Is Winamp spyware?

Hello,

I just downloaded the latest version of Winamp and I chose to not send anonymous statistics to them... however, looking at this website: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=238838 I am undecided if I should keep Winamp or not... can someone offer their advice?

Thanks!

Gracie

 

like the dev person said, its not spyware and u can easily disable the offending features.

if u like winamp, then keep it and try not to be too paranoid

 

Hi , okay... yeah, I like it for listening to online radio. Curious though, do you see a problem using the Online Services? I really like those features....

Thanks again,

Gracie

 

i dont use winamp and i dont use online services like radio or a music store.

like i said, if u like the feature, u should use it.

 

It should be safe to use, ive had winamp for a long time and i messed with the radio and video services and i never had a problem.

 

Thank you very much for replying... I will keep Winamp for now .

 

i'm always careful when i use Winamp because some of its addons have spyware. here are some links for online radio which can be listened to without Winamp.
http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/

http://streams.coolbegin.com/

you can right-click and save this icon ---> http://www.shoutcast.com/images/tunein.gif to your hardrive from the shoutcast link below. then if it's a 24/7 stream you can tune in whenever you like. i think these are the same stations Winamp uses
http://www.shoutcast.com/

http://dir.xiph.org/

http://www.live365.com/index.live

http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/MP3/Streaming/Stations/

http://punkcast.com/

i like this stream when it plays ambient stuff -
http://www.somafm.com/groovesalad.pls

it's from this site -
http://www.somafm.com/

if you just want a radio player with preinstalled stations these two players are very good fro Windows
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/
http://www.screamer-radio.com/

these are good if you use Linux - streamtuner streamripper
http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/

here's a screenshot of streamtuner
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9823/ur0507j/gagnef1.jpg

 

I use winamp. I have been Using it since version 2.80, I don't use any addons. I scan for spyware quite a lot, I haven't found anything in winamp yet. I used to get these tracking cookies from wxx.live365.com they were found by AD-Aware SE, at the time I wasn't using Winamp or any music player.

 

Which Winamp addons has spyware ? show me one, people please stop being paranoid, i'm using Winamp since early times and never seen a addon with spyware.

 

I have been using it for years, with no problems.

have alook @>

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=70393
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=167493

 

i'm not sure if it has spyware, you'll have try it out and see i don't use winamp.
http://www.fileplanet.com/55935/50000/fileinfo/Valentine-Dancer---WinAmp

 

It asks me for an account to Fileplanet, anyway com'on people ''Valentine Dancer'' ? We are talking here about real Winamp addons not random crap , if someone want to get in trouble then yes just got stuff like ''Winamp Dancer '' or ''eMule Booster'' with those you can't miss spyware.

 

what more do you want? it's an addon for Winamp here's a link for it from the Winamp site. so like i said -

http://web.archive.org/web/20040617181031/http://winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=44849

 

http://winamp.com/plugins/browse.php?search=yes&filter=C&query=Valentine

No Valentine Dancer here , we don't have to go back in time to get spyware.

 

guess teh plugins section is a bit cleaned up since winamp 2.x. good to know

 

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