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That's a funny name considering it was the Winamp creator's nickname and Foobar2000 itself is a Winamp clone.
Not sure how fb2k is a Winamp clone. There's a Winamp clone for Linux though, Audacious: https://audacious-media-player.org/
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To be honest, while I used and loved Winamp for a long time and it would be nice to have the sources even for a 2.x version, the reason it was popular back in the day was because it was the only one (or close enough). Nowadays there's a million ways to play audio files. Audacious even has a mode that imitates the Winamp aesthetics, and I think it can even load Winamp skins. There's not much value in the Winamp source…
Winamp also had visualizations. It seems that none of the modern players have that.
DeaDBeeF is a clone for Linux.
Nope. Even way back then, I was using iTunes on mac and windows to rip and organise my music collection. A quick rsync or an smb mount from a Linux machine made it easy to access my media in VLC or Rhythmbox. The winamp/foobar aesthetics were really cool, but overall offered nothing to the practically or ease of actually buying/ripping/playing your music. But you know, everyone is different and some folks had memoris…
There is certainly something intangibly attractive on this era and style of software. On top of my head I'm thinking fb2k, mpc (and its forks), virtualdub, utorrent (the original 1.x series), irfanview, kerio firewall (classic 2.x series), putty, even maybe mirc and notepad++ to some degree. Small programs, classic Windows style controls, emphasis on staying out of your way, somewhat minimalistic and barebones but st…
A "well designed" interface with "good" UI/UX from a proper designer may have best practices, but additional layers of abstraction from the functionality which makes everything feel less direct.
I downloaded it on my mobile device, because I have the issue where some songs are very quiet and some are very loud, so I was looking for a volume normalizer and this is the one (that's zero cost) that was recommended, but I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between using this one and just the normal Metro Music Player. So if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or if there are better (zero cost) tools that could…
1. Ensure that your music player has loudness normalization enabled. It's normally called ReplayGain and is disabled by default.
2. Replaygain information is written to the audio file's tags. So check the audio file's tags to see if the tags are there. They start with "replaygain_" for most formats and "r128_" for opus files.
You can install termux on your phone and then it basically becomes a linux computer btw.
I downloaded it on my mobile device, because I have the issue where some songs are very quiet and some are very loud, so I was looking for a volume normalizer and this is the one (that's zero cost) that was recommended, but I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between using this one and just the normal Metro Music Player. So if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or if there are better (zero cost) tools that could…
I used to use xmplay on windows back in the day.. Anyone remember that one?
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> foobar2000 was my go to player It is still my go to player, it works great in Windows 10.
I haven't consumed audio and video from files for a while now. Streaming has become so convenient (partly because of internet prices and availability) that I don't see myself coming back.
The main time I want music is at times when I can't stream: for instance, when travelling, especially when on planes.
I specifically want my own music for when I don't have internet. When I do have internet, I mostly listen to digital radio.
I have no streaming accounts with anyone, except free accounts. I do not have any payment method set up on my Apple account, and I never have in the ~28 years I had the account. I don't pay for wifi or other additional connectivity, either.
I keep a local library of MP3s on my phones, and videos on my set-top computer. I use Foobar for music on my phone, and VLC for video on my STB.
It's a bit odd to me that what was hi-tech is now almost Luddite in its refusal of novelty.
I really don't see how paying subscriptions for access to stuff that I don't own is any kind of improvement.
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A remnant of simpler times. Foobar and VLC, any other software that has always worked and remained pretty much the same?
IrfanView. I tried replacing it several times with something slicker-looking, but no other picture viewer is as fast as IrfanView.