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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 AsymetricCom »

AsymetricCom wrote: post #245
eli wrote: post #59

Ars had a really nice article about the history of Winamp and of what went wrong: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...

I think what "went wrong" can be summed up in a sentence. The player was never built to be a publishing platform or had any other monetization angle built into it. As soon as it started getting features that would support this, the technical audience saw it coming a mile away and never adopted the required usage patterns needed to leverage such a monetization strategy. And not just because they wanted to avoid paying…

Also this: http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by panzi »

tokenrove wrote: post #347
panzi wrote: post #312

Winamp is a great music player. It is still the best for some file formats. Via it's plugins it can play more exotic audio file formats than any other player. Some players support s3m and it, but play only half of some files: Winamp plays it all. There are great plugins for nsf, spc, psf and usf sound files (sound files form NES, SNES, PS1 and N64 games). I wish there would be a real alternative (for Linux). Does any…

I like deadbeef, which uses libgme to play SPC, at least; haven't tried PSF or USF.

Wait, I just realized Audacious CAN play psf and spc (forgot about that). The only thing I'm missing is (mini)usf (Nintendo 64 music). Although the Winamp plugins are much more feature rich: more metadata, (live!) disabling and enabling of channels (instruments), custom song length configuration etc. That's why I still used Winamp for that.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by antihero »

csmuk wrote: post #490
antihero wrote: post #473

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You miss the point. The idea is not to be able to listen to all music, but any music from one's collection.

Putting this down to greed? What an incredibly short sighted, ignorant thing to say. Perhaps we should have stopped at black & white feature phones because only greed could mean we wanted to access the whole internet on the move?

It isn't a "solved problem" because there are still issues with the solution.

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