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You could make a series out of these projects. Another one that suddenly died is RealPlayer, which used to be herpes back then.
by sonicggg 5y ago
You could make a series out of these projects. Another one that suddenly died is RealPlayer, which used to be herpes back then.
- steve_adams_86 5y agoI remember clicking around that application as a kid trying to figure out what was good about it. I never figured it out. Seeing the splash because it decided it was the default application for some random format was always annoying. But back then you kind of kept everything around just in case - sometimes nothing could play a file except for real player so you’d begrudgingly let it play it for you.
- Sateeshm 5y agoThe only time I used to use real player was to download music from official CDs, the ones you couldn't just copy and paste. Otherwise the whole software looked and felt like malware
- hansel_der 5y agoimo it's the 'real' prefix that makes it shady. like realtek audio drivers taking more time to install than windows itself, or realme phones ...
- b215826 5y agoAnother one that died silently is Winamp. Oh man, I still remember those funky Winamp skins from the early 2000s.
- RedShift1 5y agoI still use Winamp every day and you can find the skins online easily.
- npteljes 5y agoNot silently at all. HackerNews alone has 165 discussions with WinAmp in the title, and some 2500 comments mentioning WinAmp. There are revival projects, a JS port, archive.org themselves use WinAmpJs to let you listen to their content, and so on. WinAmp has quite a legacy. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=winamp&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- noduerme 5y agoVLC still supports some RealPlayer files. I have a few hundred rips of 1920s vinyl in RP format that I can still play that way, but I'm not sure if all codecs would be supported.