Goodbye Winamp :(
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I have been using winamp since about 1998 and still use it now...with the classic skin so it still looks just like it used to!!!
I stopped using Winamp decades ago,noways I normally use the applications in Windows or Linux etc...
i would have kept that to the anonymous confessions thread.
You sir, are cold as ice!
I use foobar but before that I used to use WinAmp. Not sure why I stopped really, I think I reimaged once and just didn't reinstall it. 
Hopefully Microsoft do not get hold of it, I expect if they do they'll butcher it and try to force all the WinAmp users onto Zune or some other crap. Let it go open source instead IMO.
Hopefully Microsoft do not get hold of it, I expect if they do they'll butcher it and try to force all the WinAmp users onto Zune or some other crap. Let it go open source instead IMO.
Lysander, that looks terrible.
Let me know if you want this skin, I made it
I just use the default/classic skin, all skins I have tried in the past (in the early years of winamp) mess with the buttons too much and I don't like that
Yeah the target changes all the time. It's just benchmarks.
Out of Fimo?
good lad.
it's kind of ironic you're saying foobar looks dated in a winamp thread. at least it looks like a windows application and not something you'd be running on linux in the mid 90s.
you could give Songbird a try.
admittedly it was a few years ago now but it was the buggiest piece of crap i ever tried. although all my files are tagged in an identical manner (i really am quite anal
), it only read tags from half of them. and it would randomise which files it would read from on a restart. needless to say, it didn't last long. 
Used Winamp since 1998 and the modern skin since I discovered it. I'll keep on using Winamp until it breaks Windows, or Windows breaks it. Anything more than the basic music player window with equaliser looks gash.
Just because operating systems these days come with built-in media players, it doesn't meant we shouldn't explore better options. What a very boring world it would be if everybody just used Windows 8 and the built-in music player to play their songs!
I used winamp a lot back in the day.
Everybody did though as windows didn't have native support for MP3
Folks remember with fondness the classic winamp not the commercial **** of recent years.
winamp and napster they peaked at the same time and should have died at the same time.
Everybody did though as windows didn't have native support for MP3
Folks remember with fondness the classic winamp not the commercial **** of recent years.
winamp and napster they peaked at the same time and should have died at the same time.
If it wasn't for cPro (http://cpro.skinconsortium.com/) adding better functionality into winamp such an inline playlist search!, chapter a-b repeat lists!, and just giving skinners an easier way to make decent skins (at least some) then I think I would have jumped ship years back.
Though it would have been hard seeing as there is just less flaws in winamps design compared to other players. And it still has a lot of really good plugins that just add to its already great base functionality.
Also prefere the single user interface with the awesome media library with smart views built in.
The only thing missing from winamp was a proper tabbed playlist interface like aimp3 with the options to control it for when adding songs from medialibrary or external opening mp3. It's a shame aimp3 has that stupid old style winamp2 design of seperated interfaces before it was possible unify the components into a proper seamless SUI, while its media library is the ultra suck it doesn't even look like it fits in.
foobar is just a joke, still its lightweight which is code for bare minimum crap to me, its like it never left beta, and things winamp provides out of the box you need to spend a lot of time setting up like columns ui.. sure you can get something reasonable in the end for one specific type of gui setup (actually skinning it is a nightmare), and its media library is crap and very much a player centered around just playlists and album art really no comparison to everything winamp brings to the table along along with its +plugins+cpro+skins etc
I'll be keeping my winamp setup for as long as I'm still using windows, hopefully if its open sourced it can finally get a new life fork instead of being left in stagnation like it has for so long under AOL.
Though it would have been hard seeing as there is just less flaws in winamps design compared to other players. And it still has a lot of really good plugins that just add to its already great base functionality.
Also prefere the single user interface with the awesome media library with smart views built in.
The only thing missing from winamp was a proper tabbed playlist interface like aimp3 with the options to control it for when adding songs from medialibrary or external opening mp3. It's a shame aimp3 has that stupid old style winamp2 design of seperated interfaces before it was possible unify the components into a proper seamless SUI, while its media library is the ultra suck it doesn't even look like it fits in.
foobar is just a joke, still its lightweight which is code for bare minimum crap to me, its like it never left beta, and things winamp provides out of the box you need to spend a lot of time setting up like columns ui.. sure you can get something reasonable in the end for one specific type of gui setup (actually skinning it is a nightmare), and its media library is crap and very much a player centered around just playlists and album art really no comparison to everything winamp brings to the table along along with its +plugins+cpro+skins etc
I'll be keeping my winamp setup for as long as I'm still using windows, hopefully if its open sourced it can finally get a new life fork instead of being left in stagnation like it has for so long under AOL.