It's been a couple of years since I tried to find a good alternative to iTunes on OS X. Does it exist yet? Is there a Winamp for mac yet?
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
61–70 of 524 posts
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#62I have a lot of hardware that's SOL if Shoutcast goes down. I hope they have a transition plan if that's the case.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#63Earlier 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.
Will you also indemnify AOL against all third party claims should someone use the software, it messes up their Windows 9.3 filesystem, and they end up suing... however meritless the case may be? Will you accept responsibility for acting as the DMCA contact and updating the site within the time limits provided in the Safe Harbor provisions should a skin, plugin, or visualization infringe someone else's copyright? Will you also update the apps for free to keep current with mobile and desktop OS changes?
I'm guessing AOL has looked at all this and sees $$$ for both the business risk as well as maintaining software which they have deemed does nothing for their company goals. As a result, they are better off focusing their limited resources towards efforts which do further their goals.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#64I guess the Llama's ass now gets a break.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#65People laugh at me for still using winamp but I love it. It's fast, low memory, never crashes and the ui hasn't significantly changed for well over a decade.
More than that, it's one of the few pieces of software I still use every day that can provide an anchor all the way back to my mid-teens when I was first getting seriously involved with computers.
Its death sort of marks an end of an era for me :'(
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#66Brings up a great question: What are the alternatives to Winamp? (No iTunes please)
Tomahawk. http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
Foobar2k. http://www.foobar2000.org/
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#67Wow, 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
I had even created a few skins back then. The CDs that came with computer magazines were a great source of new skins.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#68If 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/
Tomahawk is the only cross-platform media player I've seen that looks really good on OS X, too. I don't have much need for a desktop media player anymore with a phone always in my pocket, but I really enjoyed using it when I did.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#69If there was ever an example of how to acquire a technology you don't know what to do with and then sit on it till it's dead, the Winamp story is it (and I guess Sonique as well).
Made a couple people rich (well deserved) at least.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because the codebase stinks and releasing it would end up in multiple vulnerability discoveries.
... which would presumably be patched, if it were embraced by the open-source community.
That's fine and all that but it takes time for the new inevitable forks to stabilise and some people will never switch.