If you want a nice, cross-platform, sane, fast alternative, including streaming between users, you should have a look at the open source Tomahawk. http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#32Does this affect SHOUTcast?
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#33Wow, the end of an era.
Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial and fast to find the songs I was looking for, either by filename or by ID3 data, and get them playing.
I suppose that it turns out the world has changed and this isn't how most people consume music anymore, and the writing's been on the wall for a while. But it's incredibly sad to see that model of media consumption finally dying with a whimper. I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#34Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#35Is it only me, or there is some JS tag in winamp's ?
I noticed that the first thing too. Well, early signs of the website completely shutting off ... sigh ...
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#36Was using Winamp 5 for the past year but recently switched back to v2.95, which is allegedly the best version out there.
Although it's 10 years old (!!), it's still the best music player available: lightweight, fast, responsive, and kept simple.
I had hopes for the Windows 7 Media Player. But it turned out to be a dreadful experience.
Me: Can't I pause that song by hitting space?
WMP: No, there are no keyboard shortcuts!
Me: I wanna play all the songs of this folder!
WMP: Ok, but I'll mess up the order! By the way, are you interested in purchasing
more songs from this artist? Cause I got a VirginMega link just right here!
Me: No thanks...
WMP: Why not? I mean, iTunes gets away with it, why can't I?
Me: I just want to play some music.
WMP: Really?? JUST that??
Me: I wish.Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#37I always used Winamp on Windows, so when I switched to Linux I tried basically every single open-source alternative that worked with my workflow: Per-song ratings, a nested Genre/Artist/Album/Song library browser, global hotkeys, able to handle a collection of >100 GB and a useful playlist/queue system.
For anyone else looking for the same thing: the one that I ended up choosing was http://gmusicbrowser.org/. See http://gmusicbrowser.org/screenshots/ListsLibraryContext.png.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#38How come Winamp is shutting down and Real Player still around !?!?
Notwithstanding that Real Player was quite popular in Asia, a few years ago, during the portable media player years.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#39Is it only me, or there is some JS tag in winamp's ?
Its a A(W)OL failed code.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#40I have not seen a better music player.
Lightweight
Unobtrusive, customisable, highly functional UI
Fades out tracks when u stop (to not have a harsh cut off waveform)
Its what I currently use. Current build will probably run on windows for a loong loong time to come tho.