Yeah I've had versions were it was so slow it would take me 2 minutes just to type in the name of a song, and I almost gave up on WinMX several times. But the new version is lightning fast and I downloaded like 70 songs last night. You should give it another shot. And I think when there is a new version out, it won't let you connect until you upgrade.

And I have WinAMP as my 'entertainment system', but I also have a simple mp3 player that does nothing but that. I attached a copy of it if anyone is interested. It's written in tcl, so you might need activestate tcl to use it, i don't know, tell me if it works.