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Did you ever try Foobar 2k - its arguably a better replacement for Winamp on windows

TheSOB88 13y ago
Seconded - Foobar2000 is a great music app. No visual bells and whistles, just functionality. It gets out of your way, and it's fast. Also, it was developed by some of the people who originally developed Winamp.
delluminatus 13y ago
I think foobar2000 was created by a (the?) developer who worked on Winamp many years ago, before it was bought.
- pit 13y ago
  Yes, Peter Pawlowski. According to Wikipedia, he is "a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft." EDIT: He's also been working on an audio player called Boom: http://perkele.cc/software/boom http://perkele.cc/software/boom
  - kevingadd 13y ago
    Peter was notable for maintaining a lot of the audio output backends for Winamp. People who had problems with their Creative Labs sound cards (read: basically anyone who owned one) causing playback glitches in Winamp would post about it on the Winamp forums and peter would get really cranky and eventually figure out how to fix it. (:
kristofferR 13y ago
TheSOB88, you're hellbanned so barely anyone can see your comments.
- Achshar 13y ago
  What's this about? Parent's unsername is not TheSOB88.
  - Anderkent 13y ago
    You have to enable a setting to see [dead] posts, and you can't reply to them. That's why people post as siblings, hoping that the banned person will come back to the thread and see their name.
  - Helianthus 13y ago
    HN has an amusingly childish policy of hellbanning individuals it deems inappropriate or otherwise objectionable--hellbanning hides the banned account's comments to everyone unless you set "showdead" to true in your account preferences. Some users have started kindly informing the hellbanned posters that, for whatever reasons, don't seem to notice that no one ever responds or upvotes their comments. If I may get on my soapbox (if I wasn't already), I find the whole thing symptomatic of Silicon Valley's culture of networking hell and reputation management. It's a policy of elitism; a policy that disenfranchises in the name of some fictional notion of quality; a policy that demonstrates just how rotten the tech industry is at heart. Why do I go that far? Because community culture is indicative of so many things. This is the community and atmosphere that pg set up, that pg creates, moderates, and maintains. pg may not be formally 'responsible,' but he's certainly at the head. Because I'm an asshole, but not enough of one to get hellbanned (at least on this account), I am in some state of suspension: an artificial delay imposed on every request. (That's what I don't get about HN's moderation: what, did you think I wouldn't notice that you're essentially trying to herd me like chattel? I stubbornly keep this account kicking out of simple contrariness.)
    - eksith 13y ago
      That's all well and good, but let's take a look at what the trigger was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615120 . If you ran a community -- and realistically there's nothing stopping you from doing so -- would you tolerate that kind of nonsense? I know I wouldn't want to hang around there if you did. You're right (to continue going slightly meta), it's a policy of elitism, but in the same vein as Wikipedia. They too are still around as a result. Side note: Quality is quantifiable to a degree and is by no means a fictional notion.
mtrimpe 13y ago
TheSOB88, you've been hell banned for almost half a year by now.
teh_klev 13y ago
I agree, I've used foobar2000 [1] for over ten years when Winamp (my previous goto music player) started to get all crashy and hangy for no good reason. It's pretty solid, can handle massive playlists and has nice clean and simple UI with no cruft. My only wish is that they did foobar2000 for Android. [1]: http://www.foobar2000.org/ http://www.foobar2000.org/
PavlovsCat 13y ago
also nice: http://www.aimp.ru http://www.aimp.ru
drakeandrews 13y ago
Does it fade out songs when you pause them? If so, where can I download it and where can I donate to whoever wrote it?
- jarek 13y ago
  Yes, preferences > playback > output and select output method DirectSound http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Preferences:Output http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Pre... http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-5_files/image001.gif http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-5_files/image00... ; http://www.foobar2000.org/ http://www.foobar2000.org/ ; http://flattr.com/thing/51681/foobar2000-freeware-audio-player http://flattr.com/thing/51681/foobar2000-freeware-audio-play...
notJim 13y ago
Agree about Foobar. It's about the only app from Windows that I miss when using OS X. Anyone have a Mac player they use with similar philosophy/featureset to Foobar?
- wires 13y ago
  cog http://cogx.org http://cogx.org ; less features IIRC
  - notJim 13y ago
    Heh, I'm listening to the album in their first screenshot. Gotta be a good sign.

Seconded - Foobar2000 is a great music app. No visual bells and whistles, just functionality. It gets out of your way, and it's fast. Also, it was developed by some of the people who originally developed Winamp.

delluminatus 13y ago

I think foobar2000 was created by a (the?) developer who worked on Winamp many years ago, before it was bought.

pit 13y ago
Yes, Peter Pawlowski. According to Wikipedia, he is "a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft." EDIT: He's also been working on an audio player called Boom: http://perkele.cc/software/boom http://perkele.cc/software/boom
- kevingadd 13y ago
  Peter was notable for maintaining a lot of the audio output backends for Winamp. People who had problems with their Creative Labs sound cards (read: basically anyone who owned one) causing playback glitches in Winamp would post about it on the Winamp forums and peter would get really cranky and eventually figure out how to fix it. (:

kristofferR 13y ago

TheSOB88, you're hellbanned so barely anyone can see your comments.

Achshar 13y ago
What's this about? Parent's unsername is not TheSOB88.
- Anderkent 13y ago
  You have to enable a setting to see [dead] posts, and you can't reply to them. That's why people post as siblings, hoping that the banned person will come back to the thread and see their name.
- Helianthus 13y ago
  HN has an amusingly childish policy of hellbanning individuals it deems inappropriate or otherwise objectionable--hellbanning hides the banned account's comments to everyone unless you set "showdead" to true in your account preferences. Some users have started kindly informing the hellbanned posters that, for whatever reasons, don't seem to notice that no one ever responds or upvotes their comments. If I may get on my soapbox (if I wasn't already), I find the whole thing symptomatic of Silicon Valley's culture of networking hell and reputation management. It's a policy of elitism; a policy that disenfranchises in the name of some fictional notion of quality; a policy that demonstrates just how rotten the tech industry is at heart. Why do I go that far? Because community culture is indicative of so many things. This is the community and atmosphere that pg set up, that pg creates, moderates, and maintains. pg may not be formally 'responsible,' but he's certainly at the head. Because I'm an asshole, but not enough of one to get hellbanned (at least on this account), I am in some state of suspension: an artificial delay imposed on every request. (That's what I don't get about HN's moderation: what, did you think I wouldn't notice that you're essentially trying to herd me like chattel? I stubbornly keep this account kicking out of simple contrariness.)
  - eksith 13y ago
    That's all well and good, but let's take a look at what the trigger was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615120 . If you ran a community -- and realistically there's nothing stopping you from doing so -- would you tolerate that kind of nonsense? I know I wouldn't want to hang around there if you did. You're right (to continue going slightly meta), it's a policy of elitism, but in the same vein as Wikipedia. They too are still around as a result. Side note: Quality is quantifiable to a degree and is by no means a fictional notion.

mtrimpe 13y ago

TheSOB88, you've been hell banned for almost half a year by now.

teh_klev 13y ago

I agree, I've used foobar2000 [1] for over ten years when Winamp (my previous goto music player) started to get all crashy and hangy for no good reason. It's pretty solid, can handle massive playlists and has nice clean and simple UI with no cruft. My only wish is that they did foobar2000 for Android. [1]: http://www.foobar2000.org/ http://www.foobar2000.org/

PavlovsCat 13y ago

also nice: http://www.aimp.ru http://www.aimp.ru

drakeandrews 13y ago

Does it fade out songs when you pause them? If so, where can I download it and where can I donate to whoever wrote it?

jarek 13y ago
Yes, preferences > playback > output and select output method DirectSound http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Preferences:Output http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Pre... http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-5_files/image001.gif http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-5_files/image00... ; http://www.foobar2000.org/ http://www.foobar2000.org/ ; http://flattr.com/thing/51681/foobar2000-freeware-audio-player http://flattr.com/thing/51681/foobar2000-freeware-audio-play...

notJim 13y ago

Agree about Foobar. It's about the only app from Windows that I miss when using OS X. Anyone have a Mac player they use with similar philosophy/featureset to Foobar?

wires 13y ago
cog http://cogx.org http://cogx.org ; less features IIRC
- notJim 13y ago
  Heh, I'm listening to the album in their first screenshot. Gotta be a good sign.