Brings up a great question: What are the alternatives to Winamp? (No iTunes please)
On Windows, MusicBee is pretty good with lot of possibilites. http://getmusicbee.com/
+1 on MusicBee, can't praise it enough
Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#282I just switched back to Winamp after getting fed up with the latest release of iTunes. At least it's a real application that I can download and own for myself, and doesn't stop working just because it's no longer being supported. This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud, or use browser-based apps for things that matter to me. Hopefully they'll release the codebase to the world.
> This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. You can have a consistent music library and can use any player client-side. Personally I prefer the spotify "all-you-can-listen" model, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't on spotify that I seamlessly stream from dropbox (either to winamp or the spotify client, which allows you to sync lo…
> Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud
Since when? For start it drains battery much faster. Oh and you know, it does not work offline!
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#283Well this really sucks the llama's .... Thanks for all the skins and memories!
llama's aass! :) had to be said the right way!
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#284Winamp was being shopped around recently.
Either they didn't end up finding a buyer or they did and the buyer is taking the tech private (cheaper than staffing a product and paying for bandwidth costs). I'm guessing it is the latter.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#285God I hate Aol.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#286There are ultimately two types of people in the comments right now: those that will miss Winamp and those laughing it was still around. Winamp worked. It played all your MP3s without any of the other fluff. It played your music in a very lightweight program. What was also nice was this was before every program auto-updated; so you'd manually have to go update it; except, the newer versions were adding features, not f…
It worked for playing MP3s, but once you had a collection of a certain size it didn't do a very good job of managing that collection, at least at the time I stopped using it. You'd double-click an MP3 or a playlist and it would completely forget about everything that was in there before. I got so sick of that.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why you run your own "cloud" music service. Personally I use Subsonic, and it is amazing. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
Sounded really good until I got to the part about needing to pay a subscription fee.
It's ONE DOLLAR per month. ONE DOLLAR! And it's only if you want the extra features. Would you rather have ads be inserted between your songs or something? The development of the app needs to be paid for one way or the other.
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#289Aaaaand here's a clone of the Skin / Plugin section from the winamp website: http://winamp.dpedu.io/
Skins are coming soon, they're still scraping :)
Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.
Pitch in to archive all of their releases or a donation to Archive Team[1] to archive all of their releases. [1] http://www.archiveteam.org/
Already finishing up pulling the whole site into a warc/cdx and getting it to textfiles.com (aka ArchiveTeam).