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Winamp is great, ah the memories. But just like my gripe with video media, is there anywhere to buy plain mp3s for all artists, store them on my hdd and manage them in winamp? Is that still an option in 2020 without a subscription to something?
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Maybe I am confused because ncmpcpp doesn't exactly use mpd nomenclature regarding queues and playlists - https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp/issues/188 As I remember it, in Winamp you load a playlist from the media library (in my case usually all files), and then within that playlist you can use JTFE to select a file to play next. That file in the playlist gets a number [1] next to it and is played next, regardless…
I think my way of listening to music is a bit similar to this. Basically, I use ncmpcpp's "Add random songs" feature with an arbitrary number (let's say 50) to fill up my queue with some stuff from my library. Then if I decide I want to listen to something particular, I search for it in ncmpcpp and then just add it at the top of my queue. It plays it next and then it continues with my random items. My queue is always…
To be clear, because I've been searching years for this, the main differences are that you are using a shuffled playlist rather than an ordered playlist that is sometimes on shuffle mode, you have to move away from the playlist view to find the album to queue, if you have a shuffled playlist of all files available then you are duplicating files into that playlist to get an ordered selection at the end of the playlist (though you do say you have consume mode on which is a further step away in difference), and you will have to reset the playlist from scratch to get back to a state of having one copy of all files in the playlist.
(I am now wondering how to add files to the top of the playlist (rather than the bottom) in ncmpcpp though :)
One could argue we made better ways to play MP3s on our computers. But nothing has come anywhere close to improving or replacing Milkdrop
Or maybe it's just nostalgia?
There's is a website that's keeping versions of Winamp, including the one I consider the best 2.95 https://winampheritage.com/download-winamp-player
Winamp 2 has been my music player for 20 years and it's still my main player that I use with the flac plugin. I never upgraded to Winamp 3 or 5, and Winamp 2.95 is still fully functional on Windows 10. Selecting "Double Size" makes it mostly fine on a HiDPI monitor, except some controls are a bit pixelated. Winamp 2.95 didn't need to connect to the internet, there is no background service, no application manager bloa…
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I think my way of listening to music is a bit similar to this. Basically, I use ncmpcpp's "Add random songs" feature with an arbitrary number (let's say 50) to fill up my queue with some stuff from my library. Then if I decide I want to listen to something particular, I search for it in ncmpcpp and then just add it at the top of my queue. It plays it next and then it continues with my random items. My queue is always…
Thanks for the feedback, but that's fairly different from what I'm seeking. To be clear, because I've been searching years for this, the main differences are that you are using a shuffled playlist rather than an ordered playlist that is sometimes on shuffle mode, you have to move away from the playlist view to find the album to queue, if you have a shuffled playlist of all files available then you are duplicating fil…
Press a on selection, choose "Current playlist" and "At the beginning of playlist".
Is there anything for Linux that has similar functionality to the Jump To File mechanism for finding and enqueuing songs to play next within in a playlist without altering the playlist itself? It was so good that it was integrated into (IIRC) Winamp 3. https://winampplugins.co.uk/jtfe.html https://old.reddit.com/r/winamp/comments/9rw9fb/winamp_58_se... (Bonus points of anyone knows of an MPD client that can make it a…
> Is there anything for Linux that has similar functionality to the Jump To File mechanism for finding and enqueuing songs to play next within in a playlist without altering the playlist itself? In Clementine, that's Ctrl+D. https://www.clementine-player.org/
And there's an Android app that works as a remote, and it can http stream, nice.
Thanks! So long (for now) mpd..
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Heads up, the winamp 2.95 download from www.oldversion.com triggers a malware alert from Windows Defender. Another red flag is that the download is via regular HTTP, not HTTPS. So I'd recommend avoiding oldversion.com.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ef1423999cbefd4f2a3a98ac...
One could argue we made better ways to play MP3s on our computers. But nothing has come anywhere close to improving or replacing Milkdrop
100% agree. Milkdrop visualisations were awesome. There are some replacements available (you can check out Plane 9), however, I find them nowhere close to good old Milkdrop. Or maybe it's just nostalgia?
- https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectM
There's even pulseaudio/JACK versions of projectM that allow you to pipe any audio source into projectM to visualize. Enjoy!