Everyone here at deviantART seems to have the preconception that Winamp3 will be / is a bad piece of software. This is far from the truth. So far from the truth, in fact, that the truth is situated at least three provinces away from it.

Initially, with the release of the first Winamp3 Beta, I was nonplussed. However, after discussing it with Kinwashi, I began to realize the sheer magnitude of this brilliant nugget of coding mastery.

For starters, all of you who are concerned about Winamp3 not supporting 2x skins: you will certainly find it interesting that Winamp3 final will definitely be able to support skins from 2x. It would have been very short-sighted of Nullsoft to not include this feature, as there are still a giant number of Winamp 2x skin aficionados in the skinning “community”.

For those of you who are concerned about the creation of silly/bad freeform skins: please realize that Winamp3 scripting is difficult. So difficult, in fact, that Fyreman, Kinwashi and myself have all obtained scripting assistance from the delightful Mr. Luc Lamothe. We do the art, he does the code. This level of scripting difficulty will greatly diminish the quantity of bad skins.

Also, what percentage of current Winamp skins would you consider “good”? What percentage would you actually use? I personally have 73 skins in my collection. There are 1000s upon 1000s of skins at Winamp.com, so I estimate that the percentage of “good” skins would be significantly less that 1%.

For those of you who are concerned about the lack of anti-aliasing: Winamp3 Beta 2 already supports anti-aliasing on 2000 and XP. Apparently, Nullsoft are planning on having the final version support all versions of Windows.

The sheer quantity of excellent, useful skinning features that Nullsoft has slated to be in the final version is just mind-blowing. You are basically able to create absolutely anything you can imagine. There are very few limitations.

After stating these facts, I cannot fathom any reason to not like Winamp3. The final version will definitely be considered a nonpareil piece of audio software.

Don’t be a luddite. Use Winamp3.