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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 117 points 2 months ago

I use Winamp on my PC.

First of all, it respects albums. Other players like VLC and Fubar2000 would order the songs alphabetically; it's annoying. Also in the "artist" list "The Beatles" comes right after "Beasty Boys" the way God intended.

Second it has an "always on top" feature so you can easily control it while gaming.

Winamp was made for people who listen to music the way I do. You know, old people.

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 19 points 2 months ago

I am still looking to find an alternative to winamp that does the album sorting well

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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Even just using PC programs makes me feel old in this day and age. That said, I am the same age as Windows XP...

[-] Syn_Attck 19 points 2 months ago

That said, I am the same age as Windows XP...

Jesus Christ, get off my lawn! What is a 10 year old doing unsupervised on the internet??

checks Wikipedia

Windows XP 2001-10-25

Damn, you're old enough to drink.

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[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

That still makes you a young'un then, maybe just an old soul?

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[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Hah! I’m as old as MS-DOS 2.0! (But really got comfortable using computers on my own with Windows 95/98/NT 4.0)

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

...I was already eight years old when MS-DOS 1.0 was released.

Ugh.

At least I'm likely to die of old age before the resource wars really get kicking.

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 months ago

winamp Winamp WINAMP!

It Really Whips The Lamas Ass!

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Llama noise

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 71 points 2 months ago

We used to own our music!

Totally didn’t download all of it from LimeWire.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

DAE had that one copy of a song that everyone shared with a glitch during the second verse, and now you find it jarring to hear the song without that artifact.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

I have an old copy of "American Pie" from Napster just like that. Couple little glitches at the start that gave me a twitch for years if I didn't hear it.

It's also what I tell people who like the sound of vinyl. The pops and hisses of vinyl are objectively wrong, but you can get subjectively used to hearing things a certain way. It's not better, it's just what you have always done.

Even that all said, I do like listening to vinyl because the whole process of listening to it is very deliberate. Like I'm preparing for an event and this is what I'll be doing for the evening.

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[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 25 points 2 months ago

I miss when you could buy CDs and rip them to your computer so if your shitty mp3 died, you could just move everything on there.

Degrees of freedom revoked

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

What's stopping you from doing that now?

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seriously. Everyone complains about how it was so much better back then, when you owned your music on physical media.

Meanwhile, the choice of music available to buy on CD's (and even LP's) has never been greater than today.
Plus, you can easily download whatever you want from any streaming service and burn your own CD's (but please don't do that, it violates the TOS and copyright!)

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Or you can buy DRM-free music files at higher quality than was ever available on physical media outside of niche formats that were never widely adopted. Costs are not outrageous and you can listen to them however you like on whatever device you like, and the artists actually get paid and there’s no question of legality.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

I bought a CD of Green Day's "American Idiot" and tried to rip it. The version still sold these days has some kind of copy protection on it that gives rippers fits (which isn't very punk rock of them). Tried a few different things, and then gave up and downloaded somebody else's flac rip.

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 65 points 2 months ago

27 years later, it still really whips the llama's ass

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

27 years later

You stop that right now!

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 months ago

I recently began de-corpoing my life, and spotify is my most recent cancellation after I was a premium subscriber since soon after its launch.

Took a bit of effort to convert my library, but I found a useful app to automate the process. And now I have my library back, offline and on my devices forever and for free.

It's actually kind of empowering, reclaiming your life from subscription hell and corporate voyeurism.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

This is one of those things that I dream of doing one of these days. I'd love to have a massive media library stored locally, so that I'm not chained to streaming services.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is today.

Also, Amazon Music sells DRM-free MP3 files, if you don't feel like sailing.

[-] reev@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Or just buy on Bandcamp if the artist is on there. Support artists really directly (they get 85-90% of what you pay for an item) and you usually get a royalty free lossless download as well as subscription-less streaming.

Hope recent dealings doesn't fuck up this absolute gem of a site.

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[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

It still whips the llamas ass on one of my machines.

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[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 months ago

winamp can play online stuff too

AND offline stuff

and it has skins

and its free

and it has no ads

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aside from eminem and robbie whoever, i definitely have a playlist on winamp on my computer right now with those exact songs in it

Edit: replied to completely wrong comment, soz

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

If you weren't staring at a zooming vortex visualization while high on shrooms, you were missing out.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I was staring at it completely sober. I think it still produced the same effect.

[-] shuzuko@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

Definitely did. Dad was a stoner, I was too young to get stoned, we both sat and watched it for ages while dad shared his favorite tunes with me. Ah, good times.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

I really missed those, i only recently discovered vlc still has them. Was a little nostalgia trip

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 21 points 2 months ago

i couldn't scroll past this without at least giving Webamp a mention

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[-] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Holy Fuck that playlist makes me want to get drunk like only a teenager at a pool party could

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuckin hell I can feel this in my bones

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I crossed the streams and made a Spotify playlist of the playlist seen in this photo of WinAMP:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0do6Ech8s3etvYUteF321m?si=127f8f2aa9d9490e

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Egon, you said crossing the streams was bad.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

But my dreams, they aren't as empty

[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

https://getwacup.com

I mean, it lets me use my old winamp themes...

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Wac me up

WAC ME UP INSIDE

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[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

No, this was the simpler time:

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

You don't gotta go all the way simple just to be simpler.

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[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

I was still using Milkdrop 2 visualizations on Foobar until I stopped using Windows a couple of years ago. If anyone knows how to use Milkdrop with MPD on Linux, you'd make me very happy.

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[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

you can still download old winamp, and it still works!

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

I'm still using foobar2000.

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[-] CassiniWarden@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago

I've converted my music library to opus and it's all offline, on my phone and PC. It's the only way to listen to some things that get caught in licensing hell, and that's only going to get worse over time.

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[-] JoanCandy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

oh man i googled winamp skins and had the biggest nostalgia flashback

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 2 months ago

Nowadas we have better open source software but people have nostalgia for Winamp.

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