Haha, I still use and love windows media player.............ha.
When that fails (rarely) to play what I want I use vlc...
Several hundred?
I have multiple playlists.
My main one has >8700 tracks in it.
My next largest playlist has >1000 tracks in it.
Metro GUI Winamp?This just in! M$ is allegedly showing an interest in buying and saving Winamp. See here.
Edit: Upon further thought, I can just see M$ revising Winamp to look and operate like Win 8.
That will definitely kill Winamp once and for all.
IMO, WMP 10 was the last good version.
WMP 12 destroyed the meta data on ~900 of my mp3s (when I tried during the W7 Betas).
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I always prefered Media Player Classic to this one, but it has been in its time THE player. I for sure won't be sad for this.
Anyway, there is no need for crying. The only thing that goes away is support and future versions, everything else will work EXACTLY in the same way as it always has, provided you've downloaded it beforehand. Just download before it shuts down, install, and enjoy "forever". Just remember to backup that installer.
I really doubt it. Most times MS buy a competing product they have the sole intention to destroy and let it die, or to modify it in such a way that will ruin it just to adapt to their "standard". The best for Winamp is to just disappear before being bough by MS.
That doesn't make sense here. Why would M$ buy Winamp just to let it die when AOHell is already doing that?
[QUOTE=Alejandro85;2603093...or to modify it in such a way that will ruin it just to adapt to their "standard"...[/QUOTE]
Now, that does make sense. In fact, I already mentioned that possibility.
[QUOTE=Lady Fitzgerald;2603108]That doesn't make sense here. Why would M$ buy Winamp just to let it die when AOHell is already doing that?
Hi thereAlejandro85;2603093...or to modify it in such a way that will ruin it just to adapt to their "standard"...[/QUOTE said:
I suppose Ms will be wanting to (in that Ghastly word -- come on all you English Native Speakers -- SAVE YOUR LANGUAGE -- you need something like the French have : https://www.google.co.uk/#q=academie+francaise) "Monetise" the product.
For anyone interested here's a link to the GRACENOTE API so I think people like Media Monkey etc should - especially for a 50 USD product - allow people to CHOOSE the database used for track retrieval - or provide all of them.
https://developer.gracenote.com/web-api
Cheers
jimbo
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MS buying WinAmp? That will kill it for sure.
After reading through this thread, it occurred to me that why not just simply keep using it instead of looking for alternatives?
It's not as if it's time bombed to stop working is it?
Hi there.
Looking at 'OZ slaughtering the Brits in the "Gabbatoir" at the 1st Test I thought if it were time-bombed it probably would be set to stop working the next time the Brits win the ashes in 'OZ - or in another word's the worlds FIRST Y3K project (Year 3,000 is NOT a Leap year !!).
Cheers
jimbo
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