Switched to mac -- missing winamp

[roadbloc]

To be honest... the clue is in the name. Winamp. For Windows. And probably always will be.
OS X has iTunes and that awful Songbird thing.

 

[johannnn]

Let me be clear about something here. 1. I use macs since they exist. 2. I use windows since it exist. 3. I use computers since macs and windows did not exist. I am nobody's fan. But I am mostly on mac simply because it is the most beautiful and worked-out UNIX shell made today.

But iLoones and WinBump are two different ideas of music use. I really do not care about 80% of apple stuff that has been dumped in iTunes in recent years to improve apple store selling of any kind. I do not use it and do not plan to use it which renders 80% od iLoones unusable to me. What makes me even more going away from it is the fact that for any kind of extended functionality it will in this or that way jump to Apple Store.... that is NAGGING. Why they do not admit that iLoones is NAG-WARE.

I really miss WinAmp functionality on the Mac. Honestly.

1. I want to organize my music files IN A WAY I WANT not according to the iTunes/iPod idea of organization. Because I LISTEN MY MUSIC on 3 different OSes. Apple, as much as you believe so, YOU ARE NOT ONLY THING IN THIS PART OF UNIVERSE

2. I want to name songs according to the content not according to the CD rip I have and apple store (iTunes really does not quite do it, winamp on windows QUITE DOES IT).

3. I want to listen files in the way I want it (nice try iTunes Genious or Smart lists, it resembles WinAmp but tend to clog, add list, remove list, add remove, search through the library, gets boring after a while, so i stick to one list and edit edit edit = tedious). Where is famous mac files Drag & Drop. Oh yes, it does it to the Library (not to mention what if I do not want to import - switch off, switch on copying the files to library). Consolidation? Better do not do it.... WinAMP here offers simplicity. I have about 150Gb of music AND I DO NOT WANT IT ALL IN MY LIBRARY ON MAC, I need my HDD space for other stuff. Not to mention that iTunes became mastodont of an application. It takes time to start. What additionally drives me nuts is ituneshelper background app both on mac and win. Yes it does help but it is 99.99% of the time useless waste of CPU.

4. WinAmp has itunes style of library, nice move, BUT, I DO NOT USE IT, because 1 (above).

So MP3 player not equal to iTunes.... Play is good http://sbooth.org/Play/ but it still tries to catch on iTunes kinda philosophy. Still waiting for simple list drag and drop folder MP3 Player with easily editable adhoc play list.

VLC? Just add it to the media library in the control window.

 

[grit]

Well.. apart from the fact that my homebrewn MP3 player above is made in Flash AS2 (and sometimes misses out on more difficult MP3 tags) - this player does just what you want; drop a MP3 (or a list) inthere and it will start playing. You can skip tracks and popup a queue.

Whenever I have the time I should convert it to AS3 with all the better file support in there because after all this time between the start date and current posts of this thread there's still no good alternative.

 

[Sparky9292]

To be honest... the clue is in the name. Winamp. For Windows. And probably always will be.
OS X has iTunes and that awful Songbird thing.

Back in 1997, Winamp was the first app that I played my first MP3 on. I remember being absolutely amazed that a file less than 5MB large could play like 50MB wav file. My love affair with it died when AOL bought it and bloated to Winamp3. At that point, i turned over to OSX and used iTunes and never looked back.