Tag: WINAMP

MiniTube is a plugin for WinAmp that attempts to find music videos from YouTube for every song in your playlist. Here's how it's supposed to work: A song starts to play, and MiniTube will automatically find the best music video available for the song and start playing it. That's the theory anyway. But the actual practice is a bit shakier. That's because MiniTube just grabs the first video it can ...

Sometimes you want to look at several programs on your Windows desktop at the same time. So you resize Firefox, Word, Excel, and whatever else it is you're using, and then spend about 5 minutes trying to line them up to maximize your screen real estate. The whole process would be a lot easier if programs would just sort of snap together at the edges, wouldn't it? AllSnap is a utility that lets you ...

Love VLC Media Player's ability to play virtually all media but hate that it does not caress your media with a beautiful frame carved from Italian marble? Fear no more. Although we're fans of the no-frills design, those of you who are more exacting will be pleased to know that the large library of Winamp skins are all compatible with VLC. This is how the magic works: Go to 'Settings' select ...

Here at Download Squad we're always installing the latest and greatest version of whatever software we can get our hands on. But you know what? Sometimes there are more problems and solutions in those updates. And sometimes we get nostalgic for the early days of Winamp 2 or Nero 5. It turns out there are plenty of places to download old versions of newer software. If you've got a computer in the ...

I am a long time fan of Winamp and its llama-whipping goodness, but ever since Windows Media Player 11 beta came out I have been using it since it has a bunch of new features and is much better organized than previous versions. Winamp has taken a back-seat to WMP11 at least little bit. I am still a hardcore Winamp fan, and the latest release of Winamp 5.31 is no exception. I can't decide if I am a ...

If you're not happy with your options for playing audio content in Windows, like Windows Media Player, iTunes or WinAmp, you might be interested in trying Foobar 2000. Foobar 2000 is "an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.", although rather than tout it as ...

Please pardon the pun in the title. TunnelVision is a quirky little privacy app from Winamp creator Justin Frankel's Cockos, Inc. It lets you hide everything on your screen except the space around the cursor. Imagine your desktop is a pitch black room and your cursor the beam of a flashlight and you'll have an idea of what using TunnelVision is like. I honestly can't say whether TunnelVision is ...

I'll admit it, I used to be a Winamp snob. For years Winamp was by far the best Windows audio player available, and not too long ago the sight of any other app-usually Windows Media Player-on a friend's desktop would send me into a fugue. Okay, not really, but you get the idea. Nowadays Winamp's competitors have brought up the rear, but there are still things Winamp can do that the major players ...

Web-based interfaces for Winamp are as old as time itself, but that doesn't prevent new ones from coming out occasionally, and AjaxAMP looks like a pretty good specimen. It's a plugin for Winamp that lets you do what you'd expect: control Winamp via a web browser with an Ajaxy interface. It features drag-and-drop playlists and a rearrangeable (though not skinnable) interface, and it can stream ...

Everything's portable! This week saw the release of not one, but two popular Windows media players in portable form. First is Portable VLC from PortableApps.com. Based on the excellent open source media player VLC, I can't imagine a better way to watch videos on the go. Second is Portable Winamp 5.1 Lite with iPod support. The "Lite" means it includes the bare-bones audio player, ...