Which player is best for me?

[Tronic]

Originally posted by Eric Barker
No, why not WA3?

Honestly, for the life of me, I can't understand why everyone complains about WA3, the component system is beautiful, and you can run WA2 plugins through a free component addon. The libraries are neat, even if I don't use them very much. Some people say it's slow, I don't get it, it's instantanious on my computer. I have it run in my startup folder, and leave it in the background, and have had very few problems. Best of all over WA2, NO GAPS BETWEEN TRACKS. Sure there are those "gapless plugins", but none of them seemed to work all the time, plus they would create a 2 second buffer and lag playback for a bit. Naw, I don't see one possible thing WA2 has over 3, only reason why they haven't discontinued the old one is some stupid whiners don't like change. Either that, or there's some old features that WA2 has that I never used.

Oh, I don't know about visualizations though, I'm not into that sorta thing... if I want a multi-media experience, I'd rather watch something that was created to go with the music, not like a visualization or a music video that was tacked on later.

- Eric

WA3 *is* really slow (there's easily noticeable latency even in scrolling of the playlist, or going thru the preferences panels), can only load 8370 of my 13-thousand songs (when adding 'em in a single "add directory"), etc.

And yet, WA3, while adding all this new graphical stuff, still doesn't do a simple thing as separating file loading into another thread. The UI freezes for a long time on "add directory", just like it does on WA2. Professional software don't behave that way.

Oh, did I mention it eating up 31 megs of my memory and a fairly large chunk of CPU time?

It just is crap.

Btw, advanced crossfader does the gap removing pretty nicely on WA2 too.

And now that I remember, let's add some more "nice to have" features:
-AC3 S/PDIF pass-through playback (no, the WA AC3 plugin cannot do that yet).
-Randomizer that picks rarely played songs more often (so that doesn't always play the same songs).
-Randomizer OPTION that makes it prefer songs often MANUALLY played by user (because the user obviously likes those songs).
-Saving of playlist to disk when it is changed, not when program is exited (to prevent losing changes on a crash).