i've used winamp for a long long time and ive always loved it, it is (or was) a little easier on resources it seemed than other players. and has awesome features especially all the streaming even tiny little sub genres of electronica have like 9 stations.
i did however run into trouble recently with winamp trying to update my library, admitedly i have a large collection, but im at a point now where if i try to update the library it just crashes so i have to add new media manually, oh well... it still whips the lamas ass heheh.
also id never heard of stream ripping thank you for the link!