Winamp has gone rubbish

Chomeur

I started using Winamp following this thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2564231

But now it's gone rubbish. The user interface is terrible - it's tiny and with no text at all so it's very hard to find my way around it. Also it seems to have lost my playlists so I'm looking at recreating them, but it seems to require me to individually select each album to add to my playlist. Is there something else I should use now? I'm using Windows 7.

Thanks

Fightsback

Try Clementine:

https://www.clementine-player.org/

Bollotom

Fightsback wrote: »

Try Clementine:

https://www.clementine-player.org/

Thanks FB. Much better than Media Monkey I was using. :cool:

pogofish

Winamp went rubbish over ten years ago - I thought it was eventually discontinued/killed-off due to alienating most of its user base?

esuhl

For simple playback, VLC is great:
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.en_GB.html

Or if you want a music manager, MusicBee is pretty good:
http://getmusicbee.com/

Chomeur

pogofish wrote: »

Winamp went rubbish over ten years ago - I thought it was eventually discontinued/killed-off due to alienating most of its user base?

It was recommended to me five years ago.

Chomeur

I've downloaded Clementine and had a quick look at it. It seems to work OK. The only thing so far is that it keeps popping up the message "The stream is encrypted and decryption is not supported.". I don't know why it has to bother me with this as it seems to play the music OK.

poppellerant

Have you tried changing Winamp's skin?

Fightsback

Chomeur wrote: »

I've downloaded Clementine and had a quick look at it. It seems to work OK. The only thing so far is that it keeps popping up the message "The stream is encrypted and decryption is not supported.". I don't know why it has to bother me with this as it seems to play the music OK.

No idea unless I Google it, never seen it. Any DRM protected content in your collection ?

abibee

I'd recommend Clementine as well.

I've not long finished trying out alternatives myself, and been round the houses with them, and come back to Clementine.

Chomeur

Fightsback wrote: »

Any DRM protected content in your collection ?

No idea. Mostly the music is just ripped from my own CDs, but I think some may be downloaded from the Internet. I haven't yet worked out which songs it has the problem with.