Re: The Slow Death Of Winamp?
- From: patrick perdue <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bruce Toews <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:02:39 -0500
Hi: I couldn't agree to Bruce's comments any more if I tried.
As far as software goes, I'll have a little *less accessibility* and use
the same programs rather than having a completely separate package made
just for the blind. Everybody knows that the blind market is very tite,
and while I agree that *accessibility* (roughly defined) is good, so is
integration into the real world.
Over hype on accessibility, however, is bad for lots of reasons.
We can't expect everything to be done for us, that's just the way the
world is, and has nothing to do with blindness.
By the way, for anyone wondering, I am a jaws user, and one not to use jaws
scripts unless they are
necessary, and/or provide some function that can't readily be done
through any sort of intuitive interface.
The winamp scripts have some neat functions, yes, but I've used Winamp
with Hal, which as far as I know doesn't have any winamp maps, and I can still
get around in the playlist without
the aid of scripts. Mind you, Hal doesn't read the readout from the EQ
window, which I don't use much anyway.
Yes, the scripts do help, and they are useful, but they're
not the world.
I've used Winamp since version 1.something in late 1997 way back when
there weren't even shortcut keys for rewind and fast forward, and of
course no plugin support, when all I had was
Windows 95, ASAW, and 16mb of ram, playing badly encoded mp3's from old
first generation mpeg layer III codecs from a parallel-port interface
zip drive. I could usually play about two mp3's on a good day, before the
system would
slow to a crawl and have to be restarted.
In fact, when I first started using it, the open dialogue didn't say
"open files" like it does now, it said "open MPEGs", as that was
the only supported file architecture.
Ah yes, those were the days!
As far as I'm concerned, Winamp is still an open architecture: people
will still write plugins for it even if they are not on an official site
somewhere, and new file types will most likely be
supported, so until the day comes when Winamp no longer runs on modern
architecture, or in some way henders the ability of the system to
perform in general, I'm gonna keep on using it.
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