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@Alpha71@lemmy.world
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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.

@tabular@lemmy.world
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@btaf45@lemmy.world
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I wonder what language it is in and what compiler is needed? I’m tempted to make some of my own tweaks when the source is released.

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

Nice. One of the only things I really miss about Windows. I hope somebody makes a linux port.

Optional
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Favorite skin? The NASA one. Perfection: Achieved.

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

Flying Squid
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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.

Before finding MediaMonkey Winamp was all I used. I like sticking to things I understand well.

@HereToLurk@lemmy.world
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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

@woelkchen@lemmy.world
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First: Surprised it still exists.

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

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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.

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.

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

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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

BlanketsWithSmallpox
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Ah. This is great. It even plays the music

bean
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This! 😵‍💫

All good until “for windows” fuck that.

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.

germtm.
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Audacious has support for Winamp skins and EQ presets, so you could call it a Winamp-like.

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 😎.

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.

@bluemite@lemmy.world
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As a Linux user, check out Strawberry. The name isn’t great, but the player makes up for it

germtm.
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as a former AIMP user, i second the Strawberry choice.

bruhduh
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Millennials will see this and say “hell yeah”

@ATDA@lemmy.world
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I smashed that upvote button so hard. Whip that llamas ass

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Hell nah. I moved to Plexamp years ago and nothing will bring me back.

BlanketsWithSmallpox
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‘Sweet.’

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

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

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

Next can we get ICQ?

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