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Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself by yuushi on Sunday June 24, 2012 @10:51PM (#4154883)
I still use it as well. I didn't realise it was something people laughed at - WMP takes up too much screen estate, iTunes has far too much bloat, and I don't need a music player with the complexity and learning curve of emacs.
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Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself by nathan_long on Monday June 25, 2012 @06:53AM (#4155938)
"iTunes has far too much bloat" - this is exactly why I stil have WinAmp installed. I use iTunes for organizing my music, downloading podcasts, syncing with my iPod, etc. But I also record my own MP3s - songs, voice memos, etc - and opening them in iTunes is annoying. It's slow, and it immediately adds them to my library, which I don't want.

If I double-click an MP3, it opens immediately in WinAmp. For most anything else, I use iTunes.

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