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I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.
Just give it a year and you might be able to... Domain Name.......... winamp.com Creation Date........ 1997-12-30 Registration Date.... 2009-10-03 Expiry Date.......... 2014-12-24
This seems like a good time to plug my latest open source project: libgroove [1] It's a cross-platform music player backend C library. It's meant to be generic enough to be the backend of any music player. I use it as the backend for Groove Basin [2] which just might hit milestone 1.0.0 around December 20. [1]: https://github.com/superjoe30/libgroove [2]: https://github.com/superjoe30/groovebasin
I wonder if this is a hoax/website hack? There's no mention of it anywhere else apart from this particular URL. No mention on Twitter, no talk of it in the forums etc. They only just updated the Winamp Android Client. I doubt it, but the odd HTML in the title and lack of any other information makes me doubt it's authenticity.
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> This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. You can have a consistent music library and can use any player client-side. Personally I prefer the spotify "all-you-can-listen" model, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't on spotify that I seamlessly stream from dropbox (either to winamp or the spotify client, which allows you to sync lo…
There is so much lost when moving to the cloud. Off the top of my head: You tie your data to one provider instead of simply physical media, you lose discoverability (will your kids browse your album choices 30 years from now?), exporting/importing quality is at the mercy of the provider (for example Amazon dropped several dozen mp3s when I migrated a few gigs to Google), and of course you place your data at the mercy…
I'll miss the old days of 1999, using winamp to play my latest Napster "acquisitions".
For myself, I generally just use mplayer or music-on-console (moc) nowadays. It gets the job done with no fuss and no mess.
Thank you Justin Frankel for this wonderfully whimsical piece of software and all the code you have shared over the years. I wouldn't have been a programmer if it weren't for you being providing such a stellar role model.
And I bet many people don't even know that after Winamp Justin Frenkel started making his hands dirty with digital audio workstation coding and made a fantastic one! http://www.reaper.fm/ with a unbelievable set of features for 4 Mb (yessir!) and super competitive licensing options (but you can still try the full software free with no limitations whatsoever!). If you make music with your Pc or Mac this will shock you…
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.
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.
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> This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. You can have a consistent music library and can use any player client-side. Personally I prefer the spotify "all-you-can-listen" model, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't on spotify that I seamlessly stream from dropbox (either to winamp or the spotify client, which allows you to sync lo…
>Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. Yes, but ideally, when it's your cloud. Just because all these major cloud players can just stop their service on their whim.
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MediaMonkey [1] is awesome to find something. It's mainly a music organizer that just happens to be able to play music but it works great even with scattered single mp3 files. Autoplaylists [2], scriptable and extensive search options. Been using it for over 6 years now and never looked back :) [1] http://www.mediamonkey.com [2] Autoplaylists are only available for the Gold version.
I definitely recommend MediaMonkey Gold. It will keep your library organized, but however you want it, with no hassle at all. And if you're insane like me and keep a flac library, you can keep an mp3 mirror for your mp3 player/phone.