Blogamp -- discovered on that great blog, largehearted boy -- is a plugin for Winamp that ftps your mp3 playlist and displays it on your website via javascript. Isn't that cool?
Actually, it would be even cooler if I were still using Winamp, but I'm not. I'm pretty exclusively using Quintessential CD Player, or QCD. Some reasons why QCD is the best (and I've tried them all):
- It can be as no-frills as you want, or you can use all the bells and whistles. (In contrast, Winamp -- especially the latest version -- is totally bloated, with useless video capabilities and such. I kept having incompatibilities with my graphics card with the latest one.)
- You can have a relatively large, car stereo-size interface (depending on the skin), or something thin in Windowshade mode like Winamp.
- It's skinnable, with a base just as simple as the early Winamps' or as complicated as Sonique's.
- The mp3s can be converted to .wav files with one right-click -- no digging around in menus looking for the disk writer plugin.
- Okay, so you can't use those amazing visualizations you can get with Winamp. But QCD has a plugin that will let you play Sonique visualizations, which aren't bad at all.
- It restores the playlist (and your place in it) on startup.
- Best of all is its integration with Music Collector, yet another amazing CDDB2-enabled program that tabulates my CDs. (This, in and of itself, is worth a whole post; it lets you file and systematize your CD collection.) I enter a mixed CD (of which I have a lot) into Music Collector, fire up QCD later, and it automatically reads it off the Music Collector file without having to run the database program.
Posted by the wily filipino at March 27, 2003 08:42 AM