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for offline music collections, winamp is still the best player on windows!
by modzu 8y ago
for offline music collections, winamp is still the best player on windows!
- debaserab2 8y agoIt really kicks the llama’s ass.
- maaark 8y agowhips
- kweks 8y agoI found that XMPlay replaces Winamp perfectly. Tiny footprint (less.than 1MB), support for all modern codecs, active development, API and plugin environment, streaming. Combined with the minimal skin, it's my first install on any new windows machine.
- HelloNurse 8y agoIn order to play HVSC[1], I switched from XMPlay to the far more heavyweight Foobar2000 because the former had a habit of crashing on files it disliked, losing playlist position. [1] https://www.hvsc.c64.org/ https://www.hvsc.c64.org/
- l_t 8y agoIf you haven't seen it, check out foobar2000 [1]. It was created by the same dude that made the original Winamp (which is now owned by Yahoo, IIRC). [1]: https://www.foobar2000.org/ https://www.foobar2000.org/
- modzu 8y agoyes foobar goes back almost as far! i prefer winamp's approach to libraries and playlists though. i also found the dev community around foobar not very welcoming (many years ago)
- rhymenoceros 8y agoAccording to WinAmp folklore, he was a contractor for WinAmp 3 skins and not necessarily a full-time dev: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118192 http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118192 You might be thinking of Justin Frankel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel The connection is still kind of cool though!
- l_t 8y agoAh, thanks for the correction. I remember being told they had the same creator; that's what got me interested in foobar2000 in the first place, years ago.
- nasredin 8y agoJustin Frankel of NullSoft, WinAmp, WASTE, and now Cockos is a legend. (Also Gnutella IIRC) He has nothing to do with foobar2000, which BTW has a very poor view of FOSS. Foobar still can not do proper crossfading on track change!
- l_t 8y agoYeah, I guess I got the story wrong. Thanks for the correction.
- nickjj 8y agoI switched to foobar2000[0] sometime in the early 2000s after Winamp 3 completely changed for the worse. I still use foobar2000 today. [0]: https://www.foobar2000.org/ https://www.foobar2000.org/
- zerr 8y agoI use the latest winamp with Bento_Classified skin - resembles the v2.
- Jnnz 8y agoMusicBee is much better
- nasredin 8y agoI have used the following in addition to WinAmp: foobar2000 MusicBee MediaMonkey Foobar is almost perfect except the lack of crossfading and broken WASAPI exclusive mode output, which every other WinAmp clone seem to have gotten right, e.g. AIMP.