Winamp Plug-in - winampRC - WinampRC is a network remote...

Author's Comment:

WinampRC is a network remote control for winamp.
WinampRC is a network remote control for winamp. You can control these functions over a network (LAN, internet,..)- Previous Track - Play - Pause - Stop - Next Track - Shuffle - Repeat - Seeking Bar - Volume - Panning - P l a y l i s t

- Stefan Schmidt

Staff Review:

Control winamp from the internet.
WOW I can not control the playlist over a network with winamp. Now this is kicking that llamas ass if I have ever seen it. c-

Random Review:

Pretty good for what it does. Keeps it simple.
Well, there are others out there that are probably better, including one that uses Ajax to draw a nice little image representing what winamp roughly looks like on the other system, but, I'm running winamp on an old computer and, I probably needn't mention that something running a web service using java and such to do all that brings an old system to it's knees. Well, that's where this comes in. It wastes very little power with a very simplistic system. Unfortunately, I find a few annoyances. Such as when it has an error, it exits winamp (I had some kind of connect error earlier.) No chance to get to the configuration or anything. Also, the only way to disable it is to uninstall. It has no security options on it, so I'm not sure you'd want to just leave it enabled 24/7 on a PC connected too directly to the internet (but then winamp shouldn't need incoming connections anyway.) Finally, to get to the client, you must manually run it. It's located in the winamp plugin folder and no icons are created for it (not even on the desktop, though I hate it when things place icons on my already too cluttered desktop. Start menu would have been nice though.)I'm giving it a three start rating for now because it's in need of improvement, but, for it's intended purpose, it's pretty good once you get it all up and running and create an icon so you don't have to browse to it every time (even I can't memorize that filename well enough to manually run via command line, and I run 3/4 of my programs that way.) Actually, it kind of deserves a 3.5 because it's one of the very few that don't kill a weak processor with a lot of junk that you don't really need, which I consider a good thing whether it's on an old PC or a very powerful modern PC.

- Nazo San, Jan. 7th, 2006

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