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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.
I use VLC as an audio player for this exact use case.
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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...
Winamp is great, ah the memories. But just like my gripe with video media, is there anywhere to buy plain mp3s for all artists, store them on my hdd and manage them in winamp? Is that still an option in 2020 without a subscription to something?
Of course. 7digital comes to mind, HDTracks - and, of course, Amazon. The files are all yours to keep. In fact, I find it easier to get non-drm music files than movies.
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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.
Early 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.
Justin has done the same for DAWS see https:/reaper.fm and gone full circle to making music.
The_DoctorO/DrO (well known on the official winamp forum before that useless company radionomy took over) is the official maintainer of what was once called Winamp and has been working updates for 3years+ now, Winamp is now known as Wacup (Latest beta release 2020 feb) if you want to get the updated and improved versions...
Website: https://getwacup.com/ Forum: https://getwacup.com/community/ Discord: https://discord.gg/5pVTdbj
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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.
Audacious is a maintained descendent of XMMS that doesn't really have a library. Also, foobar2000 is very well maintained, and implying it's not a good audio player is simply sacrilege!
I put lots of custom tags in all of the tracks I've ripped, downloaded, or recorded live, and I have yet to come across a Linux music player that allows me to search them or sort by them.
Clementine comes close, but not quite close enough. Maybe I need to get some Copious Free Time and rip into its sources.
Obligatory in-browser reimplementation: https://webamp.org/
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> What happened? Capitalism. You can't make money out of shareware, so now everything is SaaS. This makes software way harder to write since now you're responsible for a distributed platform, including devops. Competition is fierce now. There are very low barriers to entry, which made hobbyist projects (which is what Winamp would be considered now) mostly free. If there's any money left in those low-barrier markets m…
I would roundly disagree. If you find an unexploited niche and effectively corner it, there are still opportunities out there. Just look at Bitwarden. It started out as a free and truly secure answer to password managers that were cross-platform and web/browser-based, but had issues with trust and privacy. A lone developer put his money where his mouth was, and built the product up into a SaaS that is now a small but…
That counts towards the parent comment's thesis, not against it. If it wasn't a SaaS charging would be much harder.