If you need a quick Winamp fix -> https://webamp.org/
Meh. No Ella Fitzgerald.
Turns out one of my favorite bands is that Playlist (Diablo Swing Orchestra), pretty cool of them to release free music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, TIL.
Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?
I’ve seen this before, but didn’t realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.
Damn, I’d even works on mobile
I really liked winamp when my screen resolution wasn’t so high. I wish the interface could scale so I can still use the original look without having to squint.
The newest one fixes scaling but you need to set a compatibility setting. Use the newest version. After install right click and hit properties. Click compatibility settings. Set for all users if applicable. Select override hdpi settings. In the drop down select system enhanced. Ok apply … Restart the application. Enjoy.
You can also adjust the test in the actual winamp menus. But you can look up how easier than what I laid out.
Thank you!!
If this gets updated and ported to Linux, I’d switch. Until then, Sayonara Player is still the best I have found on Linux.
What about xmms? It was basically a winamp clone, I used to use that on my Linux boxes 20+ years ago
Use Audacity. You can even load all the old Winamp skins.
You mean Audacious, right?
Yes, sorry, I always get them mixed up.
I have never found a Linux media player I liked (I don’t really like Sayonara). I would love Winamp for Linux!
Very cool but even 15 years ago or so when I moved to Linux, I was already over Winamp and using Foobar… Loved it
I’m kinda glad that my ears are not good enough to tell the difference between high end audio quality that I’ve never had to mess with enthusiast software like that. Ignorance is bliss.
It’s mostly all a meme. Most modern motherboards have good DAC+AMP built in, and 44.1kHz 16-bit is indistinguishable from 192kHz 32-bit or higher for most people. 75% of audio quality is your listening equipment, 20% is the quality of the source file (YouTube rips are shit), the last 5% is the rest of the pipeline unless you did something really stupid.
Sidenote: You can get a bit of a quality bump by knowing how to use Parametric EQ to compensate for imperfections of your listening equipment.
Absolutely. This video does a great job of debunking the myth. There’s a follow-up explaining why higher sampling has a place in audio mastering.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/cD7YFUYLpDc?feature=shared
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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.
They updated the OG as well for modern systems, I use it in NY office for my ripped “physical” collection.
Still whipping the llama’s ass all these years later! So glad this one never died. Way too much time getting all my music tags right so everything would be formatted correctly in Winamp when I was young.
This is the ONLY music player I found with a logical and reasonably laid out library.
Ever try Media Monkey?
MediaMonkey is the GOAT for ease of use and library management. Been using them for years since like 3.x, maybe 2.x.
All good until “for windows” fuck that.
Port it then, you coward, lol.
Winamp hasn’t seen real development in 20 years, and was exclusively a windows app at that time. What’re you expecting?
Yeah we’re cool 😎.
Audacious has support for Winamp skins and EQ presets, so you could call it a Winamp-like.
My guess is this is a win32 program or a codebase that is very Windows specific. It was probably discarded because it did not port very well to other platforms. Again, just a guess.
Still, it’s nice to see such a historicaly popular program get its source officially released.
It’s right there in the name . WINamp
isnt XMMS a port of something ?
That’s what I was thinking.
Nice. It’s still my favorite music player.
Before finding MediaMonkey Winamp was all I used. I like sticking to things I understand well.
If only MediaMonkey was on Linux
Be careful with MediaMonkey, it can incorrectly change your files.
I’ve got dozens, if not hundreds of songs where it’s changed the track number to the play count, and I’ve got a load where it’s decreased the volume by a significant amount, presumably as part of the volume leveling function.
I don’t use anything else to play or manage my music, and nothing has permission to affect it this way.
Nice. One of the only things I really miss about Windows. I hope somebody makes a linux port.
Millennials will see this and say “hell yeah”
I smashed that upvote button so hard. Whip that llamas ass
Hell nah. I moved to Plexamp years ago and nothing will bring me back.
‘Sweet.’
Also acceptable: Dope, dude, w-t-f, oh my God, holy shit, duuuuuude.
Gen X: Radical, gnarly, cowabunga, I want a living wage.
Tiiiiiight
No, no. We want a thriving wage at this point. This living wage BS isn’t getting us anywhere.
zOMG!!
Hell yeah!
Hell yeah brother!)
Twin turbskis?
I have unironically used Winamp since 2003, and I continue to do so now, even with a lossless passthrough DAC, lol
which skin are you using? post a screenshot , alongside your current playlist so we can be entertained
Here is my current playlist. Using the “modern” (blue background) skin.
1981-Time\09 - Lights Go Down.mp3
1974-Eldorado\03 - Boy Blue.mp3
1975-Face The Music\06 - Strange Magic.mp3
1979-Discovery\02 - Confusion.mp3
1981-Time\08 - From The End Of The World.mp3
1976-A New World Record\02 - Telephone Line.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\03 - Sweet Talkin Woman.mp3
1979-Discovery\05 - Last Train To London.mp3
1974-Eldorado\02 - Can’t Get It Out Of My Head.mp3
1981-Time\05 - The Way Life’s Meant To Be.mp3
1980-Xanadu\09 - All Over The World.mp3
1981-Time\10 - Here Is The News.mp3
1976-A New World Record\05 - So Fine.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\10 - Standin In The Rain.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\11 - Big Wheels.mp3
1981-Time\03 - Yours Truly 2095.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\12 - Summer And Lightning.mp3
1979-Discovery\07 - On The Run.mp3
1976-A New World Record\08 - Do Ya.mp3
1981-Time\04 - Ticket To The Moon.mp3
1979-Discovery\04 - The Diary Of Horace Wimp.mp3
1975-Face The Music\03 - Evil Woman.mp3
1979-Discovery\03 - Need Her Love.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\13 - Mr. Blue Sky.mp3
1980-Xanadu\08 - Dont Walk Away.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\01 - Turn To Stone.mp3
Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.
Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.
… which is also not open-source. But yeah, it’s areally good music player and organizer.
So, where can I get a fresh copy of Limewire?
if you’re being for real, it’s successor is this. though compared to other offerings these days I don’t really prefer to use it. open source and no ads tho so that’s cool.
I wasn’t, but thanks!
Screw limewire, soulseek is the way, an endless sea of perfectly organised music libraries, you’ll find what you want and stuff you didn’t know you needed.
The problem is when they’re perfectly organised in a different manner from what you expect :D
Perfectly organizing in 50 different ways has a name too
Now I’m sad that it already has a name - I don’t get to name my diagnosis.
/s
I organize them into
Source (Bandcamp, Deezer, etc) --> Artist - Album --> Files
It’s easy to navigate and makes handling multiple versions of the same album easy because they are seperated into source folders.
For the files themselves lately I’ve been doing something like
Country of Origin/Artist/Original Year - Album (Catalogue Number) (Release Year)/(used to do it without the country, but at one point they became way too many, and I don’t really like organising by letter or whatever). I love foobar2000 with Facets because of the fact that you can shove any arbitrary tag into the files and then have columns show it (I’m doing that with the countries for example), but I’m now suffering a bit because of that habit - I started also self hosting my library and Navidrome that I’m using doesn’t like just any tags that you throw at it (it especially doesn’t like it if you have multiple releases of the same album that have come out in the same year).Sorry but I gotta say it… having artist as a seperate folder is wild.
My view is that not having separate artist folders is wild, but hey, whatever works for you.
All in all however specific folder structure is not terribly important to me; what’s important is that the tags are in order and that I can make the app I’m using present the stuff in the manner that I want.
Do you share music on p2p services or do you just have a personal collection? The reason people don’t like seperate artist folder is because when sharing the folder it won’t include the artist name.
Yeah I judge them by how they organise their collection.
Thanks for this. I’d not heard of soulseek. I’m an *arr person with Usenet. It’ll be nice to see if I can find some rare / missing items.
I am a mildly net savvy person who only knows about torrents and file sharing. Can you point me to resources where I can learn more about Usenet? Also, what client and service do you use to access it? Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, R#ddit is still a great resource for that. Check out the /r/Piracy wiki.
To summarize, Usenet is made up by servers that host all the “newsgroups”, but nowadays newsgroups are used to share files (like email attachments).
You don’t need to know anything about Usenet itself, the things you need are three:
- an indexer (they let you find nzb files, like torrent files)
- a Usenet server subscription (where files are actually stored)
- a client to download from that server (nzbget and SABnzbd are the two most used)
Good luck!
Trashguides is a good place for the arr applications.
Tldr you’ll need a hoster, newshosting is what I use And an indexer drunkenslug is one I use. I have 6. Lol
Indexer is the search that points to the files hosted on the hoster.
Good luck!
Audiogalaxy for me. But then I love BBC radio dramas and I got I have no idea how many hours from there. Most of it lost now sadly.
Be cool, use Frostwire
