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Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by mrbuttons454 »

superultra wrote: post #125

Man, seeing the visualizations here reminded me of how great it was to load up some music in Winamp (downloaded via soulseek), turn on the geiss visualizer, and get stoned.

Geiss source is available now. Maybe it should be ported :) https://github.com/geissomatik/geiss

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by VerifiedReports »

musictubes wrote: post #129
cyberpunk wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

milkdrop and project m, those were the days. Why aren’t these really a thing anymore? Does anyone know any non-shit way to get nice visuals from apple music or spotify or whatever these days?

There are some visualizers in the Mac App Store. I'm using Ferromagnetic right now and like it well enough. There are still visualizers in Apple Music left over from the iTunes days but they're kind of lame.

I stumbled onto one years ago by accident, maybe an Easter egg or something. I came back to my computer (Mac) after several hours of iTunes playback to see a hitherto unknown visualization running, with fairly primitive-looking graphics by today's standards. It was not any of the visualizations available in iTunes at the time.

I filed a bug on it with Apple and they got back to me asking how the hell I had invoked this, because they'd never seen it before. Never did get to the bottom of it.

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by VerifiedReports »

I was not a fan of WinAmp in its heyday because I thought all the "skins" sucked.

Wow, have times changed. I look at this screenshot now: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp/refs...

and think about how usable this looks. Buttons are demarcated clearly. The scrub bar is big enough to grab. Everything is legible.

UI sucks now.

Meanwhile... seeing the lyrics in that shot makes me wonder if WinAmp supports karaoke playback...

I guess the original did through plug-ins. Hm, maybe I'll take a shot at adding it to this one.

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by Fnoord »

cyberpunk wrote: post #127
superultra wrote: post #125

Man, seeing the visualizations here reminded me of how great it was to load up some music in Winamp (downloaded via soulseek), turn on the geiss visualizer, and get stoned.

milkdrop and project m, those were the days. Why aren’t these really a thing anymore? Does anyone know any non-shit way to get nice visuals from apple music or spotify or whatever these days?

If you look at [1] you can see some derivations from Milkdrop/Project M.

There were a lot of other, good visual plugins and software. VJ software, specifically, but also Libvisual just abstracts input and output, therefore allowing you to use all of these (supported) visualization plugins on any supported media player. It isn't much developed anymore these days, but this is the correct way forward.

Looking at the actors in Livisual [3] G-Force is decent but also a couple may be missing from earlier Libvisual releases. You may also like Lemuria [4]. Winamp's AVS is also FOSS [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop

[2] https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual

[3] https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual/tree/master/libvisual...

[4] https://github.com/dr-ni/lemuria-2.1.1

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Visualization_Studio

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by in_a_hole »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #49
BruceEel wrote: post #19

Nice! Speaking of Winamp - are you using any alternative music player for iOS that you would recommend?

I like Swinsian (assuming you mean MacOS)

Swinsian was the only Mac music player I could find that could come close to replicating my old MusicBee setup. The license fee was annoying but I paid it anyway and have no regrets.

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by wj »

cyberpunk wrote: post #127
superultra wrote: post #125

Man, seeing the visualizations here reminded me of how great it was to load up some music in Winamp (downloaded via soulseek), turn on the geiss visualizer, and get stoned.

milkdrop and project m, those were the days. Why aren’t these really a thing anymore? Does anyone know any non-shit way to get nice visuals from apple music or spotify or whatever these days?

Agreed. I would love Plex (or PlexAmp and then cast) to have some built in visualizations. And I have no idea why some of those streaming EDM channels on YouTube aren't doing music visualizations rather than ten second loops of video.
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