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Wow, the end of an era. Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc.,
by Elepsis 13y ago
Wow, the end of an era.
Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial and fast to find the songs I was looking for, either by filename or by ID3 data, and get them playing.
I suppose that it turns out the world has changed and this isn't how most people consume music anymore, and the writing's been on the wall for a while. But it's incredibly sad to see that model of media consumption finally dying with a whimper. I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality.
- sharkweek 13y agoNothing will ever beat the joys of finding new "skins" for the Winamp player -- I had so many amazing ones lined up, and loved nothing more than switching them all out. Sad to see it go... IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMA'S ASS
- yashg 13y agoI had even created a few skins back then. The CDs that came with computer magazines were a great source of new skins.
- weland 13y agoI still do that fairly often. Audacious can load Winamp skins. Sometimes its interface borks on my collection (35,000+ songs), but it's responsive enough. My desktop still looks very much like it did in the 1990s...
- frooxie 13y agoCool! I've used the Sumea skin for about 15 years and I'd like to keep it, so I'm glad that I can use it with other music players.
- dakrisht 13y agoThose were the days! End of an era. Sad day.
- masklinn 13y ago> I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality. Foobar 2k works very, very well.
- math0ne 13y agoSeconded, f2k works very well for super large complicated music collections. Prob not as easy to setup as winamp but you can more with f2k. Way more.
- galaktor 13y agoI like the ability to play archives of music files (zip,...) which are then uncompressed on-the-fly .
- V-2 13y agoSearching and filtering works like a charm as well.
- mbell 13y ago> I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality. I've been off windows for a few years now but I used to use Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/ http://www.mediamonkey.com/) for managing a very large collection of poorly tagged music I'd collected over the years, lots of live recordings and whatnot. It's definitely not as clean a player as winamp was but it did manage the library / tagging bits quite well. It seems to still be active so may be worth a look.
- thelamest 13y agoFor a multiplatform solution, I used a MusicBrainz Picard client for batch autoidentification and ID3 correction. However currently I feel that I wasted too many hours of my life hoarding and caring for a local mp3/soulseek library and nowadays only listen to online music.
- Semaphor 13y agoMediaMonkey [1] is awesome to find something. It's mainly a music organizer that just happens to be able to play music but it works great even with scattered single mp3 files. Autoplaylists [2], scriptable and extensive search options. Been using it for over 6 years now and never looked back :) [1] http://www.mediamonkey.com http://www.mediamonkey.com [2] Autoplaylists are only available for the Gold version.
- twentysix 13y agoMedia Monkey was quite useful in adding mp3 tags the way I wanted and organizing the entire library.
- codereflection 13y ago+1 for MediaMonkey, been using it for 5+ years.
- kissickas 13y agoI definitely recommend MediaMonkey Gold. It will keep your library organized, but however you want it, with no hassle at all. And if you're insane like me and keep a flac library, you can keep an mp3 mirror for your mp3 player/phone.
- Semaphor 13y agoAnd you can switch between space used and time/processing power needed. Instead of keeping mirrors you could tell it to convert the files (depending on what you connected) on the fly into whatever format you want.
- julianz 13y agoAs others have said, foobar2000 for the minimalist, free approach with lots of configuration options, or MediaMonkey for a really good bit of paid software. The paid version of MM syncs perfectly well with iDevices and pretty much anything else too. Highly recommended. Also it doesn't force you into any particular directory structure in your music library so it'll take what you give it.
- Jagat 13y agoI recently fixed the id3 tags of all the mp3 music I own using MusicBrainz picard. Very useful software that uses a global database of music signatures.
- ansgri 13y agoAs others have said, we still has AIMP [aimp.ru]. They're clearly losing on not having a good English website.