I’ve added Winamp to the phone, but as far as I can tell, it’s almost useless. It can’t be pointed at any certain folder to find songs. Even though you can find songs through the Winamp search function, you can’t make the player show those songs when you boot the app. I have no idea what people are doing with this. Are they loading the songs into a certain, secret folder? I can’t even find what folder’s being used for the few songs it does admit to knowing of, because there’s no function of showing their folder. I have lots of songs in the ringtone folder, but I can’t point Winamp at them.
I’m used to computers, a lot. I’ve slid and touched everything I can think of. This user interface is a disaster. Or is it just not possible? I can’t find out anything, because the search function on the Winamp web site just doesn’t load after I type in a search term. Literally nothing happens.
I don’t recall having to set Winamp up in any particular way. I believe it looks through the phone for any playable files and lists them, or something.
I just created a Music directory on an SD card and dumped all my music in there in folders by artist. Winamp picked up on them just fine.
Concur that the UI sucks, though. It ticks me off that there’s no option to force the phone to stay awake while playing like Audible’s app does.
So far, the fact that I have no idea where it’s storing my files hasn’t stopped me from being able to make use of those files, possibly because I’m also using the desktop Winamp to put those files on the chamulcus to begin with. So, I’ve been able to get what I need out of it without yet dealing with issue.
But no doubt there will come a time when I need to know how Winamp storing or finding my files. Since everytime I reboot, Winamp doesn’t play until I get the system notification that it’s done scanning media, I think Bosstone is probably right.
I never had a problem with it. I had been using the default music player and had everything on the Music folder, and when I installed WinAmp it found them without any hassle. I just hook it up to the computer, turn USB storage on, choose “Open folder” from the autoplay window and go to the Music folder. Put your music there and voila!
This is a year-old 3G with version 2.2, but I would doubt much would change as far as putting music in the Music folder.