Corey Gouker's Machine Inside the Mind

So it's been a little while since I posted the mother of all WMP9 the good, the bad, and the ugly posts, one thing I really wasn't happy about was the poor demonstration that a screen shot provided when demonstrating just how much of a pain jumping through your music collection is with WMP9. So after all this time and because I know a new version will always be coming for WMP I figured wth, lets provide a video.

So here we have it. First the minute long demonstration of trying to pull up Weezer's Green Album from the Task Bar Player menu in WMP9. Note the multiple listings of Greatest Hits. Also, I'm sorry about the 1600x1200 res, it's my LCD's native... also at lower resolutions there are even more menus so I figure I saved some time but keeping it at 1600x1200 .

Next we have the 30 second demonstration of me using CTRL+ALT+J, otherwise known as the global hot key for Jump in WinAmp 5. Now for this I've added audio, mostly because I think it clearly shows just how quickly WinAmp will go from file to file immediately playing as soon as I hit enter. Also note that the mouse does not move once after I make the player smaller. In WMP I had to move the mouse back and forth umpteen times. With WinAmp, I could simply be carrying on a convo in Messenger and hit jump and type the title, hit enter, then get back in my convo without ever taking my hands off the keyboard. Furthermore, even after I got all the way to the Green Album in WMP it still took another 4 seconds before it even began to play.

Clearly WinAmp wins hands down, and sadly as much as I'd want to solely use WMP, I think I'll be using both players for quite some time.