Sad news. Always loved using winamp. Really did "kick the llama's ass."
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#272I 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
Doesn't require customization to be usable.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#273Wow, 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
Those were the days!
End of an era. Sad day.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you ever try Foobar 2k - its arguably a better replacement for Winamp on windows
I think foobar2000 was created by a (the?) developer who worked on Winamp many years ago, before it was bought.
Yes, Peter Pawlowski. According to Wikipedia, he is "a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft."
EDIT: He's also been working on an audio player called Boom: http://perkele.cc/software/boom
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You can check out our personal cloud software Tonido ( http://www.tonido.com ). It organizes all your music, video collection and makes it available from anywhere. We have very good mobile apps for iOS, Android and even for Windows 8. You don't need to take our word. Just check the app ratings and reviews in app stores.
Tonido sucks. Nothing but issues and problems with it and support is non-existent. Stay away!
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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
I used to run Subsonic, now I'm loving http://plexapp.com and the (paid) iOS app.
I'm also an Rdio and Netflix subscriber, but running Plex on my server allows me to 'roll my own Netflix' and stream movies and music to my iPad or other computers, or even from my server to any computer in the web browser. I'm happy.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 use ownCloud[1] . A bit of a hassle to install, and not as streamlined as e.g. Dropbox to use, but well worth it if you wish to have your own, free and open source cloud solution.
[1]: http://owncloud.org
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#278I always used Winamp on Windows, so when I switched to Linux I tried basically every single open-source alternative that worked with my workflow: Per-song ratings, a nested Genre/Artist/Album/Song library browser, global hotkeys, able to handle a collection of >100 GB and a useful playlist/queue system. For anyone else looking for the same thing: the one that I ended up choosing was http://gmusicbrowser.org/ . See ht…
I did the same thing, ended up with cmus: http://cmus.sourceforge.net/
MPD is pretty popular too http://www.musicpd.org/
It has a client/server model and you can create your own music streaming service by controlling it remotely and streaming back over http.
ncmpc/ncmpcpp is a client for mpd that resembles cmus quite a lot.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You don't need to. Since subsonic is Open Source, there's naturally multiple forks with the licensing code removed. The best fork, which also adds features, is madsonic[0]. I recommend it. In addition, if you already have subsonic, the license code is simply a check if your password = the md5 of your email. So using "example@example.com" and "23463b99b62a72f26ed677cc556c44e8" will make it think you're a valid subscriber and give you all features.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#280Brings up a great question: What are the alternatives to Winamp? (No iTunes please)
This one is a little esoteric, but Billy is a cool, incredibly minimalist audio player:
http://sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html
Unfortunately, it looks like the site's downloads are unavailable right now (suffering from nostalgia overload?), but it's definitely worth checking out:
* tiny -- like, 500K
* gapless playback
* 100% controllable by keyboard