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Winamp 2 was generally preferred. If I recall correctly, it skipped version 4 not because v2 + v3 = v5 but because nobody would want to download a Winamp 4 skin
by 0des 5y ago
Winamp 2 was generally preferred. If I recall correctly, it skipped version 4 not because v2 + v3 = v5 but because nobody would want to download a Winamp 4 skin. Not kidding.
- lelandfe 5y agoYou're both right! https://web.archive.org/web/20131219003849/http://www.winamp.com/help/FAQ#General https://web.archive.org/web/20131219003849/http://www.winamp... > What happened to Winamp 4? You're not imagining things. Yes, we skipped a version number for the following reasons: a) Winamp 5 combines the best aspects of Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 into one player. Hence Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! b) Who the hell wants to see a Winamp 4 Skin :P c) We think that a Fibonacci sequence for versioning might be pretty damn cool. d)We improved so much in Winamp 5 that we figured it warranted skipping a version. ;)
- ConceptJunkie 5y agoSo I can't imagine that the clowns that made that awful new Winamp site would be cool enough to call the new one Winamp 8. Or release a version that anyone actually wants, for that matter.
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- thedoctor_o 5y agoSupposedly they're still going to call it Winamp v6 assuming it happens. They've lied a number of times over the past 8yrs so don't hold your breathe but the new site is somewhat indicative of their disregard about why those still using Winamp (or clones of it) do so. -dro
- gonesilent 5y agohow can i msg you a invite to the new landoleet discord?
- 0des 5y ago>the clowns that made that awful new Winamp You don't have to be like that.
- zwirbl 5y agoThe site didn't have to like that either
- hermitdev 5y agoIf the new website is any indicator of the quality of the new Winamp, it's going to be a huge nope from me.
- lelandfe 5y agoThey may win for the worst scrolljacking I've seen to date
- xmprt 5y agoI still don't understand. What's wrong with Winamp 4 skins? Edit: Maybe I have to sound it out. Is it because 4 skin sounds like foreskin?
- lelandfe 5y agoYou got it :)
- reaperducer 5y agoThey thought a Winamp 4 skin would leave a bad taste in people's mouths, so they scratched it.
- dequor 5y agoWell that definitely blew up in their face.
- throwaway69123 5y agoDownvoting this comment is like kicking someones dog.
- diryawish 5y agoSnipped it.
- totetsu 5y agoNB four and fore are sound the same in some accents
- lproven 5y agoThank you for so delicately pointing out the problem/joke here -- I hadn't noticed it, not even back then. My question is: in what English accents do "four" and "fore" *not* sound alike?
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoThis is the Horse-Hoarse merger. [1] > Accents that have resisted the merger include most Scottish, Caribbean, and older Southern American accents as well as some African American, modern Southern American, Indian, Irish, and older Maine accents. If my understanding is correct, in some accents that don't pronounce their "R"s at the end of words, the vowel shape changes slightly while pronouncing "four," but "fore" is pronounced with a simple vowel. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Horse%E2%80%93hoarse_merger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...
- lproven 5y agoFascinating. Thank you. It is extremely hard for me to even _imagine_ this, as apparently my native accents both contain this merger. This is a rare experience for me, but a previous occurrence was discussing the rhotic-R phenomenon.
- aasasd 5y agoWiktionary sometimes comes handy in such musings, because it has IPA spellings and recordings of pronunciations, and marks the dialects—not always but frequently for more popular words. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fore https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fore https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four The IPA suggests that pronunciations of the two words are identical both with and without the merger, but I'm no specialist.
- squarefoot 5y agoIf memory serves, the latest unbloated version of WinAmp was called Winamp Classic, and its versions were in the 2.9x range.
- thedoctor_o 5y ago5.x is just the 2.x base continued with newer plug-ins & newer apis for those plug-ins. Unchecking things during installation (e.g. choosing the lite install) or just removing the unwanted plug-ins was always an option to make a 5.x into a comparable 2.x install. -dro
- tomxor 5y ago> not because v2 + v3 = v5 but because nobody would want to download a Winamp 4 skin I wish the people who named Gimp image editor were this thoughtful! Searching for image masking info has caught me out multiple times :/
- monkeycantype 5y agoon multiple occasions when i've needed to know command line syntax I've googled 'man find'
- scubbo 5y agoWhile learning jQuery and figuring out how to retrieve elements of the DOM, I googled "how to get head".
- iostream23 5y agoNot to mention the hard coded file names a certain Linux screen capture utility leaves behind…