It is just as innovative as commercial software, meaning that maybe 1 out of 100 programs try something new. It is the exact opposite of almost everything I’m looking for in an audio player.įor all of you saying that OSS is not innovative, I beg to differ. I absolutely DESPISE iTunes … hate it with a passion. I have not tried most of the players mentioned here as of yet, but I intend to. Thus far, Winamp is the closest thing I’ve found to my ideal player, though it still has too much crap, IMHO. (I’ve found a few plugins in Winamp that are designed to do this, but all the ones I’ve seen are more trouble to use than they’re worth.) A ‘bookmark’ feature wouldn’t hurt either, so that if I’m listening to an audiobook (which I do often), I could bookmark my position and next time I start up that file again, I can continue right where I left off last time. Variable speed playback (eg – the pacemaker plugin in Winamp)Ħ. Ability to use the arrow keys to fast forward/rewind and control the volumeĥ. Consumes very little screen real-estate when in ‘compact mode’Ĥ. Able to play all the major audio formats (esp mp3 and aac)ģ. All that stuff is great, but I don’t need it 98% of the time, so I’d rather either have it seperate or at least modular so I can load it only when I need it.Ģ. I don’t need CD burning/ripping, the visualization crap, skinning, tag editing or file organization. When I am playing music or audiobooks, the ONLY thing I need is an audio player. Can you do that with iTunes? Truthfully though, I’d like to find something that is lighter than that. Right now, I’m running Winamp Lite 5 – it is consuming about 2.6MB of RAM. Ok, now I will leave tha path open for all the rest of people who want to say how superior iTunes is (20% of you), those who will attack *why* it’s not on Linux first (another 20%), then those who say they prefer Juk/Rhythmbox/XMMS because whatever (20%), and the other 80% who will attack me back on my OSS views. It’s an amazing feat you have accomplished this far, even at this young age. I guess I’m one of those on this side of the debate that thinks about computers as tools FIRST and FOREMOST, and as an object of politics second (or third, or…) Ok, excuse me for starting to go off-topic, it’s just that this political subject is currently in vogue, and you can actually breathe it in the air. Yet we demonize Netscape while we praise Firefox, we demonize Sun and praise OOo.
Sun paid millions of dollars to buy the StarOffice product, which was very advanced by then.
#Ns2 tutorial windows
Many OSS zealots like to quickly forget or dismiss that most of the prominent and successfull OSS projects that are having traction on Windows (and off) started as proprietary projects, with heavy investments already been made.įor example, OpenOffice did not start as an Open Source Project.
This project is interesting in the fact that it is one of the few and first that is written 1) under OSS politics, 2) developed for Windows first, and 3) has *not* been started from the works of an existing commercial venture. (yeah, MP3tunes is easy to remember, just like the Lindows name was ? Sans the music stores, of course, but then again, it could grow to work with Linspire’s MP3tunes, or with that other store that uses OGG, whose name escapes me now. Then, it will be pretty much up to par with WMP, iTunes and MusicMatch. The main features missing for normal-to-advanced users are CD burning, and visualizations. Truly, it is not exactly eye-candy, but it is not a pain to the eyes either.
#Ns2 tutorial software
This software seems to have almost all of the power and flexibility of Windows Media Player, while not being as resource intensive.