Winamp for Windows 10
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He's been releasing new updates every few months for the last couple of years, and it's great. It's still how I use/listen to a lot of my old Media that's hard to find on streaming sites.
It also still supports the DSP plugins, a favourite of mine is Stereotool. I wish I could find a way to plug DSPs into Browsers for streaming from Youtube Music etc, but I haven't yet.
Anyway - Winamp isn't dead, it's still Whippin' the Llama's ass.
I'll always remember that soundbite that came with winamp. I'll have to download it again!
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-...
EDIT: Ok, after reading the comments, it seems that Winamp does indeed work in W10. So I guess that this "update" is not really necessary and this is just PR. I understand the reasons, but personally I've never felt the need to update.
How do you inspect the contents of an exe? Is there a program to do that?
Admittedly, I still use it frequently when I am too lazy to convert my CD rips to FLAC.
(Another fellow FB2k user here.)
All other image formats get parsed to recreate either an identical or approximate bitmap as would have been encoded into the BMP file, but usually with more features or smaller size, or both.
All other audio formats get parsed to recreate either an identical or approximate audiowave as would have been encoded into the WAV file, but usually with more features or smaller size, or both.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dd183376(...
Also now that many sources provide 24bit audio you need to check for that and resample to 16bit to be certain it'll work.
Didn't affect players or tools that used the top level api, but anything that interacted with the stack and its drivers had to be updated.
The others that I remember being scary in media reports contemporaneous with the Winamp-ish era were Ebola (discovered in the '70s, an outbreak in '95), and SARS (2003), but thankfully those never spread worldwide.
> 32.7 million [24.8 million–42.2 million] people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.
Hopefully covid-19 could end up causing ~10x fewer deaths.
And as an FYI, from the same UN site (abridged): Yearly HIV/AIDS deaths have been reduced by 60% since the peak in 2004. In 2019: 690k deaths. In 2004: 1.7M deaths.
Things weren't necessarily better in the past.
Technology and science developments help! It's not all tech gloom.
Actually, I take back what I said. Looking back at the perception of HIV/Aids (or "GRID" was it was originally known) it's terrifying in context because for a number of years there wasn't any idea about the nature of the disease nor how it spread - whereas with Covid we were able to narrow-down the virus' means of transmission within months.
True, but with the near instant access to records of events via the Internet, we should try to maintain a distinction between what we remember/experienced and the digital chronicles of the era. I get the feeling that this is going to be even more critical going forward.
I think you have hit on something very important to internalize though. We tend to look at the past, and especially our youth, through rose tinted glasses. It's important to maintain a realistic perspective on history as it relates to the current day, especially because we know more about the past now than we did then.
My mom thinks the 1960s were a wonderful time to be a kid because that's when she was a kid. She might be right, but I struggle to say civilization was better in 1960 than in 1990 or even 2020. It's all a matter of perspective.
To put it another way if we think the world was best in our youth we probably also think it went to hell when we became adults and started looking around.
Politically as point out by a book who we are (the we is American), the American dream as a furnace where all race lives happily together as American x (American American, American Mexican, American Italian ...). Obviously not paradise but the dream is alive.
2. Economically you have the chinese factor which raise up as cheap and very good labour source. And the America get the most of the value added. And the chinese seem to learn and even taste of democracy even (many experiment). Look like it is going to be end of history as all towards market based. Then Soviet Union collapse reinforced the good world.
3. The liberal of internet by a on letting commerical use of internet or at least access. The raising wave of a then liberal media (not to steal personal data in the west or monitor each movement by china).
That were all good and great. Hence 15-25 years ago the world is good.
We are suffered for the dream is not really happen.
The furnace concept is no good as many parts are not merging. They retain their only identity not as a property of American, and America whilst much better than china as more accomodating but nit sure how to deal with its elements.
China turns out is not towards a liberal country at all. Whilst based on its history it might be more left than EU but still one nay hope. But that hope dash and we have a Soviet Union v2.0 totalitarian communist spying race hating religion intolerance country, except this time it is all in USA economy. Fight it you hurt yourselves. And they steal so much you have not much left if not like the rest of the world surrender to its demand. Imagine Harvard today has to worry about its free speech in zoom is unimaginable in 15-25 years ago. Instead it may have to be silence to protect its student from a law in a tidy place called Hong Kong.
Internet is still free and liberal in nature. But it was cut so that country like china can go out and get what you want but Mit the other way round. I use vpn and pretend to be in Uk. I cannot even access many chinese site. But their TikTok and wechat can go to everywhere. Even their citizen is under the spell or monitoring overseas. It is so one sided good luck to the good side of internet. The bad side of access non stop meant monitoring 24 hours, by commerical or national nature.
After great saint you come great thief as Lao Tse has warned.
It's classic isn't? :)
I mean again, I'm currently using Audacious, which even supports Winamp 2 skins, so it's pretty much the same aesthetically. And it works well enough for my workflow (which is that I rarely ever actually look at my media player--I just want to queue something to play and have it run it my system tray, with Play/Pause available through MPRIS or media keys).
Maybe there's better software out there, but I've yet to find it.
You're right to be worried about what software you run, but Russia is not necessarily the most relevant threat actor. Take this as an opportunity to develop your threat model and apply mitigations where sensible.
On a serious note, there's thousands of ex-USSR coders involved in many important software projects. Does it really worry you? It does worry me as long as the software is not Free or at least Open Source, but then it doesn't really matter where the coders came from.
choco install -y foobar2000I never could get over the way they get you to install it with the equivalent of piping curl into. Or the way it kept advertising the paid version, which is really disconcerting when something has become effectively the only way to manage what software you have installed (or will be eventually).
But to your second point, I don't think of chocolatey as a package manager to rely on. I just see it as an alternative download location, and uninstall the software through the Control Panel later.
they haven’t had a package injected with malware is impressive
We use it via the ChocolateyGet PS provider. I.e. installing most software (but not all) is now just 'Find-Package foobar' and 'Install-Package winamp' etc.
http://www.foobar2000.org/ however is a pretty straight forward site.
Also if you're not paying enough attention, the default signing into the Windows Store is to turn your local Windows login into a Microsoft Account login.
Reminds me of the Benjamin Franklins qoute
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Just replace security with convenience. Also, yeah thats super melodramatic, but it is qualitatively the same imo.
Does anyone know of an equivalent for the Mac?
For this reason I've been resorting to using mpv as an audio player, even though it's interface is not really designed with music playback in mind.
There's a "Edit -> Preferences -> Playback -> Prevent screensaver & monitor standby option when playing" option which I have enabled, but playback still pauses when I turn off the screen.
I have read that I have to adjust my Win 10 power saving options but I was wondering that surely there's a better way. Microsoft's Groove player can play with the screen off without adjusting my current power options.
What I wanted to do is mirror the stereo signal playing from the front speakers to the back speakers. Simple really, but Foobar2000 was the only player that could do that out of the box.
Happy to see Winamp isn't completely done, been using it since 1999
I remember it! Oh My God! This was 15 years ago...
(To bring things back on topic, I believe a couple of people involved in Songbird was previously related to Winamp.)
I remember the XULRunner meetups with them, in Mozilla HQ where the Moz people were basically saying:
- OK, our product is Firefox. We focus on fixing bugs that affect Firefox, so if the bug in XULRunner doesn't affect it you're on your own. Feel free to send a patch.
- Yeah we did that, the patch have been sitting in Bugzilla for 2 years
- ... shrug
Anyway even with full support of Mozilla they probably wouldn't have survived to iTunes+iPod, but clearly using a technology that the vendor has no interest in didn't help them.
Here is a collection of the best 9,795 presets that I curated. https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-coll...
Winamp 5.8 Beta was indeed first leaked and then officially released over at the official website https://www.winamp.com/
Among other things, it has better support for Windows 10.
And this happened two years ago.
All on their forums:
- http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373755 - http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=453675
It doesn't get much more basic...
Theoretical purity aside (being an everything player, transcoder, etc instead of just an audio player) it is simple to use and lightweight enough (e.g. just opened an mp3 file and VLC's memory usage was ~25MB), at least for modern PCs.
Really? Winamp looks the same to me as it did 20 odd years ago.
Maybe there are different versions? I have 5.65 released in 2013. It's exactly what you describe as wanting.
My needs are simple: I just need an MP3 track to play when I double-click on it, I have no intention to bother setting up a dedicated media system in the age of Spotify.
Groove does the job, and it even shows a nice, minimalist and no-frills UI while at it.
The new plugin is not configurable. This is a shame, as I like to listen to my chiptunes without interpolation for instance. Hope this changes for the coming releases!!
https://web.archive.org/web/20131026034615/http://koti.welho...
I always used Winamp as my music player, since 90's. Current version on it's files details says "version 5.6.6.3516 / Copyright 1997-2013 Nullsoft Inc". Never had any issues with it, dunno why they said that.
Another one is NullSoft's Visual Debris by Brennan Underwood.
Aside: if it's back as well, and I'm just unaware, apologies.
https://www.reaper.fm/index.php
The way this software runs so efficiently and in such a minimal footprint... is amazing.
Though, I see the version on offer at the official website is still the 5.8 beta. Same build I've been running for at least a year.
JetAudio was similar to Winamp, and arguable better in my opinion, because I can toggle the playlist window, and completely hide the player UI. I use it even today since 2006.
I used to have a ton of fun developing presets for the visualization plugins - AVS(Advanced Visualization Studio) and Milkdrop.. are those still functional?
Cloud streaming did improve some things