Why is DFX Audio Enhancement for Winamp a bad buy?
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes
There has been many Winamp users all over the world and somehow at least a tiny of portion of this population have never used a plugin ever. I don’t have any statistics to show but I certainly think that it could go into millions. Just like what this plugin known as DFX (DFX 9.1 being the current version) which openly brags on its homepage that this audio enhancement plugin has accumulated over 24 million downloads and still counting. I wonder if all those millions are in deed using the software until now or it’s just a figure to show the number of downloads but doesn’t necessarily mean that all 24million are using the plugin.
DFX 9.1 Audio Enhancement plugin caused Winamp 5.552 to crash
To give you a brief background of the DFX 9 Audio Enhancement plugin for Winamp, this software can also be used on several other multimedia players such as Windows Media Player, Real Player, DivX Player, J. River Media Center, Musicmatch Jukebox and Yahoo! Music Jukebox. The features it boosts includes 3D surround sound and stereo ambience, dynamic audio boost, headphones optimization, customizable audio presets, serves as Winamp orgler, and includes customizable skins among others.
Focusing on my experience using this plugin with Winamp 5.552, which was not all very satisfying, when I open Winamp 5.552, DFX 9 also opens up but soon enough before Winamp even completes loading, it causes Winamp to crash. I’ve tried opening Winamp many times and even I tried reinstalling Winamp 5.552 and DFX 9, but it’s futile. And this brought me into thinking, how could I even try this software if this can’t even do well on first use? This is a useless piece of crap! I’ve followed the installation instructions carefully but it really doesn’t work. Is it because I’m using a trial version? Well, I suppose trial versions are supposed to work perfectly so potential buyers will be convinced to buy the product. The fact is, this one failed extensively to satisfy.
Have you encountered the same problem as mine? Got any solution? Have you met similar errors on other multimedia players? Share it then through the comments section.
Category: multimedia
Subscribe
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.
Mathdelane-
I know your blog post was a while ago, but I just ran across it today. My name is Paul Titchener, I’m with http://www.fxsound.com, the company that makes the DFX plug-ins.
We did have some problems on some machines with DFX and Winamp 5 but those problems have been resolved. The latest version of DFX from http://www.fxsound.com should work fine with Winamp, please post back if you have any additional problems.
Hi Paul,
I did sent you an email just today but this post was from a while back. I never had the chance of updating this post because I never reverted back to Winamp 5 instead I settled with Windows Media Player 9 and never had a problem with it ever since.
However, I cannot come up with a new post or have this one updated unless I get the chance of using Winamp again. I was just worried of any trouble that might happen like in the past wherein installing Winamp caused me my Windows Media Player from not working due to some missing registry entries and I was forced to reinstall Windows to rectify it.
Your message however fulfills the need for an answer regarding the incident cited on the post. Thank you for the heads up. I appreciate it.
If We Start Winamp when the Local Area Network is Disconnected or Disabled then It Starts Fine and further we can Also Start our Network.
But when Network is Connected and Winamp is Started then It CRASHES EACH AND EVERY TIME….
Why DFX DEVELOPERS Not Removing this BUG Since DFX 9.0 onwards…
I cannt resist myself also to write few words experiencing DFX. i install DFX demo version (latest*) for realplayer and i too get same crashes real player while i open it. now every time i open it, it get crashed..
I have the same problem with my winamp crashes with dfx plugin but in media player its working fine its weird