SmoothedShredder Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Just switched off of iTunes to WinAmp (the ten year anniversary)... and it's freaking great... should of done it long ago, but I didn't realize how much it had changed since I first used it last century.It sounds better, it loads songs better, it randomizes better, it gets album art easier, and it seems to work with my iPod so far... if I can listen to the songs on my iPod uploaded through WinAmp... it is safe to say I can uninstall iTunes from my system and never have to deal with its resource hogging, play the same songs and artist even though it's suppose to be random, DRM, shove iTunes store and Safari down your throat BS ever again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 I've never stopped using Winamp to play flac files. Something itunes still can't (refuses) do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 I could never stop using winamp. I've got this plug-in called "octimax" which normalizes the volume and enhances the sound of all my mp3s. Winamp w/ Octimax, I'll never leave you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 wow, what timing. I'm literally in the process of re-downloading shitty itunes 'cause I finally caved and bought an ipod nano and was told that I absolutely had to use Itunes with it. Sooo relieved to think I don't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol'Hickster Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 I love Winamp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 winamp! I'm on it!nice to see you around these parts again Smoothed ! hacky sack season is here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattm Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 winamp rocks, always has. The only thing iTunes is good for is to load songs onto the iPod, otherwise there are a slew of much, much better alternatives out there to use as a jukebox. I'll use Windows Media Player before iTunes mostly because it looks like a windows program, not a mac program running in windows. winamp takes it though. It plays all my sound files and can even play my video files though I don't let it. One of the funnest things is that it's not all that hard to customize in the sense of making your own skins.Also, try grabbing some of the visualization plugins for winamp, woooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeee, you can even get ones that will turn your desktop background into a visualization thing (you still see your icons and can use programs, it's like the background picture is replaced with wicked awesome colors).Also, you can use winamps out_wave (or wave_out??) plugin to save any sound file to .wav format, even cd's and .wav's can become mp3's or any other type of files.lots of other fun stuff too and I'm glad it can now replace iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Use vPod to put songs on your iPods...I'm watching my desktop dance to trippy synchronized visuals as I type...Don't use iTunes. Don't believe the hype! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 It sounds betterhow does winamp sound better?also, can you subscribe to podcasts like you can with iTunes? How could someone like me subscribe to a video podcast like Diggnation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 (edited) The normalization I've found is far superior to iTunes... the songs sound better next to each other on shuffle... and I got the octimax plugin like Natural Mistyk suggested and it does it on the fly...The bass sounds so much better in relation to the mixes in the songs... it even does a really good job of getting the live stuff to sound on par with produced music... though in some instances has introduced quite a hiss... the only thing I haven't found that I prefer in iTunes is the smart playlist, and the pull down menu that has all your genre's and artist in the info input window. Other than that... it's golden!Oh, and I'm not big into podcasts... but there's a 'Podcast directory' in the menu list on the left... Edited April 30, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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