Justin's Yadda Yadda -- ask your (good) questions here

[justin]

In case you are wondering what this is, it was a stupid idea that originated a long long long long time ago, before the sea before the snow. It was pretty much cannabalized by Ask Steeves, I mean, Ask The Steves. But really what it is is a forum for you to ask questions and have me answer them. But damn them Steves. But I should hopefully answer a few a day, unlike the Steves' throughput of only a few a week. So if you have a good question for me, the (as Tom once put it) "king dick", reply to this message.

Peace,

Justin

[MamiyaOtaru]

I asked the Steves this a while back, who knows maybe they'll answer yet. Right. I submitted a skin a while back that I spent days on. All skinnned, avs, windowshade, blah blah, with awesome equalizer etc. BUT, I used the volume and balance button from the original Winamp cause it went well with the pic I used. According to likely to get deleted if "3) A skin where you 'borrowed' components from a skin you didn't create." would it have been deleted (it never showed)? That was all I used from the original. If I do HAVE to change it, how much is minimum? I need a grey raised rectangle, how much room for change is there? Last question, how long does it take, on average, for a skin to be posted? (looking for some number of days, weeks, whatever) Yeah, this was long, but its the only one so far so.. thanks for reading it

[Kevin]

Why can't we start topics here? Anyways, congrat's Justin! I saw an article about You and Winamp in the TIME book for 1999... $70 million? I bet Mom is proud http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Gui]

Hi, no sound cards, i plug my hearphones directly on the cd.
i can listen to cds no problem,

is it possible to play mp3's via the cd-rom and the hearphones ?

if yes how ?

[mtdew]

AVS. Really dig it. However I would dig it more if I could get a decent framerate in fullwindow. I average about 10fps regardless of windowsize and other settings. Tried the video driver tweaks to no avail. I got one of those fancy DeForce 256 cards so I would asume the card has enough power. System is PII450 with 384mg ram. Tried it on a 200mhz with a 3dfx banshee and it rocked on framerate. My question is; is AVS 'optimized' towards a 3dfx chipset and is there anyway to get a decent frame rate on the GeForce256? Thanks for winamp, it gives my meager life meaning.

[Some1]

Okay, two questions:

1. I'm sure you probably get this one a lot, and I'm sorry if you're tired of hearing it, but when will LQT/AAC/Liquid Audio support be OFFICIALLY implemented in Winamp? The only plug-ins currently out are buggy and don't support the LQT info tags...it would be nice to know that you guys are working to make sure that winamp will alwasy support the current audio compression technology.

2. What is your opinion on all the lawsuits that are going on (ie RIAA vs. my.mp3.com, RIAA vs. Napster, etc.). Do you feel that the RIAA's actions are justified, or do you think that the industry is corrupt and they deserve what they are getting?

[Some1]

Some answers...

Gui: There's no way to make Winamp (or any other Digital Audio player)play music through that little headphone jack on your CD-ROM drive...that jack was intended only for use with the CD drive, and it's the only way it'll work. If you want to listen to music through Winamp, you'll need to get a sound card. I'd recommend a Sound Blaster Live Platinum if you have the money to blow.

MamiyaOtaru: To the best of my knowledge, that rule only applies to stealing parts from other people's skins, and not to "stealing" parts from the basic Winamp skin. For example, if someone submits a skin without a skin for the playlist, they can still get their skin into the database (go ahead and look, there are a lot of incomplete skins in there). They just don't want you ripping off another person's home-made skin as your own. My guess as to why it's taking so long is that Winamp.com receives tons of new skin submissions every day, and it takes them a while to reveiw and then add them to the database.


Later,
Some1.

[steve]

Please kids, NO TECH SUPPORT QUESTIONS HERE. THESE ARE JUST QUESTIONS ABOUT JUSTIN OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE... HE DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO ANSWER EVERY QUESTION ABOUT EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO DOWNLOADED WINAMP. THANKS.

-steve

[Some1]

wow...who died and made you admin??? The description of this forum simply says: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Justin's Yadda Yadda -- ask your (good) questions here <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It doesn't say ask Justin questions about himself..and Justin even says "But really what it is is a forum for you to ask questions and have me answer them." He doesn't say "ask me about myself," and seems to be saying that technical questions are okay (that's what the "Steves" are for, right?). Why don't you go and admin some of the more active forums, and let justin tell us which types of questions are okay, and which ones aren't?

[Brad the Impaler]

OK, King Justin... something totally non-NullSoft. Are you still stylin' in your Quattro wagons? I remember the pix of the one that got skrunched, and I offered you my spare alternator once in a blue moon ago.

So, have you considered what kind of vehicular assult you're gonna do in El-Lay? Or are you gonna come back here and tear up some ecology http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Happy May Day to you and all the staff

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MamiyaOtaru:
I asked the Steves this a while back, who knows maybe they'll answer yet. Right. I submitted a skin a while back that I spent days on. All skinnned, avs, windowshade, blah blah, with awesome equalizer etc. BUT, I used the volume and balance button from the original Winamp cause it went well with the pic I used. According to likely to get deleted if "3) A skin where you 'borrowed' components from a skin you didn't create." would it have been deleted (it never showed)? That was all I used from the original. If I do HAVE to change it, how much is minimum? I need a grey raised rectangle, how much room for change is there? Last question, how long does it take, on average, for a skin to be posted? (looking for some number of days, weeks, whatever) Yeah, this was long, but its the only one so far so.. thanks for reading it<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Nah, we just mean if you borrow components from other skins.. if you use peices from the base skin, that's fine (i.e. suppose you just want to change the titlebar.. there's nothing wrong with that). We just wanted to prevent people from taking one skin that someone spent weeks working on and changing it a little and calling it their own.

As for your skin, I don't know why it hasn't been published yet. Everything is backed up, but we do have a lot of people going through them, so it should be published soon (I hope).

-Justin

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kevin:
Why can't we start topics here? Anyways, congrat's Justin! I saw an article about You and Winamp in the TIME book for 1999... $70 million? I bet Mom is proud http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Uh I dunno. It's all stupid anyway. Maybe
we should be able to. Anyway.

-Justin

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gui:
Hi, no sound cards, i plug my hearphones directly on the cd.
i can listen to cds no problem,

is it possible to play mp3's via the cd-rom and the hearphones ?

if yes how ?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

If you have a CD burner, you could write your
MP3s to WAV, burn them to CD, and play them with your CD player.

-J

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mtdew:
AVS. Really dig it. However I would dig it more if I could get a decent framerate in fullwindow. I average about 10fps regardless of windowsize and other settings. Tried the video driver tweaks to no avail. I got one of those fancy DeForce 256 cards so I would asume the card has enough power. System is PII450 with 384mg ram. Tried it on a 200mhz with a 3dfx banshee and it rocked on framerate. My question is; is AVS 'optimized' towards a 3dfx chipset and is there anyway to get a decent frame rate on the GeForce256? Thanks for winamp, it gives my meager life meaning.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Try turning up the performance in the display settings panel of AVS. Turn of refresh waiting, turn it to near the highest framerate. Pixel doubling can help, too. Other than that, AVS is just very intensive. It's not very optimized towards one chipset or another, it's just simple 32bpp framebuffer rendering, so good 2D performance is pretty much what you're after for it. We're thinking about making it do 8bpp modes too, for higher framerates (ala Geiss/G-force,etc)

-J

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Some1:
Okay, two questions:

1. I'm sure you probably get this one a lot, and I'm sorry if you're tired of hearing it, but when will LQT/AAC/Liquid Audio support be OFFICIALLY implemented in Winamp? The only plug-ins currently out are buggy and don't support the LQT info tags...it would be nice to know that you guys are working to make sure that winamp will alwasy support the current audio compression technology.

2. What is your opinion on all the lawsuits that are going on (ie RIAA vs. my.mp3.com, RIAA vs. Napster, etc.). Do you feel that the RIAA's actions are justified, or do you think that the industry is corrupt and they deserve what they are getting?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

1. It's on the way. I don't really have any timeframe I can give, though.

2. I think it's all pretty amusing.. you have companies trying to give the consumers what they want (music on their computers) in different ways (completely free (and stolen), free when you have the CD, etc)... and the recording industry which is scared shitless of hurting their CD sales. I don't think it's a result of the industry being corrupt, they're just scared. Probably some (but definately not all) of the RIAA's actions are justified. But mostly they're just running around with their heads cut off trying to figure out where to go.

That's my 30 second view.

-J

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Brad the Impaler:
OK, King Justin... something totally non-NullSoft. Are you still stylin' in your Quattro wagons? I remember the pix of the one that got skrunched, and I offered you my spare alternator once in a blue moon ago.

So, have you considered what kind of vehicular assult you're gonna do in El-Lay? Or are you gonna come back here and tear up some ecology http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Happy May Day to you and all the staff<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, I be tearing that shit up in my Audis. I saw a pimp ass RS4 when I was in France, and I was like "yo, bitch, you best be riding with me". But mostly I be cruising in my 2000 S4, which is so dope that all the girlies wanna get wit' my pimp ass. Sometimes for gettin' that last bit of badness I take my rx-7 out on the freeway and make owners of fresh new corvettes wonder where they're fat money went, yo.

Anyhow, I best be gettin' my ass to a meeting, bitch. See ya.

-Justin

[piranha]

Question: I think this pertains to you, correct me if I'm wrong. A long time ago, I think on Nullsoft's old web page, you (or for that matter some other Winamp developer, but I think it was you) mentioned that your brother was working on some game... can't remember the name, but the guy seem pretty enthused about his neat little flamethrower. Has it ever been released? Where can I get more info on it?

[Some1]

Justin: Have you ever heard of the "mpg123" plug-in for Winamp? It functions as a replacement for the default in_mp3.dll and fixes an apparent "glitch" in the Winamp/Nitrane decoder. I've tried it myself, and it DOES sound better than the default decoder. It's based off of the LAME codec (yours is based off of Fraunhofer's, right?), and produces really incredible sound. Any plans of switching to this codec/fixing the "glitch" in the default in_mp3.dll?

Codec website: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/9674/in_mpg123.html

Download of version 1.10 beta 2 of the plugin: http://members.xoom.com/mp3freeware2/in_mpg123_110b2.zip

Thread where the new plug-in is discussed: http://forum.napster.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002232.html

[Some1]

Oops...replace the word "Codec" with "Plug-in" in my previous post.

[Record]

Justin -

Do you think Winamp will ever fully support IDEv2, complete with the ability to create IDEv2 tags, and display pictures embeded in mp3s? If so, when? If not, why? Thanks!

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by piranha:
Question: I think this pertains to you, correct me if I'm wrong. A long time ago, I think on Nullsoft's old web page, you (or for that matter some other Winamp developer, but I think it was you) mentioned that your brother was working on some game... can't remember the name, but the guy seem pretty enthused about his neat little flamethrower. Has it ever been released? Where can I get more info on it?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It never really went anywhere, other than being a really cool, fun, playable technology demo. I'll see if I can get him to put it online somewhere... Stay tuned.

-Justin

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Some1:
Justin: Have you ever heard of the "mpg123" plug-in for Winamp? It functions as a replacement for the default in_mp3.dll and fixes an apparent "glitch" in the Winamp/Nitrane decoder. I've tried it myself, and it DOES sound better than the default decoder. It's based off of the LAME codec (yours is based off of Fraunhofer's, right?), and produces really incredible sound. Any plans of switching to this codec/fixing the "glitch" in the default in_mp3.dll?

Codec website: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/9674/in_mpg123.html

Download of version 1.10 beta 2 of the plugin: http://members.xoom.com/mp3freeware2/in_mpg123_110b2.zip

Thread where the new plug-in is discussed: http://forum.napster.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002232.html <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


the mpg123 plug-in actually uses mpg123, not LAME (lame is a patch for encoding, not decoding). The bugs in Nitrane will probably
be fixed in the next release.

-Justin

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Record:
Justin -

Do you think Winamp will ever fully support IDEv2, complete with the ability to create IDEv2 tags, and display pictures embeded in mp3s? If so, when? If not, why? Thanks!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Coming in v3. In development now. In theatres soon.

[Some1]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> the mpg123 plug-in actually uses mpg123, not LAME (lame is a patch for encoding, not decoding). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, if you want to get technical, then the plug-in is based off of Mpglib, which was developed/tested by the makers of LAME, and is no longer a part of mpg123...though loom who I'm trying to argue with, I'd better shut up before I get burned.

Anyways, one last question, you didn't seem very surprised to hear about the problems with the Nitrane decoder...how long have you known that the bugs have existed?

[AgentVoodoo]

ok, i can't figure out where you hid it.
the damn thing used to be at the www.nullsoft.com (http://www.nullsoft.com) site, but it must'a just got up and walked away. i know, none of you did it. you would never do anything to upset me or leave me feeling unloved. just give me the files i need and it'll be like none of this ever happened. what? you know what files. don't be stupid. the experimental player that i've been using for so long and i don't even remember it's name. i could drag stuff around and change colors and and and all kinds of cool stuff. remember that time when i got drunk and i used the tecra as a snowboard..... i don't either, but now i don't have the tecra or the software that was on it. please help me replace it. (the software i mean, although i could use a new laptop) thanks

[justin]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by AgentVoodoo:
ok, i can't figure out where you hid it.
the damn thing used to be at the www.nullsoft.com (http://www.nullsoft.com) site, but it must'a just got up and walked away. i know, none of you did it. you would never do anything to upset me or leave me feeling unloved. just give me the files i need and it'll be like none of this ever happened. what? you know what files. don't be stupid. the experimental player that i've been using for so long and i don't even remember it's name. i could drag stuff around and change colors and and and all kinds of cool stuff. remember that time when i got drunk and i used the tecra as a snowboard..... i don't either, but now i don't have the tecra or the software that was on it. please help me replace it. (the software i mean, although i could use a new laptop) thanks<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Check out the aO general purpose plug-in in the plug-in section of winamp.com http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Christian Becker]

Hey Justin, tell something about Winamp 3 and your future perspectives, and what about that Winamp locker?

-Chris

[mudlust]

Regarding the AVS2 plug-in, I am unable to get any visualization in the small AVS window. I can see the frame count in the editor window, but nothing happens in the AVS window. When I make the AVS window full-sceen, everything seems to work beautifully. Anyway, how can I fix this?? http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/confused.gif

[SlayerOfKings]

Justin: Just wondering if there are any plans to upgrade IN_CDDA to support CDDB2, and if so, when.

Cheers

[Antony]

One thing that seems to have disappeared from the WinAmp site is the 'finger updates'. What happened to them? I used to love reading them and keeping up-to-date on the latest "behind the scenes" news on WinAmp development and it's creators..

It's something I miss. Is it still here, somewhere, buried among 3 billion links and I'm just not seeing it? Or was it removed? http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Antony]

Oh. Typical. A few hours after I'd found the forum and posted it here, I look back on the 'The Team' page and the finger updates are back. Just my bloody luck. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif

[AaronHorrocks]

I've followed Winamp over the years, and what have I seen that stays the same?

http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000018.html

The same glitch since the first released version, has never been fixed!

[noah_T]

Back in the early days of winamp, and the winamp website, I read a little peice of text about certain members of the WinAmp staff going clubbing on Halloween and hoping into a taxi with two girls, one of which was dressed like a cat...
the pictures were great!
This list of events was posted on the WinAmp website about a year ago or so.
Does this document still exist somewhere on the site?

[Record]

Justin, man, you guys need to get some girls working for Winamp. No offence, but nobody wants to see your red hair goteed self - I'm much rather see Chasey Lain or Anna Kournikova featured with Winamp than a damn llama.

http://www.perfectchasey.com/covergirl.jpg http://media.rivals.com/media/jpg/2000040402670671.jpg

[Rygir]

are the old icons in winamp ever goin' to be reused, since version 2 i believe, the massive icon list was updated, and that's too bad, the old ones were cool.

Will it ever be possible to register MP3's alone? (some MPx files are images, or movies)
and possibly add more extensions, without plugins? (MPA was an extension for MPeg1)

It would also be nice if the MP3's had a different icon from the other file types (now, sorting by filetype doesn't help a lot in a dir where MOD's, waves and MP3's are listed, since it's all the same registered filetype)

[DewDude]

&gt;Will it ever be possible to register MP3's &gt;alone? (some MPx files are images, or &gt;movies)
&gt;and possibly add more extensions, without &gt;plugins? (MPA was an extension for MPeg1)


This is possible, you can turn off many of the extensions in Winamp by going to preferences|File Types and turning them off. As for adding file types, you can have Windows add them into it's internal support by going to View|Folder Options and clicking the
File Types tab, you can add a file type. Tell it the extension. And on "Actions" select new, type in a name in the Action like "Play" and paste this into the "Program" box:
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\WINAMP\WINAMP.EXE" "%1"

That will play the file. If you look at Winamp File Type in that list, you can get the other commands, or just read the SDK on the commands you can feed to the EXE.

-J http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[ojms]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DewDude:
&gt;Will it ever be possible to register MP3's &gt;alone? (some MPx files are images, or &gt;movies)
&gt;and possibly add more extensions, without &gt;plugins? (MPA was an extension for MPeg1)


This is possible, you can turn off many of the extensions in Winamp by going to preferences|File Types and turning them off. As for adding file types, you can have Windows add them into it's internal support by going to View|Folder Options and clicking the
File Types tab, you can add a file type. Tell it the extension. And on "Actions" select new, type in a name in the Action like "Play" and paste this into the "Program" box:
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\WINAMP\WINAMP.EXE" "%1"

That will play the file. If you look at Winamp File Type in that list, you can get the other commands, or just read the SDK on the commands you can feed to the EXE.

-J http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/tongue.gif

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Yeah get some fit birds working for nullsoft!!

[Rygir]

Ok, I know you can unselect some of the file types. But that's not exactly what I meant;

I had an older version (1.73?) that registered file types differently :
It registered the MPegs and the other formats in a different entry, allowing you to choose a different icon for Mpegs and other sound files (its only cosmetic, but usefull when you have lotsa files in one dir, and you have to sort e'm out)

[Rygir]

This is probably a stupid question, but what does SDK mean?

[Rage]

Hello. Now is it just my senility? or do I remember a DDE plugin for winamp?
I have been searching low and lower for this thing and it's giving me a ulcer. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

any help would be appreciated..

[Rage]

OR, a list of command line commands would be helpful.
Basically I'm trying to run winamp thru mirc using DDE.
Also, I need to learn to put everything in the msg before I post it.. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[DewDude]

ojms: I don't work for Nullsoft, I don't think I'm old enough, I have like, no skills in HTML or C++. Nor do I think they need me, I'd like to though.

Rygir: Ok, you can have Winamp register NONE of the files, and register each filetype yourself setting a icon for whatever you want using the method I stated.

BTW, SDK = System Developer Kit (I think) basically it's example source code on vatious componets, of for example, Winamp, and documentation on how to make whatever you want to write interact with it.


-J http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[hoke29]

Why does winamp.com post so many "rips" or stolen skins? Who moderates the skins that are posted? I know you guys are busy, but jeez, right now you have at least 4 versions of Spyamp (originally done by Mike Cao) and none give credit to the original author. 2 of them are called Genoa or Gen amp. There is also a rip of Topaz amp. Same name, different "artist". Man, I'm getting madder as I think about it. Every time I visit there's a new ripoff, usually in the "Best Skins" category. Your player may be free, and it may be the best (maybe), but your site moderation sucks, and that alone is enough to switch me to Sonique.

[Domint]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rygir:
This is probably a stupid question, but what does SDK mean?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It stands for Software Development Kit. It's basically a rundown of all the neat user-configurable doohickeys that you can futz around with to make winamp do some funky shiznat.

http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/tongue.gif

-Domint-

[JW123]

I'm sure this is a popular question, so when will WinAmp 3.0 be out in 'theatres' http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Fletch]

ah, the .plan is back

and yes, both of hooverphonic's albums are very good. blue wonder power milk has a lot more strings (and a different, but similar, singer) than a new sterophonic sound spectacular. i dig it.

they have a new one coming out sometime soon. (august last i checked)

looking forward to 3

-fletch

[bjaber]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rygir:
This is probably a stupid question, but what does SDK mean?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

SDK = Software Development Kit

[888]

Hi Justin ,
I am running a Shoutcast station thru Winamp.
Is there a maximum # of playlist entries , or an overall quantity of megs/time that Winamp can handle in it's playlist ? Or is it infinite , or as big as the hard drive in my machine.
MANY thanks for your excellent product!:cool http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/frown.gifand your time taken to respond to this)
Sincerely, 888

[888]

That's http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/cool.gif not http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/frown.gif
888 &lt;---has not mastered the smileys http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[XIX]

hmmm... 2 questions....
-is the skin-bug in the palylist-winshade
ever gonna be fixed....?
-why do some skins on this site have a crooked screenshot....?

[noodge]

I've always regarded Winamp as one of the finest projects ever done. I'm curious as to what prompted you to become a coder and where you gained/honed your skills. Thanks for a great product and I'm eager to see what you have in store for us with 3.0

[Centron]

Justin, I've used Winamp since 1.04 (My gawd, Winplay sucked) and I have dutifully upgraded every time a newer version came out. In the past, oh, six months, it seems the rate of Winamp evolution has dropped off dramatically. Has Winamp nowhere else to go, are you waiting until v3, are you trying to come up with features better than the minibrowser, or what? What I'm asking is, are you working on Winamp with the same drive you once did, or has the pot of gold at the end of aolbow stolen your motivation?

[HolyLordTriDeltaPhi]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Centron:
Has Winamp nowhere else to go, are you waiting until v3, are you trying to come up with features better than the minibrowser, or what? What I'm asking is, are you working on Winamp with the same drive you once did, or has the pot of gold at the end of aolbow stolen your motivation?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Begin speculation:
Actually, they're developing CIA software for hypnotizing Russians with [-[Even Trippier Rotozooming Visual Fx(tm)]-].
Nyah. It takes a long time for 'em to develop new major revisions -- and make it work well enough to please the masses! Reckon! Exactly like d.net's v3 clients!

Besides, writing software is like cooking a roast. I don't know how, but it is.

[pridemike]

Justin,

1. Did you eat all the Cracklin' Oat Bran?

2. Will Winamp 3 feature some added functionality regarding playlists, similar to what is seen in Media Player 7?

Peace.

[kurt10]

Justin i have AVS Skins i want you to check out if you are interested please email me at kurt@wrestleinsider.zzn.com

Thanks

[hobs0n]

hEy Justin!
just wondered if u know anything about a even volume plugin...?
(i posted this question in the plugins bbs too.. sorry dont kick my azz!)

[MrShannon]

I remember a long time ago, when Winamp was running out of 1.9x numbers to use and the new features of Winamp 2.x were being talked about, one of the things mentioned were moveable buttons, but that never happened...

I was wondering, will 3.x have the ability to place a button where ever a designer would like? I was thinking it would kind of be like the transparency masking, or more like image mapping for a web site...

You first define a square/rectangular image size to define the overall size of the player interface. Then you define the transparencies to make a circle, or an odd shape. Then you could define locations or "hot spots" that are clickable. Even alternate images to display in that location when clicked ti "animate" the depression of a button or a lever or whatever. You'd want a few other pre-defined objects like the visualization window which would have to be a certain size, or a fixed ratio at least, and there would be have to be a "title display" object, and a that sort of thing...

You know what I'm saying here?

This way people could make the play/stop buttons on the top, or vertical, or all over the place... Or have really tiny interfaces, or really big ones... Even have a photo of a person at the Winamp interface. They'd just have to map the controls to logical places (?).

It would also be nice if we could specify a font to use instead of making images for the letters and numbers...

This would evolve your skin library to an interface library... I think the skinning community would take to this idea very well. Is it possible or perhaps likely?

[Neo Skinz]

Will skins from v2 be compatible with v3 or will it be a big change?

Also, I'm non to happy with the review of my last game skin JillAmp which got a mesly 2 stars shunting it to the lower depths of the game catagory!
Review page: http://www.winamp.com/customize/detail.jhtml?componentId=12676
Most of my skins have at least got 4 stars and I personnally think that this one was my best. The reviewers comments where not very clear on why it got such a low mark either, there is nothing wrong with the equaliser as far as I can see.

I'm a bit confused at some of the reviews of skins. There alot of 5 star skins that are really crap lookin poping up recently (especially in the game section). I hate to think how bad some of the good skins where rated! And I've noticed alot of rip offs apearing aswell, especially total copies of equalisers and playlists from some skins!

/me stops rambling

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Neo - "Visit Neo Skinz (http://www.neo-skinz.co.uk/) to see my Winamp and ICQ skins!"

"Philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex!"

[Cybrio]

Hey Justin (And everyone else). I was just wondering, what MP3 encoder do you use? Also what would you say is the best FREE encoder? I don't want to shell out $20 just so I can make a couple MP3s. Perhaps you should add a encoder to Winamp in the next version (See my post in "Your Winamp Wishlist"). Anyways, love Winamp, especially the AVS. Keep it coming! http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

- Cybrio

PS - Check out www.TheHungerSite.com (http://www.TheHungerSite.com) and www.TheRainforestSite.com, (http://www.TheRainforestSite.com,) I think you'll like them.

[SlimSCSI]

I asked Steve in his forum, but He did not know the answer to this question. It has plagued me for a very long time. In the credits, You gave a special thanks to Detroit Michigan. Well I live in Detroit and I was just wondering what that was all about?

[spanky]

yo Justino
I remember back in the day you had a build of Winamp that had a splash screen that featured a pack of Camel cigarettes (but with a llama not a camel, of course)

Had I imagined this? Nobody seems to remember it.

(if it did exist how would I go about obtaining the particular build? It was really really neat.)

[aaron]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rygir:
This is probably a stupid question, but what does SDK mean?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
A SDK is a software development kit, ie the (usually) .h and .lib files you need to be able to use the "software".

My question is: why don't you allow longer song/artist/album names in the ID3 tags? MusicMatch 4.0, for example, does. But if I
save a tag with it, and after open it with WinAmp, the names are quite mixed. Is there anything to do about that?

[hawk606]

Damn llama?? ARE YOU DISSIN THE LLAMA??!!?!?

[hawk606]

Hey,
Question; How often do you guys update the skins section?

[Quicky]

when i load my list of MP3's and i double click a song i want to hear.. all it tells me is" Error setting output format on writer"... What can i do to fix this problem??? PLEASE HELP ME OUT...

[hawk606]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hoke29:
Why does winamp.com post so many "rips" or stolen skins? Who moderates the skins that are posted? I know you guys are busy, but jeez, right now you have at least 4 versions of Spyamp (originally done by Mike Cao) and none give credit to the original author. 2 of them are called Genoa or Gen amp. There is also a rip of Topaz amp. Same name, different "artist". Man, I'm getting madder as I think about it. Every time I visit there's a new ripoff, usually in the "Best Skins" category. Your player may be free, and it may be the best (maybe), but your site moderation sucks, and that alone is enough to switch me to Sonique.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's like 9000 skins with the spy amp posbar

[Jeff]

Hey Justin,
What's happening with the wonderful gnutella? I heard it was in closed beta testing, but I've also heard that AOL has forced you to stop development. What's happening with the whole thing and will we ever see a 1.0 release with source code? Thanks!

[XIX]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff:
Hey Justin,
What's happening with the wonderful gnutella? I heard it was in closed beta testing, but I've also heard that AOL has forced you to stop development. What's happening with the whole thing and will we ever see a 1.0 release with source code? Thanks!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

info on: http://gnutella.wego.com/

[pawlstevenz]

Can you check out my MP3 station and tell me how it sounds?
http://www.mp3.com/stations/new_techno_club/

One thing that annoys me when playing a station with winamp is that winamp pops up and needs to be clicked on every time a new song comes up.

Peace,

pawL

[BinaryDragon]

Hey.... i need a question answered...

One day i fed my dog some crayons. The next day it had bad gas... It would fart and the do that thing dogs do.. yah know.. the scooting thing... well... she started scooting and made multicolored skidmarks all over the carpet so heres my question.. HOW DO I GET THE STAINS OUT?!?!?!?

[DewDude]

posted May 23, 2000 05:57 PM
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Hey.... i need a question answered...
One day i fed my dog some crayons. The next day it had bad gas... It would fart and the do that thing dogs do.. yah know.. the scooting thing... well... she started scooting and made multicolored skidmarks all over the carpet so heres my question.. HOW DO I GET THE STAINS OUT?!?!?!?


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Well,

a) pray
b) scrub them out with a wire brush and some bleach
c) rent a steam cleaner

-J http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/tongue.gif

[Claudio Bosgraaf]

Hi Justin,
First, THANKS to your great work that you and others do.

I have a question that I didn't see posted yet. :-)

Is there an option or plug-in for Winamp that works like a noice killer? A sort of Dolby? Music that contains some noice and is compressed to an Mp3 file, is always, at the low volume parts having a kind of wisling.
Is there a way that this is filtered out?
By that you can always hear that it is an Mp3 file wich you are listening to.

If it does not exists, maybe it is nice to implement it in the next Winamp.

Greatings, Claudio Bosgraaf, Loostad Radio

[Tonic]

Hi Justin,
I have small questin:
What is "Wait for retarce" option in Display seting of winamp AVS plug-in? It speed up fps if is unckecked but is this afect to quality (I do not see changes) and if not to what affect?

[DeLiRiUmLB]

Hey Justin,

I know you are reluctant to talk about new versions of Winamp, but I have only one question. Will Winamp 3.0 support advanced skinning features, similar to that of Sonique or K-Jofol? Thank you.

[oxxie]

Yo Justin! I'd REALLY REALLY REALLY want you to look in the Winamp WishList at the topic 'BPM counter plugin', because me and some other guys have some pretty cool ideas for v3! PLEAAAAAAAAAAAASE! I don't think I'll live if you won't implement the thing we ask for http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Rosyna]

I have a business question. What ever became of PMS, Dmitry, and MacAmp? Did they all get a new haircuut and drop off the face of the earth?

[old and quite mad]

So Justin,
What do you think of the 2000 Miata?

[DragonTHC]

alright then, I sent you $20 bucks when winamp was shareware, so you should answer this: how do I get winamp to generate tones? I have done it before, but I don't remember the syntax

[oxxie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DragonTHC:
alright then, I sent you $20 bucks when winamp was shareware, so you should answer this: how do I get winamp to generate tones? I have done it before, but I don't remember the syntax<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

generating tones could be done by following these steps:

* rightclick the eject button
* choose 'open location' from the popup menu
* enter 'tone://[frequency]' in which [frequency] is the tone frequency (duh) http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

the only problem is: this feature has been disabled, it won't work anymore... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/frown.gif

[JavaJones]

Spanky, you are not hallucinating. I too have seen this and in fact may still have this build around. I'm not 100% sure what version it was or even if it was an officially released build, but I did see it if that puts your mind at rest. I'll keep an eye out and post here again if I see it.

- JavaJones

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spanky:
yo Justino
I remember back in the day you had a build of Winamp that had a splash screen that featured a pack of Camel cigarettes (but with a llama not a camel, of course)

Had I imagined this? Nobody seems to remember it.

(if it did exist how would I go about obtaining the particular build? It was really really neat.)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Cannon__Fodder]

just discovered this ripper/encoder:

Zlurp (http://www.zlurp.com)

it's as free as your birthday suit but, unlike your bithday suit, you can show it off to your mates......

http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/cool.gif CF

[KamBha]

I am a real AVS fan. I recently had a look at the Superscope and modified the vibrating worm. I put the following in the in the point field.
x=cos(9*i+3*t)*(v*1.5+.5); y=sin(i*9+4*t)*(v*1.5+.5);
What you get is a circular scope which seems to spin around an axis, in 3d.

What did I do? Is there some support material somewhere for superscope and the other modifers?

[Fatman]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MrShannon:
I remember a long time ago, when Winamp was running out of 1.9x numbers to use and the new features of Winamp 2.x were being talked about, one of the things mentioned were moveable buttons, but that never happened...

I was wondering, will 3.x have the ability to place a button where ever a designer would like? I was thinking it would kind of be like the transparency masking, or more like image mapping for a web site...

You first define a square/rectangular image size to define the overall size of the player interface. Then you define the transparencies to make a circle, or an odd shape. Then you could define locations or "hot spots" that are clickable. Even alternate images to display in that location when clicked ti "animate" the depression of a button or a lever or whatever. You'd want a few other pre-defined objects like the visualization window which would have to be a certain size, or a fixed ratio at least, and there would be have to be a "title display" object, and a that sort of thing...

You know what I'm saying here?

This way people could make the play/stop buttons on the top, or vertical, or all over the place... Or have really tiny interfaces, or really big ones... Even have a photo of a person at the Winamp interface. They'd just have to map the controls to logical places (?).

It would also be nice if we could specify a font to use instead of making images for the letters and numbers...

This would evolve your skin library to an interface library... I think the skinning community would take to this idea very well. Is it possible or perhaps likely?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, goddamn right. Also the hotspots you mentioned don't have to be square/rectangular but can be circular or triangular, too. (See er, probably &lt;a href="http://www.mapedit.com/"&gt;http://www.mapedit.com/&lt;/a&gt; or something like that.)

Something like that would smash Sonique and others like it to bits. The only thing going for Sonique is the bizarre shapes you can make. And also it doesn't have the moving menu button bug (activate the playlist window and wave your mouse pointer over the button. Watch for the shift!).

[gandalf]

try a0 for movable and resizable stuff!

[Comp-U-Comp]

How does one become a beta tester for Nullsoft?

[DaFluke]

WVS, AVS , WAVS, whatever http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif
i just want to know if it would be possible to export the visual display to an .avi file or a sequence of images!
Thats all I ask for in this world!
Am I wrong to be right??
I THINK NOT! http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

DaFluke

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[hawk606]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Record:
Justin, man, you guys need to get some girls working for Winamp. No offence, but nobody wants to see your red hair goteed self - I'm much rather see Chasey Lain or Anna Kournikova featured with Winamp than a damn llama.

http://www.perfectchasey.com/covergirl.jpg http://media.rivals.com/media/jpg/2000040402670671.jpg <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey, there's a babe working at winamp already http://www.winamp.com/images/team/erin-face.gif

Me--Yow!

[This message has been edited by hawk606 (edited June 08, 2000).]

[rm']

How do you make $$$ now that winamp is for free?

[RockHound]

Why do you ask this in Justins forum? You might but probably won't get an answer in here... oh well keep on coding Justin... we need to keep cool software up and kicking... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[gandalf]

I bet AOL pays them big $$$ NOT to release gnutella officially again. (Its really sad to pay ~$180Bil. and find out that a company you own released the ultimate napstar clone) http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif :cool http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Thor]

Hey Justino !?
This is your forum right ?
In the beginning you answered all most every question here ... but no any more ...
Please come back ! :-)

[Highway 420]

Two questions:

1) What is the equatorial circumference of the earth in millimeters?

2) Why do llamas smell so bad?

[hawk606]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Highway 420:
Two questions:

1) What is the equatorial circumference of the earth in millimeters?

2) Why do llamas smell so bad?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


1) I think it's ~40044420000mm

2) What llamas lack in smell, they make up for everywhere else.


[This message has been edited by hawk606 (edited June 15, 2000).]

[iomegajaz]

Justin, not to be insolent or anything, i'm grateful for the existence of WinAmp et cetera, ass kiss, ass kiss..... BUT

How the fuck did you get venture capitalists to give you money for development, Jolt cola et cetera..?

Just curious about how to approach these types when my turn comes. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif

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iomegajaz

[This message has been edited by iomegajaz (edited June 17, 2000).]

[dt9164]

Whatever happened to sex? I used it all the time, but my system crashed and it was erased. (Reminder to everyone to back up) Now I can't find it, there were also a few other programs at the nullsoft website, but now the site is just a logo and a links to the winamp and shoutcast pages. I miss sex.

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Real men don't use sigs.

[flippantio]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Record:
Justin, man, you guys need to get some girls working for Winamp. No offence, but nobody wants to see your red hair goteed self - I'm much rather see Chasey Lain or Anna Kournikova featured with Winamp than a damn llama.

http://www.perfectchasey.com/covergirl.jpg http://media.rivals.com/media/jpg/2000040402670671.jpg <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey, I like the "red hair goteed" Justin. He is my hero. I want to complain that there are not enough of him on this site.


P.S. The "damn llama" it's cute too.

[JarC]

So, Justin, got a question...or two...or three...

explain please, coz I've been tryin to find out and can't find the info.

I hear AOL bribed you to stop gnutella...then I find out WinAMP is now owned by AOL (of all the &^$&*#^$). I realize there's gotta be more to it, and I've been trying to get the story straight without luck sofar.

gnutella a response to AOL acquiring WinAMP

or

AOL acquiring Nullosft plus WinAMP turned freeware again, in xchng for pulling plug on gnutella. If so how come first gnutella clone looks/feels/operates 99.9% like original...

mighty curious...

Raj

[Brad]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JarC:
I hear AOL bribed you to stop gnutella...then I find out WinAMP is now owned by AOL (of all the &^$&*#^$). I realize there's gotta be more to it, and I've been trying to get the story straight without luck sofar.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah? What is the deal w/ AOL and Nullsoft? There's absolutely no apparent connection to AOL as far as the software and website are concerned (like no AOL ads or endorsements). So what's the story?



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- Brad Cherry
brad.cherry@home.com
bradchery@aol.com
ICQ: 72016474
AIM: bradchery

[chrscote]

I have a .wav file that I'd like to chop up into smaller segments. How do I do this in WinAmp.

[Brad]

GOD bless Justin and Tom for the conception of gnutella. I got banned from napster, but F*CK the RIAA, I'd like to see them stop my ass (and the asses of millions of other mp3 piraters) now. THANK YOU!

[Shemida]

Oh man I'm i in trouble!

I bow to King Justin ("the good hearted?")
I made a major boo boo,and I need help to fix it.

I 'accidently' attributed Mirrored Neatness to another plug in. I made a tribute to the great Justin and his mirroredness in Tribute Amp...... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/eek.gif
The read me file is supposed to say:
Tribute Amp
This amp takes the term 'why shoot fish in a barrel, when you can blow em up!' to new heights.
My son coined the above phrase, I wonder about him sometimes!

Well, as you can tell this amp makes tribute to the Winamp Advanced Visual Studio v2.0a5 plugin for WinAmp.
If you have Winamp AVS, look in Justin folder for the Mirrored Neatness setting, it is awesome!
I took screen shots of the visual effects of Aha's Take On Me. This butterfly looking amp pic, came from one of those shots. I used the same pic for the EQ. But, I decided that any award should have something on a pedestal, so I put columns on the Playlist, WVS and Browser. I pulled it all together by using floral designs, faux gems and a matching color scheme.
Also I 'borrowed' the llama for this venture, ((we went on a Joyride)) I guarantee that no llama's were hurt in the making of this amp.

Shameless plug section!
This is very toned down in comparison to SweetAmp, I didn't want to overwhelm the folks at Nullsoft. I am grateful for the 4 stars I received for SweetAmp. ((((I hope this does as well or better))))

I am almost done with my third amp called FaroutAmp. Um, its strange but cool.


Testers notes
Joe Dehler, Says about tribute amp, it "is a well put together conglomeration of noisy colors that is creative without being abstract."
He laughed maniacally for hours after this, and had to be sedated!
hee hee

Yours Truely
Shemida

How can I fix my wicked ways, if I don't know who to give this report to and I really don't want to upload TributeAmp again to be re-reviewed by our grumpy and tired reviewers. (I hear cheers, they don't want to re-review anything either!) http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif


plz let me know what I can do!
shemida

[iomegajaz]

I'D JUST LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT THIS FORUM/TOPIC SUCKS ROYAL FRANKEL ASS.

NO OFFENCE MEANT TO JUSTIN ET CETEREA, BUT LET'S FACE FACKS.

THIS BLOWS REALLY REALLY BIG CHUNKS OF ICKY STUFF.

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iomegajaz
live short and hack well

[brahmatirtha]

justin:

i met a friend of yours (hint: old-school russian muck-amp guy) in the seattle airport a few months back. &lt;&lt;i'm a monk, and i was distributing some philosophy books there...&gt;&gt; he gave a donation and i hooked him up with a magazine and some books. he said he was on the way to a meeting with you and some of the nullsoftees.

still reading? good.

anyway, i was just curious if he happened to mention the encounter.

who cares about some monk? well, you at least gotta admit this post is a tad more interesting than some of the other posts...

by the way, i asked him about your rx-7, and he told me that you crashed it. bummer.

if you're still reading... oh good, you are... so anyway, i'm doing some a/v work for a temple/farm in germany now and you or any of the nullsoftees are always welcome to stay for some time here. it's quite peaceful, and not too far from munich... the invitation is always open.

i saw that a few days ago you were inviting suggestions for new software--something you could get really excited about. perhaps channeling some of your energy and intelligence into a project completely free from profit and status might be a nice solution...

okay.

[Bilbo Baggins]

http://smilecwm.***********/cwm/eek3.gif

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

[videocrew]

umm, could i get in on this whole 3.0 beta thing? me like beta, me like winamp, me know computer, me good choice? just thinkin out loud...

[iomegajaz]

Tra la la la, spam spam spam, crap on, crap on, blah blah blah.

FUCKING AWESOME FORUM.

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iomegajaz
live short and hack well
http://iomegajaz.cjb.net

[aaron]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by justin on April 26:
But really what it is is a forum for you to ask questions and have me answer them. But damn them Steves. But I should hopefully answer a few a day, unlike the Steves' throughput of only a few a week.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

justins last post dates may 4. great! gandalf, you have a lot to work with this forum, dont'you? http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif


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aaron
aisotton@inwind.it (no winamp support)
visit my homepage! (http://www.aisotton.atfreeweb.com)

[Billhoofa]

I think Justin Frankel dosn't exist at winamp anymore. I think AOL cloned him, then killed the original (kind of like ICQ) and has the Justin clone back at their evil headquarters chained to a cube, writing ad-server script.

[This message has been edited by Billhoofa (edited July 10, 2000).]

[1012]

how about JOYSTICK control for avs
eg dot grid x,y...

1012

[Tariq]

Hey Justin,
Small question,
Is there going to be a winamp 3 soon?
if so when will it be out?
and what can we expect to be new in it?

[rm']

RM like to yada yada as well.
RM shut up now because RM not liked.
Goodbye RM.
RM had brainfart, that's why RM gone crazy.
RM's brain will be back in a day, until then...

Adieu

[jimmus]

this sucks. justin hasnt replied in weeks. winamp is quickly going to crap.
man i hate when shit like this happens.
people sell out all the time. why is that? i'd give my left whatever to have things the way they used to be. oh well, cant be stuck in the past...just move on.

[This message has been edited by jimmus (edited July 17, 2000).]

[DisGuy]

I bet you get a million and a half new ideas every day... well what the hell here's another one...

How would you feel about joining a soon to be created project to make the best game the world has ever seen? basically what it is, is a 2000 aproach to an old classic (Street Rod)as the world has changed quite alot in the past 10 years or so... Imagine a game where you can go the whole hog on your favorite type of vehicle, then go head to head against anyone and everyone around the world.... making money, and avoiding the fuzz...

to me.... that would be the pinacle of coolness.... There is absolutley limitless potential for this idea... the only hinderance is my (unfortunate) lack of programming prowess... I'm an ideas person, so anyhow, thats I guess enough from me (by the way, this isn't even the tip of the iceberg...this is only the framework (if that) but yeah, Your ideas on how to rally up some talent for this prject would be terrific http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif.... L8R

[Emrikol]

I was just wondering if there were any documentations or examples for that old Plush 3D engine that you (Jason, for the best I know, that's what the readme says) wrote. I've got it compiled and all, and have tried my best to write a program with it, and although it doesn't crash, the screen resolution doesn't change. It just stays in 80x25 text. All I've had to go on was the documentation in the source, and I'm barely smart enough to even figure that out. Damn TV ruined my mind and all . . .

Thanks

[pukkaboy]

yall know this? http://www.winamp.com/header-logotext.gif yah#
now where did i leave my dead horse oy come back here!!!!

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don't drink 'n drive take spliff 'n fly.

[This message has been edited by pukkaboy (edited July 29, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by pukkaboy (edited July 29, 2000).]

[Record]

Gosh, what a worthless forum. I understand that you must be busy alot, and don't have time to check in here, but I would like to lay a motion on the table: either return to answering the questions of your loyal fans, or delete this forum. If you decide to continue to answer questions, I'd like to know this: what can we expect Winamp 3.0 to look like? Smell like? Taste like? All those nitty gritty details that we feed upon. Thanks!

[pukkaboy]

yeah whatever

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don't drink 'n drive take spliff 'n fly.
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/p_pucker/p_pucker/img16.gif my newest skin http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by pukkaboy (edited August 02, 2000).]

[mbyrne01]

About NetMon -- alas, no proxy/fw? I use a 192.168.0.1 wingate proxy; could i "pass through" the "argument" of a "Host to ping" in the ini/right-click config? ie, something like "host=192.168.0.1/www.yahoo.com" -- or is there just no support? ahh well, .xxx releases never have proxy/fw -- guess I'll wait for it and use NetMon to tell me if our wingate fw is up&running -- if it is the ping will be 0-1 ms, if not, a timeout and a reboot in the hallway on the box. Thanks!

[Bacchus13]

Hi, there.

the mpg123 plug-in actually uses mpg123, not LAME (lame is a patch for encoding, not decoding). The bugs in Nitrane will probably
be fixed in the next release.

-Justin

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by justin:
In case you are wondering what this is, it was a stupid idea that originated a long long long long time ago, before the sea before the snow. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, I mean when the next bugless nitrane will be released. Actually, Shibath is now working on LAME and have got little time to deal with the next version of in_mpg123.

We know you like talking but please don't forget coding as well. You know, LAME is an encoder and not a decoder. So, please do your own job and let Shibath free to do his original job. Actually, It will be very good for the development of mp3 format itself.

Now, you must know that only thing you can do to convince us is to release your perfect nitrane as soon as possible.

Cheers.

[Charmander]

About this mms:// streaming - I have found that windowsmedia has used this for videos as well as audio - Only the audio plugs activate (None of the video ones do) Is there a solution or is this the only option to use the windows media player embedded in my computer! (Im Lost On this one - dont know where to turn for advice) http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/confused.gif

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Charmander

[Origin]

SDK is Software Development Kit ain't it???
http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/cool.gif

[Origin]

ok today is the first time I've used the forums and I didn't notice the little page nuber thingys at the bottom ... just ignore my last msg
:0

[ReDVsion]

Okay, this is the most useless forum i've seen. you can't post new topics, and nobody's questions get answered. Of course generally the questions are related to winamp3. Obviously it's gonna be a chance in hell if we ever get some real answers, so i suggest we just speculate based on info that we already know.

[mp3tv]

yo

how does a guy get past the wall of contacts and try to schedule an interview with the winamp folks? for mp3.tv

new streaming magazine, to launch in october, on the mp3 community at large.

if you are itnerested, let me know

david@mp3.tv

[dn]

i've not a question, but i want to thank planet earth for two great inventions:
canna / hemp / weed / ganja and peace / hash / chuba

without this great things, i could not relax after my work and also (i suppose) the world would not have winamp http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif.

so let us smoke together and enjoy our wonderful world http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

bye & greetz from 'dusty' switzerland
dn

ps: great posting, don't you think?! http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/wink.gif

[NullVoidMan]

How much is a distribution license for software developed with the SDK?

[oratem]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dn:
i've not a question, but i want to thank planet earth for two great inventions:
[b]canna / hemp / weed / ganja and peace / hash / chuba
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

dn,

Be careful, they're watching. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/eek.gif
http://www.fire.net.nz/echelon.htm

[WolfieD]

did i just put this back onto the main page?

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WolfieD - Brainwashing the youth of America since 1985
www.WolfieD.cjb.net - Go there or I'll torch your house.

[JWardell]

Here's a name you might recall:
Dimitry Boldryev.

Deserves recognition. Any idea where he has disappeared to?

[Perplexer]

Justin:

Using your joystick control plug-in for my in-car PC (MP3 and GPS). Works great for track forward / track back, but I'd love more functionality.

For example, I'd love to have a joystick button that sends a specific keyboard command to Winamp (even if Winamp/plug-in window is not active).

I run visualization plug-ins like Geiss and G-Force, and would love to map the space bar to a joypad button (to display song title in geiss) (and "T" key respectively for G-Force.)

Any plans for something like this in a future release? I'm sure everyone using the joystick control plug-in would benefir from this http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif

In case you're wondering, my setup is a modified I-Opener (10" LCD PC) with line-out and 6GB hard drive.

Thanks!

[ds22]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rygir:
This is probably a stupid question, but what does SDK mean?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

SDK stands for: Software Development Kit

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Aliens Kill Babies

[Junklord]

Thre's no way an *.avs file can carry a virus right? God I hope not...

[delirium]

No of course not. AVS files aren't executable.

[Blaziara]

Yo, a little help here? Sorry to bother all you nice ppl but I'm just in need of one answer. I lost everything on the bottom part of my playlist. You know the buttons and stuff? I can't seem to get them back. Can you please help me? Sorry once again for the trouble. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/confused.gif
--Blaziara

[Winsane]

Please don't cross-post, Blaziara.
Someone'll answer your question here: http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/002423.html

[delirium]

Why even bother posting tech help in this forum? Most people dont even check this forum. And if they do, its like every few weeks or months.

[random_dg]

Maybe you ppl, or Justin will be kind enough to explain why most of the 3d plugins don't support 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB in Win2K or it just seems that Geiss,WG3D,G-Force and many more just hate me? It seems that only AVS really works fine with it

[mattjsimps]

when is ver 3 coming out.....
can i have a beta version?
please?
please? http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Cipher]

Me Cipher, me talks good to, I likes to talk. Justin talks to me, I talk back, we talks alots. He Justin, he got awnsers. Justin, how many file do you have on your Winamp, if you have Winamp, or the time to use it. And if you do, where do you get your files?

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What is REAL, if your talking about things you can touch, hear, taste, smell, then REAL is nothing more than eletric impulses sent to your brain.

[This message has been edited by Cipher (edited November 15, 2000).]

[Cipher]

Me Cipher, me talks good to, I likes to talk. Justin talks to me, I talk back, we talks alots. He Justin, he got awnsers. Justin, how many file do you have on your Winamp, if you have Winamp, or the time to use it. And if you do, where do you get your files? It didnt post the first time, so if it shows up twice, oh well!

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What is REAL, if your talking about hings you can touch, haer, taste, smell, then REAL is nothing more than eletric impulses send to your brain.

[Cipher]

Oh this is just wonderful, only JUSTIN, THE ALL KNOWING, THE ALL POWERFUL, only KING JUSTIN can delete my post, full of errors in spelling, just great, thanks JUSTIN, thanks for being a control freak. Thnaks fro making sure I catn maki speeling corections in me own dam post! Actually, Im having alot of fun with all this, how pathetic is that!

[ReDVsion]

I move to get rid of this worthless forum, or make me moderate it, so I can liven it up...

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Damn Baptists...

[That Myers Kid]

I second that motion. But then I can't be bothered starting anything.

[Kai555]

Justin, remember back in the day... back before the "new" default skin. Yea... so a real long time ago. Winamp use to have a cumulative song timer. It calculated all the minutes winamp played. It was on the about window. I can't find it there anymore, so I suppose its gone. But I think that little feature kicked ass and so do my friends. anyway... why did you take it out... I had thousands of minutes before... god knows how many I would have had now!

[numair]

Justin,

Are you working on the new AOL Media Player? What's with that, man? Oh ya, and why not just put the frickin' AIM in Winamp, like that minibrowser thing? That way you'd be able to keep all the "family members" in the same app, if ya know what I mean .. =).

I've been trying to ICQ this idea to Shawn Fanning, but apparently I'm not l33t enough for him, so I thought you'd be a "second" option for my idea =). Well .. here's the idea. If you went to the CES, you'd see all these yuppie cell phones that have those kewl MP3 players on them for like ... $200 more. Basically, all those irritating Clueless-wannabe chicks have one more reason to look like they're on their cell phone .. anyways ... Why not make a phone MP3 service? It's super-useful, and people can control the list using their WAP-enabled phone. What's even better is that you super-geniuses were smart enough to create Winamp Locker, so the storage issue is a nonissue. This could be the world's cheapest / first free MP3 cellphone! Just hookup some headphones ... 1-800-4-WINAMP ... boom. The sound quality might suffer, but who cares? It's music.

Oh ya, well .. I'm sorta looking for an internship. If you need free labor, I'm here, man. BTW - nice gayass hair pics! I'm hoping gayass hair with llama pics are in the works. Don't stress yourself out, man =)

[me damnabit!]

que pasa justin! hey dude, is 2.8 version of winamp to be open for testing at all, or does it even exist?

[Darkthunder7585]

Justin,

I have been a loyal Winamp downloader since 2.05. There are two problems with 2.7. One, it doesn't get as LOUD as it did before. I have a speaker system that can play maximum volume fine and now my parties are weaker. Two, it tends to crash a lot, mostly when it loads my Playlist. Windows Media Player is taking on the same symptoms. Possibly a shared DLL updated by 2.7 that would cause problems? You might blame Windows Media, but Windows Media has never liked Winamp's generated M3U playlist files. (I have Windows Media 7, Winamp 2.7, and Windows 98 SE on a 566MHZ Celeron).

Keep up the good work. The reason I have always preferred Winamp is it has been a quality application. (There was one version I refused to install; it would never start up on my machine. I don't know the number but this was a year ago. I'm thinking 2.2x series but I'm not sure.) Anyway, you've got a killer app, keep up the good work.

You might want to make a new Winamp download package with bundled mpeg, mov, and dvd support.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by justin:
In case you are wondering what this is, it was a stupid idea that originated a long long long long time ago, before the sea before the snow. It was pretty much cannabalized by Ask Steeves, I mean, Ask The Steves. But really what it is is a forum for you to ask questions and have me answer them. But damn them Steves. But I should hopefully answer a few a day, unlike the Steves' throughput of only a few a week. So if you have a good question for me, the (as Tom once put it) "king dick", reply to this message.

Peace,

Justin<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[fish]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gui:
hearphones <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


??

[grim_fandango]

http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/confused.gif http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/confused.gif http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/confused.gif

[Sam603]

Well Justin It seems you are no longer Yadda Yaddaing here. You asked for good questions here. Well I have one for you. You wrote or should I say "borrowed" the region.txt file shipped with the winamp base skin. Now here is your question: How can one make the sliders in the EQ transperant and not the whole thing? I still want the base to show through.

If it isn't too much trouble would you care to answer this one?
If you are still alive that is.

If you are but don't want to answer. Just leave us a message to the likes of this:

"ON EXTENDED LEAVE - WILL BE BACK WHEN COWS START HIBERNATING"

or something of the sort.


Cheers!

[oblio]

no. sorry. [;

--tom

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gui:
Hi, no sound cards, i plug my hearphones directly on the cd.
i can listen to cds no problem,

is it possible to play mp3's via the cd-rom and the hearphones ?

if yes how ?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

[prodangle]

No wonder Justin hasn't yada yada'd here for so long, he asks for good questions about himself, not how do you do this questions that anyone in any other forum could answer, and probably has several thousand times if you bothered looking.
So Justin, does it annoy you that this forum is being used as a tech support place????, or are you more annoyed by moaning gits like me :rolleyes: :D

[Bilbo Baggins]

I think he is still laughing at us.

[user666]

I would like to talk to someone about using winamp in a commercial situation, please e-mail me at luke_callaghan@mbox.com.au. Thank you.

[XLR8]

Im certain this would be possible and for skin developers im sure it would sound excellent. ive seen recently a vb program source for a program that had an embedded shockwave flash file but what was good about it was that the flash file could control the program, clicking parts of the image could activate functions in the program.

Might be alot of work to implement but this would greatly improve the scope for skin designers as they could design flash files and place buttons wherever they fancy and include animation in the skin for mouseovers and button clicks etc. the art is vector drawn so it would make the main window resizeable and it would make for single file skins

Afterall if it can be done in vb im possitive it could be done in another language cos vb sucks donkey balls for sure (who knows maybe itll suck less in vb .NET but i skeptical) anyway this isnt a feature request just a thought i had but maybe youll decide to give it a look i think the sample source i saw was on planet source code

[meckenberg]

Did everyone in this forum just die or what???

[Winsane]

You mean you didn't hear?! Justin recently died of a severe case of the chicken pox.

[meckenberg]

Well at least someone is left...

[Poromenos]

Justin, why are you so lazy? There is SuperPiMP v1.0h on NSDN, SuperPiMP 1.0j on http://www.nullsoft.com and there is v1.1 somewhere I can't find it. Why don't you get your sorry ass off of WA3 development and upload this fine product? :)

[pHr34kY]

Hey Justin, I really dig the Alpha Blending in the AVS, the thought occurred to me that you should make the AVS have an option for always on top. If I can see through the AVS, it really won't be in the way when I'm working. It's just that I can't work and see the AVS at the same time, which kinda bugs me coz it looks so cool.

P.S, the API call to use is 'SetWindowPos'
The parameters should be like this:

SetWindowPos, avs.hwnd, 0, 0, 0, 0, &H3

I'm a Visual Basic programmer so this may not be exactly how to use it, but the parameters should make sense.

[saivert]

I found out about http://genghis.winamp.com from http://www.blorp.com and I have these questions/notes:

* Is this domain used for the Nullsoft members as a Homepage domain (ala: members.xoom.com) and can Justin, Francis, Christoph, Brennan (he has some WA3 stuff) make more content on these pages.?.?.
* Is this address going to last for ever?
* And (final question) is it open for others?

__________________________________________________
Saivert - my life is around computers, but I like
cool things though!

[Bilbo Baggins]

I think that you will find it is only available for the geezers up at head office in Winamp. Lucky Ba$tard$.

[xapec]

nullsoft really needs to make a remote administration tool, i'm sure you peple could make something great (maybee even better than sub7)

Nullsoft needs to make alot more programs than winamp/shoutcast. i have checked out some of your guys shit (sex is nice) I know wa3 has to be taking alot of time and i heard about nulldogg. any other progs in the making ?

[iamliquid]

"I think it's all pretty amusing.. you have companies trying to give the consumers what they want (music on their computers) in different ways (completely free (and stolen), free when you have the CD, etc)... and the recording industry which is scared shitless of hurting their CD sales. I don't think it's a result of the industry being corrupt, they're just scared. Probably some (but definately not all) of the RIAA's actions are justified. But mostly they're just running around with their heads cut off trying to figure out where to go." -Justin Frankel

I agree Justin :-) I have a document you might like to read... http://roguezero.com/thedopplereffect

V/R
Caleb

[Charmander]

Originally posted by Kai555
Justin, remember back in the day... back before the "new" default skin. Yea... so a real long time ago. Winamp use to have a cumulative song timer. It calculated all the minutes winamp played. It was on the about window. I can't find it there anymore, so I suppose its gone. But I think that little feature kicked ass and so do my friends. anyway... why did you take it out... I had thousands of minutes before... god knows how many I would have had now!

There Is a plugin for that Kai555

Its called the Winamp Play Time Counter its a gen plugin and its a wee bit advanced since then it displays miliseconds, seconds, mins, hours, days, months, years look in the general plugin pages it will surely be there. It is cool.

If you want to start from where you left off there is another general plug called resumer. right to the nanosecond of the borg time index/starfleet time index whatever you want to call it.

[bonnieburton]

I find it odd that an award-winning service that often likes to have featured themes in its front page has ignored a population that have given so much of themselves to the entertainment industry: MIDGETS.

Kid Rock understands the importance of having little people
in his shows, as do Blink 182. Not to mention the popular belief from one of the Winamp gurus (his names rhymes with Monothan) that all great films have had a midget character or a midget in the background, stealing the spotlight. Dare I mention "O Brother Where Art Thou" or "Time Bandits?"

So in light of this, my question still stands:
Will midgets ever get the props they deserve on Winamp?

[Bilbo Baggins]

So, a hobbit ain't good enough for you eh?

[JCHarper]

I'm having a CDDB problem, where one piece of software can't find CDDB information from another. From what I can see it's all down to where the files are stored and the format they are in. For example, I use CD'n'Go which gets CDDB data, it posts it to a .ini file here:

C:\WINDOWS\CDPlayer.INI

This file is also used by Windows standard CD player, so all data is picked up. Unfortunately Windows Media Player 7 uses a separate location again!

Winamp doesn't use an .ini file at all, but instead uses:

C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\IN_CDDA.cdb

I can't work out how to get them all to integrate, and it's a pain! Got any ideas?

[Xerxes]

i can see it now... "we reprezent, the lollypop guild!!!" 24 hours a day ;)

[Nabeel]

Originally posted by xapec
nullsoft really needs to make a remote administration tool, i'm sure you peple could make something great (maybee even better than sub7)

Nullsoft needs to make alot more programs than winamp/shoutcast. i have checked out some of your guys shit (sex is nice) I know wa3 has to be taking alot of time and i heard about nulldogg. any other progs in the making ?

Hey Xapec, i got this small time, home based software house, we made a Remote Administration Tool. and i'm puttni' up my site in a weeks time. u wanna try it out ?? ne one who's interested. it's pretty good. like sub7.

[disconnect]

on the subject of midget props:

i dunno, to me it all depends on what props exactly you choose to delegate to the little people population. for example, raising the roof is kind of out of the question, as that tends to be counter-productive.

har har har.

but i guess the closest thing you could get to midget radio on winamp right now would be to go napster some aaron carter mp3s. so nullsoft certainly seems to be falling behind in the fast-paced world of midget acquisition.

---
dan
http://www.disconnect.net/

[Bilbo Baggins]

I should start a small peoples campaign for rights if you all keep on at us...

[bass4ms]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I couldn't find a better place.

In your .plan you said that winamp 2.73 would be released soon and then I was looking for news on the next alpha for winamp3 on http://www.afterdawn.com (I do realize how hard you guys are working and that it takes time, I'm not complaining that there isn't a new version out, just curious about what bugs will be fixed) and I found a download for Winamp 2.73 (Full). I downloaded it and it looks real and the README talks about some updates, but there is no update on Winamp.com. Is this a real version (it works)and if it is, why isn't it on winamp.com?

Thanks,
Bass4ms

[NimrodFunk]

I was wondering if you were going to be doing any major changes in AVS. Although it is a lot more refined, I was just a little disapointed in the lack of shiney new features in AVS 2.4.0. I have a thread going with all my wishes here http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=43714. I was just wondering if these were the kind of things you may implement in a later version of AVS. Say when winamp 3 betas or something?

Don't get me wrong I'm not bitching, or I would have posted in the bitchlist forum, hehe. I am just a huge fan of AVS, and wanted to see if you could give a bit of a forecast on the future of AVS/WVS. You know, just a little VH-1-style behind the AVS shizz, hehe ;).

[yogi]

Tried e-mailing, no go Hey Justin, want to record cd's onto hard drive. Done this part
"You can also download Microsoft's Netshow tools, which
has an advanced (read: lower bitrates only) codec included
in it. It's about 4 megabytes, and free.
http://mskyus.www.conxion.com/msdownload/netshow/3.01/x86/en/nstools.exe"
Will this install itself into all the right places and can I then proceed?
Chris

[blckwidow]

.

[Bilbo Baggins]

That was an amazingly profound and deep post.

[yogi]

Oh yea! Verily a truthful and profound reply to my my question. Surely black widow has answered all my questions about life, the universe, and which fork to use. However, the really niggling little question about where to install so it will work ( and the poor thing only puts out 56kbs anyway, so maybe I'll just scratch it and start over.
Thank you one and all.

[prodangle]

Will Justin ever come back- or have all the tech support seeking and feature requesting knobs scared him away?? Just in case he does come back, I'll try and leave a thought here. At the Nullsoft.com site I noticed your giving away the source to a lot of your old stuff. What do you think of the open source movement? (Windows software too, I dont want to start up a Linux debate) Do you think you'll ever give away the source for any Winamp versions - and if you did do you think they'd get worked on a lot and progress any faster than Winamp is just now??

[WideEyed]

Hi Justin

... Hope this gets to you. Really sorry to bug you, but I figured you'd be the one to ask... A few minutes of your time and an explanation will ease my mind.

I'm running Shoutcast DNAS on a FreeBSD box and it keeps timing out because my cpulimit is 40 minutes max (and I don't have super user access to set it to unlimited). I have a crontab running to restart it every 41 minutes, but this is just a temp fix so my on-demand files will be available.

Is there a way to install Shoutcast it so it will run continuously like Real Server does?

This is driving me crazy...

[saivert]

What doest this C statement do:

char *s[30];
int i;

*s++=i // This one needs explanation.

Can anyone tell me what it does, and how it would look like in Object Pascal (Delphi) code?...

+ If time: Tell me some other C trick around this. Post it here and/or send it to saivert@email.com

[prodangle]

Yeah, bloody great - my signature looks just brilliant now!!

(this post will only make sense before I get round to changing it to suit this scheme)

[Xenophod]

I just started to pick up on php, and I have to say that it is much easier to run on a windows box than say, ActivePerl.
The scripts that I can write, really work!
So here is the question;
Is there some way the you can make php control winamp? That would be kinda cool.

Right now I'm using the WCC.exe cgi thing and it works pretty good. I just want to be able to change the play list from work.

[cigarette]

still smokin'

[bluekeydesign]

Justin.
What are your thoughts on after Winamp 3?
What comes next? Winamp3 is going to be perfect. what else is nullsoft going to do?
Jon

[a-arse]

I was just wondering If you were ever going to let us have 0.1a (the first winamp?) because that would be really good. :)

[ReCLaIM]

You know.. I dont know much about winamp.. but for some reason im posting this.. I like music thats all I know.. I dont know what to say.. or why Im here.. dont I have better things to do? damn.. ;) Hello Whoever reads this.. and have a great day.. I hope you all listen to some great music and program up some kewl shiznit for me to watch.. thanks..

~ ReCLaIM

[jns]

Want a Swedish mirror for download.nullsoft.com (http://download.nullsoft.com/)?

[iomegajaz]

I find it remarkably hilarious that this thread, the original "Justin's Yadda Yadda" thread, has been relocated to the Movies and Television forum.

WTF mates?

[ElChevelle]

I find it remarkably remarkable that you resurrected it after nearly 5 years.

[Phyltre]

Originally posted by ElChevelle
I find it remarkably remarkable that you resurrected it after nearly 5 years.

I, too, remark upon the remarking remarks of those above me.

[Sawg]

It wasn't moved. The forum was just renamed. We recycle here, damn it! How else would one of the newest forums here have a forumid of 6? :)

[sgtfuzzbubble99]

This thread is nearly six and a half years old... I haven't even been here that long. :igor:

[Tenster]

wow!
*utter crap spam*
regards, Tenster