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Development, Virtual Machines, and Winamp

I'm doing a lot of development on Visual Studio 2005 these days. I don't want to install VS2005 on my main machine, so I'm doing my development in a virtual machine (on VMWare). I like to listen to music while I code, and I use Winamp as my music player. I'm a long time Winamp user, and I still prefer it to WMP as a lean and mean music player (plus the FLAC support is better than WMP). But since I'm running Winamp on my main machine and developing in a VM, controlling the player is a bit disruptive - I end up bouncing in and out of the virtual machine to switch tracks.

Recently I discovered a great solution to this problem - WAWI - the Winamp Web Interface. It turns Winamp into a mini web server, and lets you control Winamp remotely over a web browser. Even better, it includes WAWITray - a small app that runs in the notification area and gives you control of a remote Winamp instance running WAWI. It's the perfect solution for me. Recommended.

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  • Good find! I was just thinking about rolling my own solution for this very thing recently...spend most of my time on my laptop, but the workstation has the powerhouse soundcard/speakers. Works like a champ, nice to be able to remotely control winamp from my lappie.

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