Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 • Hacker News Board

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by thrillgore » Wed, Nov 20, 2013, 6:38 PM UTC

Imagine if they opened the sources on this...

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by codegeek » Wed, Nov 20, 2013, 6:38 PM UTC

Nostalgia. I remember the good old days just a decade ago when we would download any song we want (courtesy napster/kazaa) and the default music player would be: yep Winamp hands down. Keyboard shortcuts were so convenient. It just seems like we have headed in the wrong direction with how music is managed on our computers/devices etc. Not to mention the beautiful skins that we could apply for funkiness. RIP winamp and you will be missed.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by math0ne » Wed, Nov 20, 2013, 6:38 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #49

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.

Seconded, f2k works very well for super large complicated music collections. Prob not as easy to setup as winamp but you can more with f2k. Way more.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by mbell » Wed, Nov 20, 2013, 6:39 PM UTC

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.

I've been off windows for a few years now but I used to use Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) for managing a very large collection of poorly tagged music I'd collected over the years, lots of live recordings and whatnot. It's definitely not as clean a player as winamp was but it did manage the library / tagging bits quite well. It seems to still be active so may be worth a look.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by Karunamon » Wed, Nov 20, 2013, 6:39 PM UTC

1wheel wrote: post #18

FedRegister wrote: post #4

Thank you for the music, WinAmp. Edit: Will this affect Shoutcast?

Doesn't look like it, but maybe? http://www.shoutcast.com/

I hope not.. there's a ton of services out there relying on the Shoutcast directory.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by FedRegister » Wed, Nov 20, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #9

mhurron wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because no one wants to pay to keep it up?

I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.