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WinAmp's Death Greatly Exaggerated
robyannetta writes "In a previous story, we heard that WinAmp was
down for the count. Apparently, this is not the case.
Here is a note by Eric Caoili that says "No we weren't axed. We haven't even seen anyone with an axe. There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it.""
There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it.
Did you hear OJ's son confessed to the murder?
He wanted to see a movie, and OJ said I dunno - go axe your mom.
I've been using PenAMP For years and m0n is my enemy.
GNAA SUCKS!!!!!!
First Post PEN 2004; eh0d is my daddy.
eh0d is EVERYBODYS daddy now. TekMonkey (649444): Can a moderator or admin ban this guy? Just look at his record.
Why didn't you guys plan an exit event when AOL bought you? Why stick around in a new corporate culture anyway?
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
GNAA supplies arms, expertise to Iraqi Freedom Fighters GNAA supplies arms, expertise to Iraqi Freedom Fighters September 21, 2004 GNAA Headquarters, Nigeria In a surprise move early this morning, the GNAA announced its new policy of open support for Iraqi Freedom Fighters, pledging aid and expertise to the troubled region. GNAA spokesman Gary Niger appeared on the Orly Factor this evening to field questions about the alliance. What follows is an unedited transcript of his response to a question on the GNAA's motives for alliance. "I don't think it's surprising. We were initally skeptical of these people's ability to deliver, since we discovered that Jews, not arabs were the ones responsible for WTC 9.11 NEVAR 4GET. After the Nick Berg affair, we got interested." "We looked over the Saddam Loyalist\Radical Fundamentalist adgenda and found that we had a lot in common with these guys. These guys are really focused. Just look their insistance that women keep their homely faces covered at all times, to keep men focused on men, the way our Gay Nigger God, Allah intended." "But what really sealed the deal was compassion. When we looked over their financial records, we were shocked. These brave, oily men are out there on the streets of Fallujah every day, risking their tight asses, and they're not seeing even 1% of the revenue associated with their heroic actions." "Look at the Nick Berg video. Here you have a great artistic vision, marred not only by poor equipment, but also by the scheming jews at Ogrish.com who unjustly stole their copyrighted material and made a huge profit on it. It's unconscionable." "Fortunately, we at the GNAA believe in freedom, and we believe in helping out the underdogs. That's why I'm so pleased to present the freedom fighters of Iraq with the following gifts:" "To prevent further exploitation, we are assigning our top programmers to share our DRM (Dong Rights Management) technology with these valiant men. Biometric Dong Recognition is becoming widely recognized as the most secure means of identity establishment, and with our new vibrating scanners, it's easier than ever." "While these guys don't lack heart, their VHS camcorders have got to go. We're supplying not only three professional Betacam SP units, but also 25 Canon XL1s camcorders, for agents in the field. This will greatly increase not just the number of beheadings caught on tape, but also the quality." "Say goodbye to grainy, choppy beheading videos. The next time you see some poor bastard getting his shit lopped, it's going to be in 3 CCD quality, with image stabilization. With Canon's XL lens mounting system, you can now be decapitated with Mohammeds's (PBUH) full blessing, at potential focal ranges between 24 and 17,280 mm." "And of course we'll be encoding it all with 'Terrorist's Choice' OGG Theora\OGG Vorbis." "Finally, I would like to present one gross of top of the line Husqvarna 3120XP chainsaws. We've all watched with embarassment at the struggling efforts of these spindly-armed arab boytoys. Now, junk lopping can be accomplished in a fraction of the time, even by the pathetically malnourished." "This is a great day for both the GNAA, and the movement to free Iraq from its oppressors. Allah Al Akbar. Jews did WTC." Mr. Niger concluded his speech by blasting semen into Mr. O'Reilly's eyes, effectively ending the debate. About Iraqui Freedom Fighters Iraq has long been known as the world's premiere terrorists to meet, greet, and defeat their zionist oppressors. With the Israel-led coalition forces squatting on holy sites, Iraq is a modern day decapitation bonanza. Iraq's Freedom Fighters are well known as the world's most industrious head-choppers. About Husqvarna Chainsaws Husqvarna is considered by many as one of the top brands of Chainsaws in the world. Husqvarna saws are used exclusively by forestry and loggers on the west coast. If those saws can hold up out there, then the home owner/freedom fighter has a saw for life. Husqvarna saws are some of the lightest in their class, and each one packs max
I use foobar 2000 for just about everything these days. Much better than bloaty Winamp.
I think we've just found the new leader of Palestine, folks.
honestly, who cares?
Awise Fwom Your Gwave
Published: Nov. 12, 2004
By Eric Caoili
I'll go ahead and get this out of the way: No we weren't axed. We haven't even seen anyone with an axe. There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it. Much like Tupac Shakur and/or Jesus Christ, our deaths have been greatly exaggerated.
We're going to chalk this one off to one to a poorly-worded and vague news piece that got out of hand (No offense to Nate.). While yes, our team might be a bit lean at the moment, we aren't the starved, skeleton-thin relics we've been rumored to be. It reminds me of that time in grade school when I was sent to the Principal's office for talking too much in class. By the end of the school day, the whole class was abuzz with scandalous reports that I'd not only been expelled, but was also arrested for drug possesion and made an honorary G-Unit member as well.
Seeing everyone talking about our supposed demise was very interesting--if felt like we were attending our own funerals. While it was frustrating to know that so many people had the wrong idea about what was going on, hearing their kind eulogies gave us an unexpected ego boost. I'd like to leave you with some of the praises that you guys left us when you thought we were.. Um. Leaving. Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support for us and who defended us when everyone was calling us gay.
"Man, I stayed with Winamp 2 for so long and only recently switched to Winamp 5. I love the things it does, and until some other audio player comes along that does Something Incredible that WA5 doesn't already handle, I'll be fine. I figure I've got another 5 years or so before I care." - Imperfect
"Who do you think started the revolution?" - RaveN-FH-
"Winamp is essential to my media playing experience. It has several plugins for formats WMP nor iTunes even comes close to supporting (mods, spc, gsf, psf, usf, nsf, gym, umx, adx, etc) without first converting them FROM their native format to, say, MP3, or whatever... Not to mention WinampTV, which is my savior in times when we no longer [could] afford the $50-$80 a month for Direct TV. Nothing will ever replace Winamp for me, ever." - BlazeHedgehog
"When I was a PC user, you were my constant companion. I searched for MP3 players on other platforms [and they] were a tenth as good as you. iTunes still, strangely, doesn't even come close." - jearbear
"Winamp was my only MP3 player and it will remain. Long Live Winamp." - Nigma
"Winamp is more than just a program since there's a whole community around it which is what has helped make it what it is. When that community dies then that is when Winamp dies." - DoctorO
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eh0d is EVERYBODYS daddy now. TekMonkey (649444): Can a moderator or admin ban this guy? Just look at his record.
It's a media player. There are a bunch of them available, not to mention one built directly into Windows which runs on at least 80% of the computers out there (where someone would be interested/able to listen/watch media files).
Winamp is an application that has reached commodity status. Inifinitely replaceable. Cheap, to the point of being free.
And to top it off, we've got the source. What more do you need. Even if 100% of those developers were laid off, what's the loss to the community? Nuthin.
Just like BSD!
BSD is dead, long live BSD.
I gave up on winamp ages ago. Now I use and recommend QCD for window users. It has a lot features that I love. I really wish this could be on Linux.
Apparently, this is not the case.
Apparently, this is evidence of our wonderful Slashdot editors and their accurate reporting.
mod -1 "modbait"
...who of the original lineup of Nullsoft/Winamp coders are still there.... and how many people are working on it now vs. when it was in the Winamp 1.0/2.0 stages...
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Does anybody really give two shits about Winamp? WMP is soooooooo much better than that piece of dogcrap.
Flamebait? Go ahead. See if I care.
What, an "early demise" article, and no mention of netcraft?
What's not a joke is that any news is good news.
For one brief instant we all figured winamp was dead. The internet news sites picked it up, people were downloading every version known to man for archive, and we were all focused on winamp once again.
Welcome to the world of the rumor-feeding news cycle.
We have been played.
It is great to hear that Winamp isn't dead. I have been using it for 5 years now and haven't found a better media player yet. It is both small and quick, Windows Media Player is neither. Not to mention that I have yet to find a sound file that I couldn't get it to play, where many of my files just refuse to play in iTunes or WMP.
Java has no friends.
And all those people crying over winamps death... I guess all the Windows users will still have something to play their music that doesnt report back to their "master" with every song the play...
There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question...
Ah, nothing like computer nerds using slang..... It's so cute yet so disturbing.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
It may be true that winamp is loosing market. I've actally switched over to WMP9 (i dont like 10, its too clunky [may also be chunky..]). WMP9 is pretty fast and does what i need it to with minimal bs... I dunno whats happening.
It's a bloated spywarefilled piece of crap and has been since version 3. I'm still running 2.91. It's funny because every time I run it, it says there's a critical security flaw in version's 3 to 5 and I should upgrade. It's an mp3 player, how can it have critical secuity flaws? That very neatly draws the line of exactly where it died.
Winamp stopped adding useful features / improvements (for me) after version 3.0... iTunes and WMP10 are much better, with song rating / automatic playlists (song I didn't heard in the past week I like, yes thank you).
Why anyone would pay for Winamp is beyond me. The free version does the job... like a bunch of programs out there. Of course, brand recognition, nostalgy and all...
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That is hilarious... Axe you a question.. that's making fun of black people right? Sweet racial slur. Right on. Right?
99% of windows users are happy with a WiMP. There will be no firefox revolution here.
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Eric's site, Winamp Unlimited, expands a little on the Winamp situation, and also has comments on most of the news articles that've been published regarding the topic.
If you missed it in the last discussion, he also has written a past article on what some of the ex-Nullsoft kids have been up to.
It's weird talking about myself in the third person.
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"Welcome to the world of the rumor-feeding news cycle."
I'll be dead some time in the future.
So, what 3rd party audi player is going to come out of the shadows and take winamps place? XMMS?
I just recently saw this on my dad's computer.. He was watching anime.. My dad was watching anime on WinampTV.. That was pretty cool..
I just wish they had a version for Linux...
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
I've been using winamp since .92 and ever since Justin left, maybe even when he sold out to AOL, it started to go downhill. Winamp is still the best player out there, but the passion, attention to detail and overall quality seems to have declined.
if Aol couldn't stop winamp development, what would you axe it?
Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support for us and who defended us when everyone was calling us gay.
for people who didn't know the source of who "everyone" represents, its a way that nullsoft puts it to make it sound less offensif but I think we could all simply read that as
AOL was calling us gay.
to everyone who came out to show their support for us and who defended us when everyone was calling us gay.
That is a nice little bit of homophobia from their press release. Real professional guys. Sheesh.
Netcraft conferms "XYZ Dieing, Netcraft Comferms" type posts dieing
/.er rejoced, as it was a old, and unfunny troll.
Netcraft confermed today that the "XYZ Dieing, Netcraft Comferms"-type trolls are dieing. Many
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"
Has /. been overrun by mad berkeley hippies?
Even in its corrections /. acts like a tabloid...
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
I figured the "winamp is dead" story was bogus. As far as I know, winamp is one of the most popular media players, if not the most popular and well known mp3 players. There's that, and shoutcast seems to be doing relatively well. Why would Nullsoft turn around and kill it? The Nullsoft guys seem like great programmers... I'm sure if Nullsoft (as we know it) closed down, they'd reassemble in one form or another and release a new mp3 player on their own. Then AOL would be kicking themselves.
I voted for "sex with a mare".
It is dead, it's just hasn't stopped moving yet.
Winamp is rapidly gaining the same level of "features" that Netscape did when it died - it's bloated and tries to sneakily add AOL icons to your desktop. Oh and let's not forget the spyware aspect to the commisions they get on sales - nice touch. The fact that the interface hasn't been made any easier to use, and only gets more fiddly and complicated confirms it. Winamp is the great golden flamingo God of bad user/interface design.
All they need to do now is package AOL instant messenger with it, and it will be truly dead for ever more.
Nobody knows how to fuck up a once perfectly good piece of software through bad decisions like AOL. You really know your software sucks with 100% full vacuum when your old version is actually better in every way over the latest release. Even Macromedia would be impressed with the sheer - "I wonder if the whole thing is running in some sort of emulator""-ness of it all.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
The reason why i chose to use winamp 5 is for global hotkeys. This alone makes this player irreplacable. There's probably other players that have them (probably before WA too) but it's the first time I encountered them. I could never go back to non-global hotkey music player.
Now, I haven't had the need to look for an alternative, but maybe someone here might give me the just of them?
We should have been
So much more by now
Too dead inside
To even know the guilt
I prefer winamp still, and will be saddened when I see it go. I like it's efficient use of screen real estate, and the ease I can add songs to my playlist. Winamp, the old version 2, is still the best.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
You mean a wildly inaccurate rumor was posted on the index of /. as a fact?
What's the world coming to?
winamp used to rock. Then for some unfathomable reason someone decided that winamp needed a built-in webbrowser. A WEB BROWSER FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! As soon as I learned about foobar2000 I ditched winamp for good. foobar2000 is also Unicode compliant; winamp won't do unicode without really ugly kludges. That makes foobar2000 perfect for mp3 files with east asian language file names/ID3 tags.
NO CARRIER
no pun intended. (just no pronoun)
for windows systems at least,
clear, simple, and elegant interface is what keeps me using winamp. i can never get used to WMP because it packs a bunch of media-playing-unrelated "features" and shows me this website, and manages playlists in an overly complicated way.
Anything beyond WMP6.4 just scares the hell out of me when it opens for the first time... it fills the whole screen!!!!!
so for simple playlist, winamp.
for speedy playing, 6.4.
both programs are quite immortal imo.
I know there are some big programs out on the net that used to cost money, then they turned free and finally they turned into OOS. Does anyone know if there are any plans to make WinAmp open source?
It would be one of the most active projects on SF (long live Subversion, though) and eventually there would be a Linux port.
Anyone know about anything like this?
I'm listening to WinAmp right now (v5). Had I known that it was dead, I would have been pretty sad. Going to WinAmp.com every now and then, I never noticed their "death"- kind of odd that the first thing I hear about it is Slashdot telling me not to worry.
- dshaw
Firefox is dead!
http://www.oldversion.com/
Exactly why does winamp try to connect to the internet every time I start it up? Is it just searching for the latest version or is it something else?
Technoli
- because HTML doens't render linebreaks
- because I'm to damned lazy to keep track of the numbers in my list
- because it makes me look super 1337 even though it's so simple
Remember, it's spiffier when you use it!That which is done from love exists beyond good and evil
I found out about Zinf from the last slashdot story and have switched already.
...When we've already done it for you!
;)
http://www.oldos.org/files/win95dl.php
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(obligitory )
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Story at 11.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Sonique2 still dead. :(
for me. Once I tried foobar2000 there was no going back.
;-)
Features
* Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player
* Audio formats supported "out-of-the-box": WAV, AIFF, VOC, AU, SND, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4 AAC
* Audio formats supported through official addons: FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR, 7-ZIP & ZIP archives
* Full Unicode support on Windows NT
* ReplayGain support
* Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
* Advanced file info processing capabilities (generic file info box and masstagger)
* Highly customizable playlist display
* Customizable keyboard shortcuts
* Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license (source included with the SDK)
If you've ever tried writing a plugin for Winamp you'll fall in love with the fb2k SDK, its like heaven compared to the other player.
I've been using version 2.81 for my music needs. Until it becomes unusuable, I intend to stay with it; 2.91 added a bunch of video crap (I use the windows mplayer port and bsplayer for video and I don't apperciate winamp taking it over). 5 is far less intrusive, but 2.81 is powerful enough for me to get the job done.
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
It's official; Netcraft confirms: Spelling is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Spelling Nazi community when IDC confirmed that proper spelling market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Web users. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that proper spelling has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Proper spelling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive writing test.
You don't don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the future of proper spelling. The misspelled hand writing is on the wall: Spelling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for spelling because spell-checking is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Spelling Nazis. As many of us are already aware, spelling continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Microsoft Word spell checker is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Word developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Spell checking in Microsoft Word is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Oxford English Dictionary publishers Oxford University state that there are 7000 users of the OED. How many users of Merriam-Webster are there? Let's see. The number of OED versus Merriam-Webster posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Merriam-Webster users. Wiktionary posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Merriam-Webster posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of the Wiktionary. A recent article put Microsoft Word Spell Checker at about 80 percent of the electronic dictionary market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Word spell-check users. This is consistent with the number of poorly-spelled Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on, Word went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft Office who sell another troubled spell-checker. Now Microsoft Office is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that proper spelling has steadily declined in market share. Spelling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If spelling is to survive at all it will be among linguist dilettante dabblers. Spelling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, spelling is dead.
Fact: Spelling is dying
How is that less professional than Ballmer running around making everyone deaf or better yet, making a complete ass of himself on this shocking microsoft windows ad 15 years ago
There is a time and place when you have to be professional but it's not true that because you're in a business that you have to be politically correct 100% of the time.
Look at the way despair.com's faq is written and then think twice.
Bloat-free, great mp3 tagging features, easy to work with, and I can use all sorts of formats (except iTunes, but that's fixed with a quick CD burn-and-rip). There's no skins to speak of, but who really needs skins to listen to music? All I want is something that works without hogging every last bit of system resources.
Best of luck to the remaining WinAMP team. Sounds like a difficult environment, even if they're not dead. Everybody wants a music store in addition to a media player; I'm imagining a faceless suit popping in every day, asking, "Is it done yet? Is it? Time's a wasting!"
The moderators of the news site established to report the news of other news sites after the other news sites had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
That's the only thing keeping me on Winamp. I don't think I've found another player that supports this. Why not? This is the best feature ever.
I still use winamp and it is a compelling reason for me to stay on windows as a platform (really!).
:-) Itunes still has to catch up imho :-)
Winamp will text-match through internet radio including song, genre, etc.
Also, acidspunk 2 is my all time favorite visualization software.
Plus, winamp has gorgeous skins like Nucleo and Expensive Hi Fi.
So, windows, winamp, and acidspunk it is
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
African American Community Terrorized By An Ask Murderer
just intsall all your codecs to play mp3, real media, quicktime, etc... and use 6.4 it seems everything that if you install quicktime/itunes, realplayer, wmp 10, you're left with a ridiculous amount of bloatware and all they do is fight for a chance to call home for one reason or another
Get your torrents...
I don't think winamp will ever truly die. Even though version 3 really hurt, the newest version seems much better. That being said, I still use 2.89, and I probably will for a long time. I have yet to meet a more stable program. I've had everything including explorer crash on a computer to the point that I wasn't even able to control programs. But despite all that winamp kept on churning out the songs. My friends and I used to joke that you know your computer is fubar when winamp crashes on it.
i hotdog.
Can I buy your account? How much $$?
I see a lot of people here recommending foobar2000 as a Winamp replacement. I've tried it briefly a few times and have never been very impressed, but I must be missing something. Why are so many people so adamant about foobar2000's superiority? Can somebody out there give me some reasons why they prefer it? Winamp has served me well for many years, but I'm always interested in finding something better.
It's the Aint-It-Cool-News for tech geeks.
Notice how the article is now gone. Also notice that the original story never said that Nullsoft officially tanked. Apparently there are now 3 employees working for Nullsoft, all of which have nothing to do with Winamp's development. I think it's safe to say that the article (which is now deleted) saying that they are still around is crap.
P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
Has Windows Media Player really fallen so low? I mean, they were low, but beaten by Real?
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain
Allright, I can throw ANY format at mplayer, including Real media, and from a cold launch on a slow laptop, it hardly ever takes more than five seconds from when I enter the command to when whatever-it-is is playing. Notable exceptions are when the media itself is slower than mplayer, such as URLs and Samba filesystems (wonder why).
In fact, there's this cd called movix which can boot quickly (some better solution, especially with all those "Developers, developers, developers, developers!"
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
If you are looking for an older or more specific version of WinAmp visit this site:
http://www.winampheaven.net/
Libertas in infinitum
SO SO much better than Itunes.
Especially because the iTunes music store doesnt work where I live.
dont need it, dont want it, cant use it. Goodbye.
Get that and more at
http://www.oldos.org/files/win95dl.php
(as has already been posted earlier)
Jay | http://oldos.org
Seems /. was pretty fast off the mark to scream that the sky was falling but a bit slow to report this news. Has /. become over-dependant on sensationalist stories?
Do you see what I did there?
who to fuck uses windows for a workstation this days anyway ???
Can anyone explain why he said it? I've tried researching this a couple of times and not been able to find an answer. Why not California instead?
Does anybody else out there see the irony of Winamp.com featuring Fatboy Slim's Slash Dot Dash video on the day of getting slashdotted?
Electromagnetic noise generated by the digital circuits and picked up in the analog circuitry of the sound card, making an audible buzzing and crackling sound that is most obvious when listening to what should be silence, but is often noticable in a lot of music.
I have a really nice pair of Grado Labs headphones and can't stand listening to music on my PC.
Fortunately I have three macintoshes, which all have better audio engineering. Despite posting this message from a win2k PC, I'm listening to Radio Paradise on iTunes running on my Blue & White G3 Mac.
Prefer Linux? Linux sounds best when run on Apple hardware. I also use XMMS sometimes, on an ancient Power Macintosh 8500 that runs Debian Sarge.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
Never happened.
Ya I know they made a special version and they endorse running it in wine.
Thats not the same.
I thought /. was a whole bunch of linux using geeks. Certainly when there is a linux article all the comments read "I use linux 100% of the time etc etc". It is a mp3 player - a good one - but an mp3 player for windows, not a member of the family. I for one use xmms on linux - yes linux is my only desktop.
I've been thinking of getting a Creative Audigy NX USB "sound card". It's not really a sound card, but is isolated from the electrical noise because it's an external unit that connects via USB.
But I haven't been able to determine if it works with Linux. Do you know about it?
Request your free CD of my piano music.
try 5. it's winamp 2 improved, and it's begging for your forgiveness.
vk.
to call them gay again?
Starbucks, Harbuckle of Breath.
winamp isn't dead yet, it just smells funny.
And that interpretation never occurred to me.
"Axe you a question"? - This is not one of the phrases with with known racial connotations.
Now if only he had said "Fo' Shizzle My Nizzle!" then everything would have been much clearer.
Does the m-audio transit work with Linux? I looked for a linux driver on their support page and couldn't find any.
Thanks!
Request your free CD of my piano music.
You are in a maze of twisty passages. There is a Troll here with an axe.
What do you want to do?
emacs as my OS of choice.
version?
IAAL
Even more 1337 is that your HTML tags were displayed and not interpreted.
For those who want to know, use > for > and < for <
I'll leave the explaination of how I got the & to display an exercise for the reader.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Darn.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
There's nothing like a good source of timely, accurate information...
That's good and bad.
The good:
It has a lot of functionality, and will satisfy 80% of everyone who uses it. It works nicely, and if you own an iPod its great.
The bad:
When you use iTunes, you will do it Apple's way. There is no other. And if you complain about the way iTunes works, every apple fanatic will tell you that its your fault and that you just don't "get it". Kind of like your response.
I have iTunes installed on my PC for interfacing with my iPod, but for listening to and ripping music, WinAmp is just *way better*.
How a bout FooBar 2000 or XMMS for windows or Sonique. Those are just as great players as Winamp!
Do a Google Search on Eric Caoili. He's a forum manager and Web designer for WinAmp fan sites. Good one Slashdot.
http://www.jesusonic.com/
Dude rulez supreme.
Is it just me (perhaps I am old) but are these guys playing too much Altered Beasts on their spare time? :-)
Yeah, I'm off topic but the title of the article just lend itself to this question.
Winamp 2 was fine
Winamp 5 was still fine
The bad thing was: I introduced an iMac in my home network, and wished to share the MP3s between the Mac and PC.
Too bad that iTunes (in both Mac and PC) cound't recognize my mp3 Tags in Big5 code.
So, wanna to looks good (see the correct song names, artist..) in the iTunes/Mac? Convert them into Unicode... one by one, and I have >3000 songs.. you imaging how pain it was.
Then.. I use the shoutcast server on my linux box to share my music to friends... and iTunes couldn't do the streaming so that I have to fall back to Winamp 2/5 to do that...
Again, all Chinese songs converted into Unicode ID Tags became rubbished....
Is there anyways to keep Winamp 5 and iTunes happy with those Chinese stuffs... I'd appreciate...
What about a winamp version for mac? Please?
i dunno...i think this dude is in denial, or just can't see the writing on the wall. i read his posting on winamp.com, but he doesn't refute any of the claims from the first article. in fact, he confirms that their staff has been made "skinny". the first article mentions that AOL is still committed to winamp, but don't companies always say that about their product just before it dies?
Have you tried foobar2000 yet? It supports many emulated formats and has an archive reader (ZIP, 7-ZIP, GZIP and RAR).
After a little tweaking, foobar is great!
Current version is 0.8.3
http://www.foobar2000.org/download.html
Looking at Zinf.org, the only Win32 version on the download page is 2.2.1, and according to the SourceForge project page, that version is over two years old. And it's got a buffer overflow bug. What am I missing that makes it attractive in the wake of Winamp's development slowing down?
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
RealPlayer doesn't support SHOUTcast AFAIK, which is the reason for which I use WinAMP under Windows. Under Linux I use Zinf.
That's true, but the idea is to then convert from WAV to MP3 or FLAC or something.
NSF rips from NES games and homebrew NSFs can be as small as 16 KB. Converted to a 64 kbps Ogg Vorbis file, that would hold about what, the first two seconds?
Surely the increased compatibility and portability would be worth the space
PayPal me the money for a new hard drive, and I'll agree. When I bought this computer, 40 GB was considered enormous.
iTunes (in both Mac and PC) cound't recognize my mp3 Tags in Big5 code.
Media Center supports Unicode ID3V2 tags, and it streams over LANs *and* WANs, no problem. Just FYI.
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Foobar lets user deal with the (hard) clipping, either through limiter (soft clips) or something like Replaygain [replaygain.org]. Another thing is the common sample rate conversion (44.1k->48k) problem with bad resamplers from AC97 soundcards (AC97 does everything is 48k, most music [CDs] are 44.1k), custom SRC was one of the first things in foobar. They also got things like kernel streaming (as oppose to DirectSound) if your a stickler on bitwise perfect output.
Good control over the playback is of course essential. Media Center is another program that lets you fine-tune the playback options. You can use ASIO playback (to as many different zones as you have ASIO outputs), tweak the playback precision (8, 16, 24, or 32 bit), the channels (source, or map to 1,2,5 or 6 channels), and the sample rate (from 44.1KHz right up to 192KHz). There's also automatic or user-mapped ReplayGain.
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Today, I decide to get me a mp3 player, and the only thing I can think of is WinAMP on windows. Way to go WinAMP.
Good thing someone didn't ask him a question. He would have been stumped...
I had an imaginary sig once, he said I was a loser and ran off.
Stop stealing so much damn music...
The Grandparent is a bunch of lies. The Parent corrects the lies. In responce to the Winamp is dead article, I installed the most recent version of Winamp (I had been stuck with itunes). There was no attempt to install spyware or put the AOL icon on anything. Someone with mod points please do something.
Comments about purchasing slashdot accounts are OFFTOPIC and TROLL: poster should deal with his UID envy better.
Comments about purchasing slashdot accounts are OFFTOPIC and TROLL: poster should deal with his UID envy better!!
http://www.gedikian.com/ How about visiting Steve's blog? HE even says it's dead!
P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
...if there was a plugin that magically set up a ring tone for your cell based on the song of your choice.
Wrong century, huh? Guess I can dream...
Think CONVERGENCE. Inch by inch.
http://www.radiotoolbox.com/industry/index.php?hid =0|7
I used to use Winamp, but when my collection got bigger than 60 songs, it got a tad annoying.
amaroK's a lot better, especially with massive collections.
...these aren't my real teeth.
why this was mod down
I noticed their Internet TV is reduced to only public channels now, of which there is about two.
IS this AOL's effort to get people to switch to their commercial music service?
Well best of luck, I'm using Rhapsody.
As far as I know, they fired the team and replaced it with clowns, about a year or so ago.. This is the first response of the execs, remove the product designers, replace with goons that will morph the package into something that is controllable and easy to exploit.
Maybe to extract the useful functionality from the sources so it could be merged into AOL's service.
After comcast cable's adoption of so many previous AOL clients, I would wonder if AOL will soon be dead.. Naw, how can a company made up of ten thousand tech support and about 100 managers, die..
Just say no to license servers!!