It's been a couple of years since I tried to find a good alternative to iTunes on OS X. Does it exist yet? Is there a Winamp for mac yet?
Possibly Vox: http://coppertino.com/vox/
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#302Too bad, I liked their Android player as well. One of the few pieces of software I have used continuously for... oi... longer than I care to admit. Makes me sad.
Android user here too. I remember just a year ago I tried a dozen apps for ShoutCast playing and it was the best. Sad to see it go. Used it a lot back on Windows back in the day when that was my OS as well. Was one of the few players with lots of high quality skins, including large size ones, and game pad controls, great for parties.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#303Earlier 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…
Agree. I'm doing the same with everything related to "the cloud". The current international political climate doesn't support this model.
Also with music, I point blank refuse to let music turn into a subscription based service. I still buy CDs when something agrees with my ears and listen to them.
I also quite happily transcribe things to sheet music and play it breaking many a royalty and public performance law. Fuck 'em.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#304Brings 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
Glad you mentioned this. This is my favorite, out of the way player. All I want is to just listen to the music and Billy does it.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pitch in to archive all of their releases or a donation to Archive Team[1] to archive all of their releases. [1] http://www.archiveteam.org/
Already finishing up pulling the whole site into a warc/cdx and getting it to textfiles.com (aka ArchiveTeam).
Guess I'm slow. I'm halfway through recursively fetching download.nullsoft.com/winamp/ with the intention of seeding a new torrent on TPB. Is that what you grabbed?
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Sounded really good until I got to the part about needing to pay a subscription fee.
It's ONE DOLLAR per month. ONE DOLLAR! And it's only if you want the extra features. Would you rather have ads be inserted between your songs or something? The development of the app needs to be paid for one way or the other.
One dollar is too much for something that was a solved problem (media sync).
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#307This is sad. I discovered so much music throughout my teenage life using WinAMP. I used to do shoutCast broadcast for friends and feel like a DJ. I used to be excited when a friend would allow me to replace their MusicMatch Jukebox with Winamp. It was solid, and worked. Why shutdown? :(
I supposed I've only been installing the <3.00 version anyway, so I can stick with it, but still...mixed emotions.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
Already finishing up pulling the whole site into a warc/cdx and getting it to textfiles.com (aka ArchiveTeam).
Guess I'm slow. I'm halfway through recursively fetching download.nullsoft.com/winamp/ with the intention of seeding a new torrent on TPB. Is that what you grabbed?
No, grabbed *.winamp.com/winamp.com (full grab I'll send off to be added to archive.org).
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#309I stopped using Windamp for a long time until I purchased my first Android phone. After looking through the dozens of Mp3 players on the market, I saw my old fave, downloaded it and have been using it ever since on my phone.
RIP Llama
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
foobar still can't do sound level balancing (ReplayGain) properly. Does winamp?
What do you mean? FB2K has had excellent ReplayGain support for as long as I can remember.