Winamp Is No More

I still use winamp v2 (receiver 224 skin bitches) just like in high school. Aww yeah.

Lol at remembering how long I searched for skins.

oh gees

stand back while i open a vein in sorrow

i just cant go on any longer

 

 

oh wait, i don't have the capacity to get all emotional over some app, which is still available in versions that can play mp3s just like it could 10yrs ago. they just aren't making updates that don't matter because it already played mp3s 10+yrs ago. this is basically just a symbolic gesture and the symbolism ultimately means nothing, at least to me, even if i was there when mp3s/winamp first hit the scene. downloading a single mp3 over the course of a couple hrs on a 14.4baud

 

maybe i'm just heartless, but i have no tears to shed. it had it's run, and people can still use it.

My winamp died years ago when my ipods were born and itunes took control of my mind.

 

Is slsk still around, btw?

  On 11/21/2013 at 7:54 PM, plstik said:

I remember it always started to play that gym class orgie randomly whenever I tried to open a stream, because I never fixed the standard file extension settings.

 

that must've been handy when you had friends round and wanted to play them some music

I still use it to make WAV files.

  On 11/22/2013 at 5:56 AM, goDel said:

Is slsk still around, btw?

 

Yes but the original NS client is no longer developed.

  On 11/21/2013 at 5:39 PM, CJM said:

 

  On 11/20/2013 at 11:42 PM, fiznuthian said:

Winamp went downhill.. Discovered Foobar and never looked back.

 

this.

 

But Winamp, Milkdrop and I had some good times, for sure...

 

 

You can still get Milkdrop on foobar with shpeck.

  On 11/22/2013 at 7:15 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 11/21/2013 at 7:54 PM, plstik said:

I remember it always started to play that gym class orgie randomly whenever I tried to open a stream, because I never fixed the standard file extension settings.

 

that must've been handy when you had friends round and wanted to play them some music

 

it happened a couple of times, except for one time I was always fast enough to close it though..

just found out there's a touch screen version of milkdrop on the Android market, not quite the same as maxing out on a decenf GFX card but it will do

that's too bad, it was one of the only reliable players I knew of that could be opened more than once, and be synced up so that 2 separate instances of the player could start playing at the exact same time with a hot key.

I've been using Foobar for about 10 years now, but I'll reinstall WinAmp Lite now for good old times sake.

Winamp and I had some laffs, didn't we, back in the early p2p dayz (and before Winamp there was Sonique). In pace requiescat an' all, but I haven't exactly missed it since the mid-00's.

  On 11/21/2013 at 2:41 PM, mcbpete said:

OK, so if Winamp is no longer - for when I get a new phone (or wipe this one when installing Cyanogenmod), what's the best Android music player (must support gapless playback and have lockscreen controls)

The answer appears to be n7player by the way.

who else here stayed up really late smoking weed playing with the winamp visualization generators? They were capable of some really interesting stuff. I remember I had a hard crash crash and lost some music I was working on but I was mostly sad I lost like 100 winamp visualizations I spent weeks making.

I just started using winamp to listen on my IBM at work.

  On 11/26/2013 at 11:42 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

who else here stayed up really late smoking weed playing with the winamp visualization generators? They were capable of some really interesting stuff. I remember I had a hard crash crash and lost some music I was working on but I was mostly sad I lost like 100 winamp visualizations I spent weeks making.

No weed but enjoyed making all the same - frequently managed to grind my system to a near halt with some of the OTT amount of simultaneous effects running at once. Milkdrop was my fave visualiser though, was the only reason I kept Windows ME on my system (found out my video card/drivers were so wonky that the only OS that was stable using them was ironically what's historically known as the least stable OS)

Foobar folks, would you mind showing off your layouts please? Mine is pretty bland, so I'm looking for some inspiration.

Is there some visualisation for ios that does what milkdrop did?

Edit: found it they are even on ios:

 

http://projectm.sourceforge.net/

 

But no retina support

Edited November 27, 2013 by o00o

  On 11/27/2013 at 1:31 PM, o00o said:

 

But no retina support

of course it supports your retinas, you just look at the image and your retinas see it.

Yeah

Anyone else find the Winamp shuffle to be a little weird - like it wasn't 'properly' random but more like a drunk/wander number generator. Obviously a contentious topic about how random is random, but switching to Foobar the shuffle seemed more over the place. Having moved from Winamp Android to n7Player I've already noticed the same thing - so I'm guessing they must've used the same random number algorithm.

Yeah, actually I remember back when I used a minidisc player to listen to music, I'd put a winamp playlist of my entire electronic music collection on shuffle overnight, recording to a minidisc to listen to in the morning. There were a few tracks that would always appear, for some reason..

My Winamp Anrdoid had a penchant for: UNKLE - The Runaway, Autechre - see on see, Prodigy - Invaders Must Die & Chemical Brothers — Brothers Gonna Work It Out (Part 4). It wouldn't touch any artists beginning with P (apart from that aforementioned Prodigy track), would only play Aphex once in a blue moon, and had a thing for the album Nine Inch Nails - Quiet Tracks