WinAMP 2.x vs. WinAMP 3

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 6:42 pm

I agree with everyone here.. I had Winamp 3 for only a few days.. and then switched back to Winamp 2.81(latest 2.x version).
Version 3 is just too sluggish and I don't like most of their new features anyways..

As for version 3 being able to play videos.. go download the plugin called VidAMP. That's the best one for playing videos that I have found.

And how you all talk about AOL making Winamp so bad, I really don't believe it was them that did it. Nullsoft still runs Winamp, and AOL owns Nullsoft. But AOL just backs up Nullsoft financially..so they can keep producing new versions.

As for all the sluggishess, it's because it's so feature packed, and that's because they put in what the users want. Just go take a look at their request forums..

Dice599 · Post by **Dice599** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 6:52 pm

Yea but it's so easy to blame AOL for all our problems.

Plasma2002b · Post by **Plasma2002b** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 6:58 pm

AOL killed my dog!

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:56 pm

AOL can be blamed for everything that goes wrong Just like you can blame M$ and the goverment

Plasma2002b · Post by **Plasma2002b** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:28 pm

My grandma slipped on an AOL cd that was on the floor at the top of the stairs.................

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:32 pm

an aol cd almost set our house on fire..... (well that was after I lite the cd on fire but it all aol fault)

Plasma2002b · Post by **Plasma2002b** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:36 pm

well of course it was! i mean jeez.... if aol was ANYTHING they should have made their cd's fireproof........

what were they thinking?

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:43 pm

Plasma2002b wrote:well of course it was! i mean jeez.... if aol was ANYTHING they should have made their cd's fireproof........

what were they thinking?

I dont know. I mean they should know there people like me who like to see if things burn

jester22c · Post by **jester22c** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:09 pm

xWastedMindx wrote:And how you all talk about AOL making Winamp so bad, I really don't believe it was them that did it. Nullsoft still runs Winamp, and AOL owns Nullsoft. But AOL just backs up Nullsoft financially..so they can keep producing new versions.

As for all the sluggishess, it's because it's so feature packed, and that's because they put in what the users want. Just go take a look at their request forums..

How exactly do you know how much influence AOL has on how and who still programs for nullsoft? I guarantee that they have their hand in the code. If they were just "financially backing" them then there would be no benefit to aol at all. They are all about making money, and in any way that they can.

Also on another note (and Ryan can help me testify to this if he sees this thread): Adding more functionability to a program does not necessarily make it sluggish. There are proper and improper ways to allocate memory and to load and unload functions and modules within a program. The GUI itself accosts for a good portion of the wasted memory. Just look at the difference between WMP 6.x and 7. I use v6 with updated codecs and I can load it in a split second. Opening a full length movie (divx) takes all of a second and a half (I just timed it). Try that in v7 which is the same thing with a new GUI... you'll wait twice as long I guarantee it.

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:44 pm

I dont know a damn thing.. it just sounded good. And it makes it sound like I know what I'm talking about

But obviously you're on to me.. so maybe I'll just shut up now..

Gohan · Post by **Gohan** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 2:48 pm

DADINK13 wrote:
Timelessblur wrote:WMP9 what that?
Windows Media Player 9

i got that its way better than the rest, i had some cartoon clips and with wmp 8 it ran kinda slow when i played the clip on the 9 series it ran better and faster :p you ppl should get it

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 2:27 am

I like my old wmp 5.0 it was great work really well wiht my computer and all. I acciedtly upgrauded to wmp9. It was good and all but it no match for the old wmp5. My first taste of 9 though was on my laptop witch came with it.

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