# Winamp or windows media player

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by DJDoug (Generic Zoner) on Friday, 09-Sep-2005 23:31:46

Hey everyone, What's everyones favorite player of choice for music. Winamp or windows media player?
Let me know your answers, and why.

## Post 2 by silly_singer (The girl who's always lost in a melody) on Friday, 09-Sep-2005 23:38:28

Winamp! I just like it more! LOL

## Post 3 by Heavy Metal Girl 85 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Friday, 09-Sep-2005 23:52:10

definatly winamp because I well hmm I just like it? lol I've also heard people say that Windows Media player is not that good of a program.

## Post 4 by maddog (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 0:03:32

this topic has been moved to geeks are us, cause...well, you're asking about computer programs, and technical stuff, and junk...so, well, I felt personally, that it belongs in the geeks are us category!

## Post 5 by ArtRock1224 (move over school!) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 0:20:27

## Post 6 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 0:45:38

winamp all the way! hehehehe smile- angel

## Post 7 by blink183 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 1:18:28

Foobar 2000 all the way. It has a low footprint, support for many native file types, can be customized and scripted to display whatever you want, has support for replay gain (volume adjustment), and has advanced functions like mass tagging and renaming files from their tags. You can also completely change the interface if you want.

## Post 8 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 2:04:35

WinAmp. It's just easier and it's the bomb all the way.

## Post 9 by Telemachus (Death: the destroyer of worlds.) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 11:33:22

Winamp! Yes, my winamp has an issue where it decides to only play out of one speaker and I've not been able to fix it, but I deal. Why? Well... there's the winamp library, always a personal favorite of mine, and winamp's just awesome. So yeah, I'll deal with the one speaker thing. If anyone has any tips though, I'll entertain them.

## Post 10 by Brooke (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 12:17:54

Definitely Winamp! It may not be the easiest, but to me it seems like it's a better program.

## Post 11 by maddog (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 12:34:25

yo Tir, check your panning settings...I think you might've messsed them up, and that might be why it's coming out of one speaker. Ask me sometime when we're on ventrilo, if you want exact instructions on how to do it. Or, just read the help files, and the jaws help files for winamp.

## Post 12 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 13:10:00

john, all you have to do to change your pan settings is use the following key strokes. "ctrl H" and "ctrl ;" to pan full right or full left respectively. "ctrl J" and "ctrl L" to pan half right or left and "ctrl K" pans directly to the middle.
hope that helps.

## Post 13 by Witchcraft (Account disabled) on Saturday, 10-Sep-2005 21:16:42

Winamp all the way. I use to use only Windows Media Player, but when I learned that in Winamp it is a lot easier to setup and maintain play lists, open and play a folder if you have all your music in one folder like I do on my laptop or want to listen to one book, isn't as sluggish when listening to an Internet broadcast, can play more media types without a plugin; (referring directly to .ogg), has more keystrokes that work more often for jumping around a file; (including, skip 5 seconds back or forward in a file, jump to time or marker...), and just so much more that makes it better to use.

## Post 14 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Friday, 16-Sep-2005 6:12:37

windows media player.
the quality's better i think

## Post 15 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Friday, 16-Sep-2005 7:38:15

I like both but i usualy use winnamp. One thing i like about winnamp that media player hasn't got is that somebody can oppen more than one winnamp windows and mix tracks. In windows media player there is a crossfade feature but not accesible at all so for this particular feature winnamp is better. And if anyone wants to try that when one winnamp window is oppen press control+alt+n and a second window will oppen so somebody can mix tracks.
I hope you found it useful.
Nikos.

## Post 16 by Witchcraft (Account disabled) on Friday, 16-Sep-2005 7:59:54

Didn't know about that feature, but I've found another reason to prefer Winamp here lately...On my laptop Windows Media Player seems to lockup my system temporarily. It won't respond to the volume commands or anything, but Winamp runs just fine. I'm figuring it's probably do to the amount of memory resources most Microsoft products require...

## Post 17 by The Shuck Fitter (My name is Liam) on Sunday, 18-Sep-2005 8:48:44

I use wniamp for most everything. However, if foobar would support dsp plug ins, I'd be all over it. I use windows media to listen to a lot of hockey games through the year, but I choose winamp over everything else. Real player gets used only for football and basketball, otherwise it would be gone off this system!

## Post 18 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Sunday, 09-Oct-2005 15:49:03

It's me again. Just thought of something else.
When i have winnamp open and i try to do something else for example use msn messenger my screen reader doesn't seam to work very well. There are things that it won't read until i close winnamp.
That happens with jaws and supernova.
But with winnamp is very easy to create playlists. So again my oppinion is that both are good in their own way. Windows media is not accesible for crossfading, making playlists but the screen reader works ok if i have got it open and i am doing something else at the same time. And finaly with windows media player we can tern down the music without terning down jaws or supernova. With winnamp or real player if i tern the volume down it terns down the screen reader as well. If you want to tern down media player without effecting jaws or any other screen reader press f9 and 10 if you have got 9 and above or up and down arrows.
Nikos

## Post 19 by blink183 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Sunday, 09-Oct-2005 17:17:08

Foobar does support DSP plug-ins. Not all the plug-ins are hosted on the Foobar website. I doubt it has those compression ones that the Winamp people use, because Foobar users are purists and would never think to distort their audio by compressing it any further. It also doesn't support the Shoutcast plug-ins for broadcasting. Basically I use Foobar for organizing and playing my music, and Winamp for streaming podcast feeds and MP3 Pro files.

## Post 20 by Witchcraft (Account disabled) on Sunday, 09-Oct-2005 22:09:14

The newest versions of Winamp does turn down the volume of the music without turning down the system volume, or at least with WindowsXP, Winamp5.1 and Jaws5.1 this is so.

## Post 21 by tara (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Monday, 10-Oct-2005 2:42:46

I hate windows media player, I just find it really inaccessible and difficult to use. So, I use Winamp to play music, the only thing I don't like about Winamp is that you can't speak on MSN and have it running at the same time. But apart from that, it's alright.

## Post 22 by Witchcraft (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2005 3:26:35

Oh yes you can. Make sure Winamp isn't set to be on top of everything.

## Post 23 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2005 11:18:47

That's a good idea. I will try it.

## Post 24 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2005 11:26:34

Much better now.
Just go and uncheck the always on top option.
Nikos

## Post 25 by Witchcraft (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2005 18:37:52

Had the problem myself a while back, and remembered the fix so...*smile* Glad it helped though.

## Post 26 by spfan15 (O&A Party Rock!!!) on Friday, 14-Oct-2005 13:29:29

I like winamp because it is a lot easier to use. Not that many tabs. No tabs at all. But in windows media player you have to press tab to get ware you want to go and that is a pain in the ass because while you are listening to your music you have to press tab. So I like winamp.

## Post 27 by singingsensation (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 28-Jan-2008 11:08:23

I use winamp as well. Not only is it easier to use and more accessible for blind and visually impaired people, but it also plays more file formats, such as ogg. Which is good because a lot of my audio files are in Ogg format. I'd highly recommend Winamp. Although, I do use Windows Media Player to rip my music from CD's that I buy from the store.
Macy

## Post 28 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Monday, 28-Jan-2008 20:44:39

I like winamp better as well. Except for ripping, windows media player is a pain. I definitely regret updating to player 11.
2 winamp questions...
1. Has anyone tried pro?
2. Is there an easy fast way to get to my bookmarks? I use winamp a lot for listening to internet radio.
PS. Try real alternative for those that need realplayer.

## Post 29 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 29-Jan-2008 18:28:54

I really like winamp, especially, the global hotkeys support. Now you can have the player sitting on your system tray (displaying the title of the stream or the currently playing song) and control it remotely. For shortcuts, i use the regular playback controls with a control plus shift to them. So my hotkeys are as follows: play--control shift x; previous--control shift z; pause--control shift c; stop--control shift V. To forward and rewind I have control plus slash and contorl plus period respectively. To show or hide the window i have it set to control shift slash. I believe the bookmarks is inside the menu when you right click the winamp icon on system tray.

## Post 30 by cattleya (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Tuesday, 29-Jan-2008 18:41:24

Currently Winamp. It's easier to use in my opinion, and yes I've used Windows Media Player...Easier to do things like skip forward ETC. However, always willing to check out others I hear about...Going to look up one some time today, and also working on ideas and plans for writing my own. So, what I use depends on what I find the best, and always willing to try the new. *smile*

## Post 31 by lazy (Generic Zoner) on Wednesday, 30-Jan-2008 1:18:12

one thing i can't figure out is why alt-f is this big secret or something! when a friend recommended winamp and i first got it i couldn't use it at all! the alt key wouldn't go into the menus or anything! then i hit alt-a alt-b alt-c etc til i got to alt-f! why don't people tell people about alt-f before they get the program? anyway since i found alt-f i don't use much of anything else since media player doesn't have book marks and winamp does!

## Post 32 by TheLeslieThing (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Friday, 01-Feb-2008 10:35:12

well I like winamp better, because of how accessible it is. I've never tried windows media player, burt I've heard winamp is more accessible.
Leslie

## Post 33 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 01-Feb-2008 20:40:34

alt F? Thats the same as alt, then space, which opens up the system menu in any application. The system menu lets you minimize and maximize windows. Additionally, if you press enter on the nullsoft winamp option, then tab to keyboard shorcuts and performa click on any portion of the text, then read with normal keys, there is help available for keyboard shortcuts. You know what? in fact i'll just post them here.
sections are marked by 3 asterisks (stars). This list is quite long.
Straight out from winamp 5.1
Note that these keyboard shortcuts are a good starting point, but this list is far from complete. :)
******* Keyboard Shortcuts (these can be used in most Winamp windows) *******
Key Action
F1 Open Help
Ctrl+F1 About Box
Ctrl+A Toggle Always on Top (N/A in playlist editor and media library)
Ctrl+Alt+A Toggle always on top (playlist editor)
Ctrl+W Toggle Windowshade mode (main window, unless in playlist editor)
Ctrl+D Toggle Doublesize Mode
Ctrl+E Toggle Easymove (only applicable in classic skins)
Ctrl+T Toggle Time Display Mode
Alt+W Toggle Main Window
Alt+E Toggle Playlist Editor
Alt+G Toggle Graphical Equalizer
Alt+V Toggle Video Window
Alt+L Toggle Media Library
Ctrl+Tab Cycle through different Winamp windows
Alt+S Go to Skin selection
Ctrl+P Go to Preferences
Alt+F Open Main Menu
Alt+K Configure current visualization plug-in
Ctrl+Sh+K Start/stop current visualization plug-In
Ctrl+K Open visualization plug-in section of preferences
Ctrl+J Jump to time in current track
J or Keypad . Open jump-to-file box
Ctrl+Alt+N Spawn new Winamp instance
Alt+M Minimize Winamp
Ctrl+H Show recently played files/streams (History :)
******* Main Window Keyboard Shortcuts *******
Key Action
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(options/toggles)
R Toggle Repeat
S Toggle Shuffle
Alt+3 Current file info box/tag editor
(playback controls)
Z Previous Track
X Play/Restart/Unpause
C Pause/Unpause
V Stop
Shift+V Stop with Fadeout
Ctrl+V Stop after current track
B Next Track
L Open/Play File
Ctrl+L Open/Play location
Shift+L Open/Play Directory
Left Arrow Rewind 5 seconds
Right Arrow Fast-forward 5 seconds
Up Arrow Turn Volume Up
Down Arrow Turn Volume Down
Keypad 1 Jump Ten Songs Back
Keypad 6 Next Track
Keypad 5 Play/Restart/Unpause
Keypad 4 Previous Track
Keypad 3 Jump Ten Songs Forward
Keypad 7 Rewind 5 seconds
Keypad 9 Fast-forward 5 seconds
Keypad 8 Turn Volume Up
Keypad 2 Turn Volume Down
Keypad 0 Open/Play File
Ctrl+Keypad 0 Open/Play location
Insert Open/Play Directory
******* Playlist Window Keyboard Shortcuts *******
Key Action
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
R Toggle Repeat
S Toggle Shuffle
(file io)
L Add File
Ctrl+L Add Location
Shift+L Add Directory
Ctrl+N New (Clear) Playlist
Ctrl+O Open (Load) Playlist
Ctrl+S Save Playlist
Alt+3 View/Edit Track Info for selected track(s)
Ctrl+E Edit Selected Track Filename(s)
Ctrl+Keypad 0 Add Location
Insert Add Directory
(playlist manipulation)
Ctrl+A Select All
Ctrl+I Invert Selection
Delete Remove Selected Files from Playlist
Ctrl+Delete Crop Playlist
Ctrl+Sh+Del Clear Playlist (same as Ctrl+N)
Alt+Down Arrow Move Selected Files Down
Alt+Up Arrow Move Selected Files Up
Down Arrow Move Cursor Down
Up Arrow Move Cursor Up
Enter Play Selected File
End Jump to End of List
Home Jump to Start of List
Page Up Move up by a fifth of a page
Page Down Move down by a fifth of a page
Alt+Delete Remove missing files from playlist
(playlist sorting)
Ctrl+Sh+1 Sort Playlist by Title
Ctrl+Sh+2 Sort Playlist by File Name
Ctrl+Sh+3 Sort Playlist by File Path and Name
Ctrl+R Reverse Playlist
Ctrl+Sh+R Randomize Playlist
Most main window playback controls also work in the playlist editor.
******* Equalizer Keyboard Shortcuts (Classic skins only) *******
Key Action
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 - 0 Increase EQ bands 1-10
Q - P Decrease EQ bands 1-10
` Increase EQ Preamp
TAB Decrease EQ Preamp
N Toggle EQ Enabled
A Toggle EQ Auto-Loading
S Open Presets Menu
Ctrl+S Load Preset