There's is a website that's keeping versions of Winamp, including the one I consider the best 2.95
https://winampheritage.com/download-winamp-player
Unofficial Winamp Web Site
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#12I remember there being a website (forgot the name/URL) where people could share their visualizations for Winamp. I downloaded so many presets from there and even recorded some to VHS because I thought they were so cool. I made my own, too, mostly by taking something made by someone else and changing the code/numbers to see how it would react. I wish I could find those files again somewhere and just spend a moment imm…
I spent many a late-90's afternoon watching the Geiss visualisations on my HTPC-driven TV whilst listening to my favourite music.
None of the other visualisations for WinAmp hypnotized me the way Geiss did.
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#13Yeah, I remember when Winamp went to hell. I ended up using AIMP, which was fitting because I was "buying" music from some Eastern European "store" that operated under Russian copyright law.
AllOfMP3?
It was either that or MP3Sparks.com, I think. But it wasn't long before I discovered torrents.
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#14There's is a website that's keeping versions of Winamp, including the one I consider the best 2.95 https://winampheritage.com/download-winamp-player
Winamp 2 has been my music player for 20 years and it's still my main player that I use with the flac plugin. I never upgraded to Winamp 3 or 5, and Winamp 2.95 is still fully functional on Windows 10. Selecting "Double Size" makes it mostly fine on a HiDPI monitor, except some controls are a bit pixelated.
Winamp 2.95 didn't need to connect to the internet, there is no background service, no application manager bloatware, no ads or music recommendations, and it loads in 1/10 of a second without any startup service or preloader. It really whipped the llama's ass.
Straight up win32 software back then just was simpler, and the programmers back then like Justin Frankel, Ludvig Strigeus, etc. cared about program efficiency. A single programmer could write several popular applications within the decade, and now every application needs a giant team. What happened?
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#15Thanks for sharing this useful information! See, Winamp wasn't "just another player" for some of us. It was the first thing we fired up when we turned on the computer. So, seeing it go down the drain for the last 10 years or so, really hurt . Bloath, bloath and more bloath... damn, I would've opted for RealPlayer if it wasn't for the terrible UI. On the other hand, important features, like plugin playback compatibili…
Indeed.
And removing all traces of Windows Media Player was one of the first steps after installing Windows.
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#16Early Winamp was truly revolutionary in terms of UX and quality.
Highly intuitive, beautiful and always "just working", with an elegant plugin system.
It is no coincidence that the authors went on to create Gnutella, which could be considered the starting point of decentralized networking.
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#17One could argue we made better ways to play MP3s on our computers. But nothing has come anywhere close to improving or replacing Milkdrop
I would argue that WinAmp and XMMS where the last good audio players. Why is it that modern music players think that the need to do library management, why are they fullscreen applications?
We need to start maintaining winamp and the clones again.
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#18There's is a website that's keeping versions of Winamp, including the one I consider the best 2.95 https://winampheritage.com/download-winamp-player
Winamp 2 has been my music player for 20 years and it's still my main player that I use with the flac plugin. I never upgraded to Winamp 3 or 5, and Winamp 2.95 is still fully functional on Windows 10. Selecting "Double Size" makes it mostly fine on a HiDPI monitor, except some controls are a bit pixelated. Winamp 2.95 didn't need to connect to the internet, there is no background service, no application manager bloa…
My only problem with Winamp 2 is that people laugh at me when they pass my computer and see it.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Winamp 2 has been my music player for 20 years and it's still my main player that I use with the flac plugin. I never upgraded to Winamp 3 or 5, and Winamp 2.95 is still fully functional on Windows 10. Selecting "Double Size" makes it mostly fine on a HiDPI monitor, except some controls are a bit pixelated. Winamp 2.95 didn't need to connect to the internet, there is no background service, no application manager bloa…
My only problem with Winamp 2 is that people laugh at me when they pass my computer and see it.
But the reality is that, anyone who knows anything about modern (post 2004 era) software can only laugh right back at them, whether they're laughing with you, at you, whether they're being snobby, pretentious or otherwise.
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#20One could argue we made better ways to play MP3s on our computers. But nothing has come anywhere close to improving or replacing Milkdrop
I would argue that WinAmp and XMMS where the last good audio players. Why is it that modern music players think that the need to do library management, why are they fullscreen applications? We need to start maintaining winamp and the clones again.
Winamp does library management...