Winamp 5 is out.

Meaning, I can choose to write wav files from encode ones? (Just seeing if there's a reason to go beyond 2.9, das all)

WINMP 5 ROKS1!!11!! OMG LOL

The only thing lacking is a good off-line support for mp3 collections, ie catalog MP3 cd's, and maybe better file name/directory support as a supplement to id3 tags but I'm willing to bet someone will come up with a plugin for the library to correct that.

Exactly. which is why I'm still on 2.9x, and not, oh say, Winamp 3. Or 4 (obv, since apparently they mysteriously skipped a number).

to make money!

Hence the missing Winamp 4.

...and it's sweet, yeah. Winamp 3 was horrible, but I've moved to 5 and will never look back. All the old skins and plugins work (from v.2 anyway)

People actually still encode OGG files?!

Yes. I encode all my media to OGG because it's a far superior format to MP3.

Winamp supports OGG natively AFAIK.

Eh, as long as you encode your mp3s with LAME, the quality difference is minimal. In addition, mp3's ID3 tags are easier to edit than OGG's cumbersome tags and the mp3 format has an unlimited amount of applications designed specifically for it.

Pour one out for the llama.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/20/5126666/winamp-media-player-shutting-down-after-over-15-years

I still use WinAmp as the main music player on my PC.

I do too.

like 2 days ago i noticed that winamp was installed on my phone so i uninstalled it

I love that I started this thread ten years ago, meaning the app never moved past version 5.

rip

loved u 3.x

sorry you felt left out treeship, that's pretty rough

so many memories.. i can't believe you can't save equalizer settings on VLC and have to re-set the damn thing every time. WinAmp had that function a decade ago. RIP.

it's ok xp

i loved how small black and clicky looking everything was, reminded me of my sony boombox from ca. 1992.

m3us forever

i believe i had that same ok computer skin. *searches for winamp skins on altavista*

will keep using it for the time being as i haven't found anything better, but what windows alternatives are there that should be investigated?

― kel's vintage port (electricsound), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:08 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the best: http://www.foobar2000.org/

ouch @ them still having the alien icon.

mediamonkey is good, 25 bucks for the features you want.

itunes pretty great on apple computers obviously.

brimstead otm foobar is the only player. infinitely customizable, no flash. much luv 4 hi school dayz w the llama's ass but i'm not sure there was any reason to use it past 2.x

itunes is a prank

i remember trying so hard to excuse winamp 3 (like, arguments in the lunchroom) and then nullsoft skipped 4 because incrementing by just 1 wouldn't imply enough distance had been put between them and it

btw literally the worst thing about linux is no foobar. i use something called guayadeque now because rhythmbox can't sort by album artist (racism imo) and amarok made me insane, but ugh i'm sitting through splash screens again.

Actually, it turns out they skipped 4 because 5.x combined the features of both 2.x and 3.x

2+3=5

yeah but i don't think they'd've bothered to think of that if 3 had been better received

True. I've been using 5.x for ten years, and I keep it on the classic orientation, so I barely remember the ways in which 3.x was so terrible. I could toggle it to that if I wanted, but I'd rather it stay a non-memory.

3 gave me a weird stockholm syndrome inferiority complex re: my computer hardware, like, clearly my pathetic rig didn't DESERVE to acceptably run the awesome new version of winamp

i think i downloaded a keygen for 5 so that the ripper/burner would work right. lil bit of anguish over the betrayal this represented to nullsoft but by that time they were covered in aol like boils, and if there was one thing i knew at 16 it was fuck aol

5 was good tho yeah. classic mode def the correct and mature choice (knew this even then) but i couldn't stop myself from skinning.

cPro__HiFi_73 is the skin I've been using for years and years. I don't even remember how long.

RIP Winamp, still use you at work

(and I'm not really happy with the players I replaced you with at home, either)

xp I used a similar looking Wharfedale skin for a while.

Speaking of skins that were a complete mess, there was a Mondrian inspired one that in theory should have looked great but was a disaster. See also those thousands of random celebrity skins that are just a picture chopped into three.

I loved winamp, but it could never really handle the larger music libraries. As bandwidth availability grew, the worse it got.

Has there ever been <i>anything</i>that's been bought out by AOL that didn't then wither and die?

Their mail order drinks coaster business was quite big for a while.

but even that has withered and died

I loved winamp, but it could never really handle the larger music libraries.

I've got ~13,000 tracks on my current playlist and it seems solid.

The only player I've ever used. The only player I will continue to use till it no longer works. Time to squirrel away the installers & the few plug-ins I use in as many places as possible.

So much of my music 2001-2004 came from Winamp...

That's a point. RIP Winamp visualisation plugins. RIP the DSP plugin which came bundled with non-Lite versions and is probably still the quickest and most widely available way to answer the question "what would this track sound like pitched down slightly / at half-speed / double-speed / as a 45 played at 33", etc.

I haven't found a player that can cope well with big libraries tbh. Maybe this is my fault for being anti-iTunes.

I used Songbird a bit but it had a few bugs and now it's discontinued. The new open source fork of Songbird, Nightingale, refuses to talk to last.fm and keeps crashing. foobar does OK with a local library but if I tell it to look at the library on a samba share it freezes a lot and the disk on the other machine goes nuts whenever foobar's open. Also I haven't managed to get foobar not to look like a spreadsheet while still being usable, but I can live with it looking like a spreadsheet tbh.

i've been using foobar since day 1, afaik it was the first music player with a database built in which was appealing at the time, and i've never bothered switching off it since it's got a nice low memory footprint unlike everything else these days

i certainly feel the nostalgia for winamp 2.9 though, that was my player of choice for many years

Throwing in another vote for foobar. Only switched from Winamp 5 to foobar a few months ago, after getting sick of the fact that Winamp wasn't playing loudly enough on my laptop, even at max volume. foobar is a lot better.

<3 winamp visualizations

^^^ especially since you can program your own with the built in language/IDE.

I've recently switched to MusicBee as my mp3 player after MediaMonkey stopped working for me for some reason. Really happy with it so far. Relatively lightweight and handles my relatively large (>200GB) library without any problems.

Tried foobar several years ago but found it was just too much hassle to configure it the way I wanted, I did get it working like I wanted at some point, but after a hard drive crash just didn't want to go through that again.

I'm tempted to download WinAmp and listen to Pitchfork's best new music circa 2002 for nostalgia's sake, but I'm just not that person anymore.

Long live Blex, I may not agree with everything he says, but he sure puts your lame ass to shame. Ratios suck, leeches forever, bitch mofos like you are what killed the mp3 world, and it's bitch mofos like you that piss me off. Oh, and don't even bother replying to this message. I don't even know who the user is, but they left their e-mail account open so I thought I'd take advantage of their mistake. And I did have one more question. How does the madbiker suck your dick online? Is it something like this?: Oooh, Tonez, my mouth is sucking your dick now..... Ooh, Madbiker, I'm coming into your face...oooh. You're a fucking idiot, stay in front of the computer screen all day where you belong.

Anti-#Zeraw, AntiTOnez, Blex Forever..........ENDMESSAGE

btw literally the worst thing about linux is no foobar. i use something called guayadeque now because rhythmbox can't sort by album artist (racism imo) and amarok made me insane, but ugh i'm sitting through splash screens again.

try clementine? it's a bit slow to start but I like it once it's chugging along.

no support for final fantasy 7 skins tho :-/

I gave Foobar a chance a couple years ago but reverted to Winamp because I couldn't figure Foobar out in the approx 90 seconds I give myself to figure out things like local media player apps

I thought you could save EQ settings on VLC? many xposts

This year I wiped my ipod classic and converted it to RockBox and I don't think I can ever ever go back to the apple firmware now that I've found the combination of custom crossfeed and EQ settings that fits my ears just right. The price is that I run Mac at home so I can no longer load shit to my ipod except at work where I use a PC. But it's worth it.

Crossfeed especially has been a revelation for me. I think VLC has it though it's not called crossfeed there. Do any of these other players?

not as far as i know? but i'd love to know how if so!

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/source-microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-from-aol/

Hold everything! Microsoft might be dropping some cash on Winamp.

Still updating btw, downloaded a 5.66 when this thread was revived and now there's a 5.666

http://www.winamp.com/media-player/all

http://spotiamp.com/

nice playlist on the spotiamp page

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/01/aol-sells-winamp-and-shoutcast-music-services-to-online-radio-aggregator-radionomy/

thanks to those who recommened foobar upthread. i recently got a new laptop and thought i'd try out something newer than winamp which i've been using since the 90s. i dunno if it was my old laptop but the one thing that bothered me about winamp was the slow startup time. anyway foobar is even more basic with no gui. speedy, small footprint etc. i love it.

sounds like you have a media player that's..... fit and working again.

Boo

Foobar is totally the best imo

yup; tiny, fast, powerful, interface is so flexible too