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Can someone explain to me Winamp's fandom? Is it just nostalgia (which I understand and also feel), or is there something else genuinely better about it? My nai
by t6jvcereio 4y ago
Can someone explain to me Winamp's fandom? Is it just nostalgia (which I understand and also feel), or is there something else genuinely better about it? My naive expectation is that a sound player that hasn't had an update in 20 years probably isn't the best in any dimension.
- bni 4y agoIts nostalgia or maybe there is a use-case for people that didn't like the iTunes like "database" of songs that every player and streaming app is today. Winamp is just your files in folders on disk, and you can make playlists. I tried reAMP recently and its quite unusable on a modern screen, because its UI is so small.
- carlos_rpn 4y agoIt didn't really need much of an update, except to play newer file formats. Other than that, I feel it has a much better interface than any other player I've tried, on both Windows and Linux.
- chha 4y agoBack when it was popular it was one of the early players which supported a lot of different formats, as well as early radio streaming. Competitors either cost money, wanted you to install IE toolbars, or simply didn't have the features Winamp had. It could be expanded with loads of different plugins (games, visualizers, EQs and other dynamic effects, ++), and could even be used to broadcast streams with the proper plugins IIRC. For my part, having an updated version of Winamp would be great. I've got a big music library sitting around, never really became friends with foobar, and Plex and Apple Music struggles with some of the formats I've got.