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Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by tpmx »

asveikau wrote: post #169
tpmx wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

When you put it that way, my comment looks pretty insensitive for trying to hedge. Of course HIV/AIDS counts for this!

I didn't intend to put you on the spot. I was equally surprised when I looked up the numbers. I knew HIV/AIDS death numbers were bad, but not that bad.

And as an FYI, from the same UN site (abridged): Yearly HIV/AIDS deaths have been reduced by 60% since the peak in 2004. In 2019: 690k deaths. In 2004: 1.7M deaths.

Things weren't necessarily better in the past.

Technology and science developments help! It's not all tech gloom.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by mook »

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...

BMP has the ability to hold compressed data too; for example they can hold JEPG and PNG compressed images. I don't think it has the ability to hold arbitrary data though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dd183376(...

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by tracker1 »

I wish they'd bring Winamp for Android back, imho it was the best option for offline libraries on Android and worked really well all around. Of course, I'm looking back through ~10+ years of nostalgia so I could be wrong.

Aside: if it's back as well, and I'm just unaware, apologies.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by mulmen »

jeegsy wrote: post #149
mulmen wrote: post #73

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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.

Sure but in 1999 you had access to the Internet. You were just using it to download mp3s instead of find out how many people got blown up in a synagogue halfway around the world. Not to single you out because I was doing the same thing. Also there's clearly more information on the internet today, but we also use it differently. Social media did change how we consume information and created feedback loops we didn't (specifically) have in 1999.

I think you have hit on something very important to internalize though. We tend to look at the past, and especially our youth, through rose tinted glasses. It's important to maintain a realistic perspective on history as it relates to the current day, especially because we know more about the past now than we did then.

My mom thinks the 1960s were a wonderful time to be a kid because that's when she was a kid. She might be right, but I struggle to say civilization was better in 1960 than in 1990 or even 2020. It's all a matter of perspective.

To put it another way if we think the world was best in our youth we probably also think it went to hell when we became adults and started looking around.

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

jeegsy wrote: post #146
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #92

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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?

The manifest is stored as a Win32 Resource, any resource-editor will work. I used Visual Studio (File > Open > EXE).

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by jeegsy »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #175
jeegsy wrote: post #146

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> 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?

The manifest is stored as a Win32 Resource, any resource-editor will work. I used Visual Studio (File > Open > EXE).

Thanks!

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by zimmund »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #39

Wish they'd open source the thing already. Surely it can't be pulling the holding company much revenue at this point; I don't think you can even buy the premium version anymore. Just let me get a proper Linux port and I'll drop Audacious in a heartbeat.

At this point wouldn't it make sense to just rewrite it from scratch? I'm sure there are projects already doing this (take a look at this one for example! https://webamp.org/)

Re: Winamp for Windows 10

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

zimmund wrote: post #177
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #39

Wish they'd open source the thing already. Surely it can't be pulling the holding company much revenue at this point; I don't think you can even buy the premium version anymore. Just let me get a proper Linux port and I'll drop Audacious in a heartbeat.

At this point wouldn't it make sense to just rewrite it from scratch? I'm sure there are projects already doing this (take a look at this one for example! https://webamp.org/ )

They could, I'm sure.

I mean again, I'm currently using Audacious, which even supports Winamp 2 skins, so it's pretty much the same aesthetically. And it works well enough for my workflow (which is that I rarely ever actually look at my media player--I just want to queue something to play and have it run it my system tray, with Play/Pause available through MPRIS or media keys).

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