As you know the Winamp dev team has been hard at work on the new Developer Network (come back soon for additional details). But they've also been working on additional user experience improvements.

* Personalized 'Now Playing' Start Page

'Now Playing' Start Page - now features Recently Visited artist pages



As well as Recently Played artist

There are a bunch of different ways you can create and edit playlists in Winamp. This video shows you how to create a standard playlist, as well as how to use the Playlist Editor. It also teaches you how Winamp can dynamically generate a playlist for you.

Learn how to include streaming audio in your Winamp playlists. In other words, you don't even need to have the song in your media library, as long as you know the streaming url. Don't know what a streaming url is... don't worry, we'll show you how you can use the 'Now Playing' feature to add songs from across the web.

Finally, if you're a purist and don't like the idea of a playlist and would rather learn how to shuffle all songs in Winamp, we show you that as well!

Have Fun!

I'm sure most of you have noticed by now, there's something different about SHOUTcast. Our fellow developers on the SHOUTcast team have been working long and hard to relaunch the site, which debuted last week. They made a lot of great improvements including:

- A new easy-to-navigate design
- Improved search capabilities - search over 22K radio stations worldwide by artist name, song title, or genre
- Top stations listed by genre providing single-click access to a variety of different stations
- A new SHOUTcast Radio Widget - which allows you to add SHOUTcast to your own site or integrate it into
your favorite social networking site (Bebo, Facebook, & MySpace)
- And obviously the redesign of SHOUTcast Radio & TV within Winamp (Media Library -- Online Services -- SHOUTcast Radio)

To check out the new site for yourself you can go to SHOUTcast.com. For more information or to leave your comment/feedback visit the SHOUTcast blog.

I have to admit. I was pretty stoned when I made the Getting Started video tutorial. No... not that kind of stoned... Kidney Stoned!!! Yes that's right, seconds before I was rushed to the hospital, I sacrificed life and limb (I mean kidney) for your entertainment.

It's true... I swear! Just ask Ashok. He had a kidney stone attack the same day I did. What are the chances of that? I would have said that it must be something in the water, but since I'm in DC and he's in Bangalore, I'd be lyin'.

Apparently, just like the Crimson Twins (Tomax & Xamot) of G.I. Joe fame, we too suffer from the The Corsican Syndrome. Anything he thinks , I think. Anything he wants, I want. Anything he feels... like a friggin' kidney stone... I feel. Well... you get the picture.

From some of what we've been hearing, there are people who seem to think Winamp's really complicated. But it's not... trust me. It's very straight forward. This video is geared towards the brand new Winamp user. It shows you how to add music to your Winamp media library, how to customize the Bento skin to view album art, and how to upload album art (in case some is missing).

Enjoy...