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June 12, 2003
Stop using Winamp?
[Software] @ 11:09 PM

After all the work I have done on What's Playing, it looks like I will never get to use it myself. This is because I am considering to stop using Winamp 2/3 altogether. Foobar2000, an MP3 player sans all skins and visualisation plugins looks all set to replace my default MP3 player.

Whatever Foobar2002 lacks in a cool name and eye candy, it makes up in small footprint and feature support. However, let me warn you too. The minimalistic attitude continues into documentation, help, website and support. So, if you can't stomach some poking here and there, Foobar2000 is not for you.

Foobar2000 is written by a former Winamp2 plugin developer Peter Pawlowski. Its UI is geared around playlist creation. It supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, FLAC and Monkey's audio. Another rather eccentric feature is the non-support for ID3v2 tags. Support exists however for ID3v1 and APE tags. On a Windows XP machine Foobar2002 default install when running uses around 2,00KB memory while Winamp3 easilt takes up 4,000KB of it.

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1% of my brain is neither right nor left!
[Misc.] @ 02:10 PM

The verdict is in:
Auditory : 30%
Visual : 69%
Left : 58%
Right : 41%

With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.
- The Mind Media Brain Persuassion Test.

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Winamp 3 going into the background
[Software] @ 10:23 AM

It looks like Nullsoft, the makers of Winamp player is going to decide to push Winamp 3 to the background and bring back Winamp 2 as its flagship product for now and later on push "all the best features" of Winamp 3 into Winamp 2 and make Winamp 5 (2+3=5) or some name like that. Mainly this is attributed to the pretty bad user response to Winamp 3. Winamp 3 uses WASABI architecture to write and load plugins (called components in wa3 speak), but it has been a big beast and user have complained of slow startup and unnecessary features.

However, this does not mean the demise of Winamp 3. It will still be developed, but a bit deeper into the inner pages of winamp.com and may not see the light of day till mid next year. Discussion from the Winamp forum can be found here and here.

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