Anyone else miss Winamp?

[Digby]

I think this was the first media player I used, before Windows Media Player was even a thing. It was great, very intuitive. The playlist was right there in front of you, along with all the controls you needed, and an easy access EQ to boot. Well organised and nothing buried inside layers of menus.

Am I just being nostalgic or have things been downhill ever since?

 

[Berwhale]

It got re-animated...

Discover the best artists in the Fanzone - Winamp

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www.winamp.com

 

[restorer-john]

It was cool. Just worked and had virtually no impact on the systems of the day.

They even have a skins museum!

Winamp Skin Museum

Infinite scroll through 80k Winamp skins with interactive preview

skins.webamp.org

The Winamp Skin Museum lets you relive the wonderful chaos of late-’90s computing

It really whips the llama’s ass.

www.theverge.com

 

[Blumlein 88]

The guy who made Winamp sold it. Now he is the guy who makes the Reaper DAW.

 

[AudiOhm]

Winamp...WOW bringing back memories of all the mp3's I downloaded from Napster...

Ohms

 

[kemmler3D]

The good old days when your choice of audio player meant something and UI design was left to anyone with a pirated copy of photoshop. Nary a llama's ass been whipped in many a year.

 

[Kulagin]

I think this was the first media player I used, before Windows Media Player was even a thing. It was great, very intuitive. The playlist was right there in front of you, along with all the controls you needed, and an easy access EQ to boot. Well organised and nothing buried inside layers of menus.

Am I just being nostalgic or have things been downhill ever since?

What are you using nowadays? I'm still using Winamp to play local audio files.

 

[jae]

Old winamp was great. Foobar has been the de facto standard on windows for quite some time. A bit of a chore to fully customize it, although rewarding.

 

[Smitty2k1]

What are you using nowadays? I'm still using Winamp to play local audio files.

Foobar2000

 

[DVDdoug]

I still use it, with the SqrSoft "smart" crossfader. (I don't actually "fade"... I set it for an overlap when the 1st file drops to -18dB)

 

[fpitas]

The good old days when your choice of audio player meant something and UI design was left to anyone with a pirated copy of photoshop. Nary a llama's ass been whipped in many a year.

Which may be for the best. The neighbors had some, they have a vicious kick.

 

[Rednaxela]

I’ve never enjoyed managing a playlist.

 

[henologist]

I also still use Winamp just for Milkdrop. Music visualizers never improved from there; new ones are usually overpriced and/or locked down, lacking in presets, or totally unsupported. Everything else Winamp did has been done better since by foobar2000 and MusicBee, but I still think it has a particular aesthetic appeal, as you see in the skin museum and modern references to it like Tunebox in Hypnospace Outlaw.

 

[Scrappy]

It really whips the llama’s ass

 

[Digby]

Can one make foobar look like winamp - essentially current track, then EQ, then playlist?

 

[notsodeadlizard]

Audacious - An Advanced Audio Player

audacious-media-player.org

It's good (especially for an external usb dac) and supports winamp skins

 

[F1308]

The guy who made Winamp sold it. Now he is the guy who makes the Reaper DAW.

I just saw this post.

Is it true ?

I am still using Winamp, controlled from Android via Ampwifi, and after testing some DAWs for months I finally went with REAPER.

I think both are truly astounding.

 

[pseudoid]

I think this was the first media player I used, before Windows Media Player was even a thing. It was great, very intuitive. The playlist was right there in front of you, along with all the controls you needed, and an easy access EQ to boot. Well organised and nothing buried inside layers of menus.

Am I just being nostalgic or have things been downhill ever since?

I just bumped into this thread and I can be similarly accused!
Who am I to tell you to get with the program but no need to throw out the baby with the bath water!
Have you tried the Ruskie AIMP, FREEware media-player (which is actively updated)?

You can get as nostalgic as you want... once you learn to navigate the 'skins'.

 

[Beershaun]

New winamp is now live!

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player.winamp.com

 

[Svperstar]

Old winamp was great. Foobar has been the de facto standard on windows for quite some time. A bit of a chore to fully customize it, although rewarding.

I switched from Winamp to Foobar back in the mid 2000s like a lot of audiophiles. I haven't used Foobar in years so I don't know if they fixed the bug but in the Windows XP days I would shut down Foobar, turn it back on and BAM all my settings would be gone. It was so annoying. There was no rhyme or reason, sometimes after a couple days, sometimes after a couple months.

Setting up Foobar the way you like it was a big pain in the ass in those days, so after the 10th time of getting home, and turning on my PC and having all of my settings wiped I quit Foobar.

Got sick of it so I floated around. Ended up finding MusicBee. MusicBee works perfectly out of the box and I lucked out that the author and I have similar tastes so the default MusicBee experience is very similar to how I had my Foobar setup. I just pick one of the dark skins and I am good to go. Also supports internet radio and podcasts.

MusicBee - The Ultimate Music Manager and Player

The Ultimate Music Manager and Player. MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find, and play music files on your Windows computer, portable devices and on the web

www.getmusicbee.com