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One dollar is too much for something that was a solved problem (media sync).
How is that a solved problem?
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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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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
From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
right, you don't run Java.
Java is everywhere so unless you live in the jungle I'm quite sure you use it everyday.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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#364People 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.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
Thanks for the worthless comment!
I think he has a tiny point actually: I saw a number of people around me removing Java (or not installing it on new computers) after the numerous vulnerabilities reported recently. Just a data point but well - I wonder if this could affect sales of java-based product etc.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#366I 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 kidding. I used to use it all the time, and I just re-downloaded about a week ago as my player of choice, especially since it's capable of playing FLACs (looking at you, WMP).
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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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
From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
Serious question: why?
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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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
Peter was notable for maintaining a lot of the audio output backends for Winamp. People who had problems with their Creative Labs sound cards (read: basically anyone who owned one) causing playback glitches in Winamp would post about it on the Winamp forums and peter would get really cranky and eventually figure out how to fix it. (:
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#369I remember as a teen talking to the developers on IRC, in one of the Windows development channels. I remember thinking they were crazy because they didn't want to use the standard Windows components to do the UI. I also remember wondering why anyone bother spending a half hour downloading 1 song over a 56k modem when you could just set your Sony Discman on top of your computer! Then they started branching out and wor…
Do you have any similar experiences like this with other teams or products?
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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How is that a solved problem?
How is it not? Plug shit into PC, two way sync. WinPhone and iOS do this fine.
Exactly, that's not a solved problem. Your first step, "plug shit into PC", is not something that I currently do with my phone, nor do I want to have to start doing.