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Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by adhesive_wombat »

sharperguy wrote: post #37
al_mandi wrote: post #31

Those old school style forms were much better than today's single page scrolling pages that are difficult to navigate and take up so much RAM.

Doesn't help that I have to scroll left and right to read the text on mobile though. Would be nice to have a forum software that's: * lightweight * mostly web 1.0 tech * UI usable on desktop and mobile

My suspicion is that unusable websites on mobile is one third lack of motivation or awareness (as in old websites), one third incompetence (where an attempt was made but it isn't useable) and one third deliberate to force you onto an app (masquerading as incompetent).

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by unconed »

1MachineElf wrote: post #38
sharperguy wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't help that I have to scroll left and right to read the text on mobile though. Would be nice to have a forum software that's: * lightweight * mostly web 1.0 tech * UI usable on desktop and mobile

If you subtract the web 1.0 requirement, then Discourse might be for you.

Discourse is 80% good and sane defaults, but 20% utterly unbearable tut-tutting by people who seem convinced they know how other people should run their communities.

As a user, you will be constantly nudged and prodded and notified, and as an admin you can't do anything about it.

e.g. I would like weekly summaries mailed. You can't, you can only get summaries if you haven't visited the site in a while. Because it's not a feature designed to help users keep track of the site, but a lure designed to bring inactive users back to the site.

This is how the people who build it think, and it is irritating af. It's gen-Z style mothering and busybodying and it needs to die in a fire.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by lproven »

I remember when this was announced. The website is so spectacularly bad, and so deeply and embarrassingly inappropriate (huge complicated sluggish incompatible mess, for what was a tiny, efficient, old player), that it put me off.

Also, any mention of NFTs screams "SCAMMERS!" at me.

So, anyway, I tried it.

I recently got a Win7 installation back up and running. It's a few years old but it's never really been used, so it's clean and fast. WinAmp seemed appropriate.

It installs. Then the all-default installation tells me I didn't install some subsystem I need for the skin I chose, and reverts to the old one.

Well, it is a beta.

I tried it for a while, streaming a radio station I listen to a lot (and am listening to now, via iTunes).

The songs regularly sllloooowwwweeeedddd doooooooooowwn for a bit when my CPUs got busy, then caught it. It was distracting. I don't know if this is Windows' fault or mine, but I don't expect that in 2022, even on an OS from a dozen years back.

It works. It's not a great experience, but it works.

Wonder if I can install an ancient version of Netscape 7 and extract the Netscape WinAmp skin? That was a favourite, about 20 years ago...

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by rakoo »

sharperguy wrote: post #37
al_mandi wrote: post #31

Those old school style forms were much better than today's single page scrolling pages that are difficult to navigate and take up so much RAM.

Doesn't help that I have to scroll left and right to read the text on mobile though. Would be nice to have a forum software that's: * lightweight * mostly web 1.0 tech * UI usable on desktop and mobile

I have round the D forum to be quite pleasant, although I don't really use it: https://forum.dlang.org/

But my favorite remains mailing lists with a web interface, like on sourcehut: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/public-inbox. It's hard to beat it in terms of lightweightness

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by jollyllama »

The feature comparison chart between 4 and 5 would not look good. I have yet to find a media player that offers as many available settings for auto-transcoding and directory structuring on sync as Winamp 4.x.x . I bought a license back in 2016 or so to sync music to sd cards for a car I had.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by IYasha »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #25

> but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019 Worst I've ever had to do was 2008 to 2015 but damn I don't envy those teams.

It struck me too! They have the entirety of my feelings. I was not yet able to migrate from 2010 to 2019 :( MS ruined VS after the 6.0.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by IYasha »

thefz wrote: post #40
squeaky-clean wrote: post #25

> but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019 Worst I've ever had to do was 2008 to 2015 but damn I don't envy those teams.

Had to do many VS migrations and in the end, proper version control system hygiene has helped a lot. Moving the strict necessary code and metadata only (.sln, .csproj and so on) and letting the IDE rebuild the rest has been the easiest.

You know, with all the UUID garbage these solution files have inside, I expected VS to recognize and set everything to right places. But NO. NONE of my projects could be built in the next release. NEVER. The errors are chaotic and it becomes easier to just write that sh* by hand in notepad. But what would you expect from an evilcorp?..

Re: Winamp 5.9

#49

Post by IYasha »

Lavomk wrote: post #42

This just bring good memories. On thing I hope they get to make it works better on 4K displays

For me CTRL+D was enough. Never used double-scale before 4K. :D (but it's for classic, I don't know if modern skins have this feature)

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by IYasha »

olyjohn wrote: post #18
hk1337 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XMMS is the closest we had, I don't think it's kept up anymore.

There's another open-source media player that will let you load up WinAmp skins. But heck if I can remember what it was, or find it. It looks nothing like WinAmp without the skins though... While I was searching, I did find this though. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ QMMP seems to be a QT-based player that looks like WinAmp. And I can't find a WinAmp clone that works on MacOS, either. I'm dying for one since I have to u…

Daily QMMP user here. Not without its quirks but fairly usable. It's the best thing for Qt-based DE AFAIK.
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