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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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Post by RexRollman »

chjj wrote: post #54
Daiz wrote: post #46

I personally switched to foobar2000[1] years ago and never looked back. Some of the big reasons back then were gapless playback and proper unicode support (I have quite a bit of Japanese music in my collection), and the fact that it doesn't do anything unnecessary (like try to be a video player at the same time) - it plays (and manages) music, and does it very well. It has served my music player needs ever since - it…

If anyone is interested, see deadbeef for the linux equivalent of foobar2000: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ (But personally, I use MOC: http://moc.daper.net/ )

On Linux, I prefer the MPD/ncmpc for music. I love the idea of decoupling the player and the interface.

On Windows, it's Foobar2000 all the way.

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

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Post by RexRollman »

anonymous wrote: post #48
beefsack wrote: post #16

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/

Personally, I've settled on DeaDBeeF in Linux, because almost nothing else can do gapless playback. Or, if you prefer console players, I recommend cmus.

I've had no problem with gapless playback on moc, cmus, and mpd. Or are you talking mainly about GUI players?

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

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Post by rmk2 »

Sniffnoy wrote: post #11
w1ntermute wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

It has been named in this thread before, but you might not have seen it. I used to run foobar under wine, but honestly, deadbeef[1] works better from an integration point of view (global shortcuts, GTK etc.).

[1] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

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

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Post by ferongr »

beefsack wrote: post #16

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/

How can you recommend Audacious for Windows users? At this point it's nothing more than a half-working port. It can't seek files, render non-latin characters or even follow OS Cleartype settings (it renders text with no AA at all).

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

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Post by looki »

quattrofan wrote: post #55

I use Winamp now but only because of its support for FLAC. I hate its UI, its far too messy and complicated with all kinds of windows that can be docked, undocked etc. Its unfortunate the developers have never understood the concept of "less is more".

Well, I don't want to sound like an evangelist, but foobar2000 plays FLAC just fine, with gapless playback and whatnot and the interface is quite the opposite of Winamp's.

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

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Post by w1ntermute »

rmk2 wrote: post #65
Sniffnoy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It has been named in this thread before, but you might not have seen it. I used to run foobar under wine, but honestly, deadbeef[1] works better from an integration point of view (global shortcuts, GTK etc.). [1] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

Never heard of deadbeef, but it looks promising. I'll have to give it a shot.

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

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Post by prezjordan »

chjj wrote: post #54
Daiz wrote: post #46

I personally switched to foobar2000[1] years ago and never looked back. Some of the big reasons back then were gapless playback and proper unicode support (I have quite a bit of Japanese music in my collection), and the fact that it doesn't do anything unnecessary (like try to be a video player at the same time) - it plays (and manages) music, and does it very well. It has served my music player needs ever since - it…

If anyone is interested, see deadbeef for the linux equivalent of foobar2000: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ (But personally, I use MOC: http://moc.daper.net/ )

How do these compare to VLC? Is VLC not actually a good audio player?

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

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Post by gingerlime »

eksith wrote: post #3

Every promising technology/company that gets gobbled up by the bureaucratic mega fauna enviably end up being re-chewed and strewn about as piles of dung (to be burned to repel mosquitoes). AOL's problem is that it's a corporation first, a product/service creating, maintaining and selling entity second. Oh sure, the execs may think they're "creating and maintaining" a product/service, but their mindset is "how do we m…

Another anecdote: ICQ was the very, or at least one of the first instant messaging applications, and acquired by AOL in the late 90s "for US$287 million in cash up front and $120 million in additional payments over three years"[1]. It was a huge story in Israel at the time. The company is still there, but I don't know a single person who still uses it today.

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

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