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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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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

I still do that fairly often. Audacious can load Winamp skins. Sometimes its interface borks on my collection (35,000+ songs), but it's responsive enough.

My desktop still looks very much like it did in the 1990s...

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#103

I 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.

foobar2000 has all of those features

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#110

I just switched back to Winamp after getting fed up with the latest release of iTunes. At least it's a real application that I can download and own for myself, and doesn't stop working just because it's no longer being supported. This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud, or use browser-based apps for things that matter to me. Hopefully they'll release the codebase to the world.

No reason to use a proprietary music player.
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