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/
There is also http://cogx.org/ (but it is a lot more minimal)
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also use subsonic and love it. It's unfortunate that the author moved to a monthly/yearly subscription model. Luckily, I am grandfathered into a lifetime premium membership with a free dynamic DNS address, which is really nice.
Or you can use Supersonic or Madsonic, which are forks without the "forced donation for open source software" problem.
i liked http://www.pancake.org/zina too...
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
Foobar is OK but because it tries to give so many power user options it can become a pain to do simple things like play list management.
My strategy is to install Columns UI (http://yuo.be/columns.php) and ignore the power options to the best of my ability. So far it's working.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#394I remember having to rip cds to wav files on my x4 CD burner (the fastest at the time) and then using winamp to convert them to mp3 before winamp had the add-in that did it all in one step.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#395In their dog days they are now giving away the pro version of Winamp, which does CD ripping, removes ads and has a few other features. i.e. the link to the Free version is now the Pro version.
I was another pretty recent convert to Winamp after using it in the 90s then switching to Linux, but it still does the job _fast_ if you still keep a big hard drive of MP3s.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#396Why do they not open source the entire package? I have to think that AOL has clean intellectual property ownership on the code base. It would be better than letting this important historical codebase slip into oblivion.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#397Sad to see Winamp go and hopefully AOL won't do the same with Shoutcast. Would be nice to see AOL update the Shoutcast app more.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#398Earlier 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
From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
You're really missing out. Subsonic is amazing. You should at least look at it a little bit.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#399I guess the Llama's ass now gets a break.
Rumour has it that PETA forced the shutdown.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
No reason to use a proprietary music player.
Every music player is proprietary somewhere be it codec, physical IC, transistor technology, speakers, headphones. Software is a teeny little bit of the whole thing.
And because some piece of the stack is proprietary means I shouldn't try use non-proprietary software where I can and it makes sense?
Software, while a "teeny little bit", is often the bit I find lacking and needing change.