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Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by fogihujy »

magicalhippo wrote: post #134
qubex wrote: post #128

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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...

More like IFF than TIFF, though nowadays it's just "legacy" anyway.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by Alexzw »

trashburger wrote: post #122
tw04 wrote: post #102

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No offense intended by who in their right mind would boot off spinning rust in 2020? You can get a brand new 240GB SSD for $30 and a 1TB for $90. That’s ignoring the used market where you can get a solid used Intel for $10. If you need more storage buy a spinning disk for bulk storage - even if it’s a laptop, usb-3.1 is faster than the drive.

Not everybody lives in America, you know.

agreed

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by Macha »

codeulike wrote: post #13
ClawsOnPaws wrote: post #8

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

Foobar2000 is also in the microsoft store which avoids a load of 'find the right download button that isnt an ad pretending to be a download button' nonsense https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PDJ8X9SPF2K

I'm not sure I feel any safer downloading from the microsoft store given some of the items that show up in search results. I don't think it's reasonable to assume something is trustworthy just because it's in the Microsoft Store.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by stinos »

muppetman wrote: post #3

Darren Owen (Dr_O) keeps Winamp updated here at the Winamp Community Update Project: https://getwacup.com/ He's been releasing new updates every few months for the last couple of years, and it's great. It's still how I use/listen to a lot of my old Media that's hard to find on streaming sites. It also still supports the DSP plugins, a favourite of mine is Stereotool. I wish I could find a way to plug DSPs into Browse…

Just to double check; what is this thing? (site itself doesn't explicitly mention it, or I couldn't find it). It's like the last 'official' Windamp release, binary patched with improvements (by the author?), and then a couple of recent plugins?

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by jeegsy »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #92
51Cards wrote: post #38

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All points mirror my use. MP3 only, double size on my 4K monitor, and it works perfectly. I didn't realize it had any Win10 issues.

I modified the embedded app-manifest inside Winamp.exe because Winamp incorrectly claims to support high-DPI mode. After patching that I’m able to use Winamp on my 200% displays without turning on Winamp’s built-in pixel-doubling.

> I modified the embedded app-manifest inside Winamp.exe

How do you inspect the contents of an exe? Is there a program to do that?

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

everyone wrote: post #43
codeulike wrote: post #13

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Foobar2000 is also in the microsoft store which avoids a load of 'find the right download button that isnt an ad pretending to be a download button' nonsense https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PDJ8X9SPF2K

Personally, I hate this attitude. Using a big corps walled garden just for a tiny bit of convenience. With just a tiny amount of effort you can find reputable places to download software. But most people have your attitude and now pc's have become like consoles, where a big corp monitors all your activity and decides what you can and cant do with your machine, and the idea of the pc as a personal universal computing…

It doesn't even provide any convenience, because it's more difficult to figure out the correct url https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PDJ8X9SPF2K than to find a download button.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by consolelog2000 »

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Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by jeegsy »

mulmen wrote: post #73
bob33212 wrote: post #69

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Same. I don't know if civilization peaked then or if it was just that we were young in a good time

Between those two, young in a good time for sure. But really, just young in a time. Essentially none of the issues we face today are new in the last 20 years. You were just less aware of them then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999

> You were just less aware of them then

True, but with the near instant access to records of events via the Internet, we should try to maintain a distinction between what we remember/experienced and the digital chronicles of the era. I get the feeling that this is going to be even more critical going forward.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

kyboren wrote: post #61
SubiculumCode wrote: post #28

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

If you're worried, you should probably upgrade your suspicion of all software, not just Russian-made software. The fact that it's made in Russia should not matter much: You should audit the code, compartment it from the rest of your system (e.g. with virtualization), or not run the software. You're right to be worried about what software you run, but Russia is not necessarily the most relevant threat actor. Take this…

How do you audit the code of aimp and foobar? You can't. Use free software instead, like mpc.
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