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Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by Slashbot2 »

As a long time Winamp user 20+ years ....Winamp is not dead! 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

Upvote please

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by mxmilkb »

Hamuko wrote: post #52
mxmilkb wrote: post #47

Is there anything for Linux that has similar functionality to the Jump To File mechanism for finding and enqueuing songs to play next within in a playlist without altering the playlist itself? It was so good that it was integrated into (IIRC) Winamp 3. https://winampplugins.co.uk/jtfe.html https://old.reddit.com/r/winamp/comments/9rw9fb/winamp_58_se... (Bonus points of anyone knows of an MPD client that can make it a…

Well, in MPD the queue and playlists are separate entities, so you can just add things to the queue without affecting the playlist which you were playing from. But I don't really understand what that Winamp feature does all in all.

Maybe I am confused because ncmpcpp doesn't exactly use mpd nomenclature regarding queues and playlists - https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp/issues/188

As I remember it, in Winamp you load a playlist from the media library (in my case usually all files), and then within that playlist you can use JTFE to select a file to play next. That file in the playlist gets a number [1] next to it and is played next, regardless of whether shuffle is on or not. Any number of tracks in the playlist can be queued like this, each getting a respective queue number next to that tracks entry in the playlist line, and afterward the queue is finished Winamp returns to the standard playback ordering.

So I can have a playlist of all files on shuffle, decide to queue up a specific album or two, and after that it goes back to random shuffle without me having to reset the playlist from scratch.

This ad-hoc playlist-within-a-playlist is also visible within it's own dialog box if so desired.

(I'm starting to wonder how different the abstractions ncmpcpp use compared to mpd, or if it's just a naming thing.)

Edit: or, IIRC, instead of the JTF queue method, you can just immediately jump to a file in a playlist, and after playing that, Winamp returns to the previous spot. I need to make a screencast of this because there's apparently no videos of the functionality around online..

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by ubercow13 »

flyinghamster wrote: post #67
ubercow13 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 don't mind having library management, and I would love to have a Linux clone of foobar2000. Nothing else has its tag management and search/sort capabilities. 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…

foobar works pretty well in wine

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by Hamuko »

mxmilkb wrote: post #74
Hamuko wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, in MPD the queue and playlists are separate entities, so you can just add things to the queue without affecting the playlist which you were playing from. But I don't really understand what that Winamp feature does all in all.

Maybe I am confused because ncmpcpp doesn't exactly use mpd nomenclature regarding queues and playlists - https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp/issues/188 As I remember it, in Winamp you load a playlist from the media library (in my case usually all files), and then within that playlist you can use JTFE to select a file to play next. That file in the playlist gets a number [1] next to it and is played next, regardless…

I think my way of listening to music is a bit similar to this. Basically, I use ncmpcpp's "Add random songs" feature with an arbitrary number (let's say 50) to fill up my queue with some stuff from my library. Then if I decide I want to listen to something particular, I search for it in ncmpcpp and then just add it at the top of my queue. It plays it next and then it continues with my random items. My queue is always on consume, so all of the items disappear from the queue after being played/skipped.

Of course, the main "issue" with this is that after the end of the queue is reached, the playback stops. I don't actually mind this, because I can schedule my playback to stop by moving my current item + how many else to the end of the queue. I know that there's a deamon to automatically add random songs at the end of your queue once you run out of stuff in case that's a hurdle (https://github.com/joshkunz/ashuffle).

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by flopunctro »

jpswade wrote: post #55

On January 14, 2014, it was officially announced that Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy had bought Winamp and Shoutcast, formerly owned by Nullsoft. - https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5263086/winamp-radionomy-... So since this site was launched, it looks like you can now download Winamp from the Official Winamp website: - http://winamp.com/ For those asking for old versions of Winamp, you can get them here:…

Heads up, the winamp 2.95 download from www.oldversion.com triggers a malware alert from Windows Defender. Another red flag is that the download is via regular HTTP, not HTTPS.

So I'd recommend avoiding oldversion.com.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by plorg »

Kuraj wrote: post #36
shrikant wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an aside, I've heard it discussed (on the likes of Slashdot) that one of the reasons Winamp 3 sucked so badly was that they rushed a release that was basically meant to be a complete rewrite just to have "mp3" in the application name.

... I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.

I remember trying to download Winamp 3 at school. The web filter would block it because it found the string 'mp3' in the URL. In retrospect the administrator wouldn't have seen any more use in allowing students to download a media player than to let them spend bandwidth on the media itself. Up until 2003 ~300 students split a T1. In that year the city started offering municipal broadband and the school switched to 2x 3M/256k DSL.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by theandrewbailey »

tillinghast wrote: post #8

From Ars Technica: Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/winam... Winamp 2 & 3 were my sweet spot. I want to say versions 2.53 through 2.56(?) are the versions indelibly burned in my memory. Such a breath of fresh air from the Real garbage of the day. Hope Frankel and Lord are well.

What made you like Winamp3? All I remember about it was that it was a slow hot mess that didn't load my old playlists, and went back to 2.something after a month.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by jpswade »

flopunctro wrote: post #77
jpswade wrote: post #55

On January 14, 2014, it was officially announced that Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy had bought Winamp and Shoutcast, formerly owned by Nullsoft. - https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5263086/winamp-radionomy-... So since this site was launched, it looks like you can now download Winamp from the Official Winamp website: - http://winamp.com/ For those asking for old versions of Winamp, you can get them here:…

Heads up, the winamp 2.95 download from www.oldversion.com triggers a malware alert from Windows Defender. Another red flag is that the download is via regular HTTP, not HTTPS. So I'd recommend avoiding oldversion.com.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ef1423999cbefd4f2a3a98ac...
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