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> Why Go Pro? Help fund continued product development & innovation Well... no more...
Perhaps AOL hoped they would have their own itunes and it would self support the player development
People 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 :'(
Same here :(. I pirated it for so many years and it was the first license that I purchased after being able to afford it (after getting a job).
I would really like to know why :(. Winamp is one of the very few companies that I feel deserves many more pennies than they asked for.
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 an…
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>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.
Thanks for reminding me to set up OwnCloud [1]. :) [1] http://owncloud.org
Just got it running with the D-Reliction skin using Wine in Ubuntu. Then the first song it picks on shuffle is all, "numa numa yey"...haha, man, I'll bet they've had so many downloads today. lol
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.
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
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That's why you run your own "cloud" music service. Personally I use Subsonic, and it is amazing. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
Sounded really good until I got to the part about needing to pay a subscription fee.
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.
