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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#342If anyone is looking for a replacement of Winamp, I highly recommend AIMP, I have been using it for about two years now. http://www.aimp.ru/
sorry but AIMP UI design is worse than XMMP player 5 years ago!
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#343Earlier 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
From the site: Based on Java technology
Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#344I have a lot of hardware that's SOL if Shoutcast goes down. I hope they have a transition plan if that's the case.
I'm surprised some other personal broadcast approach hasn't replaced it by now. Lots of great online radio (and formerly video) was Shoutcast.
I think it was like Reader, where the service was so good and ubiquitous that nobody felt compelled to make a replacement.
This will affect a lot more people than the Reader shutdown, and in a way that hits the pocketbook for those that have devices that depend on Shoutcast like my Yamaha receiver. I wonder if the outcry will be as strong?
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#345For those looking for a lightweight alternative, I recently switched to GOM Music Player on Windows. No library (yet), but a nice modern GUI and good Context Menu integration.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#346There are ultimately two types of people in the comments right now: those that will miss Winamp and those laughing it was still around. Winamp worked. It played all your MP3s without any of the other fluff. It played your music in a very lightweight program. What was also nice was this was before every program auto-updated; so you'd manually have to go update it; except, the newer versions were adding features, not f…
It was really long ago when Winamp was still lightweight :)
The Lite version is still lightweight.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#347Winamp is a great music player. It is still the best for some file formats. Via it's plugins it can play more exotic audio file formats than any other player. Some players support s3m and it, but play only half of some files: Winamp plays it all. There are great plugins for nsf, spc, psf and usf sound files (sound files form NES, SNES, PS1 and N64 games). I wish there would be a real alternative (for Linux). Does any…
I like deadbeef, which uses libgme to play SPC, at least; haven't tried PSF or USF.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#348Was 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…
I always preferred 2.89, but that's mostly just me being picky.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#349I still use it everyday, never changed player since its first release. I guess it's the piece of software I have used for the longest time now (for free!) ?
It just works for me. Controls in the systray (deal breaker for me with other players), brillant mix of media library and playlists, the Bento skin is very decent etc.
Once in a while a shoutcast radio or a trippy Milkdrop session.
I get that people use Spotify now. I'm not in the cloud yet but I see the appeal.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 subscri…
> the license code is simply a check if your password = the md5 of your email
That used to be the case, but the newer versions actually phone home and verify the license.