User Reviews and Votes for Winamp

Details: GOOD

Submitted by patko19 on 18-Aug-2004 11:02:33

Submitted by Sean on 18-Aug-2004 11:17:37

Submitted by Martin on 20-Aug-2004 01:14:20

Submitted by arch on 20-Aug-2004 14:54:34

Summary: Best I've used

Details: Having used various window-based media players, winamp's been the one I've stuck with the longest and undoubtedly will be the one I'll always use. I've upgraded to the Pro 5 version and with the utilities and functionality it brings to the table, I can't see myself going back to anything else.

Pros: Huge list of things it can do, very good UI, quality is very good.

Cons: Not the easiest to use if you're not savvy with programs like this.

Period used: 4+ years

Other products used: Too many to list.

Submitted by Todd Keller on 20-Aug-2004 18:12:10

Submitted by Darren on 21-Aug-2004 03:17:14

Summary: It is good

Details: It is good i like it

Submitted by Jesse on 21-Aug-2004 15:42:50

Submitted by John on 22-Aug-2004 02:14:58

Submitted by Kinsley Ogunmola on 22-Aug-2004 03:06:34

Summary: Very user friendly

Details: Til the version of 2.93 Winamp has amasing sound quality.

Pros: Quality of sound, user interface, plugins support

Cons: Not much net TV and radio channels.

Period used: 6 Years

Other products used: Win mediaplayer, Radlight,

Submitted by borru on 23-Aug-2004 10:18:59

Summary: No problems with it

Details: The company allows this one. Use XMMS at home.

Period used: Jan 2003 - present

Submitted by Don Nutter on 23-Aug-2004 10:26:52

Summary: I just love it

Period used: + 4 years

Other products used: Windows Media Player, iTunes, Real Player

Submitted by Fermin Uribetxebarria on 23-Aug-2004 17:23:52

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: Windows Media

Submitted by Bob Wooten on 23-Aug-2004 18:56:55

Submitted by chuck on 24-Aug-2004 08:12:44

Summary: I use winamp for less clutter

Details: Though the interface has become noticably more bloated over the last few iterations, Winamp is still customizable enough so that I can get the basic controls, song information, and playlist information without the player hogging up a ton of screen space. With Foxy Tunes its even better because I can minimize this already svelte player and have the most needed controls available at all times since I rarely close my web broweser.

Pros: Streamlined interface on a more than capable player.

Cons: Overall program seems to be getting more bloated in an effort to mimic WMP and other widely used players.

Period used: 6 years

Other products used: Windows Media Player, XMMS (linux), ITunes

Submitted by ken on 24-Aug-2004 10:09:28

Submitted by Grygera Lukas on 24-Aug-2004 17:07:03

Details: Best player!!!!

Submitted by Mister Really on 25-Aug-2004 09:33:16

Pros: Shoutcast playlistings

Cons: GUI Layout, Settings Layout

Period used: so many years...

Other products used: wmp, qt, others

Submitted by none on 25-Aug-2004 19:07:49

Summary: Winamp Supreme

Details: MusicMatch is cool if you don't have too many files (it gets pretty slow if you have 5000+ tunes). Musicmatch also uses FhG mp3 encoding, which I don't like as much as the Lame encoder for Winamp. Windows Media player has a clunky interface and encourages overly intrusive Digital Rights Management. I don't like iTunes encouragement of the AAC codec, either.

Pros: Fast, very configurable, lots of control, Lame encoder

Cons: Too complicated for newbies

Period used: 5 years

Other products used: MusicMatch, iTunes, Windows Media Player

Submitted by Carl Stephenson on 25-Aug-2004 21:54:19

Submitted by Antony Stubbs on 26-Aug-2004 02:17:59

Submitted by Elliot Heffer-Lawson on 26-Aug-2004 22:27:09

Submitted by 132 on 27-Aug-2004 13:42:05

Summary: l337 player man

Details: ub3r l337

Pros: ease of use. Many features. Audio reproduction is good

Cons: Non i can think of

Period used: couple of years

Other products used: Sonique, WMP, iTunes, MusicMatch JukeBox, other misc players

Submitted by Nigel on 27-Aug-2004 19:57:11

Submitted by Anonymous on 28-Aug-2004 10:45:44

Summary: Great Extension

Details: It's great while surfing and, afterall, easy to use and to install. Keep Up This Great Work

Pros: Easy To Use, Quick, not ressource-hungry

Cons: None at the moment

Period used: about a week or so

Other products used: I normally use the Player integrated in WinBar (www.winbar.nl)

Submitted by Max Leiner on 29-Aug-2004 15:06:43

Submitted by Sixer on 31-Aug-2004 12:52:09

Submitted by lucky on 31-Aug-2004 13:28:46

Summary: the best of all

Submitted by support for foxytunes on 31-Aug-2004 13:39:12

Summary: the best of all

Period used: many years

Other products used: windows media player (sucks)

Submitted by vote for foxytunes on 31-Aug-2004 13:40:20

Summary: great

Pros: Everything is great about this player..prefect

Cons: It has none

Other products used: All

Submitted by ReDX on 01-Sep-2004 01:57:55

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: wmp/meadiasource/ati multimedia player/real/

Submitted by ramond karon on 04-Sep-2004 11:42:45

Pros: sound quality/lots of features/supports many files

Submitted by ray on 04-Sep-2004 11:53:09

Submitted by Simon Bttig on 04-Sep-2004 16:36:52

Details: I love your extension :)

Submitted by rADo on 05-Sep-2004 07:11:42

Summary: Would use anything else

Details: Does everything you could possibly need your media player to do including manage your iPod.

Pros: Stable, Does Everything

Cons: non that I can think of

Period used: winamp itself at least 4 yrs

Other products used: itunes, musicmatch

Submitted by bob on 07-Sep-2004 11:43:34

Summary: Great Product

Details: Everyone knows WinAMP. Does everything I want it to (except cook me dinner).

Pros: The Amount and variety of plug-ins

Cons: Used to have a habbit of crashing on me

Period used: WinAmp about 3 years, this ver, about 3 days

Other products used: nil

Submitted by Daniel Johnston on 10-Sep-2004 04:30:39

Period used: 6 yrs

Submitted by Pedro on 10-Sep-2004 19:01:50

Cons: Owned by AOL; Collects info about you and uploads it to AOL's spy database

Submitted by Ian on 11-Sep-2004 02:15:19

Submitted by F Douw on 11-Sep-2004 04:03:07

Submitted by septyni on 11-Sep-2004 07:52:56

Summary: Great audio (really kicks MS Media player), but not as pretty

Details: I like the user interface to MS Media Player, but the audio stinks compared to WinAmp; this is a machine specifically built to be part of the hifi, so it's playing through a serious amplifier / speaker setup (Denon / Tannoy). On the TV, the user interface to WinAmp is hard to read, though replacing the skin helped a lot. However, the audio is rich and detailed whereas MS Media Player sounds "tinny"

Pros: Great audio, good support, free

Cons: Not the best UI

Period used: 4 years, periodically

Other products used: MS Media Player 8, 9, 10

Submitted by Pete on 12-Sep-2004 04:02:14

Submitted by Sander on 13-Sep-2004 02:54:36

Summary: The Greatest Media Player Around >=)

Details: Simple user interface, tons of skins, updated regularly, tons of plug-ins and visualizations. Compact when you use it in WinShade mode, consumes very little CPU usage.

Other products used: Windows Media Player 8,9, & 10 , Musicmatch Jukebox, RealOne Player, Irfan View, Foobar 2000, Media Player Classic, Cool Player, Jet Audio, VLC Media Player

Submitted by Gabriel A. on 15-Sep-2004 00:18:23

Summary: Best freeware there is.

Details: If you have to find better freeware than winamp, then i think you'll have to wait until armageddon happens. Unbloated, yet full of features, easy to use, v.light in processing and memory, v.customisable, all add up to the best audio player there is around. Too bad the good company behind it is AOL, aaah the good times when its tottally freeware without any commercial purpose of the development

Pros: All u can ask from a media player.

Cons: its an AOL

Period used: 6 years

Other products used: zoomplayer, wmp, realplayer, quintessential player, foobar2000, noatun, xmms (sucks big time), media player classic, bsplayer

Submitted by bleedingpegasus on 15-Sep-2004 11:17:33

Submitted by Bill on 15-Sep-2004 19:20:41

Summary: Winamp 5 works.

Details: It does the job... from playing streams to media on my PC it does not complain. I also like the new video stations in Winamp 5. I've tried others and come back to Winamp. Peace.

Pros: Ease of use, less crashing.

Cons: Occational lock-up

Period used: 3 yrs

Other products used: most all of those listed in this forum.

Submitted by danboarder on 15-Sep-2004 20:58:27

Pros: Small, Simple, efficient...great interface

Cons: Playlist editing isn't great

Period used: Many years...from winamp v.1 on up.

Other products used: iTunes, MM Jukebox

Submitted by Evan Life on 16-Sep-2004 03:03:24

Summary: Winamp is the ultimate in media players everywhere

Details: with 5.05 Pro you can burn sudio cd's play almost any format with the addition of plugins available at winamp.com\plugins you can use both winamp modern and classic skins and you can create your own as well

Pros: very stable. unlimited skins and plugins

Cons: very few annoying bugs

Submitted by JB on 16-Sep-2004 16:20:55

Submitted by Peter on 16-Sep-2004 19:56:52

Summary: It's good.

Details: No, really. It's good.

Pros: Ease of use.

Cons: Registration necessary for mp3 encoding.

Period used: 2 years+

Other products used: Real Player, WMP, Musicmatch Jukebox, TDK Digital Media Player.. Lots more.

Submitted by Ninxmz on 17-Sep-2004 07:48:36

Summary: One of the Best mp3 players

Details: I have used many media players and this one is the best for mp3. It can play most any audio files and now it can play video files too. Overall it is a good player. But I would not use it to play videos. The player needs a little more work. They could make it load a little more faster.

Pros: Easy to use, many formats

Cons: weak video player, slow on old computers

Period used: 4 years of many versions of winamp

Other products used: Windows Media Player, itunes, realplayer, quicktime,

Submitted by Jay Zed on 17-Sep-2004 12:21:04

Submitted by Allen on 18-Sep-2004 02:39:16

Submitted by Giacomo on 18-Sep-2004 10:38:25

Submitted by Bryan on 18-Sep-2004 17:55:40

Submitted by John Doe on 19-Sep-2004 01:09:07

Submitted by asdf on 19-Sep-2004 05:07:59

Submitted by Harry on 19-Sep-2004 08:40:56

Period used: about 3 years

Other products used: yes

Submitted by bestgamer on 19-Sep-2004 14:19:52

Submitted by Marina on 19-Sep-2004 16:43:48

Details: -Accept any modern format -Easy to control (Global hotkeys support) -Nice...

Pros: Easy managing playlist and administrating media (media library)

Cons: meh...... nothing!

Period used: Since 2.0 appeared

Other products used: Sonique (dismissed..) , MPlayer 8 & 9 (Too heavy in memory, hard to manage playlists)

Submitted by Marcelo Andrs on 19-Sep-2004 18:09:15

Summary: Suh-weeet

Details: I like it because it's been since THE beginning of internet music.

Pros: LIGHT

Cons: OLD

Period used: LIFETIME

Other products used: Sonique, Real Player, Windows Media Player

Submitted by Rolando Garza on 19-Sep-2004 20:38:17

Summary: Winamp is still the best there is

Details: There simply isn't a choice in Windows! Friends do not let friends use WMP!

Pros: Free, it just works, no DRM bullshit

Cons: Window is not resizable

Period used: From the beginning

Other products used: WMP, iTunes

Submitted by TM on 20-Sep-2004 09:14:18

Summary: Excellent Player!!

Details: Easy to use, lots of features and ability to add extensions to it.

Pros: Many Features, powerful, free.

Cons: Too many features to handle when starting to use it.

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: Real One player 10, Music match jukebox, Windows media player.

Submitted by mark84 on 20-Sep-2004 11:45:41

Details: tons of skins, herds of plugins, and such a charisma, this is the definitive mp3 player to me (except maybe xmms when using *nux)

Pros: i use it since 96

Cons: why change a killer but lightweight player

Period used: years

Other products used: lotsa

Submitted by dge on 20-Sep-2004 18:31:46

Summary: Simply the best that I know

Pros: easy to start, powerful and customizable. Great new Media Library module.

Cons: Cannot handle different movie subtitles files.

Period used: About 6 years.

Other products used: Realplayer, windows media player, Sonique

Submitted by panchollepasa on 21-Sep-2004 07:06:21

Summary: simply the best

Details: Winamp has been around since the beginning, and will always be

Pros: simplicity

Cons: doesn't have all the fancy features of media player

Period used: 6 years

Other products used: many

Submitted by justin on 21-Sep-2004 08:33:25

Submitted by TolgaKing on 21-Sep-2004 13:47:43

Submitted by GeminiServer on 21-Sep-2004 18:39:27

Pros: LightSpeed fast

Period used: 3 years +-

Submitted by gil on 21-Sep-2004 18:45:31

Other products used: WMP, Real, PC Media Jukebox

Submitted by Christopher Meyer on 21-Sep-2004 19:25:42

Pros: Nice features

Cons: A bit resource intensive

Period used: 7 years

Other products used: Several

Submitted by Jonas on 22-Sep-2004 04:36:46

Summary: 5 for 5

Details: I know people drone on pro or con on WinAmp, and their image is well-tailored, which is kinda lame, but it works well, it has untold thousands of kids skinning and programming for it, and the willingness of it's core developers to experiment and share those experiments with the public is a joyous thing.

Pros: Simple, strong public commitment

Cons: Poorly organized skin/app end of website

Period used: At least 4 or 5 years now.

Other products used: mediamonkey, musicmatch, WMP, iTunes, realone, deck-deck

Submitted by Shoes on 22-Sep-2004 09:16:00

Submitted by Mike on 22-Sep-2004 21:05:59

Submitted by David Sheen on 23-Sep-2004 01:26:53

Submitted by Harry on 23-Sep-2004 04:10:29

Submitted by Antti Peisa on 23-Sep-2004 09:18:57

Summary: Excellent, intuitive, feature-loaded without being obstrusive

Details: An impressive improvement over previous versions of WinAmp; the new extended enqueue feature is richer than in Winamp, albeit a little more complicated. Great default skin, sleek enough to keep.

Period used: 8-9 years

Submitted by John on 23-Sep-2004 15:20:33

Details: 2/7 Stars Class Not Cuz It Sucks-But Only Cuz It Can Be 1000 Times Better Than What it Is Now! It's Already A Great Extension/Now Is Time To Polish This And Make It Be The Standing Out Star Cheers Allan

Pros: The First And Exclusive Mozill Firefox's Web Browser Media Player

Cons: It Doesn't Have As Many Features As Winamp-JetAudio Or XMMS Players Do

Period used: 10 Minutes

Other products used: Winamp-Jet Audio-QCD-CoolPlayer-XMMS-

Submitted by Allan on 23-Sep-2004 17:47:17

Summary: Hey This Wasn't Bout Foxy!

Details: Winamp May Be Nice Looking Full Of Lame Options But It Could Never Win A Match Vs OS Players/ I Rather Have Cool Plyer With Its Few Limited Options But There's One Thing I'm Granted From That Player/ Saudy-AOL Black Ships Won't Bother Me With TCPS Sucking On My System! Cheers Allan

Pros: Free Fully Configurable Spyware Engine [Sucking Privacy Device]

Cons: You Have To Pay For It To Suck From The Net Pipes

Period used: 4 Years Period [2000/04] & No Longer Using It

Other products used: Jet Audio-QCD-WMPSucks-CoolPlayer[Current]-MusicMatch-RealPlayer-BsPlayer-WPC-XMMS

Submitted by Allan on 23-Sep-2004 17:47:17

Submitted by Steven Fackler on 23-Sep-2004 19:17:51

Summary: WinAmp pwnz.

Details: I like WinAmp, and this extension is great.

Pros: Many

Cons: Dunno

Period used: 3 Years (from WinAmp 2)

Other products used: WindowsMedia

Submitted by Nirvelli on 23-Sep-2004 23:02:52

Submitted by Pablo on 24-Sep-2004 02:49:00

Pros: SMART SIMPLE AND RUGGED

Cons: NIL

Period used: I YEAR

Other products used: MICROSOFT ABOMINATION

Submitted by ANDY PRITCHARD on 24-Sep-2004 04:29:19

Summary: WinAmp 5 is simply the best

Details: I have tried many media players but WinAmp have been always the easiest to use, the most customizable and the fastest to run and play. The new WinAmp5 is truly amazing with it's great skins.

Period used: 5 years

Other products used: Windows Media Player, RealOne Player, MusicMatch Jukebox, Sonique

Submitted by Vladislav Slavov on 24-Sep-2004 04:31:01

Details: It's nice to be able to control media players from the browser

Other products used: none

Submitted by Jansen Price on 24-Sep-2004 10:06:38

Summary: Winamp with Dsp's

Details: I Encode with Ogg Vorbis Megamix II using EAC. Listen with Winamp 2.95, using MuchFX2 to combine two DSPs, Enhancer v0.17 and SRS WOWthing. The first enhances base and the second creates spatial stereo. Ogg is best! It seems that WOWthing is no longer available from SRS :-( as of june-july 2004.

Pros: Lots of plugins

Cons: None

Period used: early 2000 to 2004

Other products used: Foobar2000

Submitted by Diamond Dave on 24-Sep-2004 10:09:24

Cons: wish it had a good tag editor

Period used: 6 years

Other products used: itunes, jet audio, real, windows media, foobar, some others

Submitted by J. Beaman on 24-Sep-2004 19:59:56

Summary: it rox

Submitted by daniel on 25-Sep-2004 02:52:42

Period used: 5 years

Submitted by Rishit on 25-Sep-2004 11:44:47

Submitted by Mr K on 25-Sep-2004 11:58:50

Submitted by Bart on 25-Sep-2004 15:40:08

Summary: Winamp5

Details: Winamp5 is the best WINDOWS media player. Light weight and simple to use, but you can power tweak it like a mad man.

Pros: Light at easy and true to it's roots of light weight and great sound.

Cons: Modern Skins are too much for some computers.

Period used: I've used it since verson 2.19

Other products used: Windows Media Player, Real Player

Submitted by Drezliok on 25-Sep-2004 18:32:28

Submitted by ced on 25-Sep-2004 20:16:23

Submitted by Mo on 26-Sep-2004 05:46:52

Submitted by Mo on 26-Sep-2004 05:46:52

Summary: Great

Details: I love it.

Period used: 3yrs.

Other products used: WMP

Submitted by Tate on 26-Sep-2004 21:10:36

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: Apollo

Submitted by GSerg on 27-Sep-2004 04:52:49

Period used: Several Years

Other products used: realplayer, itunes, windows media, musicmatch

Submitted by aaron on 27-Sep-2004 10:37:40

Cons: srinkabl interface, cool skins

Period used: few years -

Other products used: Windows Media Player

Submitted by Melissa on 27-Sep-2004 18:12:53

Summary: Winamp 5 has all the features it needs to have

Details: Its the most strait forward, no clutter design of a player ever. and if you don't like the look of the player, there are a billion skins for it. Not just skins though they are for the most part... completely different models,and some even have scrpited/programed extra features... a solid player. You can rip, burn, tag, listen, watch videos, watch one of the hundreds of visualizations, or make your own. Also, winamp.com has tons of user made plug-ins to play with.

Pros: Awsome Music Library and interface.

Cons: Limited Burn speeds in non-pro version

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: Windows Media, Music Match, RealPlayer, iTunes

Submitted by Lyric Rosatti on 28-Sep-2004 06:46:02