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When Winamp was popular Macs were <5% of the market. I hope they release a version for macos. I don't think the current developers own the IP to Macamp.

by yardie 4y ago

alrlroipsp 4y ago
Today, the mac market share is < 7.5%. Does it matter tho? Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-worldwide-2020-cutting-windows-market-share/ https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...
- mavhc 4y ago
  50% increase in Mac usage share!
  - thrown_22 4y ago
    This is the year of desktop Linux.
- yardie 4y ago
  Yeah but its even higher in the US, 15% now[0]. Globally, 2000s MacOS global share wasn't even 2%. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-quarterly-pc-shipment-share-apple/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...
bin_bash 4y ago
Macamp?
- echelon_musk 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAmp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAmp
geerlingguy 4y ago
SoundJam MP owned the Mac side of the market back then. Until Apple bought it out and converted it into iTunes (which was surprisingly good the first few versions, back when it focused on ripping and playing back music and wasn't stuffed with stores, video content, multiple library management UIs, Podcasts, etc.).
- kitsunesoba 4y ago
  Panic’s Audion also had similar capabilities and was also in the running for being acquired and turned into iTunes. https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/ https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
- iggldiggl 4y ago
  I actually like the podcasts integration and I'm glad that on Windows iTunes hasn't (yet?) been split up the way it has been on Mac. Not so much (with some little exceptions) for actual podcasts [1], but rather for managing my collection of various radio comedies – its handy being able to sync them over to my phone together with the rest of my music collection, but by manually setting their media type to "Podcast" [2] they don't clutter up my regular music library, I get the handy unlistened/listened visual indication, and it remembers the playback position in case I can't listen to an episode in one go [3]. [1] I was never that big a podcast listener, plus now that my mobile music player hardware has its own network connection (because it is in fact my phone) I can download episodes directly there without having to go via my computer. [2] No longer possible on Mac in the post-iTunes age, and the successor Podcasts app apparently doesn't support manually adding files as episodes to it. [3] Okay, so you can turn on remembering the playback position for any file in iTunes, i.e. even regular music files, but that doesn't work with my Android phone.
echelon_musk 4y ago
Audacious [0] works on macOS through brew and supports Winamp 2.x skins. I'm using it right now, here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/NQ5y9Hi https://imgur.com/NQ5y9Hi [0] https://audacious-media-player.org/ https://audacious-media-player.org/
- deleted 4y ago
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When Winamp was popular Macs were <5% of the market. I hope they release a version for macos. I don't think the current developers own the IP to Macamp.

by yardie 4y ago

When Winamp was popular Macs were <5% of the market. I hope they release a version for macos. I don't think the current developers own the IP to Macamp.

alrlroipsp 4y ago

Today, the mac market share is < 7.5%. Does it matter tho? Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-worldwide-2020-cutting-windows-market-share/ https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...

mavhc 4y ago
50% increase in Mac usage share!
- thrown_22 4y ago
  This is the year of desktop Linux.
yardie 4y ago
Yeah but its even higher in the US, 15% now[0]. Globally, 2000s MacOS global share wasn't even 2%. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-quarterly-pc-shipment-share-apple/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...

bin_bash 4y ago

Macamp?

echelon_musk 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAmp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAmp

geerlingguy 4y ago

SoundJam MP owned the Mac side of the market back then. Until Apple bought it out and converted it into iTunes (which was surprisingly good the first few versions, back when it focused on ripping and playing back music and wasn't stuffed with stores, video content, multiple library management UIs, Podcasts, etc.).

kitsunesoba 4y ago
Panic’s Audion also had similar capabilities and was also in the running for being acquired and turned into iTunes. https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/ https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
iggldiggl 4y ago
I actually like the podcasts integration and I'm glad that on Windows iTunes hasn't (yet?) been split up the way it has been on Mac. Not so much (with some little exceptions) for actual podcasts [1], but rather for managing my collection of various radio comedies – its handy being able to sync them over to my phone together with the rest of my music collection, but by manually setting their media type to "Podcast" [2] they don't clutter up my regular music library, I get the handy unlistened/listened visual indication, and it remembers the playback position in case I can't listen to an episode in one go [3]. [1] I was never that big a podcast listener, plus now that my mobile music player hardware has its own network connection (because it is in fact my phone) I can download episodes directly there without having to go via my computer. [2] No longer possible on Mac in the post-iTunes age, and the successor Podcasts app apparently doesn't support manually adding files as episodes to it. [3] Okay, so you can turn on remembering the playback position for any file in iTunes, i.e. even regular music files, but that doesn't work with my Android phone.

echelon_musk 4y ago

Audacious [0] works on macOS through brew and supports Winamp 2.x skins. I'm using it right now, here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/NQ5y9Hi https://imgur.com/NQ5y9Hi [0] https://audacious-media-player.org/ https://audacious-media-player.org/

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