Posts Tagged by Winamp

Quick tip for Winamp users. Winamp actually have this function that let you to control Winamp playback such as ‘Play’, ‘Pause’, ‘Stop’ or ‘Next Song in Playlist’ from within any running applications or games. For example, you are surfing the web, and you don’t like to minimize your browser and restore Winamp just to change the track. This function is called ‘Global Hotkeys’.

To enable the global hotkeys, open Winamp’s preferences (CTRL+P), go to ‘General Preferences‘ > ‘Global Hotkeys‘. Tick ‘Enable’ (1) to enable it. If you have a keyboard with multmedia control buttons (Play/Pause/Next/Previous/etc), you can enable support for multimedia key (2). You can also customize the hotkey, or add new key. Don’t forget to click ‘Set’ (3) to save the hotkey modification that you made.

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I’m sure many of us use Winamp to play and organize and play our media files. In fact, 21% from this blog readers who answer this blog’s current pool use Winamp as their favourite media player to play media files (please vote if you haven’t vote yet!).

Leolyrics Winamp Plugins (Leo’s Lyrics Plugins) enables you to automatically display lyrics in Winamp when Winamp play media files. When you play something on Winamp, Leo’s Lyrics Plugins will automatically search Leolyrics.com massive lyrics database that match the song name and artist. The accuracy of Leo’s Lyrics Plugins is very great. It works with audio and video files. Downloaded lyrics will be stored locally so the plugin won’t need to re-download the lyrics everytime a same song is played.

If the plugin cannot match the media with a plugin, it will show you the search result so you can manually select the lyrics for the played song.

Leolyrics Winamp Plugins is free and free and spyware or adware. Every Winamp users should use this plugin. I highly recommend it to everyone! This plugin however need to have access to the internet in order to download the lyrics.

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