# Sonique or Winamp? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109 "2002-06-14T23:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/1 "2002-06-14T23:10:01Z")
I use windows media player myself. I like the pretty images… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/2 "2002-06-15T00:56:21Z")
Winamp. 🙂 (Especially the Beta 3 version: read the disclaimer when you install it! :D) Although, to be truthful, I haven’t used Sonique. I only fiddle with Windows Media Player when I’m lying in bed, listening with my headphone/mic set: that way I can mutter: “Music, next” and it’ll skip ahead to the next one. (Ayup, I have the voice recognition for it installed.) * * * \<\<\< Do-be-do-be-do. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/3 "2002-06-15T01:14:45Z")
get g-force2 its a plugin for winamp and it blows the media player effects away. oh yeah winamp ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/4 "2002-06-15T01:44:20Z")
Huh. I guess descriptive thread titles are useful after all. 🙂 I should probably (re)state that to date I’ve only used Winamp, but have been hearing good things about Sonique from other message boards (I guess, since a search of the SDMB turned up precious little). Anyway, I was mostly wondering if there was any difference in terms of quality of the music or the equalizers between the two, or if they “only” had different feature sets. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/5 "2002-06-15T03:18:31Z")
Winamp - since the very first versions. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/6 "2002-06-15T05:29:12Z")
Winamp - I’ve used a few of the others over the years, but I always go back to winamp. I know what all the buttons do. The visuals are not a feature I care about for the most part, although I do like the skins. dead0man ---
**Author:** ![SouprChckn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@SouprChckn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouprChckn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/7 "2002-06-15T05:33:28Z")
I used both Sonique and WinAmp back in the day. I’ve since uninstalled WinAmp and relied on Sonique and MusicMatch to handle my listening needs. I remember Sonique just plain looking better than WinAmp and the eye candy enticed me to keep on using it. I never noticed any significant differences in audio quality or features and at the time, Sonique had better visuals for the music. I believe WinAmp currently has a bigger following and as such, more plug-ins and visuals are made for it. Sonique’s community is pretty much dead what with the lack of communication between the development team and everyone. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/8 "2002-06-15T08:21:25Z")
iTunes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/9 "2002-06-15T12:49:40Z")
Winamp. I heard a lot of really good things about Sonique, so I downloaded it at work (when I had a job that allowed me to play mp3’s at work.) Frankly, I hated it. In fact, I didn’t think it was possible for me to hate a stupid media player, but in fact it was stupid and frustrated me to no end. After about two weeks, I uninstalled it and reinstalled winamp. It licks the llamas ass… ---
**Author:** ![windchsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/839c29/32.png) [@windchsr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/windchsr)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/10 "2002-06-15T13:18:25Z")
Here’s a vote for DeliPlayer [http://www.deliplayer.com](http://www.deliplayer.com) It handles about 190 formats, is skinnable, and has an _unskinned_ mode that lets you just add/remove controls and whatnot without making a skin. That mode’s ugly, but very functional. It’s also the best MOD/MED player I’ve found for Windows. ---
**Author:** ![loni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@loni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loni)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/11 "2002-06-15T14:00:41Z")
Winamp is great but a resource hog. Sonique is a clone. If you want to simply play music get STP (SysTrayPlay) by some poor Russian guy who just got drafted. Takes up almost no space, no resources, and supports Winamp skins. [http://www.netean.com/stp/](http://www.netean.com/stp/) ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/12 "2002-06-15T20:47:51Z")
Winamp 3, and the [static corner amp](http://www.deskmod.com/core.mod?show=showskin&skin_id=4693) skin. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonique-or-winamp/114109/13 "2002-06-16T06:12:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by loni \* > \*\*Winamp is great but a resource hog. Sonique is a clone. If you want to simply play music get STP (SysTrayPlay) by some poor Russian guy who just got drafted. > > Takes up almost no space, no resources, and supports Winamp skins. > > [http://www.netean.com/stp/](http://www.netean.com/stp/) \*\* Thanks, I think I’ll check that out. At 600 MHz and 256 MB of RAM, my computer’s not exactly a wimp, but it’d be nice to have a few extra clock cycles for Photoshop…