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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 points 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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[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

The only thing I don't like about the new WInamp is the NFT library, Hotmix and Fanzone things they added to it. But I guess the new owners had to try and make their money back somehow. Plus they're easily ignorable.

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[-] exanime@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago

Very cool but even 15 years ago or so when I moved to Linux, I was already over Winamp and using Foobar... Loved it

[-] art@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

this is cool but what is the point now given all the options today and the way we listen to music now?

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

First: Surprised it still exists.

Second: More surprised there are Apple AppStore and Google PlayStore links on the bottom.

[-] snrkl@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

Mac Port! Mac Port! Mac Port!

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 5 points 6 months ago

How many mac applications are coded using win32 api?

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[-] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Wow this brings me back. What is winamp used for these days?

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago
[-] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Like, ripped mp3s like the old days?

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[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Nice. It's still my favorite music player.

[-] snownyte@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure what can be brought to Winamp that'll make it better through open source. Maybe it'll be a default alternative for Linux distros? That'd be cool.

But, Winamp to me is just a program I use that plays video game soundtracks that are different formats aren't MP3 or WAV. Like Super Nintendo with .SPC for example.

AIMP has predominantly taken the mantle on my system as default media player, it's just feature rich and long won me over the day my PC suddenly rebooted and the song I was playing was just on pause with that program! Winamp couldn't do this, whenever I re-opened it, song stopped playing entirely, gotta play it again.

[-] moon_matter@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

There are likely lots of improvements that can be made under the hood. I'm willing to bet that it depends on several aging libraries that could probably be swapped out for something better.

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would be huge for me

Being able to type

$sudo apt install winamp

Would be so cool

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