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Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

tombert wrote: post #55

Honest question, as someone who actually used Winamp back in ~2004: why would you want to use it now? I have some nostalgia for it, sure, but what exactly does it actually offer you that something like VLC doesn't? It seems like it plays my music and videos competently enough, and I don't know anyone who actually uses Shoutcast anymore. This isn't a passive aggressive dig or anything, I would actually like to know.

Winamp has a plugin for Orchestra 80/85/90 files, which to the best of my knowledge, VLC does not. Wouldn't be surprised if this were the case for many 8-bit era music formats. The time period in which Winamp came to prominence was when there were still lots of people with a foot in the 90s (and 80s) without it necessarily being retro nostalgia.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by IggleSniggle »

jvolkman wrote: post #81
geocrasher wrote: post #49

I listened to my first MP3 ever (Creed's "Higher") in 1999 on Winamp. It really whipped the South American camelid's posterior. Dang. I'm old.

I remember being jealous of my friend's Pentium (66? 90?) when mp3 playback slaughtered my 486.

When “Pentium” was the name of the very most precious metal one could obtain

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by robertlagrant »

cyber_kinetist wrote: post #19
caddywompus wrote: post #12

Interestingly enough, there has been a community project dedicated to keeping the last Winamp version alive (last version from the original creators), and it really great to use. https://getwacup.com/ It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor. Edi…

For context, here's the new revamped(!) Winamp coming up soon: https://www.winamp.com/ It's just... the complete opposite of what Winamp was all about, and it's horrible and leaves a bad taste in your mouth (-100 points for the atrocious "modern" website which loads MBs of Javascript, screams BIG TEXT at you, hijacks your scroll wheel, and still tells you nothing about the actual software other than it will probably…

> We’re building Winamp for the next-generation.

The incorrect hyphen is just irritating as well.

Re: Winamp source code leak

#104

Post by vvpan »

5040 wrote: post #27

Winamp was still my music player of choice until a little over a year ago when I finally made the switch to MusicBee.

My hero. If I was not on Linux I feel like I'd be on the same boat. On Linux I use mocp which is a console-based directory-based player, so pretty much the same thing.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by jpindar »

est wrote: post #92

I still remembers all those crazy music visualizations. It was rarely seen these days. Someone should make a WebGL version.

I'm surprised other music software or streaming sites don't have visualizations.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by theandrewbailey »

tombert wrote: post #55

Honest question, as someone who actually used Winamp back in ~2004: why would you want to use it now? I have some nostalgia for it, sure, but what exactly does it actually offer you that something like VLC doesn't? It seems like it plays my music and videos competently enough, and I don't know anyone who actually uses Shoutcast anymore. This isn't a passive aggressive dig or anything, I would actually like to know.

I use it because I never stopped using it. I love the classic gray on black modular UI (it looks like high end stereo equipment). Winamp has all the features I want, and nothing has come along that compelled me to stop using Winamp altogether. Since it's the same old Winamp, it's incredibly light and fast.

I'll use Foobar2000 and VLC from time to time (Foobar's conversion and bulk tagging are great). I've tried using them full-time instead of Winamp, but they just don't feel right.

EDIT: I love how there's an 'active playlist' of what's playing now, and additional saved playlists in the library, and can move/copy entries between them. It's probably accidental design of adding a library later, but I haven't found another player that shows multiple playlists side-by-side without customizing it into something else.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by 0des »

dvdkon wrote: post #65
0des wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPFS is perfect for this.

Almost, but since it publicly associates the files you share with your IP address, I don't see most interested people willing to use it in this context.

Pinning services exist, VPN's exist, also every other technology including torrents exposes your IP.

Re: Winamp source code leak

#108

Post by bt1a »

kingcharles wrote: post #50
haunter wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never get how Archive.org can get away with... everything? Like every single console game is there. Nintendo is very famous to take down ROM sites yet their full library is on Archive.org. And that's Nintendo only, all the PS1, PS2, PS3 games and the whole Xbox/360 catalog is there as well. It's crazy In some aspect Archive.org is better than some private torrent trackers

archive.org regularly removes things when they are alerted :(

Sounds like we need an archive.org archive

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by cjnicholls »

cyber_kinetist wrote: post #35
firekvz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The browser on my pixel 6 crashed, haven't seen a site lag a phone for like 2 years

Yeah, the site also freezes my Firefox for 5 seconds, and this is from a gaming PC. Absolutely horrendous... How hard you would actually have to try to make a website as horrible as this, this thing is just a meme.

Here’s the developer https://www.laniche.com . Their other websites don’t seem to be as laggy but there is a theme of animating *every* element and embedding videos.
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