• MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times… Real good times.

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      6 months ago

      Turns out one of my favorite bands is that Playlist (Diablo Swing Orchestra), pretty cool of them to release free music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, TIL.

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      6 months ago

      Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’ve seen this before, but didn’t realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.

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    6 months ago

    If this gets updated and ported to Linux, I’d switch. Until then, Sayonara Player is still the best I have found on Linux.

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    6 months ago

    Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.

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    6 months ago

    I’m still using Winamp 2.91. I’m just too used to it to change. Now, if someone added Flac support to the same interface, I’d be happy. And if someone ported it to Linux and Android, I’d pay big bucks for it.

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      6 months ago

      I’m using winamp 5.666 for windows.

      There is finally a decent winamp for Android, but I use the Samsung music player instead.

      Would love a Winamp for Linux

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    6 months ago

    Just like everyone else, at one point I used WinAMP, then when they started the upgrade to new and significantly more hardware demanding version I switched to Aimp, which to this day I use as mobile application. Am no longer on Windows, but I still miss those applications. VLC simply doesn’t fit that role of a music player.

    Open sourcing WinAMP means we’ll probably get a ported version for Linux, which I am very much looking forward to.

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    6 months ago

    No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.

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    6 months ago

    I have mine configured as a background service with a Rainmeter desktop widget to play music at a moment’s notice. Works better than any official Windows option.

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    6 months ago

    Well, I mean I loved Winamp, but streaming ease of use pretty much killed it. Even then, I’ve been Linux Desktop forever, and other options there with better network and non-file aware media management tools kinda took over. Would love to see them make it as extensible as VLC though, even just for the nostalgic purposes.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Man. I still use winamp to this day and I’ve been using them since they came out.

    It’s the only music player that organizes the music in a way that makes sense. I love the library interface.

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      6 months ago

      Same. My only gripe is that the ui doesn’t scale at all which makes it hard to use on 4K.

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        6 months ago

        Apparently the newer version fixed that issue but it’s not default. If you update it you can mess around with it in the settings.

        There’s someone in the comment here that explains it.