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Nullsoft made some neat software, like NSIS... http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/ http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nscopy/
Does anyone remember Sonique?
Can't people just move on and use AIMP?
I still use it every day! Of course this means most of my music is pirated (I tend to buy a physical album and then download a well-ripped or digital copy) but I've found it hard to move to other ways of managing my music. My own way of organizing and collecting makes sense to me and pretty much no one else, but that's fine since hardly anyone else ever wants to use my computer to play music. I'll use Winamp until it…
I'm in the same boat. I worry, though, that the move to streaming means that the days of controlling my own music library are numbered.
People are gonna want collections - be it physical or digital - because that's what humans are like. If the music industry ever switched to streaming only, there'd be a MASSIVE decline in the industry.
Foobar is a better player today, but Winamp was so much fun till 2.xx. They had colour and great interfaces. They were the rock stars at the time of boring sotware UI. Then Winamp 3 and then 5, and AOL and UuUUUgghhhgh! Nullsoft made some neat software, like NSIS... http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/ http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nscopy/ Does anyone remember Sonique?
I still use it every day! Of course this means most of my music is pirated (I tend to buy a physical album and then download a well-ripped or digital copy) but I've found it hard to move to other ways of managing my music. My own way of organizing and collecting makes sense to me and pretty much no one else, but that's fine since hardly anyone else ever wants to use my computer to play music. I'll use Winamp until it…
While I've surely "pirated" plenty of audio files in my day, I wouldn't say the majority of mine are like that. Most are ripped from the hundreds (no exaggeration) of CDs I bought new and used all through high school and college or purchased from Amazon, etc. Still, pirated or not, I like having a space on my NAS for my traditional Music/Artist/Album/[track]_[title].mp3 folder structure. Pointing Winamp at it works f…
For anyone wondering what a good tool to organise your music like this is, for example if you use Winamp or something like MOC, it's a Python tool called "beets"[0] which will rename (or copy, if you choose) your files to a directory structure you specify. It will also talk to Musicbrainz to fill in missing metadata, and has plugins to fetch album art.
[0] http://beets.io/