Winamp 5.9
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Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements to the overall user experience.
Surely you mean more efficiently. I would hate my music being speed up :-)
I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.
The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through notifications about topics I’m not interested in. I know there is a “turn off notifications” by conversation. But that’s not helpful when there are new conversations all the time.
But, luckily, we can easily integrate our chat with MS Stocks application, and, even better, with MS Power BI!
I have always impression that MS employees cannot use Teams, otherwise they would have noticed that something gone really wrong here. On the other hand, those are people who gave the World the (in)famous Windows Millennium Edition, so everything is possible.
This problem is an annoyance. The slowness of Teams, however, is unforgivable. There's no excuse why a chat app from 2022 should run slower on an 8 core Xeon with 64GB of RAM than MSN Messenger did on my Pentium box in 2000.
Now 1GB is not enough, not even with 2GB, that's borderline usable with XFCE4 and Alpine Linux and ZRAM (my Celeron notebook setup). You can browse stuff fine with UBo and Chromium with privacy and performance tweaks (git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters), but if you launch heavy stuff (Glibc gcompat stuff such as Teams) will keeping a bunch of tabs open, the speed grinds down a lot.
I don't use Windows all that often, and I've found that Outlook is much less annoying in a browser (even Firefox!) than the app. It feels less laggy.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients?...
Yes, I too find that all Office apps is faster on the Web.
I'm not overly familiar with that period's iTunes, but I remember when I bought my first iPod, a 4th gen click wheel (don't remember the year, but it was already an "older model" at the time) I was using Amarok on Linux on an AMD Thunderbird with 256 MB of RAM. That thing would fly. And it did more than Winamp: it had an actual DB-backed music library, iPod interface, etc.
Yet, a few years later, when I got a MacBook Pro with a dual-core CPU and 16 times the RAM, iTunes would still be painfully slow. And I don't remember it doing much more than Amarok. As a matter of fact, it was inferior on pretty much every metric I could think of.
This was years before YouTube was even founded
This is a hilarious statement to read, cause that's probably what 80% of people were using iTunes exclusively for and relegating their music listening to their iPod/iPhone, especially in the later part of the 00s.
Me neither, but I remember I was annoyed few times it took "ages" to load a "library" of few (thousands) tracks and then consumed considerable amount of RAM. Maybe TENS of megabytes even (!!1!).
So I remember the relief when I switched to Billy audio player [1], that was way more "spartan" and had just those few features I really needed, and then joy of even faster start time and negligible memory footprint.
[1] https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html (download is "temporarily off", but there are comparisons with Winamp and screensot).
I have Encarta 96, MS Bob, Windows Entertainment Pack (including SkiFree), Arcade (Asteroids/Missile Command/Centipede/Tempest), MS Golf 2, Cooking with Julia Child, Tonka Construction, Winamp, Netscape Navigator, Space Cadet Pinball, MS Works, etc. Even My Briefcase is there!
I turned on a sound profile so there are little jungle clicks everywhere. Mystify your Mind works great as a screensaver. The Microsoft Windows Sound still is clicky when it runs during boot. Great times.
Anyway Winamp 2 works like a charm and the j-hotkey still is unsurpassed in my experience for rapidly searching a music collection.
I’ll have to try with Windows but it’s apparent when running Mac OS 9 and early releases of OS X in qemu-ppc or SheepShaver — despite the machine the VM is running on being vastly more powerful the old Powebook G3 Pismo in my closet (modded with an SSD of course) feels more snappy.
What’d I’d really like to see is reproduction old hardware on modern process nodes with a modern port outlay, screen, etc. Something like that Pismo could easily fit on a card the size of an rPi compute element which would make it easy to fit in just about any laptop chassis imaginable.
Bonus point: https://www.foobar2000.org/mac (MacOS version)
No idea if there are some missing features that are exists on Windows version.
Thankfully foo runs flawlessly under WINE, plugins and all.
Winamp much better fit my workflow, which is: I wanna right-click a folder on my desktop that houses the specific album I want to play, click "Play in Winamp", and have the music player launch quietly in the system tray and throw up the occasional notification when the track changes.
I remember there were even faster ways to "playlistify" directory structure (as I wrote around here [1]).
- Install
- Turn off visualization
- Drag and drop folder full of audio on the main window
That's one of the things I like about it the most: I do a ton of reorganization of my audio, so the fact that foobar can run in 'dumb' mode is a godsend.
I think it's my longest used app in desktop already since previous millennium, followed by TCMD and IrfanView.
edit: tried to install new Winamp and unlike WACUP ir requires me to install also Microsoft Visual C++ which also requires computer restart, all of this to use dumb music player? not very user friendly, no other app in desktop missed it
Or is it a new project designed to be backwards compatible?
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I wanted to like WACUP but found it very crashy.
Sorry to hear you were having crashing issues. Mine has been stable but I also spent some time going through all the settings and dialing it in exactly as I wanted. I run it at 2x scaling on a 4K monitor and it looks terrific in all it's pixelated glory.
As for what place it has, I'm going to still make it because I've very clearly been made unwelcome to remain as a "winamp" user plus I don't like where it's owners are taking it with all of the ntf related stuff & taking the piss out of the user base for so long. So if I want to have something that can keep my plug-ins working then I've got to make my own player which is what I'm doing.
-dro
You're saying its a reimplementation of part of Winamp? Cool, I thought you were splicing in new functionality to the existing binaries
There's still some live patching / splicing needed for some of the plug-ins that are still re-used from 5.666 as part of the current beta builds along with WACUP having the ability to run minus EQ & modern skin without the winamp core exe. As there's a few things from that exe which the modern skin plug-in requires to work which I've yet to work out all of the interfaces to allow the plug-in to work. It's part of what's been holding up a new preview build as I just need to be as free from having to leverage bits from Winamp as possible.
-dro
But, we all know that iTunes did a lot more than just play music. And you can argue the merits of whether those things were good or not, but again, Winamp never stopped existing, and it never added the additional features people clearly wanted.
Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...
[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...
Not so much (with some little exceptions) for actual podcasts [1], but rather for managing my collection of various radio comedies – its handy being able to sync them over to my phone together with the rest of my music collection, but by manually setting their media type to "Podcast" [2] they don't clutter up my regular music library, I get the handy unlistened/listened visual indication, and it remembers the playback position in case I can't listen to an episode in one go [3].
[1] I was never that big a podcast listener, plus now that my mobile music player hardware has its own network connection (because it is in fact my phone) I can download episodes directly there without having to go via my computer.
[2] No longer possible on Mac in the post-iTunes age, and the successor Podcasts app apparently doesn't support manually adding files as episodes to it.
[3] Okay, so you can turn on remembering the playback position for any file in iTunes, i.e. even regular music files, but that doesn't work with my Android phone.
I'm using it right now, here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/NQ5y9Hi
-dro
Screen recording: https://imgur.com/a/P30wkNM
I know it's been fixed in one of the WACUP builds, but last time I tried I would have had to manually migrate my Winamp settings, which seemed to much of a bother given that I mostly use Winamp just for playing back one-off music files, so the partial lack of gapless playback is only slightly annoying.
Yes, it's disappointing.
But if it works, it works!
If I take my phone an place it over my desktop monitor, where I run winamp, the sizes roughly matches (in cm, I mean), so it would be possible to zoom the .bmp without stretching to much the pixels
[wine-6.0 (Ubuntu 6.0+repack-1ubuntu1)]
previous versions do work - I would first assume some VC++2019 feature that Wine hasn't added yet