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Just wondering what programs you guys use to play your mp3s. I'm using winamp 3 right now, but I'd kinda like to find something a little slimmer (in terms of memory)

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I use Winamp 3.

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I use Winamp too. WMP for movies. (the older WMP, not the newer one, which sucks up all the memory)

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:6879

I use WMP (Old) for movies too because when I play them in Winamp, it has a blue tint to it.

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xmms for local files and noatun to play mp3's off the web since i hate having to navigate to find my playlist again if i used xmms to play mp3's off the web.

oh for windows, winamp 2.80 but i'm hardly ever in windows.

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I actually used to use winamp 3 for movies, but I ran into a few probles with certain movies.. and the fact that winamp 3 will not play ogg video at all, so I switched to Zoom player for video. The standard version has pretty much everythign I need and it's freeware to boot

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:6886

winamp3 and I noticed that this one is much more bloated then the previous version that opened right away. 3 takes about 10-15 seconds.

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wldkos wrote: winamp3 and I noticed that this one is much more bloated then the previous version that opened right away. 3 takes about 10-15 seconds.

Yes, I have heard people say it was bloated too. I don't know personally, since I never had a version of Winamp before 3.0.

It doesn't take that long to open on my computer, and I don't mind the amount of memory it takes up.

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hmm.. maybe I should give 2.8 another try, it has been awhile. winamp3 does take a while to load on my machine, though if I remember correctly, winamp 2 is just about as bad on memory.

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winamp 2 pops right up for me. 3 takes a while

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:7004

winamp for mp3 tag editing

windows media player for the same tag editing

also use them for playing the songs

as well as

media jukebox by j. river.

which handles all other song formats also.

they also just made a new program called

media center 9. it plays everything including dvd and tivo and tv, and any thing media

i dont use media center 9 though. just mjbox

the one i use the most is

winamp 2.8 though to play all my OGG files as i dont use MP3 files too much only every now and then.

i like ogg better.

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is there a difference between OGG vs MP3?

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ogg vorbis is supposed to give you better qualityfile size, and it's free (as opposed to fraunhoffer or whatever its called mp3 encoder) but then again LAME is also free, and has great quality (though I don't know about file sizes).

I like the ogg project (ogg video is pretty spiffy too), and may very well end up using ogg vorbis a lot in the future, but for the most part I just use LAME encoded mp3s.

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did you hear what microsoft is doing to longhorn?

(longhorn is the code word for the next windows os, or so i heard it is anyway?)

but they are setting up a program that will let the record companys come in to anyones computer that has longhorn at will and look for any COPYRIGHTED MP3 files, they can then DELETE them at will, with out your knowing a thing.,


you know of course this means war




but they cant do anything about the completely FREE OPEN SOURCE Ogg formats






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of course, that's why there will be no more standalone releases of Internet explorer beyond IE6 sp1. They're going to integrate it even closer to the OS, so they can make it part of their whole DRM Initiative (Digital Right Management, microsofts answer to copy protected media). So in order to avoid having to back port all of their "new features", they're jsut dropping all of the old ports altogether. Also, I would imagine, in an effort to push consumers towards XP and eventaully longhorn as well.

I have a feeling this is all going to backfire on them though. With all of this DRM crap, along with activvation, and whatever other "features" they decide to add, is only going to force more regular users to either switch to alternative OSes, or run hacked, cracked, and pirated copies of Windows.

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LINDOWS version 3.0 here i come, that is what i am doing if they ever make this not work how i want windows xp to work.

i bought the software i did not give them the right to enter my house and destory my property.

that is commy thinking when they want to do that and i do not like commy's




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:7048

me, I'd probably end up going towards Red Hat or mandrake with winewineX.

Interesting you should bring up communism though. Because as much as we've fought against the people and ideals like those of stalin's regime, it's seems more and more we are coming around full circle except it's not some dictator, but rather corporations, and instead of fearing death if you act against them, you fear getting sued, because whether you're right or wrong, it doesn't matter. When you fight a behemeth like that you'll lose your every penny to court fees before you even see a judge.

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rovingcowboy wrote:

LINDOWS version 3.0 here i come, that is what i am doing if they ever make this not work how i want windows xp to work.

i bought the software i did not give them the right to enter my house and destory my property.

that is commy thinking when they want to do that and i do not like commy's

Please do not say that. Lindows is the worst thing OS wise ever. All it is, is linux based ( not even unix!) and the "dows" comes from you having to download WINE to run windows programs. From what I hear, wine is a pain in the , and then sometimes it is more than fine. Trust me though, if your going to get away from MS and do not want a mac, try http://redhat.com , http://debian.org or better yet, http://linuxiso.org.


I suggest making a 3-5 gig partition on your master drive and testing out linux.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:7052

okok, first of all, yes, Lindows is a linux based OS, but it is so just as much as redhat, debian, mandrake, suse, slackware, etc. Linux is a kernal, nothing more, so no Os that uses it is any less a "real linux" than any other. Actually what you think of as Linux is really GNU.

The GNU project is a project to create a full featured Operating system modeled after UNIX, thing was when Linus was first working on his OS, GNU had everything but the kernal and the two seemed a perfect match. And even though GNU and linux are often distributed together, they are seperate projects.

Now, Redhat, debian, and all those, they are distributions. People put the linux kernal with GNU, an installer program and other software, in their own little way with some of their own stuff in their own package (boxed, or just iso).

Lindows is no from them in that respect, its just another distributiion. It just so happens that a lot of the stuff they put together with the linux kernal happened to be their own stuff, made to look and work in a way more suitable for novice and former windows users.

Personally I think lindows is a good idea. Like OS X, it helps ease average consumers into teh idea of a unix based operating system without overwhelming them too much with the complexities.

Now all this being said, I'd probably never use lindows myself, that's just me. Because I want to learn about those complexities and how to use them to my advantage. And as far as xWindows, Gnome, KDE, and other window managers have come, some poeple just aren't ready yet.

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well lets see i agree that it is not really linx or windows. and it is able to use windows files and programs.



which is what i am needing.

if i have to change from windows.

reason being

1. i have to take care of and keep running 5 family computers.

and 2 of my friends computer when he needs help. which he also then trys to remember what i did so he can help his family with their computers. all of which use windows.

2. my family members know a little about computers my friend does also.

3. my mom will ask for help in her own way as in if the icon looks like a fat potato with feet then that is what she calls it and i have to figure out what in the world she is calling a fat potato with feet.?

she is not really use to computers and is trying to do what i tell her but has trouble moving the task bar from hiden to showing

4. my older sister uses computers all day at work. so she says she knows what to do with them. but i have to stand behind her here when she is online incase something happens like a 404 page error so i can tell her what to do?

5. my little sister is not much better then mom.

6. my friend is better then my older sister but not as good on these computers as me.

7. they all have different makes of computers and different windows's os's from win3.1 which is upgraded to win95. to winXP.

8. all want the programs that are on them so i have need of a new os that will run them all

9.

10.




and they wonder why i dont get a job.




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:7137

well, I wouldn't be in any hurry to rush to lindows. I looked at the lindows website, and I really didn't see promises of support for windows programs as much as windows file formats. Now I'm sure that it does probably use modififed version of wine and other stuff in efforts to support windows programs, but I would doubt it offers perfect support of everything yet. And as far as the formats go, the support mostly comes from StarOffice (or OpenOffice, I forget which) which is a free office suite which has brought compatibility with various microsoft office formats to a variety of diffferent operationg systems for a few years now. And media formats like mp3, wav, cd audio, avi, and mpg have been pretty much standards for all operating systems, while I'm sure that rm and mov files have had clients on linux for awhile now.

I've never used lindows, so I am by no means an expert on this, but I'm thinking the windows of lindows is mostly in the interface, which is not necessarily bad, but just to get you hopes up too high on this one.

The good thing about linux though, if you want to learn it and get all your freindsfamily to switch, unless you're logged in as root, it's awfully hard to seriously screw anything up. And as a general rule you never log in as root on a linuxunix system unless you are doing sysadmin stuff.. so it's not like windows where you have to be an administrator to run certain programs, games, etc.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:797, old post ID:7138

most people do say that about not runing in root too often which can be true. But I am always logged in as a user since I am running my server (doesn;t have to be logged in though), But on the occasion, I have been logged in as root for a while. Bad mistake, I know.

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