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Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by ryanmercer »

LisaAR wrote: post #2

Thanks 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…

>It was the first thing we fired up when we turned on the computer.

Indeed, open winamp and press play. Let it shuffle through my library while I fired up AIM/mIRC/zMUD/etc and would keep playing until I was done with the computer for that session.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by dynamic_sausage »

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…

If you are interested in foobar-like players for Linux, DeaDBeeF may be worth looking into.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by ropiwqefjnpoa »

zelly wrote: post #84

Remembering all the time I wasted collecting and curating a personal MP3 library (now replaced completely by Spotify), I wonder what current practices I spend a lot of time on that will be become obsolete.

Oh god, I still have my well organized folder of MP3's going back to the 90's. I never use it, but I can't let it go either.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by Fnoord »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #9
mirimir wrote: post #4

Yeah, 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?

MP3.com [1] founded by Michael Robinson (of Lindows/Linspire fame).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com#History

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by flyinghamster »

ubercow13 wrote: post #75
flyinghamster wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I hope it works better than the last time I tried it. I found it didn't work well for me, but that was some years ago.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by alamortsubite »

This is great.

In or around 2010, when I finally shed the last shackles of MS, I switched from Winamp to Audacious (w/Winamp Classic interface plugin).

20 uninterrupted years of Bento Classified and whipping the llama's ass!

It's also pretty easy to replace all the standard Audacious icons with Winamp's (at least on Xubuntu). No disrespect intended to Audacious, simply for full effect.

Thanks to everyone behind Winamp and Audacious for building great software!

(Now to start up "The Matrix" on the media monitor and head on over to Slashdot.)

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Post by ubercow13 »

flyinghamster wrote: post #97
ubercow13 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

foobar works pretty well in wine

I hope it works better than the last time I tried it. I found it didn't work well for me, but that was some years ago.

It basically works perfectly for me, though it can take a bit of setting up. The only downside I'd say is that drag and drop from outside foobar is a bit wonky, you can't always drag and drop from a native file manager (though it always works if you drop onto the status bar instead of the playlist). You can also bypass the wine audio stack: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/foobar2000-on-linux-how-to-b...
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