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Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by vladvasiliu »

dfxm12 wrote: post #34
readevalpanic wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Older software sometimes runs just as fast on older hardware, too. It’s anecdotal, but I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. iTunes, on the other hand, has always seemed slow.

Is that really an ahem apples to apples comparison? Depending on when we're talking, iTunes had many more built in features than Winamp...

Winamp may be an unfair comparison.

I'm not overly familiar with that period's iTunes, but I remember when I bought my first iPod, a 4th gen click wheel (don't remember the year, but it was already an "older model" at the time) I was using Amarok on Linux on an AMD Thunderbird with 256 MB of RAM. That thing would fly. And it did more than Winamp: it had an actual DB-backed music library, iPod interface, etc.

Yet, a few years later, when I got a MacBook Pro with a dual-core CPU and 16 times the RAM, iTunes would still be painfully slow. And I don't remember it doing much more than Amarok. As a matter of fact, it was inferior on pretty much every metric I could think of.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by Guillaume86 »

papruapap wrote: post #37
chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

to be fair, Winamp is probably one of the smoothest softwares ever. A lot of new "native" apps have transitions and fancy effects that makes them as slow as the electron-based ones.

That reminds me of Sonique, already had nice animations and felt just as fast as winamp IIRC.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by IYasha »

Markoff wrote: post #5

It's still actively developed just under different name https://getwacup.com I think it's my longest used app in desktop already since previous millennium, followed by TCMD and IrfanView. edit: tried to install new Winamp and unlike WACUP ir requires me to install also Microsoft Visual C++ which also requires computer restart, all of this to use dumb music player? not very user friendly, no other app in desktop misse…

Same here. Never stopped using winamp since the beginning. ) Uh-oh. Looks like they've moved to VS2019. Do you know if it still runs on Win7?

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by addicted »

dfxm12 wrote: post #34
readevalpanic wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Older software sometimes runs just as fast on older hardware, too. It’s anecdotal, but I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. iTunes, on the other hand, has always seemed slow.

Is that really an ahem apples to apples comparison? Depending on when we're talking, iTunes had many more built in features than Winamp...

I think you’ve got that backwards. iTunes had a fraction of the features Winamp did.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by prox »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #22
chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

This. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag. I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.

Libraries, libraries upon libraries all the way down. That’s modern software development.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by naillo »

chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

Idk. I just downloaded this for kicks and I find VLC a lot more snappy. I definitely felt noticable lag when switching between tabs with this.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by accrual »

pdntspa wrote: post #19
Markoff wrote: post #5

It's still actively developed just under different name https://getwacup.com I think it's my longest used app in desktop already since previous millennium, followed by TCMD and IrfanView. edit: tried to install new Winamp and unlike WACUP ir requires me to install also Microsoft Visual C++ which also requires computer restart, all of this to use dumb music player? not very user friendly, no other app in desktop misse…

Now that Winamp has resumed development what place does WACUP have? I wanted to like WACUP but found it very crashy.

In my opinion, WACUP is a truer Winamp than Winamp is. Winamp was bought and sold and none of the original developers are there. It looks like a cash grab on the name to my eyes. On the other hand, DrO was an original developer and keeps the spirit of Winamp living in WACUP.

Sorry to hear you were having crashing issues. Mine has been stable but I also spent some time going through all the settings and dialing it in exactly as I wanted. I run it at 2x scaling on a 4K monitor and it looks terrific in all it's pixelated glory.

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