Winamp's Shuffle

Factual Questions
1

Hi all. I’m posting this because Winamp’s shuffle sucks. It always plays the same 100 or so songs out of a list of 2000. Does anyone know of a plug-in for Winamp 2 (or any Winamp, I’m so desperate I would download 5) that would drastically improve the shuffle feature? One thing that I think would improve the shuffle would be to remove a song from having a chance of being played if it has been played within X amount of time or Y amount of songs.

Also, does anyone know the formula Winamp uses to choose their songs?

Thanks for the help.

P.S. What happened to the Winamp 2 site? There used to be a link on winamp.com, but it’s not there anymore.

2

Trying going into the prefernces and changing the shuffle morph rate - I don’t remember how to in 2.xx, but in 5 you just goto the Preferences, then Playlist, and adjust the slider.

Also, I reccomend getting Winamp5 - it has all the good stuff from 2 & 3, and none of the crap that 3 was stuck with.

3

I forgot to mention that I already tried that and still ended up with basically the same problem. I’m looking for drastically different here. What exactly can 5 do that 2 can’t? Playing videos isn’t important, IMO, and the crazy skins takes up too much resources.

4

It can play .wmp and .wma files.

5

I meant .wmv and .wma.

6

Then don’t use the crazy modern skins, I don’t. - 5 lets you use the classics skins. 5 also works with all classic 2.xx plugins.

I checkout out some plugins at winamp.com -
this one might be useful to you.

7

Does Winamp 5 support the sweet ass fire equalizer effects (it has to be red, not that green crap)? If not, I’m sticking by my old baby.

8

I’m surprised they haven’t fixed that yet.
It’s not hard to randomly create a list of the files to be played that must be played through before you randomly recreate the list.
Kind of like shuffling a virtual deck of cards. I’ve done it in MUXcode, but that was about 10 years ago… hehehe

9

did they bring back the jump with “j” key feature? For some reason I can’t even begin to fathom, they removed that feature from 3. Its so frickin’ convenient that I simply will not use a version in which this feature is not present.

10

I used Winamp 2 for the longest time, and I too was wary of switching to Winamp 5. However, one day I did, and it was good. Winamp 5 has the jump function, and you can tweak your visualization just like you could in Winamp 2.
The best part of v5 is that you can use global hotkeys. Like say, I’m playing some full-screen game with Winamp playing in the background. So some song I don’t like comes up, and I want to change it. Before I’d have to alt-tab out, go to Winamp, and hit ‘b’. Now I just hit ctrl+alt+b and it’ll move to the next song. You can customize your global hotkeys to whatever you want. There’s nothing that v2 has that v5 does not.

Also, you can switch to the classic skins rather than the new “modern skins”, which is what I did.