Not bad at all: Winamp 5.5

Hey all!
Not really new news, but I've been playing with Winamp 5.5, and it's kinda nice.

They've updated the skin support, the program loads a lot faster, and they've kept my favorite feature: the ability to put music on AND TAKE MUSIC BACK OFF my ipod.

If you've ever wanted to swap music with your iPod, or back up your ipod on another computer, Winamp is hands down the easiest way to do it.

The new Bento skin's transparency is nice and Vista-y too.



If you're into media players, I highly recommend checking Winamp out. It's an oldie, but a goodie!

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Help! Normalizing MP3's during playback?

What can I say? I'm a Luddite.

I still use WinAmp for all my mp3 playing goodness. Though lately I have to say I've been getting really tired of constantly adjusting volume. I tried looking up normalizing plugins, but they all kinda suck. I did find this article from Ars Technica in 2002 (where the pic is from), and I'm trying out it's recommendation of Audiostocker (which apparently got rolled up into Octimax or something), but I'd rather just have the capability natively.

Anyone with a little insight? Am I going to DJ software? Will I finally have to give in to iTunes?
Any help?