After 15 Years Of Whipping The Llama’s Ass, Winamp Shuts Down

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  1. Posts : 14,606
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       #50

    exactly pat, thats why i made sure i have my plug in s and skins and the latest version , so in future installs im covered.

    its a shame they are doing away with it but i doubt it will make a huge difference to those continuing to use it.
    i have it set up really simply.
    i dont let it view my libraries i browse my music folder then choose an album select all and play thats it i use cpro skins and have a small thin player that sits above the taskbar , its ideal for when im browsing too as the thin player sits neatly on the add on bar in firefox
    like so...

    -wamp.jpg
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  2. Posts : 12,364
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       #51

    jimbo45 said:

    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 !!).
    lol. So never then


    boohbah said:
    exactly pat, thats why i made sure i have my plug in s and skins and the latest version , so in future installs im covered.

    Looks good. yeah, even I'm downloading and grabbing updates "for the in case" scenario.
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  3. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #52

    I too plan on continuing to use it for as long as it will install in my OS. I've always used the Lite version and that is just too small, clean, and simple to give up at this point.

    Unfortunately, I believe MS would buy Winamp for either patent shenanigans or code mining. I doubt we would see a resurrection.
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  4. Posts : 5,941
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       #53

    Hi there.

    Well here's another user who won't give up on this until I absolutely HAVE TO -- by then music will probably be streamed DIRECTLY into your brains without the need of a computer anyway !!.

    Give some young kids a ball point pen and they haven't a clue what to do with it anyway apart from probably looking at it as some sort of strange weapon and thinking about how to stab their neighbours with it -- so the future might be closer than you think.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  5. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #54

    [QUOTE=jimbo45;2603230]
    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    Alejandro85 said:
    ...

    I really doubt it. Most times MS buy a competing product they have the sole intention to destroy and let it die...
    That doesn't make sense here. Why would M$ buy Winamp just to let it die when AOHell is already doing that?

    Alejandro85;2603093...or to modify it in such a way that will ruin it just to adapt to their "standard"...[/QUOTE said:

    Now, that does make sense. In fact, I already mentioned that possibility.
    Hi there
    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
    I agree that English speakers need to stabilize the language instead of allowing to degrade.

    The part about Gracenote is intriguing but I have no clue how to implement it. A tutorial on how to do so would be nice. Btw, MediaMonkey comes in both a free and a paid version (the paid version has a lifetime license).
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  6. Posts : 184
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       #55

    I use VLC - it plays music from folders simply by choosing 'Media' in the Menu at the top of the player and then navigating to your folder.
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  7. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #56

    kenC said:
    I use VLC - it plays music from folders simply by choosing 'Media' in the Menu at the top of the player and then navigating to your folder.
    Hi there.

    VLC works of course but the GUI isn't really nice for some Audio stuff. The other thing is VLC doesn't have decent Ripping facilities or good music track retrieval (GRACENOTE) info facilities although I'm sure at some stage somebody will probably build those in to it.

    I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  8. Posts : 6,292
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       #57

    jimbo45 said:

    I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

    jimbo
    Yep. I do!
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  9. Posts : 1,686
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    Thread Starter
       #58

    TVeblen said:
    jimbo45 said:

    I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

    jimbo
    Yep. I do!
    Yep I do too. Winamp for music. VLC for video etc.
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  10. Posts : 22
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1 with Media Center
       #59

    Am still using Quintessential Player & that went the dodo back in 2004, So Winamp got a few more years of use i think.
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