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Whamb is a skinnable digital audio player for Mac OS X. For now, it supports Audio CDs, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files and Internet streams. Share now your music on your local area network! Whamb is the first to use Rendezvous technology to offer you a easy way to share your playlists and songs, without any configuration required. Indeed, Rendezvous's advantage is to be "zeroconf".
The first idea behind Whamb was first to build a light and fast MP3/OGG player for Mac OS X only. After the loss of some cool players running on Mac OS 9.x, you, user, didn't have a lot of choice on OS X. Whamb isn't
The first idea behind Whamb was first to build a light and fast MP3/OGG player for Mac OS X only. After the loss of some cool players running on Mac OS 9.x, you, user, didn't have a lot of choice on OS X. Whamb isn't
What's New
Version 1.2 adds the following:
- MP3 and OGG stream ripping feature. Tagging and auto track cuts are supported
- Ogg Vorbis streaming support (Icecast), with format auto detection system
- Better skinnable player window behaviour (click-through and floating window easy-switch)
- New tiny skin named Leaf
- Several skins now have a nice network's buffers gauge when streaming audio
- Lots of bugs fixed (stream's connection problems don't block Whamb, removed MP3's "rough click" which happened sometimes, better seeker, low bitrates MP3 and Ogg tracks now properly supported)
- You can now choose and fix the server port used by the Rendezvous sharing feature
- Started optimization for the PowerPC 970
- now it's Freeware/Donationware
Version 1.2 adds the following:
- MP3 and OGG stream ripping feature. Tagging and auto track cuts are supported
- Ogg Vorbis streaming support (Icecast), with format auto detection system
- Better skinnable player window behaviour (click-through and floating window easy-switch)
- New tiny skin named Leaf
- Several skins now have a nice more...
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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| Downloads:11,482 |
| Version Downloads:5,870 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : MP3 |
| License:Free |
| Date:23 May 2003 |
| Platform:PPC |
| Price:Free |
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Whamb is a skinnable digital audio player for Mac OS X. For now, it supports Audio CDs, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files and Internet streams. Share now your music on your local area network! Whamb is the first to use Rendezvous technology to offer you a easy way to share your playlists and songs, without any configuration required. Indeed, Rendezvous's advantage is to be "zeroconf".
The first idea behind Whamb was first to build a light and fast MP3/OGG player for Mac OS X only. After the loss of some cool players running on Mac OS 9.x, you, user, didn't have a lot of choice on OS X. Whamb isn't ported from Classic/OS 9, it is build for Mac OS X and can't run on Classic. Whamb takes part of the new Mac OS X technologies like CoreAudio, CoreGraphics ("Quartz"), Mach threads, and a few optimizations for G4 (Altivec).
Whamb first accepts MP3 files and net streams. But we want to introduce you to a new audio format named Ogg Vorbis. Definitively better than MP3's, we think that Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg) could become a new standard in the future (quality is about the same as AAC files, but it's absolutely free). Feel free to visit the Ogg Vorbis web site for more info on that great audio format.
The first idea behind Whamb was first to build a light and fast MP3/OGG player for Mac OS X only. After the loss of some cool players running on Mac OS 9.x, you, user, didn't have a lot of choice on OS X. Whamb isn't ported from Classic/OS 9, it is build for Mac OS X and can't run on Classic. Whamb takes part of the new Mac OS X technologies like CoreAudio, CoreGraphics ("Quartz"), Mach threads, and a few optimizations for G4 (Altivec).
Whamb first accepts MP3 files and net streams. But we want to introduce you to a new audio format named Ogg Vorbis. Definitively better than MP3's, we think that Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg) could become a new standard in the future (quality is about the same as AAC files, but it's absolutely free). Feel free to visit the Ogg Vorbis web site for more info on that great audio format.
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Robert reviewed on 18 Dec 2006
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jcraig reviewed on 13 Apr 2006
Anonymous reviewed on 30 Sep 2005
Whamb creates problems with hard drive file structure so I need to make a "fsck" (or repair disk) each time I use it
(OSX Tiger)
Anonymous reviewed on 20 Aug 2005
- equalizer presets
- more flexible playlist management
- professionally designed skins
Anonymous reviewed on 11 Aug 2005
Also I had some problems installing skins. Try this:
1) Download it is and remove the .tgz from the filename so that is reads .wskin
2) Then instead of dragging it into the app which doesn't work anyway, from Whamb select File->Open and choose the *.wskin file. It should install automatically (without and notification) and appear in the Skins menu.
Anonymous reviewed on 21 Jun 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 03 Apr 2005
Regarding the skins, most are a bit skimpy, unless you are a minimalist or like the interface always on top, though they have an interesting rounded feel. More skins are available via the author's homepage.
This runs nicely on an ibook 700mhz seems much peppier than iTunes.
Unfortunately I could not get any internet streams to play. Some just refused to start others cause the unexpected crash. Stability score is affected by this alone as it seems to work well aside from this feature.
Keep up the good work!
Francisco
Anonymous reviewed on 26 Feb 2005
http://www.illadvised.com/~jordy/
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Jul 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 26 Mar 2004