Winamp Finally Comes to Mac, Bringing Easy Android Music Syncing

[milo]

So I will take your complaints one by one:

- iTunes does not need to use multicore at all considering its goals and features

The features of iTunes include audio file conversions as well as video "Create iPod version" and the option to downsample all audio files to 128. Those are all much much much slower without multicore support.

- I see ZERO beachballs...

How nice for you. But you assume that's the case for everyone? And even if you don't get beachballs, if you change tags on a bunch of items you get a Processing window which locks out use of the app. Sure, that's better than a beachball but shouldn't it be able to do that in the background and let the user continue to do other things instead of locking up the whole app?

But I'm surprised (skeptical?) you're not getting any...not even if you drop in a few dozen audio files? A few hundred?

- and as you said, even more CPU-intensive tasks have been almost completely sped up by the 64-bit version

As I said, the 64 bit version had some improvements. "Almost completely sped up" has certainly not been my experience on multiple machines.

 

[John.B]

Does it come with an "optional" AOL 5.0 install?

I LOL'ed!

My first reaction to this being owned by AOL was whether they were going to randomly mail this to me on CD...

 

[IrishMafia]

Winamp Rocks!

i loved 1998.

All the great music was written in the 60's & 70's. Likewise, Winamp is Timeless !

 

[Bad Robot]

I loved Winamp too when I was a Windows user, I wont be using it on the Mac though. For me iTunes and VLC do everything I need on the Mac

 

[416049]

All the great music was written in the 60's & 70's. Likewise, Winamp is Timeless !

although the 80's and 90's had some great songs as well.

 

[SithTracy]

When it leaves beta I will likely give it a look.

 

[Frozzie]

For a second I thought I was looking at an article in early 2000s.

I am surprised as recent Mac converter that it never even existed in Mac.