Are you still a Winamp die hard fan?


I've been using Winamp for almost 8 years, back to the time when I'm still in high school. Their simple and easy to use interface, minor resource usage and ability to display chinese song titles (in playlist) are the main reasons that makes me a loyal fan to it.

But not anymore, after I update my Winamp to version 5.32 yesterday night, I've trouble to get Winamp to display chinese song titles. SimHei font isn't doing the trick anymore, even tried font rendering settings on the modern skin and also throw in Microsoft AppLocale to aid the encoding thing but it just won't work. The weird thing is, v5.32 supports Unicode better than the old Winamp version I got but I can't understand why it won't work the way I want on the new version.

So, a friend intro me 千千静听. Best thing of this is, the player is using Simplified Chinese for the interface and encoding. That means it shouldn't have a problem to display chinese song titles in the playlist and in player. The downside is, it assume you're running on Simplified Chinese version of Windows. You'll still got trouble to display the chinese song titles if you're running a english version of WindowsXP.

To correct that and make life feels good, download Microsoft AppLocale utility. Install it and run it.
Once you got the utility running:

• Choose "Launch an application"
• Click "Browse..." to navigate to the 千千静听 folder and target TTPlayer.exe
• Click Next, select 中文（简体）
• Click Next and choose "Create a shortcut"

Once you're done, there will be a shortcut added. You can always copy that shortcut and place it in QuickLaunch toolbar. Each time you need to run the player, just use the shortcut created by AppLocale. Depends on how your songs info are stored, if you still having trouble to display the song title, try this:

• Click any song in the playlist
• Right click and select 文件属性
• On the 读取类型优先级, change to ID3v1 > ID3v2 > APEv2

You should get something like below:


It's good when you can read and understand the song titles On top of that 千千静听 also has auto lyrics download and showing... what else do you need ? Life's good ~~~