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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 bhaile »

Memories of napster/kazaa coming back from reading this. Best MP3 player. Fast, skinnable with ease, supported ID3 tags, one of the first with visualizations (cool feature but didn't use it much)

VLC is the same for me for video. Fast and plays almost all formats plus its open source. Winamp should have been open source to further its usage and development.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#73

Post by galaktor »

masklinn wrote: post #49
Elepsis wrote: post #33

Wow, the end of an era. Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial and fast to find the songs I was looking for, either by filename or by ID3 data, and get them playing. I suppose that it turns out the world has changed and this isn't how most people consume musi…

> I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality. Foobar 2k works very, very well.

I like the ability to play archives of music files (zip,...) which are then uncompressed on-the-fly .

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by jaysonelliot »

I just switched back to Winamp after getting fed up with the latest release of iTunes.

At least it's a real application that I can download and own for myself, and doesn't stop working just because it's no longer being supported.

This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud, or use browser-based apps for things that matter to me.

Hopefully they'll release the codebase to the world.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

#75

Post by wcchandler »

kristopolous wrote: post #9
mhurron wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because no one wants to pay to keep it up?

I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.

Just give it a year and you might be able to...

    Domain Name.......... winamp.com
      Creation Date........ 1997-12-30
      Registration Date.... 2009-10-03
      Expiry Date.......... 2014-12-24

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by Semaphor »

Elepsis wrote: post #33

Wow, the end of an era. Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial and fast to find the songs I was looking for, either by filename or by ID3 data, and get them playing. I suppose that it turns out the world has changed and this isn't how most people consume musi…

MediaMonkey [1] is awesome to find something. It's mainly a music organizer that just happens to be able to play music but it works great even with scattered single mp3 files. Autoplaylists [2], scriptable and extensive search options. Been using it for over 6 years now and never looked back :)

[1] http://www.mediamonkey.com

[2] Autoplaylists are only available for the Gold version.

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Post by caycep »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #74

I just switched back to Winamp after getting fed up with the latest release of iTunes. At least it's a real application that I can download and own for myself, and doesn't stop working just because it's no longer being supported. This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud, or use browser-based apps for things that matter to me. Hopefully they'll release the codebase to the world.

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