Winamp's final days here...

[egghead]

The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned.

Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected.

Winamp's abandonment comes as no surprise to those close to the company who say the software has been on life support since the resignation of Nullsoft founder and Winamp creator Justin Frankel last January.

read full story,
http://www.betanews.com/article/Death_Knell_Sounds_for_Nullsoft_Winamp/1100111204

[Rex Mundi]

This would be the appropriate moment for me to suggest QCD (quintessential player) to you guys :) Try it out!

[rik]

I love my QCD player.

[Stripe]

LMAO...I think half of TZ is already using QCD.

[egghead]

i still use winamp for the large plugins but i am now looking at this cool player as winamp gets outdated

[petard]

I'm digging it. I just installed it.

[lynchknot]

Is Quintessential better than Jet?

[petard]

In my opinion and for my use - yes.

[coathanger007]

The sound quality of Winamp is great. I also like WMP9. Good thing is winamp can't really be improved too much more now. QCD always seemed muffled to me....even after tweaking the equalizer.

[Zak8022]

odd.. to me, winamp always seemed muffled. thats why i just bit the bullet and started useing WMP10.

i will definately check out that QCD

[cardriver]

anyone have a link to QCD?


you know what guys, you really have to give respect to a great program that indirectly helped fuel a revolt against the music industry. I can't tell you how many hours winamp has been open on my desktop over the past 6-7 years. I've made large amounts of cash from DJing using this program and will miss updates greatly... however as it's already been pointed out... this program can't make many more adjustments it's already a great prog...

[egghead]

thanks to rex for the link in his sig.

www.quinnware.com (http://www.quinnware.com)



http://www.quinnware.com/img/home/news.jpg

Sounds very promising

[Rex Mundi]

Sweet guys. Im glad you are liking it. Qcd is good software and will always remain freeware, of that im sure. Btw there is a huge update coming up (v5.0) I have no other details yet, the designers of qcd are keeping silent for now.

[DakotaSunRunner]

HI guys,

I am new here but saw this post so wished to say something on it.

Rex Mundi is absolutly correct. I use to use Winamp and about a month ago when hearing whispers winamp was dieing (was tired of it anyway) I came over to QCD player and have not been sorry for doing so. In my estimation QCD is the best. http://www.quinnware.com/ try it out, you wil not be sorry.

Now somone here says that QCD always sounded muffled or something. A player will only be as good as your soundcard and speakers and if they are not any good, then your software is not to blame for that. QCD is a high quality media player and I have tried them all over the last month and came back to QCD. The other players either froze up, or the directories would not fully load and kept getting errors etc. I got errors with foobar (horrible looking thing from the cro-magnum age) and some other players and also got errors. I beleive that some players hate large directories. But no errors came with using QCD and that is the truth.

Everyone has thier preferences on which player is best for them. Just pick the correct one that pleases you and move on from there. However, I can fully recommend QCD for its fine quality and sound. I use a 5.1 speaker system of logitech on my computer and it is great.

Y'all take care now and good luck on your hunt for a new player now that winamp is on it's way out, (it will not go away, winamp will be around a long time) but QCD is better.

Dakota SunRunner :rolleyes:

Sweet guys. Im glad you are liking it. Qcd is good software and will always remain freeware, of that im sure. Btw there is a huge update coming up (v5.0) I have no other details yet, the designers of qcd are keeping silent for now.

[coathanger007]

I tested winamp, QCD and WMP9 on the same system. Soundblaster Live with Creative inspire 4400. Used Jazz equalizer on all of them. And WCD sounded the worst...just my opinion ;)

[ashish]

well actualyl i ahve been a longtime winamp user.... and as far as the muffling is concernedi never noticed it until i got my new PC..... the sounds seems better with WMP10..winamp seems a bit dull compared to it.... might try QCd.. how is it better then winamp/WMP10???

[Zak8022]

ashish, i noticed that too between winamp and WMP9/10. i never even used winamp 5.0 b/c i could never get it to work right with my rear speakers. it would output fine to my fronts, and my sub, but the rears would be nothing. and it wasnt a soundcard issue, cuz i could play sound outta the rears using any other app (gaming, WMP, etc etc).

i used winamp 2.8 for the longest time, then went to WMP 10, and now am on QCD. QCD seems like winamp on crack to me. i mean that in a good way. so far i have only used it for audio, but its video playback looks decent. playlist functionality and searching w/ a playlist is awesome. i tend to just have all my music in one ginormous playlist, and search thru it to hear what i want. the search unbeleivably better then WMP's and easier than winamps.

sound quality seems quite nice as well. on my home pc (with 4.1 boston acoustic speakers) it plays wonderfully. i love it.

oh, its built in tag editor is very useful. i tend to still need Tag & Rename for mass editing, but the single one i edit every now and then is great. i havent played around with its ripping/encoding yet... so i cant really comare that to anything else (i use CDex to rip from cd).

i give it an 8.5, but thats w/o even playing with or exploring its video, or encoding features.

[ashish]

sounds cool.. will download it pretty soon :)....... i basically need something that willl fully use my 5.1 surround.... and no i do not want to play loud music all the time.. i mean even with soft music and lower volume it should sound great.. any suggestions?

BTW i have a audigy 2

also while i am at it.. can anyone suggest me a good DVD playing software.. i use power DVD 5.1 at the moment...

[Rex Mundi]

ashish, remember if you want multiple speaker sound output with qcd, you have to use the directsound playback plugin ;)

For optimum sound quality you can download the MAD plugin for qcd on the plugins webpage. http://www.quinnware.com/plugins.php. However, it does have some bugs and IMO you are better off with the Xaudio plugin (= default mp3 plugin).