On 13 Jun 2003 at 15:26, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > on 6/13/03 2:43 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > > > On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 05:01 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >> Someone else wrote and suggested WinAmp, but that's infested with > >> spyware, as are all the more popular MP3 players, and I simply won't > >> abide having those kinds of things installed on my PC. > > > > Surely there must be some sort of bare-bones freeware MP3 player for PC > > that doesn't have all the spyware garbage? I mean, there are several > > of these for Mac, none of which have any spyware, and this despite the > > fact that iTunes is so good that there's very little demand for > > third-party MP3 solutions. It would be shocking if Windows equivalents > > didn't exist. > > Who told you that Winamp has spyware? It's possible that the 3.0 version > does, but it's a resource hog anyway. Winamp 2.91 > (http://classic.winamp.com) is what I use and have used since before version > 2.0. > > I've run Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com), the most potent anti-spyware > program for Windows, many times... It has never found a single one of > WinAmp's files to be at fault.
Well, every time I've ever run an AdAware scan on a machine with WinAmp it's fingered the Alexa extensions for Internet Explorer. Indeed, I just installed WinAmp3 and then ran AdAware and it found an new Alexa key. Also, Winamp wanted to phone home after the installation -- you were given no ability to say "No, I don't want to register," and even after hitting the ABORT button on the registration attempt, it *still* bumped up against my firewall. I've set my firewall to prohibit WinAmp from getting past it, and it's logging it and will tell me if WinAmp tries to do so. I hate the UI, it's ugly as sin, so I guess I'll have to install the frigging stupid skins (skins are such an abominably stupid idea and a colossal waste of time and energy for anyone) to see if one of them doesn't offend my eye. Also, the overal playback quality does not seem to me to be the same as what I was getting from QuickTime, which seemed to me to have a "silkier" sound to it. Too bad QT won't play without hiccups. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
