Current mood:

disappointed

Disappointment in the Ranks
I've used (and recommended) WinAMP for a long, long, long, long, long.. *ahem* (you get the idea), time. Of late, my partner and I have become very disapplointed with the once-faithful media player.

Over the last two years or so, WinAMP has gone under heavy structural redesign (as you can see in the new v5 'Modern' interface) and alot of changes and additions under the hood. The bane of our existance here is the (long-awaited-by-us) Enqueue features of Jump to File Extra, which is bundled along with WinAMP these days.

In a nutshell, we use it to add files to a tiny playlist queue (or as I do sometimes, load a "Here's one I created earlier" one) and then set WinAMP on it's merry way while we groove and do other shit.

Now, the problem stems from all these so-called features that are getting added to WinAMP these days. Some of the bugs we've encountered (and don't seem to be getting fixed, with support requests on the forums being drowned out by sheer volume);

• Keys not responding unless the playlist window is active, ZXCVB (Prev, Play, Pause, Stop, Next).
• Jump To File skins when it isn't supposed to, and when you do turn it on, it skins thin air unless you open it from the active playlist window (and still leaving the dialog unchanged).
• Auto Video Fullscreen and various other endorsed plugins DO NOT WORK CORRECTLY, attempting to fullscreen often results in it resizing the video window instead (and it's turned off) and the screen corrupting.
• And other annoyances too numerous to mention...

Jump to File Extra Skins Thin Air

After 6 years of using this program, I'm at a point where I am so fed up that I'm looking at moving to another media player for our entertainment needs. Any suggestions are welcome, but bear in mind that I am looking for a FREEWARE program. If all else fails, I'm going to write my own.

That's my rant for today, anyway.