Winamp users lament

Myranda

As of next month AOL will be closing the website, stopping the services, and taking down the .exe from the interwebs...

So Winamp will be no more after nearly 16 years of music-ness. 

16 years is no age

A dirge for Winamp the doubly dead in that she died so young.

strumjoughlamps

the Llama's ass will be whipped no more

Myranda

I have downloaded a copy of 5.66 so I can at least have a copy of it burned on a CD in case I need to re-install later.

Winamp is the only player I've found that lets me order music the way I like. By Artist then by album (in release date, not alphabetically) then by track. Everything else seems to do one or the other.

And then it has such a simple interface that my grandmother could use it.

guitargeek62

Myranda said:

Winamp is the only player I've found that lets me order music the way I like. By Artist then by album (in release date, not alphabetically) then by track. Everything else seems to do one or the other.

iTunes let's you order them that way, has done for years!

Myranda

But it's iTunes...

I really just want a music player... not an iTunes.

PolarityMan

Hasn't been good since well before it was sold off imo. 

However the original developers did go on to make reaper so it's all to the greater good in the end.

PolarityMan

As an aside why does every player these days feel like it has to order my music into a library. I have a file system to do that.... jsut play the fucking songs.

Grunfeld

Myranda said:

I have downloaded a copy of 5.66 so I can at least have a copy of it burned on a CD in case I need to re-install later.

I'm using v.2.95  -- my favourite.  And I like it cos it doesn't try to interfere with my life, it just plays my music.

Ianpdq

Winamp dose not take over your computer iTunes dose sad day

hywelg

PolarityMan said:

As an aside why does every player these days feel like it has to order my music into a library. I have a file system to do that.... jsut play the fucking songs.

A...f***kin...men to that. And while we're about it why does Windows always want to store stuff in the bowels of the OS?????? F*** Off Gates, I put my stuff where I want it.

guitargeek62

Ianpdq said:

Winamp dose not take over your computer iTunes dose sad day

Shit... I'd best take it off of my mac then! :O

Myranda

guitargeek62 said:

Ianpdq said:

Winamp dose not take over your computer iTunes dose sad day

Shit... I'd best take it off of my mac then! :O

Is that even possible without a crowbar and cutting torch?

guitargeek62

Yes, because I know how to use it.

Myranda

The crowbar?

Myranda

Possible lifeline in rumoured Microsoft buyout.

Normally users would rail against MS buying a favoured program... but considering the previous owners were AOL I think that might not apply this time

UnclePsychosis

Give foobar2000 a go. Lightweight and massively configurable. 

Bod

J River Media Center (sic) is good.  I've used it for years...

http://www.jriver.com/audio.html 

Phil_aka_Pip

I store my EllPees in any order I want, but I have to play the tracks in the order they come on the EllPee. Simples.

Antique_Guitars

Shame WINAMP is awesome

Fazer

AIMP!
http://www.aimp.ru/

just plays the toons, no infestation

Panama_Jack666

Myranda said:

Possible lifeline in rumoured Microsoft buyout.

Normally users would rail against MS buying a favoured program... but considering the previous owners were AOL I think that might not apply this time

I Lol'd when I read that. AOL are pretty shit.