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Let's be serious, you're not the target market. Anyone who is using minimalist software is not the target market for any corporate software. The fact it would d

• lmm 5y ago
  Pretty pointless to call it "winamp" if they're not targeting that kind of user.
  • that_guy_iain 5y ago
    Winamp was never a minimalistic player, it was one of the feature rich players. It allowed for all the UX/UI hacking you could get wayback then. It's just compared to today it was really simple.
    • lmm 5y ago
      It was featureful but it was also high-performance. It was originally popular because it could play MP3s on systems where other players couldn't keep up.
    • handrous 5y ago
      You don't have to be minimalist to perform well. Like most other software from the era of 32MB-of-memory Windows desktops with two-digit-Mhz single-core processors, it had to be lean or everyone would hate it. That doesn't mean lacking features.
      • that_guy_iain 5y ago
        It wasn't lean in comparison to other MP3 players at the time. This is the thing I think people are forgetting. It was in comparison pretty much what that website is promising.
        • handrous 5y ago
          What MP3 players? Windows Media Player with the MP3 codec installed on your system? I don't recall there being a lot of options for Windows, at the time.
          • that_guy_iain 5y ago
            There were a few options. Napster for one. It's just the reason we don't remember is because we all installed Winamp and forgot about the rest. I spent more time looking for skins for Winamp that I did a replacement for it. https://skins.webamp.org/ https://skins.webamp.org/ shows what the UI/UX was for it. Which is basically an old version of the current website. Flashy and modern.
        • probably_wrong 5y ago
          As someone who at the time had a Pentium processor at 100Mhz and 32Mb of RAM, I feel confident enough to say that Winamp was lean as hell. Random anecdote: I had a SNES emulator at the time that was fast enough to play "Zelda: Link to the Past" but only as long as I did it without sound. Winamp was fast enough that I could keep it playing in the background without slowing down the game.
          • anthk 5y ago
            Not even at 8000 hz in ZSNES? Also, by setting the frameskip to "2" the games were prefectly playable.
          • toast0 5y ago
            A Pentium 100 with 32 MB was a monster box. If you had a 486-100 with 4 MB and playing MP3s and not noticing, that would be lean. There were other players out there. I remember using K-Jofol, but I don't remember if it had a reputation for being leaner or just having wild skins. I know mpg321 exists which is integer only decoding for speed (it made a difference on my super low end box), but I don't know if it was available at the right time.
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• hermitdev 5y ago
  ...and the target audience has probably never even used or heard of Winamp, so if they're trying to ride on the name with that audience, it's going to be another fail.
  • that_guy_iain 5y ago
    Lots of people who originally used Winamp way back when are using Spotify, Deezer, etc. The target audience isn't an age group but people who want that style of music app.