Zinf crashes on Win98 without even opening a Window

Okay, I really would like to try out Zinf.
WinAMP3 sucks - it's slow, very slow; the skins are all ugly (185 and
they all suck, can you imagine that??? The good ones don't work or are
buggy and the other ones are so ugly and unpractical, it's unbelievable.
I found a single one that looks really good and it's quite buggy). The
player itself is stable, but full of options I don't understand and all
the important options of WinAMP2 are now missing. But I don't want to go
back either. I need a new player that plays MP3, Ogg (my favorite
format) and preferable WAV, too, so I don't need any other players
installed (except RealPlayer, as no other format than RealAudio sounds
acceptable at 32 kbit/s and below when listening streaming audio via a
weak Internet connection or pre-listen CDs on Amazon and the like).

That's why I thought, why not FreeAmp (of that I heard about a while
ago)... just to find out that FreeAmp doesn't exist anymore. Okay, so
it's now Zinf. It would be really nice to try it out... but I can't!
When I start it, it crashes. It crashes before any Window comes up. It's
2.2.0a and I'm using Win98. So any idea?


BTW, it makes no good impression when a program has to replace any files
in \Windows\System. I see no reason why a program has to put any files
into the system directory or even worse, overwrite them. A program
should limit itself to its own program directory. DLLs can all be loaded
from there, too. Putting DLLs into the system directory makes only sense
if several programs depend on the same DLL and you want to save the
space to have multiple copies of these. So either Zinf uses a DLL no
other program does, in that case it can store it in its own directory,
or it doesn't, but then I already have a copy of that file and there is
no reason to "replace it", instead of using the one that is already
there.

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Best regards,
 TGOS



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