Wednesday, June 22, 2005
FUCK YOU WINAMP
Ok Winamp. We settle this here. I love your ability to play music. I like the smart views and the jump to feature and the media library. You are a nice, lightweight program that for the most part kicks ass.
HOWEVER.
You pester me for weeks about having to upgrade. I finally take the bait like a chump, lured by the promises of over 15,000 (!!!) fixed bugs and all that bullshit, and I uninstall the last version so as not to overwrite my install with multiple versions. This is not an uncommon practice, and yet on uninstall, you do some curious things. You leave your fucking skins and your plugins on my hard drive for future installs (the plugins I mind less, because they are useful; the skins are a waste of electromagnetism) and yet you blindly abolish all trace of my playlists, my settings and my song ratings. SONG RATINGS WINAMP, I HAD A LOT OF THESE.
In fact, I had a good chunk of my SXSW collection sorted according to suck/good, and now it's gone. I also had a nice list of good singles that made for brainless music, now gone too. The loss of my playlists, mostly my podcasts, is slightly less painful (except for my PERFECT playlist of Monster Magnet; seriously, this was the best Monster Magnet CD EVER) but it still hurts. Lastly, all my preferences are gone, so I need to rebind all my global hotkeys.
I HATE YOU SO HARD RIGHT NOW WINAMP. And no, you can't go and blame this one on me for having an elaborate setup. Mine is rather modest compared to some of your power users, and all this could be preventable with one of TWO simple things.
Ok Winamp. We settle this here. I love your ability to play music. I like the smart views and the jump to feature and the media library. You are a nice, lightweight program that for the most part kicks ass.
HOWEVER.
You pester me for weeks about having to upgrade. I finally take the bait like a chump, lured by the promises of over 15,000 (!!!) fixed bugs and all that bullshit, and I uninstall the last version so as not to overwrite my install with multiple versions. This is not an uncommon practice, and yet on uninstall, you do some curious things. You leave your fucking skins and your plugins on my hard drive for future installs (the plugins I mind less, because they are useful; the skins are a waste of electromagnetism) and yet you blindly abolish all trace of my playlists, my settings and my song ratings. SONG RATINGS WINAMP, I HAD A LOT OF THESE.
In fact, I had a good chunk of my SXSW collection sorted according to suck/good, and now it's gone. I also had a nice list of good singles that made for brainless music, now gone too. The loss of my playlists, mostly my podcasts, is slightly less painful (except for my PERFECT playlist of Monster Magnet; seriously, this was the best Monster Magnet CD EVER) but it still hurts. Lastly, all my preferences are gone, so I need to rebind all my global hotkeys.
I HATE YOU SO HARD RIGHT NOW WINAMP. And no, you can't go and blame this one on me for having an elaborate setup. Mine is rather modest compared to some of your power users, and all this could be preventable with one of TWO simple things.
- You WARN ME that I will lose my playlists. My ratings. My preferences. (But not my fucking skins, of which I have exactly one: the one you come with. ARGH!) On uninstall. Instead, you just say that Winamp will be removed. GEE THANKS.
- You keep those things around. You keep the plugins and the skins, I know you can do it. You're a big girl now.
