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Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers. Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I

by chrisparton1991 8y ago

Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers. Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I guess it was never "around" to begin with.

doh 8y ago
Be careful what you wish for :) https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-whip-the-llamas-ass-harder-than-ever/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-...
- theandrewbailey 8y ago
  Wow, that's great. I'm looking forward to it!
- rebuilder 8y ago
  That sounds awesome, if it does seamless search from subscription services and plays mp3 as well! The article doesn't quite make it clear what the functionality will be.
AngryData 8y ago
Ive been using AIMP as a replacement but the universal hotkeys don't seem as universal when you are in certain fullscreen applications.
dredds 8y ago
Webamp - "A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript" - Load any classic Winamp skin just by dragging it onto the main window. - If a skin specifies some transparent regions in its region.txt, they are respected. Features - https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168 https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168 Source - https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
- dundercoder 8y ago
  But does Webamp “Really whip the llama’s ass”?
  - tazard 8y ago
    Indeed it does. Track one when you open a new tab. https://webamp.org/ https://webamp.org/
cricalix 8y ago
You can still download the old Winamp and use it on a modern Windows installation. Works just fine, though it doesn't know what media buttons are.
avh02 8y ago
the thing i loved with winamp was at one peak where it was fast and simple. You wanted to queue songs? middle click the heck out of your playlist. want to stop on end of queue? that was an option you want to add to queue on spotify it's like 2 cumbersome clicks, you can't just go gattling-gun i want "this this this to play next" jump to song was fantastic - with a global hotkey. audacious with the winamp skin gets close to all this, but just misses somehow.
- dpflug 8y ago
  If there are specific ways you can pick out to improve Audacious, open some issues: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audacious/issues https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audaciou... Hotkeys and mouse bindings should be fairly easy to update.
  - avh02 8y ago
    I got close to contributing once (but ended up somehow clobbering my installed copy of audacious (edit: this is likely through my own incompetence - not saying the dev env sucks or anything)) - i think i should try again cos i do use it as my non-spotify player.
schizoidboy 8y ago
WINAMP, WINamp, winamp... it really... Still works. Winamp is still my main music player (with classic skin, of course). I run it through Wine on Fedora 28. Some things cause crashes, but the only things I really care about are MilkDrop, the media library, and playlists and they all work fine. I've never been able to find something that comes close to MilkDrop. Here are my installation instructions (after installing Wine) although I haven't tried them fresh in a few years (Fedora and Wine upgrades haven't screwed anything up): $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks $ chmod +x winetricks $ ./winetricks -q directmusic directplay directx9 gdiplus ie8 mfc42 wmp10 windowmanagerdecorated=n $ ./winetricks winamp Launch Winamp To get rid of some weird font issues: Right click Winamp > Options > Preferences... > General Preferences > Playlist > select Use font: MS Sans Serif To fix bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12060: Winamp > Options > Preferences... > Plug-ins > Visualization > MilkDrop v2.25c > Configure > WINDOWED settings > Uncheck Integrate with winamp skin
- rocky1138 8y ago
  I used to do this, too, but it eats up a lot of CPU for just a music player. For Linux music, I've moved onto cmus.
- soverance 8y ago
  You can get MilkDrop 2 on Kodi, which turned out to be a just fine replacement for winamp once you strip all the other nonsense away.
puzzlingcaptcha 8y ago
I've been using foobar2000 (win) or audacious (linux) as a replacement for winamp for close to a decade.
- strobe 8y ago
  do you know something like foobar2000 but for mac?
  - PascLeRasc 8y ago
    Well there's Foobar for Mac in beta [1] but I really like Vox player [2]. [1] https://www.foobar2000.org/mac https://www.foobar2000.org/mac [2] https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player
  - thirdsun 8y ago
    Not quite as configurable as Foobar, but on Mac I always recommend Swinsian: https://swinsian.com/ https://swinsian.com/
olvo 8y ago
I don't know if it works anymore, or were to get it, but Spotiamp was a Winamp clone for Spotify. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-spotiamp-app-winamp-streaming https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-s...
MagnumOpus 8y ago
Old-school Winamp is still around and works just as well as 15 years ago. Indeed, the lack of the UI shittification creep that we saw in iTunes, Skype, MS Office etc has made it look even better, faster, sleeker in comparison!

doh 8y ago

Be careful what you wish for :) https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-whip-the-llamas-ass-harder-than-ever/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-...

theandrewbailey 8y ago
Wow, that's great. I'm looking forward to it!
rebuilder 8y ago
That sounds awesome, if it does seamless search from subscription services and plays mp3 as well! The article doesn't quite make it clear what the functionality will be.

AngryData 8y ago

Ive been using AIMP as a replacement but the universal hotkeys don't seem as universal when you are in certain fullscreen applications.

dredds 8y ago

Webamp - "A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript" - Load any classic Winamp skin just by dragging it onto the main window. - If a skin specifies some transparent regions in its region.txt, they are respected. Features - https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168 https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168 Source - https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

dundercoder 8y ago
But does Webamp “Really whip the llama’s ass”?
- tazard 8y ago
  Indeed it does. Track one when you open a new tab. https://webamp.org/ https://webamp.org/

cricalix 8y ago

You can still download the old Winamp and use it on a modern Windows installation. Works just fine, though it doesn't know what media buttons are.

avh02 8y ago

the thing i loved with winamp was at one peak where it was fast and simple. You wanted to queue songs? middle click the heck out of your playlist. want to stop on end of queue? that was an option you want to add to queue on spotify it's like 2 cumbersome clicks, you can't just go gattling-gun i want "this this this to play next" jump to song was fantastic - with a global hotkey. audacious with the winamp skin gets close to all this, but just misses somehow.

dpflug 8y ago
If there are specific ways you can pick out to improve Audacious, open some issues: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audacious/issues https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audaciou... Hotkeys and mouse bindings should be fairly easy to update.
- avh02 8y ago
  I got close to contributing once (but ended up somehow clobbering my installed copy of audacious (edit: this is likely through my own incompetence - not saying the dev env sucks or anything)) - i think i should try again cos i do use it as my non-spotify player.

schizoidboy 8y ago

WINAMP, WINamp, winamp... it really... Still works. Winamp is still my main music player (with classic skin, of course). I run it through Wine on Fedora 28. Some things cause crashes, but the only things I really care about are MilkDrop, the media library, and playlists and they all work fine. I've never been able to find something that comes close to MilkDrop. Here are my installation instructions (after installing Wine) although I haven't tried them fresh in a few years (Fedora and Wine upgrades haven't screwed anything up): $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks $ chmod +x winetricks $ ./winetricks -q directmusic directplay directx9 gdiplus ie8 mfc42 wmp10 windowmanagerdecorated=n $ ./winetricks winamp Launch Winamp To get rid of some weird font issues: Right click Winamp > Options > Preferences... > General Preferences > Playlist > select Use font: MS Sans Serif To fix bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12060: Winamp > Options > Preferences... > Plug-ins > Visualization > MilkDrop v2.25c > Configure > WINDOWED settings > Uncheck Integrate with winamp skin

rocky1138 8y ago
I used to do this, too, but it eats up a lot of CPU for just a music player. For Linux music, I've moved onto cmus.
soverance 8y ago
You can get MilkDrop 2 on Kodi, which turned out to be a just fine replacement for winamp once you strip all the other nonsense away.

puzzlingcaptcha 8y ago

I've been using foobar2000 (win) or audacious (linux) as a replacement for winamp for close to a decade.

strobe 8y ago
do you know something like foobar2000 but for mac?
- PascLeRasc 8y ago
  Well there's Foobar for Mac in beta [1] but I really like Vox player [2]. [1] https://www.foobar2000.org/mac https://www.foobar2000.org/mac [2] https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player
- thirdsun 8y ago
  Not quite as configurable as Foobar, but on Mac I always recommend Swinsian: https://swinsian.com/ https://swinsian.com/

olvo 8y ago

I don't know if it works anymore, or were to get it, but Spotiamp was a Winamp clone for Spotify. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-spotiamp-app-winamp-streaming https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-s...

MagnumOpus 8y ago

Old-school Winamp is still around and works just as well as 15 years ago. Indeed, the lack of the UI shittification creep that we saw in iTunes, Skype, MS Office etc has made it look even better, faster, sleeker in comparison!