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ropiwqefjnpoa wrote: post #94
zelly wrote: post #84

Remembering all the time I wasted collecting and curating a personal MP3 library (now replaced completely by Spotify), I wonder what current practices I spend a lot of time on that will be become obsolete.

Oh god, I still have my well organized folder of MP3's going back to the 90's. I never use it, but I can't let it go either.

I have folders for each year of the '90s and 2000s. This is a personal collection that includes not just what I liked on MTV/radio at the time, but also numerous older tracks that I discovered during those years.

To me, that gives my collection much greater personal and sentimental value than a Spotify retrospective playlist that doesn't align as well with my memories of those days.

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yboris wrote: post #100

I loved how easy it was to create skins for Winamp ... here's the skin I created and have been using since 2012: https://www.deviantart.com/yboris/art/Lear-lite-YBoris-remix...

I remember having a cheesy skin of Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1999 when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the biggest show for any and all high schoolers.

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deanCommie wrote: post #7

One could argue we made better ways to play MP3s on our computers. But nothing has come anywhere close to improving or replacing Milkdrop

Did we? Winamp lost the audio player wars to iTunes because it was the only way to sync music to iPods. But iTunes was a bloated mess, always had to run on startup and had the iTunes Store jammed into it as well.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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holoduke wrote: post #103

Winamp for me is linked to the time internet was still internet without the giant corporations ruling and ruining the entire single single part with heavily overengineered saas solutions. It was the time of altavista, icq, popup explosions and 1mb download for a program. It was still unexplored cowboy/free for all land, ran by tech dudes. Now its dominated by the absolute evil of capitalism. Not tech, but marketing.…

A crude analogy:

- early Internet - Homebrew Computer Club with a shared ethos of free software and free information for all

- 2000s Internet and later - Bill Gates joins the HCC, refuses to share code, and before long the only incentive to create stuff is to sell it by the truckload, by any means necessary.

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benboughton1 wrote: post #39

Winamp is great, ah the memories. But just like my gripe with video media, is there anywhere to buy plain mp3s for all artists, store them on my hdd and manage them in winamp? Is that still an option in 2020 without a subscription to something?

Bandcamp. I can download the files I buy as a ZIP and simply import them into whatever player I'm using. On Android that's Phonograph, and on MacOS it's VOX audio player.

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room505 wrote: post #70

After Winamp closed shop, I begrudgingly moved to iTunes for awhile. But then I found Musicbee, which I find to be the best alternative to Winamp.

I used MediaMonkey for the longest time in the mid-to-late 2000s. I downloaded MusicBee and wondered if it was the same team behind both apps. The UIs were incredibly similar.

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vijucat wrote: post #64
rlv-dan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My only problem with Winamp 2 is that people laugh at me when they pass my computer and see it.

Yeah :-) Show them the keyboard shortcuts. Like the zxcvb set for the main 5 controls (prev track, play, pause, stop, next track), or pressing j (for jump) and then typing a part of the name of the song you remembered to play what you want at the speed of thought + typing. They'll understand that ~~it's really fast~~ it really whips the llama's ass!

I loved that if you held Shift while clicking Stop it would fade out the music.
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