with iTunes if not then media monkey or WMP.

If the client does not like iTunes copytransmanager is a great software.

 

[bertie40]

I need to be careful here, I'm going from my renowned infallible memory, but I recall earlier versions of Winamp suffered from security problems, in that it allowed malicious program's on to the machine.

I recall reading a few years back, when I was researching some software for someone, I was reading a dodgy forum which illustrated infiltrating older copies of Winamp "as a first newbie step. as there were still older versions still in use".

I know it fell out of favour, for this reason, for a while.

I have Winamp installed myself, but I always ensure the networking aspects are disabled / uninstalled. Just in case.

I'm not sure the plugins are policed as they once were, so take care. Look for bundled toolbars etc.

Winamp used to be a big enterprise, but then it's staffing was cut down to half a dozen. AOL (owner) Cutbacks.