I finaly found the better playa !
 

Ive used Winamp for the last few years, but I was getting sick of the slow minibrowser, visualizations and other shit. And my CD collection was through the roof !
Yesterday I found this program though, it promises easy fast access to your entiere collection "on-one-click"
Check out man !
www.nautrup.com/pex (a slow link, but theres a fast 50Mbit download mirror in there sm where)
Theres also a open code thing in there, but I dont know nothing about that !

Now why did you need to post that? You could have just ignored the community, as it is your first post, and left us to it.

there is no player that does what WA can do. OK, let's look at Play[ex]'s selling points:
"playlists can be saved and loaded"
"it's blue"
hmmm, WA can be blue too, in fact, mine is at the moment. And, last time I checked, WA can save and load playlists too. All WA is lacking is a search function, though i am sure ther is a plugin out there.
conclusion - pointless thread.

ok !
 

Hey no intend to be unpolite !
Just wanted to show you da program, sorry

But you don't post an irrelevant program on the WA boards.

If the guy wants to post a link to a program he found, then let him.

I have to agree. He has a right to post here. We dont have to agree.

Winamp Rules!

~ Missy

ok. I tried out the player and actually was quite impressed. It is indeed a very good audio player. Of course I'm judging it on the grounds as its just a guy in his room who wanted to make a media player and after a lot of long hard work and revision, this popped out.

But from a professional stand point, it doesn't even come close to Winamp. It's just far from complete. But keep in mind, Winamp has had YEARS behind it's belt. I figure, give this player a few years and it may indeed be able to compare to winamp. It's definetly on the right track.

I'm never opposed...
 

... to checking out the competition.

What's wrong with him posting that up? People will use whatever player they find the best anyways. It's not like we're all sitting in a hole plugging our ears chanting "winamp, winamp, wianmp" (okay, maybe but that was only once, ok?).

I like to try out other progs, and so far, all it does is re-enforce my belief in Winamp's superiority.

Winamp doesn't need protection by any of us. Anyone who take the time to learn to use it will recognise it's great versatility and smooth operation, competition from other programmers can only help Winamp to remain innovative and up-to-date..


Anyways, that's my 2 cents

Re: ok !
 

The problem is not that you posted a link to another "playa". The problem is you titled this thread "I finaly found the better playa!", which is inaccurate and presumptuous.

If you had titled your thread "Please check out this new player", or something equally diplomatic, I think you would have been met with less or no hostility. Just a thought.

Accept 100% :)

heh ! Point taken !
 

I just get kinda impressed by the slick desing N speed ! :) But yeah it is kinda "start-up-like"
But I just LOVE opensource, and the abillity to get stuff done fast. Think Winamps getting abit "to-big"

Sorry for my in-deplomatic way !

Mr. Mang, what you are trying to do here is persuading a 40,000 strong crowd of winamp lovers to change to a program that has nothing over winamp. sorry mate, but YOU LOSE.

If he had added Goatsecx...

i think its really a step back...

winamp does have a search feature, try pressing "j". may not be as complex, but it'll work. winamp 3 promises a better search.

Winamp3 also promises to take your girl out to a real swank place, bang her six ways from Sunday, and have her back before suppertime. Whether it will live up to it's promises is another issue.

Nice on xenofex. ;)

Anyway, I meant he could post the link, but shouldn't have posted the link and claim it was Winamp's superior. Thats all.

I don't know 'bout that.
Winamp took my girlfriend out and I haven't seen 'em since.

the things a piece of crap!

got nothing but errors- :mad:

here's the new playa in all its glory, notice how beautifully it displays a random f*ed up code, and how the main buttons and functions like to disappear from the other windows while its showing off how f*ed up it really is .... where can i sign up to buy this thing? :rolleyes:

Sorry you couldt use it
 

I guess your computer is fucked up a bit, never had any problems with this software !
Anyway yeah it has feactures Winamp miss, have you even tryed the catalog function ? tryed to scan some CDs and Hardrives ?
Or what about load time. Try to smack 3 weeks of music in Winamp (BAM its dead).
I for one like this software better, if you dont im sorry I postet here. Just forght that you where abit more open mindet !
->Angry man with the screenshot. You ourgt to mail the Creators about that error you get, they correct the program on a DAILY bases.

Re: Sorry you couldt use it
 

angry man? hmm, i guess thats me ... i won't bother reporting it, since i've already trashed the thing, if anyone else wants to mail the creators be my guest . . . i'll stick with my sexsay winamp thank you very much

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Mr Mang:

Some of us have tried to politely deal with you. However, your last post was rather rude. I tried PlayEX. The only good feature it has is that it loads large playlists fast. Most people who have even a tiny fraction of a life, don't really give a shit that you can load "3 weeks of music" into a playlist quickly. Other than that, it doesn't really offer much. It isn't skinnable, it's ugly, it doesn't have an equalizer, etc. And how do you load a single file? Or a selected few? Who needs a "Scan" feature? I don't have my MP3's scattered all over my HD. I know where they are.

This thing needs a lot of work before it even comes close to Winamp's quality and features.

Sorry!

The player is ok, it does what it's supposed to do, but it isn't gonna stay long on my computer because I do not really need 2 mp3 players on this computer, if I wanted multiple mp3 players I would pick Sonique over this, the "playa" lacks (good) visualizations and just isnt as good to look at than winamp.

As for posting it here, I think it's fine as long as it isnt shareware or something you have to pay for, and don't say it's "better", just post it here and let the members decide. :)

[rallyist]death to all those that apose winamp[/rallyist]

[cold-mean]resistance is futile the llama will asimilate you[/cold-mean]

*omit puts a scratch on the useless posts board

Your right, my girlfriend missed supper, but they say that it's getting better

About the search, wa3 has a great internal databasing system, and writing an amazing search plugin should be easy, it would be just issuing commands to the UI and to the databasing system. Oh, and it can hold 3 YEARS of music and in the media library and to create a complete playlist from this just takes a double click on the "all music" button and its done in a fraction of a second.

Mr. Mang, here's a really good player you might want to check out -

The "Real" Playa

let me know what you think :D

Nice on Boplicity! :D:);)

Winamp 3 Alpha ?
 

Just checked out WA3, is this somekinda joke ?
It is really slow, not just a bit slow. But not usable. I tryed to add 5 GBs of music to the database (just my small mp3 harddrive). It addded all the tracks of Air - 1000 Hz as Albums. And after 3 minuttes I killed the program from task manager. Because it still was doing something. I donno. I dont know waht it was up to. But why should it be THIS slow ? Compared to Play[EX] that scanned this drive on 15 secs. This is unbareble..
And maybe its just me, but isst this player a drawback from the old WA ?
Old WA and Play[EX] uses 0-4% of my CPU, WA3 uses 5-11%
Ehh ?

The reson I changed player was because I wanted my hole music collection close to me. But now that I see WA3. I realise it was a wise desition after all !

;=)

Winamp3 isn't in public distribution yet. It's not even in beta. 2.77 is just around the corner (check post http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....threadid=61373 by Wish for confirmation). Of course it uses more memory and processor time, they haven't optimized yet. They aren't even done adding features/fixing bugs to 2.xx.

Also, WA3 is meant to be much, much more than a music catalog. So if it doesn't yet meet your needs don't use it. No one is forcing you to. What alpha did you use to add your music with?

Play[EX] needs a lot of time before it will compare to Winamp 2. It has one feature over Winamp, in that it can catalog quickly. Winamp 3 also needs time to develop, but here's a thought:

Why don't you use the catalog function in Play[EX] and keep Winamp2 around until Winamp3 is up to par (and it will be!)

Or try this program: Hyperion

Which does a nice job at cataloging everything you have, and will work with MP3 players other than Winamp2/3.

-=Gonzotek=-

[EDIT] Latest version of Hyperion located off-site (not winamp.com). Fixed the link.

Re: Sorry you couldt use it
 

I have NEVER had any trouble loading my harddrive full of music on Winamp. Acually, I haven't even gotten an error from Winamp...EVER.

Hyperion wount do
 

But yeah thats a good idea ! To use both Play[EX] and Winamp at the same time. Actually I found out that the old version of Play[EX] was usng Winamp to play its music. I for one just think that this player is better ;) (Play[EX] that is )

y'have to give Mr.Mang some credit - his first thread and it gets over 30 replies! even if they are for all the wrong reasons...