By Alastair DoddPosted Monday 21st January 2008 16:02 GMT
"These boundary errors can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via overly long '<artist>' and '<name>' tag values in the <metadata> section,"
This means nothing to me...
Seriously we know AOL are rubbish but can they just cut Nullsoft loose so then can fix the totally broken Winamp we have these days? Its rubbish (like everything AOL have ever done), which is a shame as it used to be brilliant.
Personally, I think WinAMP, whilst still not what it was at it's peak is much better nowadays than it has been for years. It has many of the features back that were axed even when Nullsoft was independant so it's hard to blame AOL really.
They decided to do the whole re-write thing for some reason, god only knows why but the re-write resulted in more vulnerabilities and it caused them to take about 6 years to reimplement the features that only took them about 6months to get in the first time round.
By David WiernickiPosted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 02:05 GMT
...the main blight for me is its taking 50 second to start and 15 seconds to understand any given restore / minimize operation.
On the other hand, the built in shoutcast browser, permanently set to search for "State Of Trance", roxxors my soxxors. Or whatever the kids are saying nowadays.
By Sean NevinPosted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 02:49 GMT
50 Seconds to Start! Are you running^H^H^H^H^H crawling Vista? I have Winamp 5 and it loads the program and my 7000+ song playlist in less than 4. Granted though, my shoutcast is looking for DJ Tiesto, so that may be it... : )
By Anonymous CowardPosted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 06:30 GMT
I still use XMMS. I've come to like it's Winamp-like interface without the 5.x bloat. I guess it's fairly forgotten now tho- I don't believe the 1.2.11 release last November had any mention on el reg?
(now just to make the people cracking the ultravox fans cracking jokes feel bad the day you sat at home lamenting the fact joe dolce beat vienna to number 1 was the day I was born :)
By Anonymous CowardPosted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 11:29 GMT
Ok, I still use winamp v2 (well, 2.95) and re-install from my archives each time I re-do a windows operating system (I like it, it doesn't try and sell me anything and it plays MP3's).
And for those who are not digital kleptomaniacs, there's always oldversion.com
By MatthewPosted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 14:46 GMT
As only functioning as an MP3 player it's not the lightest but as a play everything media player then there's little to beat it on Windows IMO. Never found something it didn't know how to play.
What's the alternative, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Real Player? They're all hopeless by comparison.
Comments on: Winamp blighted by bug brace
Winamp #
By Tim Posted Monday 21st January 2008 15:51 GMT
hmmm #
By Alastair Dodd Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:02 GMT
Why do I need to know this? #
By Dave Fisher Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:09 GMT
Llama #
By Daniel Bennett Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:17 GMT
@Why... #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:21 GMT
@Tim #
By Joni Kahara Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:24 GMT
@Alistair + Dave #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:26 GMT
@Why do I need to know this? #
By Jason Harvey Posted Monday 21st January 2008 16:39 GMT
Ultravox! #
By Jess Posted Monday 21st January 2008 17:05 GMT
Who me ? #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 21st January 2008 17:39 GMT
Overly long? #
By Sacha TF Padovani Posted Monday 21st January 2008 18:05 GMT
Comments #
By Colin Wilson Posted Monday 21st January 2008 18:17 GMT
Winamp #
By Ian Posted Monday 21st January 2008 22:39 GMT
Lament #
By GrahamT Posted Monday 21st January 2008 22:39 GMT
Reap the wild Winamp. #
By Mark York Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 00:26 GMT
I'm a winamp diehard, but... #
By David Wiernicki Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 02:05 GMT
@ David Wiernicki #
By Sean Nevin Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 02:49 GMT
I use Xine #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 03:45 GMT
Re: "I use Xine" #
By Richard Neill Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 05:22 GMT
XMMS #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 06:30 GMT
Re:Lament #
By Andy Worth Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 08:23 GMT
@ GrahamT #
By Bruce Leyden Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 08:32 GMT
Winamp no more #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 10:45 GMT
Whats-amatta-you, eh? #
By sack Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 11:25 GMT
Winamp 2 #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 11:29 GMT
Still the best media player there is #
By Matthew Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 14:46 GMT