Winamp Plug-in Details

Winamp Staff Review

Extended version of Winamp RC with more features
This is a more juiced up version of Stefan Schmidt's Winamp RC; which is a plugin that allows you to remotely control Winamp from a network. This version supports more advanced features regarding Playlist, Jumping to File, and hotkeys.

User Reviews

Get the old one instead

Jan. 7th, 2006

I missed this when I was searching before. I thought, hey, newer version, it must be better, so grabbed this version and installed it (making sure to uninstall the old first of course.) Well, this version has issues. First of all, I notice it won't show any details. No song title, no playlist. Even if I select update from the menu, I still get no details. Well, I could live with this, but, I'm not particularly fond of the way closing the client causes the winamp running the server to crash. Some people won't run into these issues, but, the point is that the issues exist in the first place in this supposed improved version.I also was annoyed that this newer version didn't make any of the improvements I had hoped to see versus the old version, such as a more full configuration. IP security, or even just the option to disable without uninstalling would be nice. But now the option to choose what port it will run on is gone too. The configuration button just provides an about style box saying no configuration needed.One would tend to think that it could improve and solve these problems eventually, but it's no longer being developed. I do think it has good potential and if someone took the code and improved it, it would be just wonderful, but, if someone has done so in the > 2 years it's been opensource I haven't yet found their version. Whether or not there is another, the fact is that this particular version has issues so I say look for the older version and use it or find another plugin to do the job.
- Nazo San

Sep. 16th, 2004

Worked great. The remote interface is a little minimalistic, but hey... its open source :). Had no problems configuring my computers.
- a b

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