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Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I personally think foobar2000's fairly excellent. Flexible as hell, both in UI and in functionality. Quick and doesn't feel bulky at all. It's honestly the piece of software I miss most when I'm on my Linux install.

Yeah, I miss foobar2k too in Linux. I usually use Exaile.

I just run foobar2k under Wine. It works pretty well.

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Just feels odd when I listen to mp3s and can't look up the ID3 tags with alt-3. And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either.

My primary reason for staying on Winamp is that most of the plugins for playing video game console music formats (NSF, PSF, GSF, 2SF, USF, VGZ, KSS, SPC, and others) are written for Winamp. I've found a few programs that play a few of the formats, but Winamp is the only one that plays them all.

(Any player that fully supports Winamp plugins would be an adequate replacement, but I'm also happy with Winamp in general)

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I think VMware will want to be fixing that, what do you think? Now, that they know my friend, Mr. God! MOTHERFUCKERS!

God says...

sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.

24:23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

24:25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Just feels odd when I listen to mp3s and can't look up the ID3 tags with alt-3. And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either.

Winamp still kicks the crap out of every current music player.

mocp and pianobar is what I use for music :D

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Just feels odd when I listen to mp3s and can't look up the ID3 tags with alt-3. And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either.

Winamp still kicks the crap out of every current music player.

How is it better than iTunes? I'm seriously asking. I'm always hearing people bitch about iTunes, but they never explain why.

P.S. Yes. It has been getting bloated, but people have been complaining about iTunes since day 1.

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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For those on Linux or Windows, Audacious is a beautiful audio player heavily inspired by Winamp 2.x, both visually and mechanically. It supports Winamp Classic skins out of the box, and comes with quite a nice one as stock.

Screenshot: http://community.linuxmint.com/img/screenshots/audacious.png Homepage: http://audacious-media-player.org/

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Just feels odd when I listen to mp3s and can't look up the ID3 tags with alt-3. And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either.

My primary reason for staying on Winamp is that most of the plugins for playing video game console music formats (NSF, PSF, GSF, 2SF, USF, VGZ, KSS, SPC, and others) are written for Winamp. I've found a few programs that play a few of the formats, but Winamp is the only one that plays them all. (Any player that fully supports Winamp plugins would be an adequate replacement, but I'm also happy with Winamp in general)

True, that's another good point. Talking of plugins for other music formats, the Oldsk00l MOD Player Plugin for Winamp provides much more accurate playback of Amiga MOD files than the built-in Winamp MOD player. Absolutely recommended and essential if you like Amiga (crack intro) chiptunes. Hasn't been updated in ages but still works fine for me.

It also supports some other Amiga formats, you can find it at http://www.rift.dk/page.php?1

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Winamp still kicks the crap out of every current music player.

How is it better than iTunes? I'm seriously asking. I'm always hearing people bitch about iTunes, but they never explain why. P.S. Yes. It has been getting bloated, but people have been complaining about iTunes since day 1.

I tried iTunes back in 2009 when I was trying to get some music off of an iPod. Worst user experience ever. When you have to watch 5 minute video tutorials on Youtube to figure out how to do something, your user interface probably sucks.

Also, yes, the bloat and the constant updates to support the bloat.

Re: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

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I've never understood why media players in particular feel they have carte blanche to completely ignore any attempt at integrating with the system look and feel. I never really got along with WinAMP due in no small part to that.

On the contrary, when Winamp came, I found it full of innovations that could not have been there if they were to follow the system look and feel. It was great to see the old ways broken to make an interface well-suited to the application at hand. I still admire and use Winamp to this day.
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