Hi Locutus.
My advice is stick with winamp. I never did have luck with vlc the few times I tried to convert video to audio was a big waste of time and nvda didn't work well with vlc neither did jaws. Even though winamp has been discontinued it's still very user friendly.
Hth.

Hello Locutus,
VLC media player is not such inaccesible as you think. The only problem I find on there is the volume up and down command which goes by ctrl+up or down arrow. This command is filled by another command of jaws, which is reading the last or the next paragraph. Except for this, nothing is bad on VLC media player. However, if you have a desktop computer with a mouse, you can change the volume like you do on winamp. The best way would be to change this shortcut to up and down only, but I am not sure how to do it so far.
Hope it helps a little. If I manage to change the shortcut of volume sliders, I will comment again.

Other useful shortcuts: N: go to the next track, P: go to the previous track, Space: pause/play the track, [ or ] decrease or increase the spead of the track, equals: set the spead of track to normal.
If winamp works still well for you, I'd advise you not to go for another media player.

You do indeed need to use the bypass command for VLC to work with JAWs and volume controlls. I love VLC, and I use it almost excusively for video... audio for me is still winamp, I've yet to find something that beats winamp in terms of ease of use and simplicity. But I always use VLC for videos, especially movies or TV shows with multiple language tracks.

well, we're here again, and I took some time to work with VLC. Now, I modifyed the hotkeys of volume buttons to my preference and I'll show you how to do it.
When you open VLC media player, either on desktop or through a video or audio track, press ctrl+p to open preferences menu. Then, press tab until you hear interface. checked. Press right arrow till you find hotkeys. checked, and after that press tab. You will have to press tab twice to jump to a combo box which says something like "any fields". Move with down arrow and select global hotkeys. Press tab, and you will be presented with a treeview showing all the hotkeys/shortcuts of VLC. First of all, for your convenience, find "short backward and forward jump" and put a key, or a combination of keys. Now listen, be very attentive here. You should activate touch cursor if you are using jaws to accomplish what I'm saying. Anyway, when you find short backward jump, press enter on it. Note: you will not hear any kind of feedback from jaws. All you need to do is to press the key or the combination of keys that you'd like to carry out the function of jumping backward 3 seconds. I would advise you to choose left arrow for "short backward jump" and right arrow for "short forward jump" since it is really simple for you. After you have pressed the key you wanted for this shortcut, activate the touch cursor mode (if you need help in activating and using the touch cursor, please let me know). Use right arrow or tab to have a look at what you have on the current window, and what you need to find is assign button. After you have found assign, you will be back to that treeview with the list of shortcuts, and now find volume up and volume down. For each hotkey, assign up and down arrow respectively by folllowing the same procedure I told you above. Click save. and now you don't need to use the bypass function or anything else like that.
Hope it helps.
Cheers!

Not bashing JAWS users here, but I feel like anyone who is interested in using VLC and fiddling it is probably also part of the group of blind computer users using NVDA, which is, ironically, much more natively accessible with VLC media player. The default set of keys works just fine in my experience, so the only thing I would like to see for screenreader support are more information-related things being spoken like elapsed and remaining time, etc.