Winamp Sucks

Sorry about the obscene amount of screenshots, I was trying to get across an idea of how the windows are set up.

http://www.winamp.com/customize/component/2001/11/10/S/large_image/Oxygen_2.jpg

Did you just upgrade from MS-DOS 5?

I keep my mp3 files organized into windows folders and then click on the file itself when I want to hear it. Winamp starts playing it back immediately. That's all I care about!!

So why is Winamp better than the others for your purposes, Spencer? (I admit I switched to QCD because it had built-in OGG support but I think it might also have better mp3 playback plugins.)

hahaha

it's a windows thing, it really is. Remember Winamp 3, anyone? The buttons were actually invisible. They phased buttons out of the design. you were supposed to already know where the buttons were, and take some kind of perverse pride in being well-versed in this bad interface. It's a badge of geekdom or something.

http://www.winamp.com/customize/component/2004/10/10/S/large_image/AC_Milan_2.png

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(god, I hate Windows "power users".)

Actually, QCD would be just fine. I didn't find it to be any faster than winamp so I just stuck with it. I got an OGG plugin for it. The best thing about QCD is the CD playback without any skips.

Did you just upgrade from MS-DOS 5?

No. I use XP Pro with a lot of RAM and no matter what, winamp is faster to launch than iTunes. It's the one thing I really care about with mp3s, sorry if you hate me.

So sleek and sterile...

Also, Chaki, I use 2.9 too! Although someone told me that if you use v5 with the old skin that it's just as fast.

Tabs being placed at the bottom of the window and what else?

(The only thing I've ever hated is the random button).

That's because most people have no taste.

I use XMMS. I have no idea what the theme I use is called, but I like to think it looks pretty good:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/sleepycaitlin/xmms1.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/sleepycaitlin/xmms2.png

(I opened XMMS specially to take screenshots for this thread, and that was the section of the playlist that randomly came up. Clearly, it could tell what I wanted it for.)

Frankly, I can't see what's wrong with placing tabs at the bottom of a dialog.

but -- and I think this is jon's point -- most of them are quite bad, and having thousands of options does not improve this. "Freedom of Choice," you know, like Devo said. Eventually you just get tired of browsing skins and pick something that's terrible looking.

Oh shit, I got your PC-Mac switch the wrong way round. Tough luck.

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.

Pretty *good.

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).

For mass-tagging on the mac there's Yate, Musicbrainz Picard and (if you like command line) Beets.

Don't know about mac but foobar runs very well under wine in linux and Peter is actively looking for bugs to improve compatiblity

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.

toaster plugin suddenly stopped working correctly and i can't figure out why

ffs

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

Lol

i always expect more from DJ Mike Llama after that, but he peaked with the Llama Whippin' Intro

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.

it remains my main music player tbh

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

I've been using Winamp since the late 90s, and it's still my main music player.

My one complaint, which isn't really a complaint to be honest, is that the Media Library is really overspecced for what I use it for - namely managing multiple playlists. It seems like an overly complex early 2000s file explorer, kind of at odds with the main window and Playlist Editor.

Foobar 4 life motherfuckers

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-new-version-after-four-years-in-development