All I can say is foobar 2000.
Yes you have to set it up yourself but once you do it is so
customizable that it can beat anything winamp can do. In fact, you
can manage multiple playlists at the same time, copy files from
windows explorer, and make your won hot keys for every single command
in the program including menu bar, context menus, now-playing context
menus, and many many more.
Here is an article
I have been a foobar user for over 4 years.
And yes, I still have winamp on my machine and use it form time to
time, probably because old habbits die hard. But if I have to do
anything for my radio show, or out in my living room where I have tv
shows, music, my Howard Stern live streams, karaoke files, and a
playlist for when particular guests are over. I can do all of this
inside of foobar without having to load playlists over and over.
The beauty part is managing multiple playlists in a tab style that
makes my life a lot easier.
Good luck to you though.
If you do find the article of interest, since it's written for the
general community I'd be happy to help you out figuring out
accessible ways of doing things that the article doesn't cover.
http://winamp2foobar.blogspot.com/
I hope you find what you're looking for!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Barry Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:03 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: The new version of winamp
Well whether Winamp is the best or not is a matter of opinion, but I
can say that I don't know of any other player which has all of the
features that I use on a regular basis. Just a few that come to mind
are:
1. Ability to play, pause, stop go back a track and go forward a
track with one finger of my left hand. This is important to me when I
use Winamp to stream and need to use my right hand to control my mixer.
2. The ability to move forward and back in five second increments
with one finger.
3. An option to stop playing after the current track in a playlist.
4. The ability to locate a track in Windows explorer and add it to
the Winamp playlist, either after the currently playing track or at
the end of the playlist.
5. The ability to search for a track in a playlist and move it to
after the currently playing track.
6. The ability to delete tracks from a playlist.
7. The ability to save a modified playlist.
8. The ability to cross fade tracks with a configurable plugin.
9. The ability to equalise the volume of all playing tracks with a
configurable plugin.
10. The ability to have title information show up in Edcast when
streaming.
11. The ability to find the length of a track in time as well as
being able to find out the elapsed time and time remaining of a
currently playing track.
12. The ability to select a sound card other than the default for the
output.
13. The ability to edit and modify ID3 tags in MP3 files.
14. The ability to review tracks in a playlist by arrowing up and down.
15. The ability to search a playlist for tracks containing key words.
16. The ability to press enter on a track in Windows Explorer and
have it start playing without the focus moving from Windows Explorer.
17. The ability to set a placemarker in a file when using JAWS.
18. The ability to set bookmarks for streams.
19. The ability to play a wide range of audio formats.
20. The ability to jump to a specific time in a track.
21. The ability to play the last few seconds of a track (possibly a
JAWS feature).
22. The ability to easily get information about streams and tracks,
such as the bit rate.
I'm sure there are other features that don't come to mind
immediately. If Dane or anyone else can tell me of another free or
low cost player which they know will doo all of the above as well or
better than Winamp, I would be willing to give it a try.
Thanks,
Barry Chapman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Dane Trethowan
Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2015 12:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: The new version of winamp
Well it won’t be the worlds best media player if its not accessible
will it <smile> and there are plenty of people who would dispute your
generalisation regarding Winamp being the World’s best media player.
On 24 Dec 2015, at 11:44 AM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
Winamp will always be the best player for screen reader users and
keyboard users so you are a very big lier. if the new winamp is
better and still accessable I would conciter using it but if not I
will just keep using version 5.66 Brian Sackrider
On 12/23/2015 4:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Don’t care any more as there are so many good alternatives anyway,
the best thing that every happened in the media player world was
the announcement made that development would cease on Winamp and as
yet I’ve not heard any convincing reason as to why anyone should
mourn the loss of this software.
If a new company has taken Winamp over and development has started
again then all well and good but I do think the player became far
too bloated is is very much over rated.
On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:16 AM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
<[email protected]> wrote:
its about time they released it
had no idea that they released a new version
On 12/23/2015 2:12 PM, Larry Higgins wrote:
Hello listers,
Just wanted to know if any of you have used the latest version of
Winamp from Radionomy? If so, how accessible is it with screen
readers? I found out that the there is apparently only two
versions, pro and light, and the pro is around $19.00.
I might consider springing for the Pro version if I knew that it
was actually worth it, or maybe another way of putting it, if it
wouldn't break all of my presets and WE scripts/apps. I'd far
rather use the old version for as long as I can, rather than
destroying a perfectly working Winamp listening environment.
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