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Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by Fnoord »

opan wrote: post #84
contravariant wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are people actually using chocolately? I never could get over the way they get you to install it with the equivalent of piping curl into. Or the way it kept advertising the paid version, which is really disconcerting when something has become effectively the only way to manage what software you have installed (or will be eventually).

If the limitations of the free version and/or the pestering bugs you, consider looking into Scoop.

I use both. They complement each other (Scoop has a smaller repo). Topgrade runs both (and Windows Update) in one command.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by raxxorrax »

ClawsOnPaws wrote: post #8
cbozeman wrote: post #2

I had used Winamp since its original release, but when development on it seemed to die off and it looked like it was becoming abandonware, I switched to MusicBee, which I thoroughly love. Maybe there's better software out there, but I've yet to find it.

I personally love foobar2000. Tons of customization, lots of plugins and honestly it's just amazing imho. edit: http://foobar2000.com/

I though more people would have this problem, but most players actually didn't support it.

What I wanted to do is mirror the stereo signal playing from the front speakers to the back speakers. Simple really, but Foobar2000 was the only player that could do that out of the box.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by iamtedd »

Comments for this page go back to 2015. What is this random dodgy website? Just go to winamp.com.

Though, I see the version on offer at the official website is still the 5.8 beta. Same build I've been running for at least a year.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by magicalhippo »

qubex wrote: post #128
fireattack wrote: post #109

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Yeah there is little reason to use WAV anymore. Admittedly, I still use it frequently when I am too lazy to convert my CD rips to FLAC. (Another fellow FB2k user here.)

WAV is to audio as BMP is to images: the fundamental, brutal, unsophisticated, first-effort approach that also, coincidentally, because of its brutality, somehow simultaneously represents an apex of fidelity and impracticality. All other image formats get parsed to recreate either an identical or approximate bitmap as would have been encoded into the BMP file, but usually with more features or smaller size, or both.…

WAV is based on the RIFF[1] container format and supports various compression formats, so in that regard it is more like TIFF than BMP.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form...

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by tpmx »

asveikau wrote: post #115
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #95

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I’m not aware of any raging worldwide pandemic like we have today though - not in anyone’s lifetimes going back a few generations.

HIV/AIDS probably fits the bill or comes close. It doesn't seem as drastic as covid, because of the means of transmission. However, it was newly discovered in many living people's lifetime, and it did spread throughout the entire world relatively quickly. The others that I remember being scary in media reports contemporaneous with the Winamp-ish era were Ebola (discovered in the '70s, an outbreak in '95), and SARS (2…

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

> 32.7 million [24.8 million–42.2 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.

Hopefully covid-19 could end up causing ~10x fewer deaths.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by fs2 »

statquontrarian wrote: post #59

I've been using Audacious with the classic Winamp skin and loving it. I used to use Wine but it's crash-y (e.g. media library).

Can relate to this, audacious was terribly slow in the past but it's a pretty good music player now. However, the Winamp skin hasn't dated that well imo

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by ZoomZoomZoom »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #28
baal80spam wrote: post #6

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I wholeheartedly recommend AIMP ( http://www.aimp.ru ). I've used this player for the last 8 years and it only gets better.

Not too excited by Ru made software, but perhaps that is just me being excessively worried.

Yeah, right. Russian developers have no time fixing bugs as they need to write the reports for their detailed FSB curator on how many backdoors they coded in this day.

On a serious note, there's thousands of ex-USSR coders involved in many important software projects. Does it really worry you? It does worry me as long as the software is not Free or at least Open Source, but then it doesn't really matter where the coders came from.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by dartharva »

trashburger wrote: post #97
anaganisk wrote: post #94

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Huh? Im not sure what you're saying, but it behaves like every other player wrt controls and never observed boot delay, it opens as soon as I click it.

Maybe it's because you're on a high speed SSD. Spinning rust suffers greatly from Windows 10's bloat.

My laptop uses an HDD too, startup times are bearable for me as I've disabled its indexing features (by removing the folders under the "Choose where to look for music" setting).

My needs are simple: I just need an MP3 track to play when I double-click on it, I have no intention to bother setting up a dedicated media system in the age of Spotify.

Groove does the job, and it even shows a nice, minimalist and no-frills UI while at it.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

asveikau wrote: post #115
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not aware of any raging worldwide pandemic like we have today though - not in anyone’s lifetimes going back a few generations.

HIV/AIDS probably fits the bill or comes close. It doesn't seem as drastic as covid, because of the means of transmission. However, it was newly discovered in many living people's lifetime, and it did spread throughout the entire world relatively quickly. The others that I remember being scary in media reports contemporaneous with the Winamp-ish era were Ebola (discovered in the '70s, an outbreak in '95), and SARS (2…

> HIV/AIDS probably fits the bill or comes close. It doesn't seem as drastic as covid, because of the means of transmission

Actually, I take back what I said. Looking back at the perception of HIV/Aids (or "GRID" was it was originally known) it's terrifying in context because for a number of years there wasn't any idea about the nature of the disease nor how it spread - whereas with Covid we were able to narrow-down the virus' means of transmission within months.

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