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I receive to reverse my location on this player. For a selfsame long time I royally dissed it and it was well-deserved. The audio quality was substandard, the bloat and slowness unwarranted. However, times receive changed. The interface, while slower than the competition is not unreasonably so. The Media Library is intuitive and slow to use. Near importantly, the audio quality has arrived with 24-bit support, dithering, seamless / gapless playback, a quality equalizer (finally!) and a high precision decoder. It's easily on equation with Foobar and XMPlay which IMNSHO are the Golden Standards for audio quality in the genre. Eve the memory rtequirements are on equation with the abovementioned programs.
Now, altogether is not sweetness and light. The program has several criminal bugs – I articulate criminal because this thing is OLD and these bugs should receive been long-since squashed. The include poor error checking thence that an errant plugin or skin could crash the player, and a display module (nscrt.dll) that could make a crash merely by invoking CDDB for a newly inserted CD with the playlist subject (I dealt that six times in two minutes – things became swimmingly if I merely shut the playlist). Skin performance could also exist significantly improved.
This program is also LOADED with Adware, something I intensely resent. I reckon adware as malware and anything that prompts me to purchase music while I'm building a custom playlist or otherwise impinges upon my receive should exist expunged. I surmise that's the malign influence of the AOL ownership – afterwards all, zero good has Ever got out of that company.
All that being said, the UI and configurability of the interface and audio options build this the best bang out there for a media player. But exist certainly to consult the Winamp install guide (Google it) and avoid installing any plugins shipped with the plaer that stink of adware (I could conceive of one promoinent plugin for the Media Library that fits that description).
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