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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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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?

I haven't tried moc, but mpd never did gapless playback for me.

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

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

I haven't tried moc, but mpd never did gapless playback for me.

That's too bad. I would have noticed if it didn't support it because I specifically check for this feature with Pink Floyd albums.

Out of curiousity, what format did you use? I keep my files in FLAC format.

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

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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.

Ok well an initial install I like that its a lot simpler than WinAmp, but one major problem is an initial scan of my local music library and it only found 784 songs when in fact I have 4733 showing in winamp. Now they are a mixture of mostly FLAC but some MP3 and WMA, also a lot of in sub-folders. Does it not handle sub-folders do you know?

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.

Same here. It does playlists well and that's all I need.

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.

> And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either. Probably because you never experienced them. There are things "you feel the need for" (e.g water in a desert) and things you have to use for a while to say "fuck, how did I do without those?".

I tried iTunes over the years it was was far too annoying.

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.

I still use it for the fact I can reduce its size down to about 1/8" of my screen[1] (on a 23" 1920x1200 monitor) and scroll through my playlist with my mouse scroll wheel while docked on the taskbar of my screen. No other player (windows, linux or otherwise) can do that as far as I know. [1] http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/901/winampm.png *edit: added link

Drag and drop music into it and I am all set. I know where my music is and if I don't a quick search finds it.

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

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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.

Full screen, slow clashing interface on windows and yes it is bloated. It is also an ecosystem that I would rather not be a part of.

It also installs multiple services even if you don't use the devices they are there for.

Apple tends to make crappy software for windows.

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

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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".

Turn off all those extra windows. Go to the classic skin.

You can default it to a less is more interface.

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