• bruhduh
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    1186 months ago

    Millennials will see this and say “hell yeah”

  • @MIDItheKID
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    1096 months ago

    Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times… Real good times.

    • @OopsOverbombing
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      686 months ago

      Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.

      • @Hule
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        126 months ago

        There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.

        • Seraphim
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          You could actually set it to change skin on every song in playlist. Great feature if you were skin hoarder like me.

          For anyone wanting to get a nostalgia hit: Winamp Skin Museum

          Edit: Spelling

      • Altima NEO
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        106 months ago

        The best part was the commercially “exploited” parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.

    • Deebster
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      In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!

    • bean
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      26 months ago

      This! 😵‍💫

  • @[email protected]
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    776 months ago

    Still whipping the llama’s ass all these years later! So glad this one never died. Way too much time getting all my music tags right so everything would be formatted correctly in Winamp when I was young.

    • @Alpha71
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      126 months ago

      This is the ONLY music player I found with a logical and reasonably laid out library.

      • @w2tpmf
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        56 months ago

        Ever try Media Monkey?

        • @Passerby6497
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          36 months ago

          MediaMonkey is the GOAT for ease of use and library management. Been using them for years since like 3.x, maybe 2.x.

          • @AngryCommieKender
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            26 months ago

            I remember mine, but it’s cause mine is only 7 digits

            • @macrocephalic
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              36 months ago

              I still remember mine too. I wonder what useful information I could remember if I didn’t remember shit like this?

            • @theangryseal
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              26 months ago

              Mine is 8, so I was behind you I guess.

              • @AngryCommieKender
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                26 months ago

                I joined in the first month, and was still in the 8 million range. ICQ exploded when it launched.

                • Altima NEO
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                  26 months ago

                  When did it launch? I remember making my account at sometime in 1999.

            • @theangryseal
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              26 months ago

              Hell, I googled mine and can’t find any info so I’ll share it here, fuck it. 91369100

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    • @nucleative
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      46 months ago

      Damn, I’d even works on mobile

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?

    • @Ifera
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      26 months ago

      Turns out one of my favorite bands is that Playlist (Diablo Swing Orchestra), pretty cool of them to release free music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, TIL.

    • @Whelks_chance
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      16 months ago

      I’ve seen this before, but didn’t realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.

  • @spacemanspiffy
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    386 months ago

    If this gets updated and ported to Linux, I’d switch. Until then, Sayonara Player is still the best I have found on Linux.

    • @Isthisreddit
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      26 months ago

      What about xmms? It was basically a winamp clone, I used to use that on my Linux boxes 20+ years ago

    • Flying Squid
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      16 months ago

      I have never found a Linux media player I liked (I don’t really like Sayonara). I would love Winamp for Linux!

    • Quazatron
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      16 months ago

      Use Audacity. You can even load all the old Winamp skins.

  • @AMillionMonkeys
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    356 months ago

    Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.

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        … which is also not open-source. But yeah, it’s areally good music player and organizer.

    • @[email protected]
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      466 months ago

      Screw limewire, soulseek is the way, an endless sea of perfectly organised music libraries, you’ll find what you want and stuff you didn’t know you needed.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 months ago

        Thanks for this. I’d not heard of soulseek. I’m an *arr person with Usenet. It’ll be nice to see if I can find some rare / missing items.

        • Jamyang
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          96 months ago

          I am a mildly net savvy person who only knows about torrents and file sharing. Can you point me to resources where I can learn more about Usenet? Also, what client and service do you use to access it? Thanks in advance.

          • @[email protected]
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            106 months ago

            Unfortunately, R#ddit is still a great resource for that. Check out the /r/Piracy wiki.

            To summarize, Usenet is made up by servers that host all the “newsgroups”, but nowadays newsgroups are used to share files (like email attachments).

            You don’t need to know anything about Usenet itself, the things you need are three:

            • an indexer (they let you find nzb files, like torrent files)
            • a Usenet server subscription (where files are actually stored)
            • a client to download from that server (nzbget and SABnzbd are the two most used)

            Good luck!

          • @[email protected]
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            26 months ago

            Trashguides is a good place for the arr applications.

            Tldr you’ll need a hoster, newshosting is what I use And an indexer drunkenslug is one I use. I have 6. Lol

            Indexer is the search that points to the files hosted on the hoster.

            Good luck!

      • kamen
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        76 months ago

        The problem is when they’re perfectly organised in a different manner from what you expect :D

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          I organize them into

          Source (Bandcamp, Deezer, etc) --> Artist - Album --> Files

          It’s easy to navigate and makes handling multiple versions of the same album easy because they are seperated into source folders.

          • kamen
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            For the files themselves lately I’ve been doing something like Country of Origin/Artist/Original Year - Album (Catalogue Number) (Release Year)/ (used to do it without the country, but at one point they became way too many, and I don’t really like organising by letter or whatever). I love foobar2000 with Facets because of the fact that you can shove any arbitrary tag into the files and then have columns show it (I’m doing that with the countries for example), but I’m now suffering a bit because of that habit - I started also self hosting my library and Navidrome that I’m using doesn’t like just any tags that you throw at it (it especially doesn’t like it if you have multiple releases of the same album that have come out in the same year).

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              Sorry but I gotta say it… having artist as a seperate folder is wild.

              • kamen
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                My view is that not having separate artist folders is wild, but hey, whatever works for you.

                All in all however specific folder structure is not terribly important to me; what’s important is that the tags are in order and that I can make the app I’m using present the stuff in the manner that I want.

                • @Emerald
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                  16 months ago

                  Do you share music on p2p services or do you just have a personal collection? The reason people don’t like seperate artist folder is because when sharing the folder it won’t include the artist name.

          • kamen
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            26 months ago

            Now I’m sad that it already has a name - I don’t get to name my diagnosis.

            /s

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      if you’re being for real, it’s successor is this. though compared to other offerings these days I don’t really prefer to use it. open source and no ads tho so that’s cool.

    • Flying Squid
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      16 months ago

      Audiogalaxy for me. But then I love BBC radio dramas and I got I have no idea how many hours from there. Most of it lost now sadly.

  • @[email protected]
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    206 months ago

    I have unironically used Winamp since 2003, and I continue to do so now, even with a lossless passthrough DAC, lol

    • @Skullgrid
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      56 months ago

      which skin are you using? post a screenshot , alongside your current playlist so we can be entertained

      • @btaf45
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        36 months ago

        Here is my current playlist. Using the “modern” (blue background) skin.

        1981-Time\09 - Lights Go Down.mp3
        1974-Eldorado\03 - Boy Blue.mp3
        1975-Face The Music\06 - Strange Magic.mp3
        1979-Discovery\02 - Confusion.mp3
        1981-Time\08 - From The End Of The World.mp3
        1976-A New World Record\02 - Telephone Line.mp3
        1977-Out Of The Blue\03 - Sweet Talkin Woman.mp3
        1979-Discovery\05 - Last Train To London.mp3
        1974-Eldorado\02 - Can’t Get It Out Of My Head.mp3
        1981-Time\05 - The Way Life’s Meant To Be.mp3
        1980-Xanadu\09 - All Over The World.mp3
        1981-Time\10 - Here Is The News.mp3
        1976-A New World Record\05 - So Fine.mp3
        1977-Out Of The Blue\10 - Standin In The Rain.mp3
        1977-Out Of The Blue\11 - Big Wheels.mp3
        1981-Time\03 - Yours Truly 2095.mp3
        1977-Out Of The Blue\12 - Summer And Lightning.mp3
        1979-Discovery\07 - On The Run.mp3
        1976-A New World Record\08 - Do Ya.mp3
        1981-Time\04 - Ticket To The Moon.mp3
        1979-Discovery\04 - The Diary Of Horace Wimp.mp3
        1975-Face The Music\03 - Evil Woman.mp3
        1979-Discovery\03 - Need Her Love.mp3
        1977-Out Of The Blue\13 - Mr. Blue Sky.mp3
        1980-Xanadu\08 - Dont Walk Away.mp3
        1977-Out Of The Blue\01 - Turn To Stone.mp3

  • @[email protected]
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    196 months ago

    I really liked winamp when my screen resolution wasn’t so high. I wish the interface could scale so I can still use the original look without having to squint.

    • @this_1_is_mine
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      66 months ago

      The newest one fixes scaling but you need to set a compatibility setting. Use the newest version. After install right click and hit properties. Click compatibility settings. Set for all users if applicable. Select override hdpi settings. In the drop down select system enhanced. Ok apply … Restart the application. Enjoy.

      You can also adjust the test in the actual winamp menus. But you can look up how easier than what I laid out.

  • @tabular
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    196 months ago

    No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.

    • @btaf45
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      36 months ago

      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.

  • @Bruncvik
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    176 months ago

    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.