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[–] [email protected] 240 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It really whips the llama's ass.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

I can still hear this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Came here to say that. Somebody better warn the llama.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Millennials will see this and say "hell yeah"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I smashed that upvote button so hard. Whip that llamas ass

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

'Sweet.'

Also acceptable: Dope, dude, w-t-f, oh my God, holy shit, duuuuuude.

Gen X: Radical, gnarly, cowabunga, I want a living wage.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

No, no. We want a thriving wage at this point. This living wage BS isn't getting us anywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times... Real good times.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You could actually set it to change skin on every song in playlist. Great feature if you were skin hoarder like me.

For anyone wanting to get a nostalgia hit: Winamp Skin Museum

Edit: Spelling

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

The best part was the commercially "exploited" parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

FYI there's a stand alone version of milkdrop but on crack called nest drop

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is the ONLY music player I found with a logical and reasonably laid out library.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I still remember mine somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago

It really whips the llama's ass

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (5 children)

If this gets updated and ported to Linux, I'd switch. Until then, Sayonara Player is still the best I have found on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. As much as I'm a Foobar2000 fan, it's not open source. Looks like I'll be giving Winamp another spin soon.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (5 children)

So, where can I get a fresh copy of Limewire?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (14 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have unironically used Winamp since 2003, and I continue to do so now, even with a lossless passthrough DAC, lol

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No mention of a license but it talks about being the "official version", suggesting one can fork it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm still using Winamp 2.91. I'm just too used to it to change. Now, if someone added Flac support to the same interface, I'd be happy. And if someone ported it to Linux and Android, I'd pay big bucks for it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Not sure if that version supports them, but there's a FLAC plugin for Winamp.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have mine configured as a background service with a Rainmeter desktop widget to play music at a moment's notice. Works better than any official Windows option.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Just like everyone else, at one point I used WinAMP, then when they started the upgrade to new and significantly more hardware demanding version I switched to Aimp, which to this day I use as mobile application. Am no longer on Windows, but I still miss those applications. VLC simply doesn't fit that role of a music player.

Open sourcing WinAMP means we'll probably get a ported version for Linux, which I am very much looking forward to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While xmms is dead there's qmmp. Supports xmms and winamp 2 skins.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, I mean I loved Winamp, but streaming ease of use pretty much killed it. Even then, I've been Linux Desktop forever, and other options there with better network and non-file aware media management tools kinda took over. Would love to see them make it as extensible as VLC though, even just for the nostalgic purposes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

As a Linux user, check out Strawberry. The name isn't great, but the player makes up for it

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Switched to Linux in 2005 or 2006. Been missing Winamp ever since. :) Finally.

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