Shuck That Jive

Recently, I downloaded Winamp 5.32 and I've been very impressed. They've included a plugin for the "Portables" menu of the Media Library that lets it work with any USB device. Naturally, I gave it a whirl with my Miniplayer.
First, Winamp builds a separate media library for the player so it doesn't have to rescan it every time you connect it. Winamp has a "Sync" button that will attempt to put all your music on the Miniplayer. If you're like me, though, you've got far too much to fit at once. That's why I really like the "Autofill" option. It'll put on music automatically, but this time it will select different tracks every time, and will pick songs that you listen to more frequently and have rated higher in Winamp. There's even a slider bar that lets you choose what percentage of the Miniplayer you want to fill up.
When you transfer songs onto the Miniplayer through Winamp, you can set up where you want the audio files and playlists to go. All I have to do to put on a CD, for instance, is choose the playlist and select "Send to > Meizu Miniplayer." Since I set up the directory system, it automatically puts the music files in the MUSIC folder, and the playlists in the SYSTEM folder. Within the MUSIC folder, you can even have Winamp organize the tracks into folders by artist and album.
What really impressed me, though, was the ability to set what filetypes each media player you manage with Winamp can handle. For the Miniplayer, I left on the mp3 and wma extensions, but added ogg and flac. When I tried to transfer songs that were other filetypes onto the Miniplayer, it transcoded them to ogg automatically before it transferred them. You can even set which filetypes you would prefer to have it convert to.
There are a few problems, however. I've seen a few small issues with playlists, and trying to eject from within Winamp usually gives me problems. Also, transfer speeds from within Winamp are noticeably - sometimes aggravatingly - slower. Still, since I already use Winamp to organize and play music on my computer, it's great to see how well it can work with the Miniplayer.

Job

cool... ill go give that a try..
I love winamp its been my mediaplayer of choice for years... i tried some other ones including foobar, mediaplayer and itunes but none of them even come close to the ease of use and simplicity of winamp...
Itunes was the worst...I hate it how apple decides for me what i can play and what not and how itunes has its own agenda and does stuff youd ont want it to do(like getting gapless playback info for 10.000+ songs...arcchh!)

anyway... back on topic: Winamp and Miniplayers ... sounds like a great combo!

audiofish

Do you know if it organises the tracks into their own folders based on album, artist, etc? (stuck here ATM with a laptop running on a Pentium I - no winamp for me )

Lambo

Nice i love winamp. I will have to try this out.

FirePower

Great review of winamp and miniplayer, I manually copy all my music as I have organised all my directories and filenames and tags to be the same. I have to remove songs to fit more songs on as my mi niplayer is always full, Hope the 8Gb comes soon.

The latest winamp has full unicode support for european and asian language characters

batfastad

I love winamp too. Best thing for audio playback IMO.
But I generally avoid anything that tries to organise my music for me.

That made itunes and the ipod a total no-go.

I have it all in alphabetical folders, and stripped of tags too.
I shudder to think what itunes would do to my 500GB 60,000+ track music collection.

Thank god for Meizu and Winamp!!

Lambo

60,000 :eek: too many man. i tried it out on winamp and it works really good

citizenklaw

I actually tried WinAmp with the M6 but it doesn't work for me that good. For once, WinAmp does not create Playlists on the M6's directory. Also, transfer speeds were dismal.

Finally, one of my pet peeves was that Winamp's 'autofill' feature didn't randomize the songs that well.

Lambo

Does anyone know how to fix winamp? Before it would find my miniplayer as an extra drive and i was able to send the music to my miniplayer. Once i updated to version 2 on my player i wasent able to use winamp. i went back to 1.10 and it still does not work. anyone know why

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