Ah good old Windows Media Slayer. lol. Na dude. It's all good. I learned
that little joke from Hope Pavenmire. Remember her from Blind Cool Tech?
Yeah you're right why not just use Media Player? All though there are
lots of formats Media Player won't play. I don't think still today it
does Ogg Vorbus. But who really cares. No one seems to care about Ogg
Vorbus no more. I remember it being a big deal with the Plextalk PTR2.
Also Flac I don't think it does. Things like that could be why people
don't like it. As for the use of it I don't get what's people's beef
with Media Player. Or slayer as people like Hope called it. I use it
cause it's so easy and like I said for the SRS Wow inhancement. Use SRS
Wow on the right computer at the right settings and man it's glorious.
On 10/10/2018 4:40 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
The other thing I find fascinating about all this is that company’s who work
for blind people setting up computers and the like still insist on installing
Winamp and I obviously don’t agree with that.
The first reason being that we don’t really know what the future of Winamp is
apart from the fact that it really hasn’t been developed on a serious level for
quite some time.
What we do know however is that Windows Media Player is still being developed
by Microsoft.
Windows Media Player seems to be quite accessible and so to the question.
Why bother installing Winamp and making possible problems, why not just use
Windows Media Player which is installed by default anyway and save a great deal
of time and trouble.
On 11 Oct 2018, at 7:10 am, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
all I can say is download and use at your own risk.
On 11 Oct 2018, at 6:59 am, Brian Olesen <br...@blindkom.dk> wrote:
Famous media player Winamp new version with Windows 10 support leaks online
By Mayank Parmar - September 17, 2018
Winamp for Windows
Remember Winamp? The popular media player for Windows is expected to make a
comeback at some point. Winamp was launched by independent developers back
in 1997 and it grew quickly popular with over 3 million downloads in a short
span of time.
In a couple of years, Winamp became one of the most downloaded Windows
applications. The app was sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million but it later
acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Radionomy, the current developers of famous
Winamp promised that the app will receive a new update with several new
features.
A while ago, the developers published release notes of an update but no
downloadable package was available for users to try out. Winamp developers
promised major updates ever since it took over the company and we are still
waiting for that day.
It's an old and outdated app but it's still being used by millions of users.
A new version of Winamp, which was last developed on October 26, 2016, has
leaked online. Winamp 5.8 has been published by an unknown source and it's
not from the official developers.
It's also worth noting that VirusTotal scan generates two different warnings
for the app, so we are not including the link to unreleased Winamp update in
this article.
Winamp works fine on Windows 10
The Winamp 5.8 comes with several new features and improvements including
support for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
It is, however, worth noting that public and stable version of the app works
smoothly on Windows 10, but Winamp 5.8 is supposed to address compatibility
issues with Windows 10.
As noted above, this release of Winamp comes with several other
improvements. For example, there's a dedicated setting that lets you disable
Winamp's video support and the company has also fixed some bugs to improve
the overall performance of the player.
The current owner hasn't officially announced any updates for the app but as
the beta has just leaked out, there's a chance that an official statement
will be released soon. It's also possible that the developers are internally
testing a new and improved version of the app with better support for
Windows 10.
At this point, it's not yet known whether a new Winamp release is planned or
not. We are waiting for additional details from the developers and we will
update this article if and when a statement is available.
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