Re: Any better solutions than Media Player 9 which came with X P? Or tips for using it with JAWS?
- From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:06:56 -0500
I find the same thing though beyond that little quirk, I find winamp far far
better then media player, always have, might be preference though I know a
few people that lean the other way and I have been using winamp for a long
time. I know, I know, 4 years ago you couldn't get me to touch winamp lol.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: Any better solutions than Media Player 9 which came with X P?
Or tips for using it with JAWS?
> I've found the Winamp library to be far far superior to media player 9 if
> you're looking for radio stations. sure media player 9 is usable as are
> earlier versions, but if you're looking for streams on the net to listen
> to, a vast number of them are on the shoutcast yellow pages. The latest
> versions of Winamp going all the way back to the 2.9 series have the
> library part built in. it uses standard windows conventions to find your
> favorite stations. the one very small part where some people have a
problem
> is that in earlier versions you had to do some cursor routing to find the
> place where you would change the max number of streams to fetch from the
> directory but like I said this was fixed in later versions and is
> accessible via the keyboard, although some people still have trouble with
> it because it's still not immediately noticable. The latest version 5.03
> claims to have fixed bugs with windows media in some areas but I'm still
> unable to listen to streaming windows media with it. I load up the file to
> listen in Winamp and nothing happens. so you'll still need windows media
> til they get that sorted.
>
>
>
> At 02:27 PM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Can one use Media Player 7 or 8 with X P?
> >Are there tips for using Media Player 9?
> >People can write me off list, I will combine answers and repost them if
that
> >would help.
> >Media 9 seems quite different from earlier players.
> >Thanks.
> >
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