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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by MrGando »

pkolaczk wrote: post #468
coldtea wrote: post #432

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If you combine Scala, Clojure and Groovy, you still don't have enough momentum on the scape of what Java had or even Python.

Scala is more popular now than Python was at the same age , and it is used for much more serious stuff than currently Python is.

Do you happen to have a source for this (genuinely interested) :)

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by xtracto »

amag wrote: post #132
caycep wrote: post #80

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Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC

In my experience VLC eats a lot more CPU for just playing the same songs. While I like VLC for movie-files, Winamp is nicer when it comes to music.

Yeah, I used to use VLC for playing video files, but man it takes a lot of memory and when it decides to "cache fonts" (or something like that) it takes literally hours to start.

Now I prefer smplayer for videos and foobar for music. Although I've been a heavy Rdio user for some time.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by prg318 »

Aardwolf wrote: post #141
mindcrime wrote: post #71

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XMMS - http://www.xmms.org/

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 think you mean audacious [1] not audacity [2] although both are useful tools (If you're not familiar, audacious is a media player that supports XMMS plugins and Winamp2 skins). But WRT Audacious vs XMMS, I've also noticed that audacious doesn't seem to scale as well as XMMS with a lot of songs in your playlist.

[1] http://audacious-media-player.org/ [2] http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by ozh »

antihero wrote: post #473
csmuk wrote: post #359

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How is it not? Plug shit into PC, two way sync. WinPhone and iOS do this fine.

Ah yes, the old "sync 600GB of MP3s onto a 32GB device" trick.

Which has to be reason #2 or #3 why I hate iTunes with passion.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by Aardwolf »

stass wrote: post #411
mindcrime wrote: post #250

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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.

I like VLC more myself. Seems to support more videos, and easier UI to access its massive amount of options and features.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by csmuk »

antihero wrote: post #473
csmuk wrote: post #359

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How is it not? Plug shit into PC, two way sync. WinPhone and iOS do this fine.

Ah yes, the old "sync 600GB of MP3s onto a 32GB device" trick.

Yes because you really need 600GB of mp3s which on the back of an envelope calculation is over 1000 days of listening for 8 hours a day at a reasonable bitrate with no repeats...

I'm sure, at amazon prices which is a fair approximation including CDs, you didn't spend $100,000 on them either.

This is really not a problem. Well it is but only greed created it.

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