xp and winamp 5.601, using windows explorer as a library. james mitchell's suggestion doesn't work.
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
winamp classic is still the best - quickest mama unlike the bloated itunes
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
Winamp Modern is also pretty zippy as long as you don't use the Media Library. Bento/Big Bento can both shove it though.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
all I know is when I wanna hear "tears before bedtime" the app opens in seconds, I hit "j" and type in the track and voila! there it is. itunes takes so long to open
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
I still use winamp more than itunes.
― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
I've been using this a little bit, but mostly because I have all my media dumped into Plex: https://medium.com/plexlabs/introducing-plexamp-9493a658847a
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
i actually still use winamp at home
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
same lol
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
I don't have any need for it any more but Winamp >>>> iTunes.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
man, I used Winamp up until very recently and it never went wrong. Don't know why I use AIMP now and it's always failing to detect what sound card I'm using (I swap all the time)
― Badgers (dog latin), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
Still using WinAmp 5.61, see no reason to change. It opens quickly, can handle massive playlists, doesn't crash (or at least it's never crashed for me), and does what I need with minimal fuss.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
i also still use winamp
although it still forgets to be always on top all the time
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
I want to go back to winamp because aimp doesn't have the mini mode, so I always have to go and find it, and it doesn't understand that if I drag some mp3s in, they should stay in the same order. But where can I get winamp now? The only website I can find doesn't have any download links.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
winamp 5.6.4.318 for windows installer (inside a zip)
lol @ me
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
the minute I post this there will probably be some kind of world-shattering exploit revealed, but until then I feel pretty comfortable saying winamp is a perfect piece of software
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
winamp was great which means it still is but i haven't looked back from foobar2000.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
tried several times to get foobar the way i wanted it and failed; no doubt i'll give it another shot when winamp stops working
k otm
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
http://www.winamp.com/ -> "follow this link to get updated news" -> http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=374929 -> second post = download links for the latest version?
― StanM, Saturday, 10 February 2018 08:47 (six years ago) link
ok, plex on iphone is actually.. pretty good now?
― mh, Monday, 19 March 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
so i've switched from PC to Mac and I'm having trouble finding a media player that works properly. I just want to be able to play music. I'm not interested in creating a media library or making playlists or any of that jazz. Just want to be able to drag and drop a folder or double-click a file and get it to play.
iTunes - is just fucking awful in every way. It's as though the people who invented it had never understood people's needs. I'm sure last time I tried to use it, it tried to automatically copy all 2TBs of my music collection into low-bit m4a files on a hidden folder on my computer. Also, I never worked out how to get it to play an album all the way through without randomly shuffling to some other tune I played a few weeks ago. Terrible.
Winamp - Ah Winamp. It really kicked the llama's ass back in the day. Easy to use, not fussy about putting things into playlists etc. Just drag a folder into the window and it plays straight through. Sadly doesn't seem to enjoy life on my Mac. When I try to drag/drop a music folder into the window it says the files aren't supported. Lovely.
VLC Media player - Can't go wrong with this? Wrong. If I drag a folder into the window, it doesn't expand into tracks, it just sits there as a folder until I click to expand it. Rubbish if I want to copy a bunch of album folders into it. I've tried all the settings, including one which seems to say it affects this, but it doesn't do anything.
Elmedia Player - insists on showing me the album cover instead of my tracklist. The tracklist comes as an optional floating window which you have to toggle on. Not useful.
In conclusion: Media players are awful and Macs are terrible machines invented by a terrible company who prize compactness over functionality. Somebody help me out here before I lob this over-priced piece of crap out the window and go back to my trusty 2012 Asus.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Clementine?
― brimstead, Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
i'll check it! thanks!
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
"Clementine Quit Unexpectedly"
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
*Sigh*
And people told me that Macs 'just work'
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
foobar?
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
let's try it
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
working so far!! :-) thanks!
crikey, that was a saga
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
foobar is still good yep
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
i mean Apple sucks but it works pretty well for me on the PC
― Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I have not touched QCD in decades but apparently it was still being updated as of last year:
https://quintessential-media-player.en.softonic.com/
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
not convinced that that's a real QCD update
for macs i'd ask elvis telecom what he uses
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
so I spoke to a Mac expert friend who suggested I really do look into iTunes again and that the functionality, particularly in relation to things like Serato which I use a lot, can outweigh some of its shortcomings. I've never put my music into libraries, rather I've always kept it in folders which are carefully alphabetised on an external drive and which I access via Explorer (and more recently Finder). But the idea of chucking all 2TB into a library and risk a jungle of broken/mislabelled ID3 tags does put me off. Will it mess up the already labyrinthine personal system I've cultivated over decades? Will it confuse Serato and mess up its own very finnickity Crate system? Maybe the wrong thread for this question I guess...
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 22 October 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
lol have fun
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 22 October 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
I use Small Player (https://www.igorware.com/small-player) for playing sound files. It's a tiny program, starts instantly. It's great. Just plays stuff and nothing else. I haven't used it much for listening to music for hours on end or anything like that (I do all that in Spotify), so I can't guarantee how it performs. I use it mostly for listening through single mp3/wav files/folders of my own stuff, and it's always worked perfectly for me.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
Oh shit, I got your PC-Mac switch the wrong way round. Tough luck.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
Foobar2000 still rules. It can use your folder structure to organise its browser and it's also pretty flood for managing metadata tags. Not sure where the Mac version is at in terms of development.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
Pretty *good.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
iTunes - is just fucking awful in every way. It's as though the people who invented it had never understood people's needs.
Alternatives on the mac are limited. There's Swinsian and a fairly crappy foobar2000 version (PC version is much better).
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
For mass-tagging on the mac there's Yate, Musicbrainz Picard and (if you like command line) Beets.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
Don't know about mac but foobar runs very well under wine in linux and Peter is actively looking for bugs to improve compatiblity
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
people like IINA as a kind of better VLC for mac.https://iina.io
but just to preview a file, hitting spacebar after selection lets you play it immediately.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
toaster plugin suddenly stopped working correctly and i can't figure out why
ffs
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 February 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
Happy 25th anniversary to @Winamp!The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!⚡🦙⚡Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass! pic.twitter.com/sLYQUa0g5P— Daniel Albu (@danielalbu) April 21, 2022
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 April 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
Lol
― H.R. MacGufnstuf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 April 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
i always expect more from DJ Mike Llama after that, but he peaked with the Llama Whippin' Intro
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 23 April 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
I still use it! Just for double-clicking files in Windows to listen to individual tracks or preview things. I don't use it to organize music or listen to albums or anything. But whenever I double-click an audio file in Windows it pops up and it's somehow comforting that it functions and looks exactly the same as it did when I started using it 20+ years ago.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 24 April 2022 06:11 (two years ago) link
it remains my main music player tbh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 April 2022 06:17 (two years ago) link
scrolling back and reading dog Latin's Mac woes, i think i had similar problems when i changed job and settled on Vox, which has worked fine ever since
― koogs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
I've been using Winamp since the late 90s, and it's still my main music player.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 24 April 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link