"automatic" doesn't refer to program startup but to song information retrieval. automatic - song is loaded when it changes in your player, manual - song is loaded when you type it's name into song information box.
EL does't start automatically with winamp.
Oh, I see... so "Start with Winamp" (on the Advanced tab,
v0.1.7 build 127) doesn't really mean "Start
with Winamp." If this is the case (and if I understand this thread properly), this option should be renamed "Change upon Winamp" - with the explanation that this refers to detecting the song that Winamp's playing.
And, no, it's not that hard to manually start EvilLyric. Just as it's not all that hard to manually start every program I want to run at bootup - instead of putting it in my system's "Startup" folder... but why should I?