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Amazing. Wishful thinking: If this included something akin to Shoutcast (perhaps via WebRTC), it would give us back the peer-to-peer listening joy we had for s

by bhauer 9y ago

Amazing. Wishful thinking: If this included something akin to Shoutcast (perhaps via WebRTC), it would give us back the peer-to-peer listening joy we had for small groups and teams back in the day. I miss the era when things were more commonly/naturally peer-to-peer and decentralized.

vvanders 9y ago
Shoutcast was amazing, I can easily credit it to opening up my music horizons to bands that just weren't played on the radio at the time(euro-metal/etc \m/ \m/). To this day I find Spotify and its competitors a poor substitute, algorithms still can't match a well curated station.
- j45 9y ago
  Shoutcast / icecast still is amazing. Still running a few environments and they perform great. If you're looking to tune in to something, I like http://www.somafm.com http://www.somafm.com, possibly the original spotify / coding playlist. (BeatBlender, etc)
  - Cyph0n 9y ago
    Soma is an excellent recommendation!
laumars 9y ago
Shoutcast and the real-time visualisations are two killer features Winamp had that I don't think any media player since has even come close to competing with. I'm not saying there aren't still decent media players out there, but honestly I think Winamp is still the best there's ever been.
- jihadjihad 9y ago
  I completely agree, nothing came close to the awesomeness of Milkdrop 2 in Winamp. That's one of the reasons I got into programming, by being curious about how it "knew" how to move to the music. Still have it installed on an ancient PC, will never delete it!
  - captbaritone 9y ago
    Have you seen https://butterchurnviz.com https://butterchurnviz.com ?
    - Fnoord 9y ago
      Cool, but it depends on Soundcloud (dying platform AFAIK given the recent exodus). How's that gonna help me if I use Spotify? Spotify can stream to my TV using Chromecast, showing lyrics via Genius. Why can't it also do some VJing? projectM is open source.
  - kabes 9y ago
    I still don't get how they did the transitions. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but it seemed like one visualisation always smoothly transitioned to another one. No idea how they that worked.
- lnrdgmz 9y ago
  Is projectM[1] not a suitable replacement for MilkDrop visualizations? Comes built into Clementine[2]. [1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm [2] https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/
- tracker1 9y ago
  Agreed, vis were awesome... with the TV apps that have Pandora and Spotify and similar, I miss it a lot.

by bhauer 9y ago

vvanders 9y ago

Shoutcast was amazing, I can easily credit it to opening up my music horizons to bands that just weren't played on the radio at the time(euro-metal/etc \m/ \m/). To this day I find Spotify and its competitors a poor substitute, algorithms still can't match a well curated station.

j45 9y ago
Shoutcast / icecast still is amazing. Still running a few environments and they perform great. If you're looking to tune in to something, I like http://www.somafm.com http://www.somafm.com, possibly the original spotify / coding playlist. (BeatBlender, etc)
- Cyph0n 9y ago
  Soma is an excellent recommendation!

laumars 9y ago

Shoutcast and the real-time visualisations are two killer features Winamp had that I don't think any media player since has even come close to competing with. I'm not saying there aren't still decent media players out there, but honestly I think Winamp is still the best there's ever been.

jihadjihad 9y ago
I completely agree, nothing came close to the awesomeness of Milkdrop 2 in Winamp. That's one of the reasons I got into programming, by being curious about how it "knew" how to move to the music. Still have it installed on an ancient PC, will never delete it!
- captbaritone 9y ago
  Have you seen https://butterchurnviz.com https://butterchurnviz.com ?
  - Fnoord 9y ago
    Cool, but it depends on Soundcloud (dying platform AFAIK given the recent exodus). How's that gonna help me if I use Spotify? Spotify can stream to my TV using Chromecast, showing lyrics via Genius. Why can't it also do some VJing? projectM is open source.
- kabes 9y ago
  I still don't get how they did the transitions. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but it seemed like one visualisation always smoothly transitioned to another one. No idea how they that worked.
lnrdgmz 9y ago
Is projectM[1] not a suitable replacement for MilkDrop visualizations? Comes built into Clementine[2]. [1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm [2] https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/
tracker1 9y ago
Agreed, vis were awesome... with the TV apps that have Pandora and Spotify and similar, I miss it a lot.