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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by sandGorgon »

bbx wrote: post #36

Was 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 short…

Did you ever try Foobar 2k - its arguably a better replacement for Winamp on windows

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by bluedino »

I remember as a teen talking to the developers on IRC, in one of the Windows development channels. I remember thinking they were crazy because they didn't want to use the standard Windows components to do the UI. I also remember wondering why anyone bother spending a half hour downloading 1 song over a 56k modem when you could just set your Sony Discman on top of your computer!

Then they started branching out and worked with skinnable UIs, then went totally crazy and built things like ShoutCast, streaming music over the internet was a crazy idea at the time. Amazing group of guys that built that and were willing to learn anything and put incredible amounts of time and effort into a project.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by bluedino »

jdorfman wrote: post #19

While I haven't used Winamp in years, this still makes me kind of sad. Justin Frankel & Co. really changed the game.

Relive the nostalgia through this Ars article that's not half bad:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by cnlwsu »

FedRegister wrote: post #34
Touche wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XMMP already exists.

Except it is mostly abandoned. It requires GTK1 and hasn't been updated since 2007.

Which might be an indication of the type of community involvement an open source version of winamp would see. Although I would love to see it try.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by sharkweek »

Elepsis wrote: post #33

Wow, 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 musi…

Nothing will ever beat the joys of finding new "skins" for the Winamp player -- I had so many amazing ones lined up, and loved nothing more than switching them all out.

Sad to see it go...

IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMA'S ASS

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by throwmeaway2525 »

bbx wrote: post #36

Was 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 short…

You just weren't meant for each other!

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#49

Post by masklinn »

Elepsis wrote: post #33

Wow, 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 musi…

> 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.

Foobar 2k works very, very well.

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