Well whether Winamp is the best or not is a matter of opinion, but I can say that I don't know of any other player which has all of the features that I use on a regular basis. Just a few that come to mind are:
1. Ability to play, pause, stop go back a track and go forward a track with one finger of my left hand. This is important to me when I use Winamp to stream and need to use my right hand to control my mixer. 2. The ability to move forward and back in five second increments with one finger. 3. An option to stop playing after the current track in a playlist. 4. The ability to locate a track in Windows explorer and add it to the Winamp playlist, either after the currently playing track or at the end of the playlist. 5. The ability to search for a track in a playlist and move it to after the currently playing track. 6. The ability to delete tracks from a playlist. 7. The ability to save a modified playlist. 8. The ability to cross fade tracks with a configurable plugin. 9. The ability to equalise the volume of all playing tracks with a configurable plugin. 10. The ability to have title information show up in Edcast when streaming. 11. The ability to find the length of a track in time as well as being able to find out the elapsed time and time remaining of a currently playing track. 12. The ability to select a sound card other than the default for the output. 13. The ability to edit and modify ID3 tags in MP3 files. 14. The ability to review tracks in a playlist by arrowing up and down. 15. The ability to search a playlist for tracks containing key words. 16. The ability to press enter on a track in Windows Explorer and have it start playing without the focus moving from Windows Explorer. 17. The ability to set a placemarker in a file when using JAWS. 18. The ability to set bookmarks for streams. 19. The ability to play a wide range of audio formats. 20. The ability to jump to a specific time in a track. 21. The ability to play the last few seconds of a track (possibly a JAWS feature). 22. The ability to easily get information about streams and tracks, such as the bit rate. I'm sure there are other features that don't come to mind immediately. If Dane or anyone else can tell me of another free or low cost player which they know will doo all of the above as well or better than Winamp, I would be willing to give it a try. Thanks, Barry Chapman -----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2015 12:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Subject: Re: The new version of winamp Well it won’t be the worlds best media player if its not accessible will it <smile> and there are plenty of people who would dispute your generalisation regarding Winamp being the World’s best media player. > On 24 Dec 2015, at 11:44 AM, Brian <n8...@att.net> wrote: > > Winamp will always be the best player for screen reader users and keyboard > users so you are a very big lier. if the new winamp is better and still > accessable I would conciter using it but if not I will just keep using > version 5.66 > Brian Sackrider > > On 12/23/2015 4:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: >> Don’t care any more as there are so many good alternatives anyway, the best >> thing that every happened in the media player world was the announcement >> made that development would cease on Winamp and as yet I’ve not heard any >> convincing reason as to why anyone should mourn the loss of this software. >> >> If a new company has taken Winamp over and development has started again >> then all well and good but I do think the player became far too bloated is >> is very much over rated. >> >> >>> On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:16 AM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona >>> <hank.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> its about time they released it >>> had no idea that they released a new version >>> >>> On 12/23/2015 2:12 PM, Larry Higgins wrote: >>>> Hello listers, >>>> >>>> Just wanted to know if any of you have used the latest version of Winamp >>>> from Radionomy? If so, how accessible is it with screen readers? I found >>>> out that the there is apparently only two versions, pro and light, and the >>>> pro is around $19.00. >>>> >>>> I might consider springing for the Pro version if I knew that it was >>>> actually worth it, or maybe another way of putting it, if it wouldn't >>>> break all of my presets and WE scripts/apps. I'd far rather use the old >>>> version for as long as I can, rather than destroying a perfectly working >>>> Winamp listening environment. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> ********** >> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the >> halfwits in this world behind. >> >> >> >> > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
