Wow I feel like I am leaving a piece of my childhood behind. Long live winamp haha
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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#422Was 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…
WMP is why I bought an iPod. As a Microsft employee at the time, I struggled longer than any mortal should to get WMP to sync music to my 2003-era Windows Phone. I eventually realized that any kind of synchronization and general usefulness in using WMP with a Windows Phone was nothing but marketing lies. So one day I said, "get in the car, honey, we're going to buy iPods."
iPods led to iPhones, which led to iOS development and Macs, to the point that there are no more Windows machines in the house and I haven't done Windows development in about five years.
All kicked off by the fact that MSFT couldn't make a software music player that didn't suck.
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#423Writing simple Winamp Plugin was my first C++ experience about 10 years ago and it was amazing.
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Agree about Foobar. It's about the only app from Windows that I miss when using OS X. Anyone have a Mac player they use with similar philosophy/featureset to Foobar?
cog http://cogx.org ; less features IIRC
Heh, I'm listening to the album in their first screenshot. Gotta be a good sign.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#425Peter Pawlowski's work on Foobar2000 is / was great. Winamp did the trick, but after 2.95 it lost me.
That said, it's sad to see the name go.
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right, you don't run Java. Java is everywhere so unless you live in the jungle I'm quite sure you use it everyday.
One can very easily not run any desktop Java apps, and not run any applets. That's what he meant, and that's what matters. Who cares if he still uses some website that is build on servlets server side, or if his tv/car/fridge has a Java running CPU? That's totally besides the point. Java is not "everywhere". In fact it's getting nowhere fast (including it's use on microcontrollers and devices). The only exception is…
Java may be going nowhere fast as a language, but the JVM isn't going away anytime soon.
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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.
I tried this, but it was never quite great. I'm very happy with Clementine which is cross-platform for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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#429They brought MP3s to the masses. RIP.
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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.
mpd with ncmpc has brought my music very close to me - just a couple of keystrokes away.
Regarding Winamp, I've always loved it's tagline "Winamp kicks the llama's ass" (or was it butt?).