Winamp was very popular back in the days. When I was in 6, 7th grade I would use it every day! Sad to see this going down.
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#442Earlier 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…
Sorry but the front of that page made me throw up a bit in my mouth and just close it back down again...
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#443Earlier quoted context omitted.
TheSOB88, you're hellbanned so barely anyone can see your comments.
What's this about? Parent's unsername is not TheSOB88.
It's to let him know that he triggered hell banning somehow. it's super annoying, because you don't know if you are hell banned.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#444Was 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 have also an old version of winamp because a melomane of my friends told me the transitions between songs was better in old winamp than in recent one.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#445Was 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…
You should check out aimp[1]. It looks and performs like winamp and has similar functionality. [1] http://www.aimp.ru/
Unfortunately, recently they started messing with the design and the result is much worse than transition from Winamp 5.3x to better versions.
Multiple playlist tabs, though, are great. Fortunately Audacious has them too.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#446Wow, the end of an era. Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial and fast to find the songs I was looking for, either by filename or by ID3 data, and get them playing. I suppose that it turns out the world has changed and this isn't how most people consume musi…
As others have said, we still has AIMP [aimp.ru]. They're clearly losing on not having a good English website.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#447Just got it running with the D-Reliction skin using Wine in Ubuntu. Then the first song it picks on shuffle is all, "numa numa yey"...haha, man, I'll bet they've had so many downloads today. lol
Which version? I installed v2.95, but the library doesn't seem to work.
That version did not include a library manager.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#448I'm so bummed about this.
It's my favorite media player.
It was the first media player in its day that payed every file you threw at it.
It has never disappointed me since.
I really wish the owner would opensource it though if he doesn't have the time to maintain it I'm sure there's hundreds of thousands of people who will.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#449Makes you wonder why they cannot open source the code instead of completely killing it.
gubatron, you've been banned for a year now.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#450This is a sad day in computer history. Winamp was my first default music player and first true love of a computer program. It was in the end of the 1990s and ICQ ruled internet chatting and mp3s was new thing.
I used Winamp everyday. We shared music from dorm to dorm on the campus network. Everyone had Winamp. Parties had a dedicated Winamp computer with all the playlists with music available from the campus network.
We searched the net with Phoenix (now called Firefox) or Opera to find all the album art work. We installed beautiful Winamp skins and was amazed at audio 3d-visualization plugins that Winamp offered.
Winamp was early on handling multiple audio cards. I had dual audio cards, one just for Winamp connected to my HiFi equipment and the other for the rest of the Windows sounds connected to the computer table speakers.
Early with global hotkey support. Plugins that showed GUI popups of the music playing. Fraunhofer codec support. And it was super fast.
And I still remember the uproar when Winamp 3 was released. True fanboys stayed with the Winamp 2 release for many years, the classic.
Sad this has to end, but Winamp never successfully adopted to a world with full fledged media library players like iTunes or Windows Media Player. Back in the day we used Windows Explorer (or Norton Commander) to cataloged all our music and soon a community based naming standard convention of music was "created" by mutual agreement.
And then came music streaming.
Bye Winamp!
// A pro license owner