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Winamp is still happily running on my Win7 laptop. I've always resisted iTunes-like software that tries to organize my music collection for me, primarily becaus
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
Winamp is still happily running on my Win7 laptop. I've always resisted iTunes-like software that tries to organize my music collection for me, primarily because I've already organized it myself and most apps fail to do it properly due to misread or incomplete tags. Winamp lets me do the following, which is all that I really want:
-1) Pull up the folder with the album I want to listen to.
-2) Right-click "Play in Winamp"
-3) Winamp starts, minimized, in my system tray so that it's out of my way
-4) I can control playback via media keys and get notifications with the Artist and Title whenever tracks switch, pause, end, etc.
That's really all I want, and Winamp still does it properly.
I painstakingly tried to keep Winamp when I moved to Linux, but my laptop's QHD+ screen was just too much for the non-DPI app in Wine. I eventually found Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/ http://audacious-media-player.org/), which lets me do everything I used to do in Winamp, and even has a Winamp 2.X skin.
- bigbugbag 10y agoFunny you would say that , I first grew miscontent with winamp when it made steps towards taking over my music collection with its winamp agent. Later left for no nonsense foobar2000 without any regrets.