So, Winamp just decided to stop working for me lately. Long stalls at startup, random crashes and more. I still care a lot for you Winamp, and we’ve known each other a long long time, but I think we need to start seeing other people.
I’ve actually been using Foobar2000
for a while now. But it’s been sort of a special-purpose tool rather than a media player. I found some useful live show tagging utilities in it, as well as an AAC encoding method which I liked.
Well, I decided to give FB2K some more time. It is very configurable, and I like that. OTOH, it’s probably one of the most confusing applications I’ve ever used; mostly due to that flexibility. It has support for plugins, which they call “components”. They have a strange way of manipulating the appearance. The screenshot here shows something that took me probably a couple of hours to figure out. But sometimes that is ok. After all, I am a software junkie. This certainly gives me my fix!
Winamp is all about the flash. Foobar2000 is more of a minimalist approach. And it’s made for power users. What does that remind you of? That’s right, it’s very similar to the goals of the Psi project of which I am a part. So, with that in mind, I think I’m going to keep messing around with FB2k and see what all it can do.
(P.S. Try telnet://home.halr9000.com:3333 for fun.)
Yes, I know those topic icons look awful on black. I was in a hurry.
That screenshot reminds me of the cartoon Kicking the Llama. I would not be surprised that FooBar was inspired by it.
You don’t use foo-scrobbler.
My (retarded) plan was FOILED!!!
;_;
I do too use foo-scrobbler! You, as my solitary last.fm buddy, should know that.