Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

Post by antiterra » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 3:46 PM UTC

gingerlime wrote: post #70

eksith wrote: post #3

Every promising technology/company that gets gobbled up by the bureaucratic mega fauna enviably end up being re-chewed and strewn about as piles of dung (to be burned to repel mosquitoes). AOL's problem is that it's a corporation first, a product/service creating, maintaining and selling entity second. Oh sure, the execs may think they're "creating and maintaining" a product/service, but their mindset is "how do we m…

Another anecdote: ICQ was the very, or at least one of the first instant messaging applications, and acquired by AOL in the late 90s "for US$287 million in cash up front and $120 million in additional payments over three years" [1]. It was a huge story in Israel at the time. The company is still there, but I don't know a single person who still uses it today. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

Post by aerique » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #4

soulclap wrote: post #2

I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Just feels odd when I listen to mp3s and can't look up the ID3 tags with alt-3. And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either.

> And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either. Probably because you never experienced them. There are things "you feel the need for" (e.g water in a desert) and things you have to use for a while to say "fuck, how did I do without those?".

Post by EvilLook » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

beefsack wrote: post #16

For those on Linux or Windows, Audacious is a beautiful audio player heavily inspired by Winamp 2.x, both visually and mechanically. It supports Winamp Classic skins out of the box, and comes with quite a nice one as stock. Screenshot: http://community.linuxmint.com/img/screenshots/audacious.png Homepage: http://audacious-media-player.org/

Post by Sniffnoy » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 7:59 PM UTC

rmk2 wrote: post #65

Sniffnoy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just run foobar2k under Wine. It works pretty well.

It has been named in this thread before, but you might not have seen it. I used to run foobar under wine, but honestly, deadbeef[1] works better from an integration point of view (global shortcuts, GTK etc.). [1] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

Post by eksith » Sun, Apr 28, 2013, 1:03 AM UTC

illuminate wrote: post #31

eksith wrote: post #3

Every promising technology/company that gets gobbled up by the bureaucratic mega fauna enviably end up being re-chewed and strewn about as piles of dung (to be burned to repel mosquitoes). AOL's problem is that it's a corporation first, a product/service creating, maintaining and selling entity second. Oh sure, the execs may think they're "creating and maintaining" a product/service, but their mindset is "how do we m…

"AOL's problem is that it's a corporation first" Isn't its main problem today that it's a content farm operated by new-age antivax no-signal-to-noise peddler Arianna Huffington?