iTunes for Windows is out

[Asher]

The following screenshots were taken with the default Winamp 5 skin in a few of the configurations that you can place them in (all of the windows are detachable and can move around).

Best of all? This thing isn't any slower or uses any more memory than Winamp 2.x, and supports Winamp 2.x and 3.x's skins and plugins.

Playing the same song I tested in this thread before, Winamp 5 uses 7.4MB of RAM and "0%" of my CPU consistently.

[Drake Tungsten]

I have to admit, that is a lot better looking than the other stuff Asher shows off on these boards.

[Asher]

It looks even better now that I discovered you can turn off the menus.

[Asher]

[ixnay]

Can iTunes read album art stored in ID3 tags? Or do you have to set it for each album (Drag Album Artwork Here)

[Drake Tungsten]

Can iTunes read album art stored in ID3 tags?

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think all the art that iTunes uses is stored in the ID3 tags. When you drag art to the art pane, iTunes automatically stores the art in the tags.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Now I obviously use neither WinAmp nor iTunes, but from my tests of xmms and rhythmbox, I can tell that interfacely I prefer the latter. I have committed a virtual desktop for it so I like it big. I never figured out how to simply find a particular song I wanted to listen to in xmms, you know. Perhaps such a thing does exist - I've seen a search dialog being used in Winamp - but I have never been told where to find it. iTunes/rhythmbox has a conspicuously placed search feature, and I like the way it manages the music library (which is not the same thing as a playlist).

[Ari Rahikkala]

Oh, here it is. I pressed random buttons in xmms and apparently 'j' was the hotkey for the search function. I wonder if that was documented somewhere ...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
Now I obviously use neither WinAmp nor iTunes, but from my tests of xmms and rhythmbox, I can tell that interfacely I prefer the latter. I have committed a virtual desktop for it so I like it big. I never figured out how to simply find a particular song I wanted to listen to in xmms, you know. Perhaps such a thing does exist - I've seen a search dialog being used in Winamp - but I have never been told where to find it. iTunes/rhythmbox has a conspicuously placed search feature, and I like the way it manages the music library (which is not the same thing as a playlist).

Winamp has a music library too you know.

[alva]

/me wonders what happened to winamp 4??

[laurentius]

I never lock my taskbar either...whats the point in locking it?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by laurentius
I never lock my taskbar either...whats the point in locking it?

Same here. I use the taskbar quite a lot, and I hate when it appears / disappears all the time. When I'm not playing full screen, I like my computer to remain static and calm so that I can work more efficiently

[Drake Tungsten]

You guys don't agree with Asher? You must be morons who don't know how to use your computer.

[Spiffor]

BTW, Drake, my rommate was a Japanese using a Mac. I really felt your pain when I had to find the ************* physical address of the ***** network card on that comp

[Harovan]

Compared with Asher, we are all morons, face the truth. He's the only eternal genius here.