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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by fletchowns on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @04:24PM (#6771287)
It's ONE DOLLAR per month. ONE DOLLAR! And it's only if you want the extra features. Would you rather have ads be inserted between your songs or something? The development of the app needs to be paid for one way or the other.
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by csmuk on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @04:53PM (#6771453)
One dollar is too much for something that was a solved problem (media sync).
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by fletchowns on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @06:26PM (#6772020)
How is that a solved problem?
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by csmuk on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @06:38PM (#6772081)
How is it not?

Plug shit into PC, two way sync. WinPhone and iOS do this fine.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by antihero on Thursday November 21, 2013 @07:07AM (#6774230)
Ah yes, the old "sync 600GB of MP3s onto a 32GB device" trick.
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by csmuk on Thursday November 21, 2013 @10:37AM (#6775151)
Yes because you really need 600GB of mp3s which on the back of an envelope calculation is over 1000 days of listening for 8 hours a day at a reasonable bitrate with no repeats...

I'm sure, at amazon prices which is a fair approximation including CDs, you didn't spend $100,000 on them either.

This is really not a problem. Well it is but only greed created it.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by antihero on Saturday November 23, 2013 @08:44PM (#6788290)
You miss the point. The idea is not to be able to listen to all music, but any music from one's collection.

Putting this down to greed? What an incredibly short sighted, ignorant thing to say. Perhaps we should have stopped at black & white feature phones because only greed could mean we wanted to access the whole internet on the move?

It isn't a "solved problem" because there are still issues with the solution.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by WoodenChair on Thursday November 21, 2013 @07:00PM (#6778439)
You don't understand: All music must be in FLAC because MP3/AAC/WMP just "doesn't sound right".
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by themstheones on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:19PM (#6775925)
I just copy it all over the internet. I can't countenance making multiple trips with a usb key, or even worse lugging around an external hard drive.
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by ozh on Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:45AM (#6774879)
Which has to be reason #2 or #3 why I hate iTunes with passion.
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