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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Warning: Winamp 5.2
Posted: 12:30:00 AM 0 comments
Just a warning to those who like to play MP3 and other files in Winamp: Don't upgrade to 5.2.

Apparently there's a lot - and I mean a lot - of problems with it. I installed it and I can't even open it now, I get a fatal exception.

Back to WMP for now... Sigh.

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Saturday, April 23, 2005
Winamp 5.08
Posted: 4:38:00 PM 0 comments
Now playing: roncli, The Nightstalker - Everytime (Preview) (7:37)

Just installed Winamp 5.08... man has their installer gotten bloated. It makes it seem as though they're getting away from the simplicity that made Winamp so popular and morphing it into... I don't know what. Too many options in the installation for me to consider when all I want is the latest version of the software.

No worries though, I open up Winamp and it looks and works just like it always does. Maybe it's just AOL getting to them.

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VBR & Winamp
Posted: 2:05:00 PM 0 comments
Now playing: roncli, The Nightstalker - Everytime (Preview) (7:41)

Seems Winamp can't get song times straight on VBR encoded songs. The play length of Everytime is 5:23, not the 7:41 it advertises when it's first opened.

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Sunday, February 20, 2005
SQL Server v Winamp
Posted: 3:38:00 AM 0 comments
Now playing: RedHeat (m0d) - Discovery (11:25)

So I'm sitting here working on my log analyzer web app, and Kathy's sitting on her computer listening to Winamp and playing AdventureQuest. The music plays along fine... until I decide to create an index on my 5 million row table.

See, my SQL server is on the same machine as all the MP3s. Since this machine doesn't have any spectacular hardware in it - just an SIDE hard drive - SQL Server and Winamp fight for drive time. The result is usually that SQL Server wins out, causing Winamp to choke.

This happening once in a while isn't bad... but I've been hitting my database with new indexes all night trying to reduce my query times from 1 minute to under 1 second. The result, lots of unnecessary interruptions.

If we didn't use the MP3s on more than one machine - and an available machine other than the server had enough hard drive space - this could be avoidable. Until then, though, I guess we're stuck just skip skip skipping away...

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