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Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
by caycep 13y ago
Why winamp? my understanding is that it's long been surpassed by other apps, i.e. foobar, even VLC
- tracker1 13y agofoobar is a bit... bare bones imho... and neither it or VLC have the shoutcast stream listing services... which will be an issue without winamp. :-(
- vomitcuddle 13y agofoobar is very lightweight and barebones, but it's also easily extensible
- codingdave 13y agoI have used it for all these years because it "just works". I have 2 needs in a music player - play whatever I have locally, and stream me something different when I want to. Winamp did both of those, and I never had an issue with it. It is hard to "surpass" something that meets my needs perfectly and has given me no issues for over 10 years.
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- jay_m 13y agoThe main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.
- TheSOB88 13y agoFoobar does. You have to configure it but you can do it.
- mih 13y agotry foobar
- unethical_ban 13y agoTheSOB88, you are dead, my friend. Another casualty of a poor policy.
- MetaCosm 13y agoAHK (http://www.autohotkey.com/ http://www.autohotkey.com/) -- Global keybindings for any app you want.
- jay_m 13y agoWow I'd forgotten about AHK. Thanks for reminding me!
- criley2 13y agoOut of curiosity: I use AHK to do basic testing automation for a windows application that I have literally zero ability to control programatically (to achieve actually good automated testing). Anyone have a better option for this kind of use case?
- amag 13y agoIn my experience VLC eats a lot more CPU for just playing the same songs. While I like VLC for movie-files, Winamp is nicer when it comes to music.
- xtracto 13y agoYeah, I used to use VLC for playing video files, but man it takes a lot of memory and when it decides to "cache fonts" (or something like that) it takes literally hours to start. Now I prefer smplayer for videos and foobar for music. Although I've been a heavy Rdio user for some time.
- Zoomla 13y agoVLC can do many neat things but you can you easily rate an MP3 file nowadays?
- themodelplumber 13y agoVLC can do many neat things, but I never, ever saw it as a replacement for Winamp. It's more like a toolkit, or at least the multi-tool you fall back on to do a variety of things.
- dublinben 13y agoWho rates MP3 files?
- themstheones 13y agoI don't have any demographic information to share. But I personally attempt to rate my files. It gives a nice way to categorize by quality. That way I can have abjectly terrible music in my collection, but filter it out for the purposes of not ever wanting to listen to it.
- prg318 13y agoBecause it really whips the llama's ass.
- negativity 13y agoAh, Wesley Willis... Rock over London! Rock on Chicago!
- bhauer 13y agoWinamp was better than Burger King.
- _pmf_ 13y agoWhy is this not the top comment?
- ArcticCelt 13y agoFoobar is OK but because it tries to give so many power user options it can become a pain to do simple things like play list management.
- JacobSkyler 13y agoMy strategy is to install Columns UI (http://yuo.be/columns.php http://yuo.be/columns.php) and ignore the power options to the best of my ability. So far it's working.
- XorNot 13y agoI tried this, but it was never quite great. I'm very happy with Clementine which is cross-platform for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- mindcrime 13y agoBecause Winamp.
- gohrt 13y agofoobar still can't do sound level balancing (ReplayGain) properly. Does winamp?
- kderbe 13y agoWhat do you mean? FB2K has had excellent ReplayGain support for as long as I can remember.
- shellehs 13y agoI think it's just for good-old-day's memory. Just like Super Mario.
- marrs 13y agoTry running obscure file formats, like chiptune. Winamp reliably supports all of these with a very low barrier to entry.
- clarry 13y agoTry running less obscure (standard) file formats, like ogg/opus. Now you need to look for a plugin...
- surement 13y agoMilkDrop