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Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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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.

I still have my old MP3s despite only really using Spotify these days. I don't regret the time spent building and curating that collection in the slightest. If anything, I expect Spotify itself to be the thing that becomes obsolete, leaving me to regret that last several years in which I haven't kept up with adding new music to the collection that I actually own.

> If anything, I expect Spotify itself to be the thing that becomes obsolete

Almost certainly but there will be an alternative company with some migration path for your playlists. Unless omnipresent network connectivity stops being a thing, in which case there would be bigger problems than music.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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post #55

On January 14, 2014, it was officially announced that Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy had bought Winamp and Shoutcast, formerly owned by Nullsoft. - https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5263086/winamp-radionomy-... So since this site was launched, it looks like you can now download Winamp from the Official Winamp website: - http://winamp.com/ For those asking for old versions of Winamp, you can get them here:…

Fascinating; I never knew Reaper DAW (I have a paid license and use it semi-regularly) was started by WinAmp founder!

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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

As a result of this comment I finally jumped through the necessary hoops to get MilkDrop working with foobar2000 - seeing it running at 1080p/60fps feels like I've just arrived in the future.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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Early Winamp was truly revolutionary in terms of UX and quality. Highly intuitive, beautiful and always "just working", with an elegant plugin system. It is no coincidence that the authors went on to create Gnutella, which could be considered the starting point of decentralized networking.

Does anyone else remember the mp3 player wars? Sonique, NAD, Winamp...it was like the early Android/iOS split of the mid-90's. I remember so much from that era!

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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On a related note, we are just about to launch a VJ tool using Milkdrop.

NestDrop allows you to perform with high-resolution high-fps visuals which react in realtime to the music and then broadcasts the video via Spout. Since the Milkdrop engine is at the core you can easily bring in your own presets. Use any audio source to drive the visuals, even live audio. http://www.nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.html

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

#126
post #55

On January 14, 2014, it was officially announced that Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy had bought Winamp and Shoutcast, formerly owned by Nullsoft. - https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5263086/winamp-radionomy-... So since this site was launched, it looks like you can now download Winamp from the Official Winamp website: - http://winamp.com/ For those asking for old versions of Winamp, you can get them here:…

LICEcap is amazing. It's also been especially good for front-end pull request documentation. Sure, include your code, but a GIF of the feature, working is a nice way to drive home the change.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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post #10

I remember there being a website (forgot the name/URL) where people could share their visualizations for Winamp. I downloaded so many presets from there and even recorded some to VHS because I thought they were so cool. I made my own, too, mostly by taking something made by someone else and changing the code/numbers to see how it would react. I wish I could find those files again somewhere and just spend a moment imm…

Depends if you are thinking about AVS or Milkdrop. Me, being an AVS guy, can only recommend https://visbot.net . In the olden days there were: - https://customized.org and - https://deviantart.com/ DA is sadly almost unusable for finding AVS presets now (as I discovered today), so you may start with this page: - https://www.deviantart.com/tobsiv/favourites/41261647/featur... for finding some of the more famous packs.

AVS was what I had, I never used Milkdrop for some reason.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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post #55

On January 14, 2014, it was officially announced that Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy had bought Winamp and Shoutcast, formerly owned by Nullsoft. - https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5263086/winamp-radionomy-... So since this site was launched, it looks like you can now download Winamp from the Official Winamp website: - http://winamp.com/ For those asking for old versions of Winamp, you can get them here:…

Wait wait wait wait... Justin Frankel is behind Cockos (of Reaper and WDL fame)??

Mind blown. Reaper in particular is fantastic, even if I could never get my head around it long enough to stick with something other than FL Studio.

Re: Unofficial Winamp Web Site

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post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still have my old MP3s despite only really using Spotify these days. I don't regret the time spent building and curating that collection in the slightest. If anything, I expect Spotify itself to be the thing that becomes obsolete, leaving me to regret that last several years in which I haven't kept up with adding new music to the collection that I actually own.

> If anything, I expect Spotify itself to be the thing that becomes obsolete Almost certainly but there will be an alternative company with some migration path for your playlists. Unless omnipresent network connectivity stops being a thing, in which case there would be bigger problems than music.

It's already a problem on Spotify that my playlists rot over time with seemingly random songs being no longer available. Playlists are much less important than the music itself.
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