i think i posted a few weeks go something comparing WinAmp 5.0 to the rest of the releases and had said thaat WinAmp 5 was trying to mix WinAmp3 features into the WinAmp 2 formula but was unsuccesful. WinAmp5 is indeed very nice but maybe it's just my computer but it's still buggy and kept freezing on me. i liked the functionality of 2.x but it lacked features, skins(or at least good skins) and friendly interface. WinAmp3 had skins, inerfaces etc but took 5 minutes to just load up. anyway, i like the WindowShade version of QCD better. crossfading plugins really don't work very good in WinAmp. they do in QCD. it's a matter of prerence either way. i just let people know that it's there and it's a great piece of software. not forcing anyone to get it.
P.S. it runs on very low resources... good for old and slow machines