Just for those who are looking for a replacement player on Windows Desktop. I have been using JetAudio player, and have been very happy with it. It supports global keyboard shortcuts (VERY important for me), CD ripping, playlists with live monitoring and what not. And one of the biggest reasons I moved to it from Winamp was that it could handle the 4500 something songs I had on my machine in one playlist, without getting laggy. Winamp would just crawl with those many songs.
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#122It was great while it lasted. I am sorry to see them shut down, but I understand.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#123Was 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 should check out aimp[1]. It looks and performs like winamp and has similar functionality.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#124I 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.
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#125This makes me sad.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#126Was 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
Seconded - Foobar2000 is a great music app. No visual bells and whistles, just functionality. It gets out of your way, and it's fast.
Also, it was developed by some of the people who originally developed Winamp.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#127I 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.
Apparently VLC does the shoutcast stuff now if you download a pls file from shoutcast.com and feed it to VLC. If you're a linux user then 'audacious' is a good/similar replacement to winamp IMHO. I switched to using quodlibet some time ago. Can't remember why (simplicity, the right views, stuff) but now everything else seems sucky.
deadbeef is a very nice lesser-known linux music player that's heavily influenced by foobar2000. quodlibet is probably my second favourite, but it's written in python, so it can be a bit slow/heavy on resources at times. banshee is great for large libraries and as an iTunes replacement.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#128I prefer Clementine, Amarok, and Rhythmbox. No point using a proprietary app when there's plenty of open-source apps which are just as good if not better...
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.
Foobar does. You have to configure it but you can do it.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
foobar is a bit... bare bones imho... and neither it or VLC have the shoutcast stream listing services... which will be an issue without winamp. :-(
foobar is very lightweight and barebones, but it's also easily extensible
and heavily extensible. You can basically clone Winamp 2, 3 and 5 with it. The community is really strong, as well.