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dibz - Oct 16, 2003

		dibz	Oct 16, 2003
		Has anyone else tried it yet? I'm not sure if I like it or not, I like the new playlist managment quite a bit. I have lots of music and thats an important thing to me. What are your opinions of it?

		racketboy	Oct 16, 2003
		hmmm never heard of it til now. I love 2, but I don't want bloatware like 3. I'm curious to hear some other opinions before installing

		Nadius	Oct 16, 2003
		It's alright, very similar to 2x. A little more memory and cpu usage than 2x. Other than the fancy new modern skin, I can't justify leaving 2x yet though... but that's because I'm running a 700mhz duron. I haven't tried the databasing/library features, I don't care for it, I just open my folder of 7000+ files onto the playlist. It's better than itunes for windows, that's for sure.

		dibz	Oct 16, 2003
		I also have um, quite a bit of MP3's. But in any case, I have them catergorized so the Library and Playlist functions are pretty important to me. It's not as bloated as Winamp3 but it does take a little more memory then 2, but the added functionality that I use is greatly appreciated. So far, I approve of Winamp 5.

		racketboy	Oct 16, 2003
		how stable is it? considering it's a "prealpha"

		dibz	Oct 16, 2003
		Dont know yet, tell you tomorrow. I've only played with it for about 30 min so far.

		Nadius	Oct 16, 2003
		Originally posted by racketboy@Oct 17, 2003 @ 01:56 AM how stable is it? considering it's a "prealpha" Within 10 minutes of playing with it, an error occured. But none since. I downloaded it a few hours ago. Edit: HAHA just noticed you can stretch the window. You can have it docked all the way across the bottom/top of your screen in windowshade mode. This might be a clincher for me.