It really whips the llama’s ass
What use do we have today for a music focused media player? Is it common for people to use mp3, flac or wav for playing music? I feel like music streaming services hold the market here.
I like winamp back when it was an alternative for the basic windows media player to listen to all my music but I dont keep mp3s anymore so I don’t know if I can see the point.
Was it anything more than just a music player with eq and skins? Did I miss the point back then?
Maybe I just don’t have the vision that others have and will be pleasantly suprised when someone comes up with a good use case and develops it.
I’ve been building my music collection since I was ripping CDs by hitting play, recording in Win95 Sound Recorder and running the .wav through LAME (nowadays EAC to flac, of course). I see no need to pay a subscription to listen to my music, when I can just use that same money to buy and own the albums* and not worry about them disappearing.
* also means more money goes to the artist
Also Navidrome + Symfonium means I can still stream to my phone so the only benefit Spotify etc has is new music, but YouTube (+ uBlock) gives me that.
I use musicbee and MP3/FLAC.
My music collection is to large and keyed to my tastes to throw away, and I don’t want to pay for Spotify.
Mine is mostly mp3, and the player is MPV. I would not notice higher quality amidst the street noise or listening through laptop’s subpar speakers anyway.
I have a big library of music, mostly MP3 or OGG and don’t really see myself pivoting solely towards streaming services where access to songs could be revoked at any time or could be changed/censored like movies or series sometimes are on streaming platforms. I do use YouTube for listening to new music and when I like it enough, I buy it to download (or acquire it in a different way if it’s not available).
My music library is hosted on my server, automatically synced locally on fixed devices and played from local files most of the time. Streaming services combine the advantage of sometimes disappearing, altering, removing content with the other advantage of needing an active internet connection at all time. That’s neither a good thing nor an efficient thing when the alternative is cheap and works all the time from everywhere.
Of course, I know this is not the most common use case; most people usually don’t care about any of this (and usually complain when something break). But it exists.
Don’t know about others, but I still have music in both mp3 and flac err I listen to sometimes.
Mostly they are rips off CDs that just aren’t available for streaming anywhere, but also just music I bought as digital before streaming really was a thing.
I have mine configured as a background service with a Rainmeter desktop widget to play music at a moment’s notice. Works better than any official Windows option.
It’s been a while since I’ve used Rainmeter, but I love that thing. Such a flexible utility.
Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.
Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.
… which is also not open-source. But yeah, it’s areally good music player and organizer.
I’m still using Winamp 2.91. I’m just too used to it to change. Now, if someone added Flac support to the same interface, I’d be happy. And if someone ported it to Linux and Android, I’d pay big bucks for it.
Maybe I would try an Android version, but Linux would be a pass, nothing they would come up with could displace MPD+ncmpc++ for me at this point.
Maybe I would try an Android version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.winamp.release
Have at it. It’s been there for as long as I’ve owned an Android phone.
I’m using winamp 5.666 for windows.
There is finally a decent winamp for Android, but I use the Samsung music player instead.
Would love a Winamp for Linux
Not sure if that version supports them, but there’s a FLAC plugin for Winamp.
Nice. It’s still my favorite music player.
It really whips the llama’s ass.
I don’t like animal abuse but I make an exception for llamas
How else will they learn to not eat hands?
Baaaaaa! 🦙
Came here to say that. Somebody better warn the llama.
I can still hear this.
No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.
Depends if it’s source available vs open source.
I wonder what language it is in and what compiler is needed? I’m tempted to make some of my own tweaks when the source is released.
Favorite skin? The NASA one. Perfection: Achieved.
Nice. One of the only things I really miss about Windows. I hope somebody makes a linux port.
The only thing I don’t like about the new WInamp is the NFT library, Hotmix and Fanzone things they added to it. But I guess the new owners had to try and make their money back somehow. Plus they’re easily ignorable.
They updated the OG as well for modern systems, I use it in NY office for my ripped “physical” collection.
No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?
Very cool but even 15 years ago or so when I moved to Linux, I was already over Winamp and using Foobar… Loved it
I’m not sure what can be brought to Winamp that’ll make it better through open source. Maybe it’ll be a default alternative for Linux distros? That’d be cool.
But, Winamp to me is just a program I use that plays video game soundtracks that are different formats aren’t MP3 or WAV. Like Super Nintendo with .SPC for example.
AIMP has predominantly taken the mantle on my system as default media player, it’s just feature rich and long won me over the day my PC suddenly rebooted and the song I was playing was just on pause with that program! Winamp couldn’t do this, whenever I re-opened it, song stopped playing entirely, gotta play it again.
Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would be huge for me
Being able to type
$sudo apt install winamp
Would be so cool
There are likely lots of improvements that can be made under the hood. I’m willing to bet that it depends on several aging libraries that could probably be swapped out for something better.
Finally! Couple weeks back I downloaded it again for the first time in probably 10 years and it really made me wonder why they basically fucked it up and abandoned it
