Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

winamp.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

411–420 of 524 posts

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#411

Post by stass »

mindcrime wrote: post #250
Aardwolf wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. I still use the 100% perfect XMMS 1. Audacity and XMMS 2 both were a lot worse for some reason (like slower, weird bugs, needlessly unneeded server/client model, ...) In XMMS 1, you can have 10000s of songs in the playlist (i.e. your whole harddisk), and jump to any of them immediately by just pressing the "j" key and typing part of its name, and it remains blazing fast. Not sure how Winamp was these days. I…

I also use XMMS as my primary media player. It "just works" and I don't need a lot of fancy stuff in a music player. XMMS for music, and VLC for video, that's pretty much all I need.

XMMS is great! I like mplayer better for video though, it's much easier to control and understand.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#412

Post by bemmu »

gordaco wrote: post #150

I'm another long-time winamp user. I got stuck on 2.91, never needed to update since it worked perfectly. The biggest reason why I never switched to another player (aside from all of them having zero features that interested me) is that the plugin system was extremely easy to use and had a community of devoted developers. I can reproduce like 20 or so different formats that the "naked" winamp cannot (mostly console c…

There was something magical about spending forever downloading an MP3 with a modem, then playing it at 22kHZ because computer was not fast enough to run Winamp at full quality :-)

Now I have every song I could possibly want to listen to in Spotify, which is magical in another way.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#413

Post by airtonix »

lelandbatey wrote: post #355
ams6110 wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.

Well then, I guess you're going to miss out on some great technology for a pretty dumb reason. Java may not be amazing, but it's hardly "so bad I literally won't ever use it."

not really... there are better alternatives that don't use java.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#414

Post by ams6110 »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #365
fletchowns wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the worthless comment!

I think he has a tiny point actually: I saw a number of people around me removing Java (or not installing it on new computers) after the numerous vulnerabilities reported recently. Just a data point but well - I wonder if this could affect sales of java-based product etc.

This is why. The never ending stream of security issues. The installer hijacking my browser search bar. The never ending nags about new versions, which hijack my browser all over again. It's just not worth it. I have removed Java from all my computers and will never install it again.

I fully realize many web sites and services are implemented in Java, that's not what I was talking about. I will not install or run anything that needs Java. Period.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#415

Post by dannyrosen »

jweir wrote: post #142

Oh this takes me back... I redesigned WinAmp's website back in 2004 or 3 for Odopod in San Francisco. The wonderful Andre Adreev assisted (he now running http://www.dresscodeny.com/ ). Here are some comps for those interested... http://smokinggun.com/projects/winamp/index.php?id=0

Great work, that takes me back.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#417

Post by gubatron »

SilkRoadie wrote: post #8

Makes you wonder why they cannot open source the code instead of completely killing it.

Probably due to licenses on libraries they use which would be in conflict with open source libraries.

Some company needs to buy the trademark and intellectual property from winsome, get rid of open source-incompatible libraries, open the source code, start a community, clean it up from all the nags, and release, release, release.

AOL if you are reading I'm willing to make an offer before you completely toss it to the trash. Perhaps we should start a kickstarter project to come up with the necessary capital to make a serious offer.

Find me @gubatron

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#418

Post by gubatron »

SilkRoadie wrote: post #8

Makes you wonder why they cannot open source the code instead of completely killing it.

Probably due to licenses on libraries they use which would be in conflict with open source libraries.

Some company needs to buy the trademark and intellectual property from winsome, get rid of open source-incompatible libraries, open the source code, start a community, clean it up from all the nags, and release, release, release.

AOL if you are reading I'm willing to make an offer before you completely toss it to the trash. Perhaps we should start a kickstarter project to come up with the necessary capital to make a serious offer.

Find me @gubatron

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#419

Post by themodelplumber »

nekopa wrote: post #267
themodelplumber wrote: post #213

Just got it running with the D-Reliction skin using Wine in Ubuntu. Then the first song it picks on shuffle is all, "numa numa yey"...haha, man, I'll bet they've had so many downloads today. lol

Which version? I installed v2.95, but the library doesn't seem to work.

I ended up seeing a lot of glitches too, to the point where the player buttons stopped responding. I might still run it in a Windows VM. The lite version seems OK though.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#420

Post by gcb1 »

err4nt wrote: post #276
fletchowns wrote: post #205

Earlier 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

I used to run Subsonic, now I'm loving http://plexapp.com and the (paid) iOS app. I'm also an Rdio and Netflix subscriber, but running Plex on my server allows me to 'roll my own Netflix' and stream movies and music to my iPad or other computers, or even from my server to any computer in the web browser. I'm happy.

so, all that gets you is a interface and some search?

i just have an apache serving all my videos and a bookmark on any device browser. click and play. for android i use mx player.

Post reply on HN