Winamp 5.0 RC8

[High_Jumbllama]

http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=winamp50rc8_full.exe&size=4215565

Edit:
It uses 50 to 70 percent CPU on my Athlon 600 without any visualizations and has ghosting problems but the classics skins work unlike Winamp 3.

[High_Jumbllama]

Ack it is turning into a MusicMatch clone!

[Admiral]

For me, it sort of got ironed out since beta 2. Sure is better than Winamp 3.
As for CPU usage, well, it does go up to 1% sometimes.

[High_Jumbllama]

I just tried it again and it's working at 14% max.

[bsdgeek]

Waiting for Matrox to fix Milkdrop now...

[the main lobe]

I have an Athlon 750 and there is no cpu usage issues here. Hangs around 2-4% when listening to music. Of course that number balloons up to 65% when streaming a live concert through their internet television stations.

edit: I can only watch high bitrate music videos with the classic skin. The modern skin is a nice skin, but the performance hit is big when watching video.

[High_Jumbllama]

Hmm. Now at a max of 4%. What the heck. This is without rebooting. SO nothing could have been cleared up that way. Actually, now that I think about it, it could have been trying to auto-update during the almost high % usage.

[leech]

I just tried watching the streaming videos through it, and had 0% CPU usage from it Of course I do have a P4@3.06ghz with Hyperthreading....

Leech

[High_Jumbllama]

Somehow that avataar perfectly fits that comment.

[Kooldino]

Hmm, so is the general consencus that it's better than Winamp 2?

[Jammrock]

Started running it this weekend. Works like a champ. It supports inpu/output plug-ins like MAD plug-in, unlike 3. Slightly higher memory footprint, but not bad. I like it. I think I'll keep it.

Jammrock

[Gurm]

...slightly higher memory footprint, but you get SO much stuff as a trade-off.

Just so long as they keep it from getting Winamp3-bloated.

ACDSee has suffered from feature creep. ACDSee 3 was ... buggy and intolerable. It took them until ACDSee 6 to get fast again.

- Gurm

[Kooldino]

I run ACDSee 2. :-)

I'll wait until 5 is out of beta, and then get it. I'm in no rush yet.

[High_Jumbllama]

It's very nice. Now to see how annoying the update to pro version thing is. It doesn't seem to be a bother so far so the only problem I currently have is the ghosting/trails/flickering which is very minor now anyway.

Anyone know what the min specs are for the program? I remember when I first tried 2.X it could even run on my P90 as long as there were no visualizations. This loooks to need a good bit more.

[agallag]

I've been running Winamp 5 since beta 1 as my full time media player. It has all the good parts from 2 and 3, with very little of the bad. RC8 is a major improvement over beta 2, which was already very good. If your machine is a little slow, just run a classic skin and it should perform as well as winamp 2. If you've got GHz to burn, use a modern skin.