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Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by HDBaseT »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #30
sethops1 wrote: post #6

Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.

> I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection Huh? Just checked my 'collection': Total Files Listed: 17250 File(s) 232,520,192,270 bytes 6431 Dir(s) 1,053,563,486,208 bytes free Not audiophile scale, for sure - but only 500 looks quite low. No wonder iTunes can manage it snorts .

I just checked mine;

208,778 Files 1,799 GB

Mostly MP3.

*slightly inflated file/music count due to album covers/metadata.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by qa3-tech »

Nice build. Will check it out. Winamp had a simplicity to it that made it great to use. Just enough config to not get in the way. I find that most modern players somehow emphasize configuration for the perfect playback experience when all you want is to just launch & listen with minimal involvement. Definitely onboard returning to owning more your own (purchased) content.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by simsation »

manny_rat wrote: post #65

Another alternative is Reamp, I’ve been using it for years, it’s macOS and directly supports Winamp skins. The site is a little shady though! https://re-amp.ru/en

Amazing, thank you for the reamp tip! I used winamp always in my Windows years like 15yrs ago. But then I switched to Mac and forgot about winamp completely.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by taffydavid »

surganov wrote: post #54
huhtenberg wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At 26MB setup package it most likely doesn't.

We tried to keep it as lean as possible. MacOS itself adds quite a bit, and then there are libraries for format decoding, audio streaming, VST support, etc. Could it be smaller? Probably – but not by an order of magnitude.

26Mb sounds perfectly reasonable. Electron apps are usually 100+, and we live in a world where apps download gigabytes of LLMs in the background to do very basic stuff.

Wait, it doesn't do that does it?

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by lschueller »

surganov wrote: post #55
lschueller wrote: post #39

The Buy button is kinda signaling, that they don't understand, what Winamp and this whole time was about... New tools with a frenetic mdding scene behind it, max customization, no tutorials, but digging through every file to see what you can change, bulky windows, which all needed to be arranged aside, like browser, napster, icq, winamp, your cs server chat in a thick browser.

I miss these times too. And I’d like to remind you that Winamp used to be a $10 shareware app (that’s roughly $30 in today’s dollars). The first version of Winamp didn't have any windows, it was pure utility application. Do you still think there's value in "max customization"?

subjective value, yes. Objective value, never was and never meant to be. Therefore not a "product" or something you can sell.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by surganov »

manny_rat wrote: post #65

Another alternative is Reamp, I’ve been using it for years, it’s macOS and directly supports Winamp skins. The site is a little shady though! https://re-amp.ru/en

Nice, thanks for the link. It actually works, but lacks basic features as opening the whole folder with subfolders, pressing spacebar to play or loading large amounts of files, the app hangs immediately.
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