Proprietary scrobbling comes to Winamp
There's a temptation to mock people who still talk about Winamp, and its true that AOL gave up its industry-leading position to Apple without a fight. However, the past few years have seen Winamp reinvent itself as a jukebox for those who haven't been bitten by the iTunes bug, and the latest version introduces the proprietary song-scrobbler Orgler.
Orgler scrobbles music to give AOL Music some Web 2.0 flair, finally.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Much like Last.fm's scrobbling, Orgler sends your music data up to the cloud. Also like Last.fm, it allows members of the AOL/Winamp community to contribute their played songs to a list of what's been on their stereos. Tracks get added to your AOL Music page, and since the service is a Winamp-designed plug-in, it integrates seamlessly and users should find none of the sluggish behavior that occasionally afflicts third-party Last.fm plug-ins. Orgler was originally available in beta as an external Winamp plug-in.
To set up the service, go to Online Services under the Media Library tab. Go to the second page of the site that opens in the built-in browser, and activate Winamp Charts. Log in with your Winamp or AOL log-in--your AOL IM log-in will work, too--and you'll be all set to Orgle.
Seeing as how there's been Last.fm support for Winamp for ages Orgler is more about not sending listeners elsewhere for their music community needs than dragging Winamp users into the present. Still, Orgler's not a bad service.
Last.fm is a part of CBS Interactive, which also publishes Download.com.
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jetaudio is the most complete and and with great sound quality that supports up to 32bit sound cards.
after this there's no going back to winamp....
Winamp's sound is only distorted if the file itself is distorted or stereo is distorting the music.
Best features include the 12 band EQ, thousands of plugins, my fav is the one for IR remotes. I use the one for Creative Audigy 2 ZS and the entire remote works, so I end up getting a free media center PC. Plus I've seen plugins for HID devices and Windows media center remotes as well.
And whoever says its bloated, need to check their facts, e.g.: iTunes is 75.07MB and Winamp is only 9.80MB (Fuly loaded), Lite is only 6.46MB.
Lately Nullsoft has done a noteworthy job of integrating hundreds of free AOL & CBS radio stations, plus there's the old SHOUTcast as well. And its also a media aggregator, so I can stream all my RSS subscribed podcasts (Go TwiT!) through Winamp as well.
Go Winamp Devs!
http://wakoopa.com/software/winamp
The auto-tag feature of Winamp also surpasses that of the ITunes tagging, as one does not need to go through the process of registering an ITunes account. Not everyone is in possession of a credit card, and even then, not every country supports the Apple Store. Therefore, Winamp provides the solution to these problems.
The Scrobling comes with a twist, though, as now, people can stream playlists~ Applause~
- by monster_eater123 July 6, 2009 6:36 PM PDT
- Winamp is not bad but for media files i use VLC because you can play / convert / save files ... i may have to check out media monkey ... i always did hate having to use itunes to sync to my ipod ...
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