Posted on 08/26/2004 5:29:23 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn
Can y'all help me ping others? I'm sorta in the middle of a Senior Moment....
Done
Those of us in the RKBA that use Winamp3.x or WinAmp 5 -5.03 listen up.
There's a security flaw in winamp's skinning system, check the article and pass the info on to anyone else you know who uses WinAmp.
Boy am I glad I kept WinAmp 2.91...
I liked 2.91 for the simplicity, and even tried a couple of skins with a skinmaker. Hey, no rolling eyes from anybody. 
I kept 2.91, but it's ogg vorbis decoder was screwed, so I dumped it for the ogg decoder dll from 2.81 which didn't crash my machine every time I played an ogg file.
*chuckle*
Welcome.
Haven't tried my hand at skinning Winamp, the new XML format made my brain scramble after a few minutes.
Well, I said 2.91, but I meant the last of the "2" series. I never saved anything past 2.80. There were troubles with them, though I can't remember specifics. I have 3 and 5.03 and there's no way I could do a skin for them, with all the XML you gotta learn.
What I'd used was called "Skinamp", widely scorned by the graphics elitists. (wink)
http://www.saschahlusiak.de/english/infos/skinamp.htm
Have 2.80 installer still saved somewhere..
*chuckle*
LOL!
Haven't tried my hand at it since I fried my mind.
{{{looks worried}}}
Should I know what this is?
Winamp is just an alternative player/recorder, like Media Player or MusicMatch Jukebox, et al. It was a favorite for a long time, in part, because it was so easily skinned.
http://www.winamp.com/
If you're not using it, you don't need to worry.
Thanks! I figured if I didn't know what it was I would be okay, but who knows these days.
Of course, what you know could change tomorrow. Sometimes I just feel like unplugging this thing and walking away. Society has tolerated way too much for too long from those scummos, and a few fingers chopped off on the public square at high noon would be a helluva good beginning at fixing the mess.
Welcome.
There's another mp3/ogg/636 player called Sonique.. but I haven't heard much from them in awhile.
JJ, remember back when some clever person played about with the id3 tags on mp3's and crashed a few machines?
Winamp(nullsoft) was quick to change how it read id3 tags.
So no-one can use id3 tags on winamp anymore for nefarious reasons.
I didn't care for the Winduhs player, and the MusicMatch bundle that came with my machine wasn't all that great, with it's unceasing "upgrade" boxes and how it dropped the master volume and .wav volume whenever you closed it. I found Winamp to be a good alternative. Still is, compared to WMP9, which wants to connect to the web to find codecs to play things that 6.4 can.
I noticed an mp3's quality depends largely on it's bitrate, the codec used to mp3 it, and the quality of the machine it was mp3'd on.
Oggs tend to lose quality in it's compression but tend to keep goo high and low end tones, it's the midrange on them that suffers.
I have a few mp3's that have a bitrate of 320 that I 'ripped' myself using Winamp 2.91 and the Lame encoder, and you can't tell the difference between them and the original CD.
At around 196 bitrate you will notice differences..
People with better ears than mine can notice a difference at 225 bitrate.
*sigh*
But I can hear dog whistles.
I bet, if you haven't already seen it, that you'd like CDex.
http://www.cdex.n3.net/
It's a heckuva good ripper, and handles all sorts of mp3 variations, and it's a freebie, (though as always he appreciates donations).
Beware of NeoAudio, a blatant ripoff with spyware added.
"Great, free software!"
I wish everyone would stop complaining about spyware! Is it really that much of a problem?....
I won't have it on my computer anymore, and haven't since my last cleanup.
That and RealPlayer... O.U.T - OUT!
That's a NO. NO NO NO.
For tech support, see me (who will see MadIvan, LOL)
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