Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by bradpineau on Sunday June 24, 2012 @07:22PM
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Winamp... now THAT reminds me of the 1990s.
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Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by tatsuke95 on Sunday June 24, 2012 @07:35PM
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Not for me!
Still using it daily. People laugh every time they see it. But it does what I want, it's lightweight, and has some great commercial plugins.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by yuushi on Sunday June 24, 2012 @10:51PM
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I still use it as well. I didn't realise it was something people laughed at - WMP takes up too much screen estate, iTunes has far too much bloat, and I don't need a music player with the complexity and learning curve of emacs.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by nathan_long on Monday June 25, 2012 @06:53AM
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"iTunes has far too much bloat" - this is exactly why I stil have WinAmp installed. I use iTunes for organizing my music, downloading podcasts, syncing with my iPod, etc. But I also record my own MP3s - songs, voice memos, etc - and opening them in iTunes is annoying. It's slow, and it immediately adds them to my library, which I don't want.
If I double-click an MP3, it opens immediately in WinAmp. For most anything else, I use iTunes.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by mtgx on Sunday June 24, 2012 @08:36PM
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What are they using? Besides iTunes.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by cdcarter on Sunday June 24, 2012 @09:23PM
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And a surprising number of people now use Spotify or Pandora for their primary music interface.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by For_Iconoclasm on Sunday June 24, 2012 @09:21PM
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Most people that I know use foobar2000.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by mariusmg on Sunday June 24, 2012 @09:44PM
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Yeap, foobar2000 is basically the "standard" now.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by tatsuke95 on Sunday June 24, 2012 @09:06PM
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iTunes and WMP, mostly.
To be honest, I don't know what else people are using. It's one of the places I've had to do the least research in software. WinAMP has been a stalwart for over a decade.
Re:Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
by darkstalker on Sunday June 24, 2012 @07:44PM
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I've always liked the winamp interface. I'm using audacious with a winamp skin right now