Wow this brings me back. What is winamp used for these days?
Whipping the llamas music.
Whipping the llamas ass
That saucy llama!
To play music.
Like, ripped mp3s like the old days?
Nothing wrong with how it was done back then, I still do the same today
No nothing, I just didn’t think anyone did this anymore. I don’t even have any CDs anymore
I refuse to pay for a subscription where I don’t own the music. CD’s, records, tapes - I still do it. I do need to start ripping mp3’s off YouTube more though - just a matter of time before shit starts disappearing
So, where can I get a fresh copy of Limewire?
Be cool, use Frostwire
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.
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!
The problem is when they’re perfectly organised in a different manner from what you expect :D
Yeah I judge them by how they organise their collection.
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.
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
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.
Finally! Couple weeks back I downloaded it again for the first time in probably 10 years and it really made me wonder why they basically fucked it up and abandoned it
Woohoo!
Favorite skin? The NASA one. Perfection: Achieved.
this is cool but what is the point now given all the options today and the way we listen to music now?
Even back then the real power of winamp was in plugins. You can’t get away with the truly hacky crap and windows anymore.
The only thing I really cared for back in the day was visualization and the aggressive crossfade plugin.
No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?
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.
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.
Same. My only gripe is that the ui doesn’t scale at all which makes it hard to use on 4K.
Apparently the newer version fixed that issue but it’s not default. If you update it you can mess around with it in the settings.
There’s someone in the comment here that explains it.
Switched to Linux in 2005 or 2006. Been missing Winamp ever since. :) Finally.
So you haven’t used XMMS, BMP, Audacious, QMMP?..
I did, mostly Audacious and Amarok. But, deserved or not, winamp has a special place in the heart of almost everyone in my generation.
I can confirm this. I still use the fucker
I meant that all the mentioned support Winamp skins, and XMMS/BMP/Audacious are, eh, almost as esteemed.
Meanwhile https://github.com/XMMS2 has been open source from the start.
And it’s also a dead app. No thank you.
Last time I tried it there was no view library like Winamp. Nope. At that point just use VLC or MPV.
Audacious also has a mode that looks like winamp. I think it even supports winamp skins.
I loved audacious and it was my xmms replacement. I don’t really use local media players these days as everything is on my plex server.
It’s still good now :)
OK, I’m confused.
I have seen 2 different articles that claim WinAmp is NOt going to be open sourced. At least in the common sense. But rather kind - of - sort - of - but - not - really.
Here is a https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/winamp-is-not-going-open-source-heres-what-it-is-doing-and-why/ ZDNET article about it.
They are open sourcing, just keeping a proprietary license on it. Yes, it’s weird, but it is not unheard of. The Unreal game engine’s entire source code is open, anyone can read or submit changes to it. Even make changes and distribute said changes. But it’s still a proprietary product owned by Epic Games, and commercial use is strictly controlled under the licensing terms. Open doesn’t mean Free (as in beer), or Freedom (licensing). Those are three different things. It is just that people have associated the term open source with the entire Free and Open Source Software philosophy. But they aren’t the same thing.
ZDNET is wrong, Winamp is open sourcing their code. The article is obtuse and refuses to elaborate or provide reasons about their claim that Winamp isn’t open sourcing.
it cannot be open source with that level of corporate control
Why?
It not only can, we have several examples of corporate products that are open source precisely like this with this level of control.
Open source requiring a specific license is a decades old debate that continues to this day. We have like a million different licenses and people argue and bicker all the time about which ones are Truly Open source ™ and which ones aren’t. It’s all legalese that make most people have headaches. But there’s one crux on this whole thing: Open source does not preclude commercialization of software. This is why people are proposing the term source-available software. Winamp might go for that model and the debate would still go on.
It is NOT open source. There is a meaning behind that specific term and they are said it in their announcement that they are only “opening up its source”. Don’t use that term for this.
A lot of companies are starting to do this most people are referring to it as source available rather than open source. I’m kind of surprised I don’t just turn it into an electron app and get it over with.
Thanks for the explanation!
There is a different term for that:source-available
Next can we get ICQ?
Uh oh!
I use that sound for notifications to this dy.
Fuck I forgot my number
I still remember mine somehow.
I remember mine, but it’s cause mine is only 7 digits
Mine is 8, so I was behind you I guess.
I joined in the first month, and was still in the 8 million range. ICQ exploded when it launched.
When did it launch? I remember making my account at sometime in 1999.
Hell, I googled mine and can’t find any info so I’ll share it here, fuck it. 91369100
8833052 I joined in the first month
I still remember mine too. I wonder what useful information I could remember if I didn’t remember shit like this?
It really whips the llama’s ass.
Came here to say that. Somebody better warn the llama.
I can still hear this.
Baaaaaa! 🦙
I don’t like animal abuse but I make an exception for llamas
How else will they learn to not eat hands?
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!!
