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Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by nearmuse »

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 sounds weird. Have you abandoned native apps altogether? You must be using notepads, pdf viewers, terminals, etc. People are still constantly in touch with low latency and low-bug UI and I like to believe that because of this native apps will prevail in some form someday.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

piokoch wrote: post #35
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy. The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through noti…

Phew, only those two things? How about not being able to copy stuff from chat (for some reason this does not work since Skype for Business times)? How about being kicked off from the current chat if one dares to open MS Word/Excel from within the chat? And that's just the beginning of the annoyance. But, luckily, we can easily integrate our chat with MS Stocks application, and, even better, with MS Power BI! I have a…

Sure, there are numerous other small annoyances, too. Ever try to paste code into a chat message and format it before sending it?

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

Thaxll wrote: post #45

Foobar is the "new" Winamp, it has been for 15years+ https://www.foobar2000.org/

Foobar didn't really scratch the same itch for me as Winamp. Foobar felt more like it wanted to ingest/organize my entire library, which never appealed to me because my library was 1TB+ and it would take a lifetime to fix every album with some bad tags.

Winamp much better fit my workflow, which is: I wanna right-click a folder on my desktop that houses the specific album I want to play, click "Play in Winamp", and have the music player launch quietly in the system tray and throw up the occasional notification when the track changes.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by ClassyJacket »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #26
vladvasiliu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy. The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through noti…

Whatsapp drives me crazy with this too. You can only mute for 8 hours, 1 week, or forever. No other options. Just let me choose how long to mute for, a billion dollar corporation could surely afford that. And a single 'custom' button wouldn't ruin the 'clean UI' or whatever they're trying to maintain.

This problem is an annoyance. The slowness of Teams, however, is unforgivable. There's no excuse why a chat app from 2022 should run slower on an 8 core Xeon with 64GB of RAM than MSN Messenger did on my Pentium box in 2000.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by nkotov »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #20
ethbr0 wrote: post #6

I'll just leave this here to stoke the flames of nostalgia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Winamp2.PNG

I've said this a few times on here but I'll say it again. Starting from 86Box, archive.org, and winworld, I've been building a VM of my 1996 Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 and re-installing all the old goodies. I also did a find on my mp3 library and found everything last modified before 1999 and loaded them up on there as well. So now I can actually go into a super realistic VM experience in full screen and use Winamp…

I have something similar as well - basically reliving my childhood computing experience when computing felt so exciting. I got all my childhood games (Age of Empires, Midtown Madness, etc.) installed as well as software from the day as well. I found Digital Blasphemy wallpapers which capture the late 90s/early 2000s feelings as well. It feels good to power the VM on and just listen to an old MP3 collection as well as play some games.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by wseqyrku »

Been using it since it was around but it's now too tiny on 4K. I've long migrated to AIMP with a signature "Heavy Metal" equalizer present which I just can't leave.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by conradfr »

wseqyrku wrote: post #77

Been using it since it was around but it's now too tiny on 4K. I've long migrated to AIMP with a signature "Heavy Metal" equalizer present which I just can't leave.

In a way genre-specific EQs are stupid because the music is already mixed and mastered for the genre, EQs are there to adapt your monitors to your room, or correct your headphones.

But if it works, it works!

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by wseqyrku »

conradfr wrote: post #78
wseqyrku wrote: post #77

Been using it since it was around but it's now too tiny on 4K. I've long migrated to AIMP with a signature "Heavy Metal" equalizer present which I just can't leave.

In a way genre-specific EQs are stupid because the music is already mixed and mastered for the genre, EQs are there to adapt your monitors to your room, or correct your headphones. But if it works, it works!

Forgot to mention I use it for everything. That's just the name I don't specifically care about.
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