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Manage Winamp’s playlist with no hassle

Elena Santos

Elena Santos

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winamp.gifI listen to music at work, only muting the player when I really need concentration or in case somebody talks to me. Otherwise, Winamp is continuously playing a list with more than 4,300 songs in it.

Despite this huge number, I have no problems in managing my song collection without even leaving the application I’m currently working with. I’ve customized a couple of handy keyboard shortcuts that allow you to control Winamp’s functions from any program, so that I can pause music, turn up the volume o go to the next track in list with a simple key combination. You can find these keyboard shortcuts in Options > Preferences > Global Hotkeys.

One of my favourite shortcuts is the one that opens the “Jump to file” dialog. This function allows you to find any song in your playlist by entering the title or the artist’s name, and play it on Winamp immediately. Also, I recently noticed that this dialog offers two other interesting options: you can move a file after the one that’s currently playing or create a queue inside the playlist with, let’s say, the songs you’d like to listen to during the next hour. So whenever I feel a bit moody, I use this shortcut and it only takes me a minute or so to find just the most appropriate song for that moment.

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