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Winamp: A fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows (1998)
- bovermyer 5y agoAlso notable: * https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/ * https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
- zekica 5y agoI'm using clementine from the first version. I kept using Amarok 1.4 after KDE reimagined it in 2.0, and Clementine keeps all the good stuff from the old Amarok.
- bluedays 5y agoThis aesthetic bugs me. I don't know why so many open source apps look like this. I think they are extremely unattractive looking apps.
- apocalyptic0n3 5y agoIn some cases, they're very skinnable and the ugly theme is just the default. Both Winamp and Foobar2000 were extremely popular in the desktop customization community when it was at its height around 2004-2006ish for that reason. It's also because most of these projects don't have dedicated designers working on them. So you end up with the "designed by developers" aesthetic and let's be honest: we developers generally suck at designing UIs.
- diimdeep 5y agoFor macOS people out there, re:AMP https://re-amp.ru https://re-amp.ru https://www.producthunt.com/posts/re-amp https://www.producthunt.com/posts/re-amp
- bni 5y agoThis is almost great. Looks a bit abandoned though. I wish the source was available so I could build it on Apple Silicon and perhaps make a few customizations.
- emreb 5y agoWinAmp, it really whips the llama's ass :) What was your favorite skin on Winamp?
- bovermyer 5y agoNothing specific. Usually it was sci-fi interface stuff with high contrast buttons so the skin didn't obscure the function.
- diimdeep 5y agoI like colors https://skins.webamp.org/skin/9bddbdeb502cdd6703b602789d16751a/jennifer_love_hewitt_amp.wsz/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/9bddbdeb502cdd6703b602789d1675...
- themdonuts 5y agoNo skin. My internet was too slow and paid per minute to browse for skins :(
- agumonkey 5y ago- vanilla - ported v3 skin - some deluxe hifi brand (pioneer, Denon forgot) Strange times where skeumorphism reigned supreme.
- __void 5y agoone customized by me from a gray plain (I think it was a macosx like) i lost a lot of hours instead of studying for that skin, somewhere in the Ark-HDs I should still have it (I hope)
- omega3 5y agoDoes anyone know how the media library scanning was implemented in Winamp, I remember it was orders of magnitude faster than any (even modern) music players for very large music collections.
- betaby 5y agoI can recommend https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
- jorgeudajer 5y agoWhat a throwback. It was either Winamp and Kazam (and for very specific music tastes, the Coldplayer).
- kaetemi 5y agoStill using Winamp here. It works, it looks good, and it doesn't take half my screen space.
- haunter 5y agoSwitched to foobar long long ago and never looked back https://www.foobar2000.org/ https://www.foobar2000.org/
- chiddekel 5y agoxmms - has quite crispy clean sound - and look of winamp https://www.xmms.org/ https://www.xmms.org/
- wink 5y agoThe first "useful" tool I ever wrote in the 90s (in VB 5 if I am not mistaken) was a M3U to HTML converter for MP3 playlists. Winamp added the feature a bit later.
- sparker72678 5y agoDon't miss https://webamp.org https://webamp.org
- poisonborz 5y agoA successor that wasn't mentioned yet but is much more similar in goals is AIMP.
- yayr 5y agoI mostly miss the programmable visualisations.
- tristanc 5y agoYou might be looking for ProjectM [1]. Reimplements WinAmp’s Milkdrop visualizer plugin to run standalone on practically every modern platform. [1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectM https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectM
- captbaritone 5y agoWe have those working at https://webamp.org https://webamp.org
- pupppet 5y agoThese iddy-biddy pixel-perfect UIs are a lost art. Most of the UI's these days look like something from a Fisher-Price toy.