Winamp Itunes

| 02-05-2021
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This brief tutorial will show you how to use Winamp to manage your iPod.

Please note: This guide was originally published back in 2007. Quite obviously, a lot has changed since then. WinAMP still exists, kind of, and supports some iPod models. With that said, the steps and screenshots used in this guide have likely changed. It’s staying up as a historical/archived document, and should be treated as such.
  1. First, make sure to enable disk use on your iPod by connecting it and opening iTunes (if it doesn’t auto-launch). Select your iPod and then click the Settings tab. Scroll down to the Options section and remove the check from the box labeled Open iTunes when this iPod is attached. Then place a check in the Enable disk use box (if it isn’t checked already). Click Apply.
  2. Exit out of iTunes, and confirm that your iPod has now mounted itself as a drive.
  3. Download and install Winamp if you haven’t yet. If you opt to create a custom installation, make sure to leave the iPod support selection in Portable Media Player Support (which is a part of the Winamp Library) checked.
  4. Launch Winamp and if the Media Library window doesn’t appear, select View and then Media Library.
  5. In the left column of the Media Library window, select your iPod from the Portables list. Any files currently on your iPod will be displayed.
  6. To add music to your iPod, open the Playlist window, add some songs to it and then right-click those songs. From the pop-up menu select Send to: and then choose your iPod.
  7. You’ll see a percentage status indicator as the files are sent to your iPod.
  8. The files listed on your iPod may not refresh on their own. Just click Portables…
  9. … and then click your iPod again. All of the files you just sent to your iPod will now be listed.
  10. You can eject your iPod right from within Winamp by clicking the Eject button in the bottom right corner of the Media Library window.
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Take 'now playing' song information from all major music media players (Winamp, iTunes, QMP (QCD), foobar2000) Pass ' now playing ' song details to almost any application ( IRC clients: mIRC, jIRCii, Bersirc; IM clients: Miranda, Trillian, MSN Messenger; E-mail clients: The Bat!, Outlook, Thunderbird; Web browsers, blogging tools, windows. WinAmp is also light compared to something like Itunes which has become an insatiable resource muncher. Additionally, you would be hard pressed to find another that’s as open to adding as many additional plug-ins.

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Music Organizer and Categorizer for VLC, iTunes and Winamp

Create playlists from your own categorized songs for iTunes and Winamp

Sim for mac download. specify up to 600 attributes for each song

Simple yet Powerful
for iTunes and Winamp

What does it do?

Beyond Genre is a music organizer and categorizer built on the premise that each song has more than one classification. Therefore, Genre alone does not help organize or categorize music. Furthermore, 'grouping' in iTunes is not an easy to use interface for music classification. 'Grouping' has to be re-typed each time; hence creating a cumbersome interface and also prone to typing mistakes. In Beyond Genre, you specify the attributes once and then assign them to your music collection using check boxes.

The software gives you the ability to tag multiple (and custom) attributes to a song. For example, you can assign a song with attributes:
song1 >> English, jazz, dinner, romantic
song2 >> English, dinner, romantic, instrumental
As you tag your songs, you can do things like:
Play (romantic, dinner) music but not (instrumental)
The software works only with VLC, Winamp and iTunes (and not Windows Media Player).


Features and Benefits

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  • Import 'Genre', 'Grouping', and 'My Ratings' from iTunes.
  • Create playlists in iTunes or Winamp using any combination of your own song attributes. Playlists in iTunes are named 'Beyond Genre'. From iTunes, click on the playlist name to change it.
  • Select music by choosing your 'desired' and 'undesired' attributes.
  • Easily assign attributes for different members of the family.
  • The data is saved in a text file so that you can easily manipulate it, share it, or syncronize it with another computer.
  • The data is common between iTunes and Winamp.
  • Copy music to other computers on your local network using the 'Copy missing songs' option.
  • Works with any Windows version.

Known limitations

  • Currently does not support unicode characters.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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  • See answers to frequently asked questions in FAQ page.
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