Winamp 5.0 Beta. - Page 3

SlowwHand · October 19, 2003, 13:51

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Originally posted by St Leo

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Originally posted by SlowwHand

Why is the slide control for volume properties on wave balance slide back down in volume after each song?
Did that in the past and somehow or someway it stopped.

Because the winamp volume controller resets the windows volume controller.

And I address the problem how?
Is there a method?
Come on! Elaborate, dude!

Adagio · October 19, 2003, 14:30

Does anybody knows how to get the next/previous/pause buttons on my keyboard to work with WinAmp 3? I had no problems getting it to work in WinAmp 2... This is about the worst issue with this version...

Still haven't tried 5 beta yet... have been busy all day...

St Leo · October 19, 2003, 15:30

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Originally posted by SlowwHand

And I address the problem how?
Is there a method?
Come on! Elaborate, dude!

Change the slider in the main winamp window to what you want instead.

Adagio · October 20, 2003, 04:33

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Originally posted by St Leo

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- Impossible to minimize

My Winamp3 minimizes quite nicely to either the taskbar, the systray, or both.

I've found how to minimize... you have to use buttons

Why is it that all my special buttons on keyboard/mouse is completely useless now

laurentius · October 20, 2003, 05:10

ADG You mean the B, C etc buttons used when visualization are on full screen? I dont know it just worked right away with me. Sometimes they stop working tho, after rebooting XP or restarting WinAmp3 they come back alive.

Tried Winamp 5 yesterday, like Winamp2 it sucked. In fact imo it was even worse. All I want changed in Winamp3 are: it should be lighter, it loads too long, it uses too much CPU, GPU power and memory. What I really want it to have is an ability to count total playing time of the play list, like in Winamp2xx

Adagio · October 20, 2003, 06:38

Not those... those "shortcuts" works fine... though they've got a problem: You have to have Winamp selected to be able to use them... I'm talkingabout the play/pause/next/previous buttons that's built into this keyboard (Special buttons)... those works (or should work) without needing to have winamp in focus...

Q Classic · October 20, 2003, 07:15

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I think that we can all agree that the Microsoft distribution of Windows is unspeakably horrible and that someone should fork it and start distributing an improved one

i misread "fork" the first time.

laurentius · October 20, 2003, 07:47

you didnt misread it

Ted Striker · October 20, 2003, 23:48

dude i tried this out

but now when i double click a music file, it starts playing

but there is no winamp console that i can find to control the music!!!

Ramo · October 21, 2003, 00:43

It's good, I like it. Better than 2 and definitely 3.

Q Classic · October 21, 2003, 07:48

oh, here's one note.

shut it down if you're going away from the computer awhile. if you let it run while your comp goes into an extended screensaver period, while it's either in pause or stop, it's slow as hell when you come back to use it, utterly unresponsive.

Adagio · October 21, 2003, 08:41

I don't use Screensavers, so I probably wont get that problem

I just installed WA5, and it's defently better, though I have only tried it for a few hours, but at least I can use the keyboard to get to next song

Q Classic · October 21, 2003, 08:57

it happens when you use "blank", like me. i dunno what happens when you have one of those fancy screensavers, like mystify.

Jeltz · October 21, 2003, 08:58

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No, they just couldn't figure out the normal versioning system, so they're spewing random but increasing numbers for their versions.

No, they're clearly copying the Leisure Suit Larry series.

Adagio · October 21, 2003, 09:11

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Originally posted by Q Cubed

it happens when you use "blank", like me. i dunno what happens when you have one of those fancy screensavers, like mystify.

I don't use blank, I use nothing, nada, zip

Q Classic · October 21, 2003, 09:13

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I don't use blank, I use nothing, nada, zip

ah.

i use it only so my windows desktop locks when i go away for more than 10 minutes. that, and to make the brightness of the screen go away when i'm trying to sleep.

Adagio · October 21, 2003, 09:21

Go away from your computer??? Who'd ever do such a cruel thing

Q Classic · October 22, 2003, 07:33

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From what I heard, it won't have the killer WinAmp3 feature of multiple playlists until 5.1, so I am going to pass.

i'll admit that i've never used any library feature, and only played around with it in winamp5 yesterday... but it does look like the library allows for multiple playlists?

Adagio · October 22, 2003, 07:36

I don't know what that multiple playlist was good for... I actually found it very annoying, since it made it diffecult to start the app by pressing the playlist...

Whaleboy · October 22, 2003, 15:44

I like it, I like it a lot. Its much faster than WA3. How do I use the WA3 skin with WA5?

EDIT: Default skin

Adagio · October 23, 2003, 05:55

But for some strange reason I can't get it to startup with windows automaticly... I have to manual press the playlist file in the start-menu/startup folder

Whaleboy · October 23, 2003, 07:08

Can someone keep us informed when there is a new build released? Or at least give the URL? I'm going to keep using new builds until the final release... bugs getting fixed en route is always good

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I installed WA3, nicked the skin from the skins folder

, got rid of WA3, installed WA5 and used the skin. Problem solved! No cross fade yet

Asher · October 28, 2003, 22:27

Beta 2 is now out with a lot of bug fixes: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...fid=1066336873

Whaleboy · October 29, 2003, 09:53

I just downloaded beta 2 and melikes!!

You can have winamp 2 and winamp3 installed at the same time, though I think winamp 5 is like an upgrade to winamp2, so you can have 3 and 5 at the same time, not 2 and 5 I think. Gonna check later.

Q Classic · October 29, 2003, 09:56

winamp5 does replace winamp2 in the registry.

you can still have winamp2 if you installed winamp5 into a different directory (like i have program files/{winamp, winamp3, winamp5}), but you have to create a shortcut manually. the upshot? to uninstall winamp2 after installing winamp5, all you have to do is eraze the folder.