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Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released (bleepingcomputer.com)
Winamp, the world's most famous media player, has released version 5.8 to make it compatible with today's modern operating systems such as Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Bleeping Computer notes that there hasn't been a new updates released since 2014, when Radionomy purchased Winamp from AOL. Some other new features include standalone audio player support, an auto-fullscreen option for videos, updates scrollbars and buttons, and bug fixes.
From the report: Radionomy has stated that they are not stopping here and have big plans for Winamp. In an interview with TechCrunch, Radionomy CEO Alexandre Saboundjian, revealed that a massive release is planned for 2019 that aims to add cloud support for streaming music, podcasts, and more. "There will be a completely new version next year, with the legacy of Winamp but a more complete listening experience," Saboundjian stated in the interview. "You can listen to the MP3s you may have at home, but also to the cloud, to podcasts, to streaming radio stations, to a playlist you perhaps have built."
From the report: Radionomy has stated that they are not stopping here and have big plans for Winamp. In an interview with TechCrunch, Radionomy CEO Alexandre Saboundjian, revealed that a massive release is planned for 2019 that aims to add cloud support for streaming music, podcasts, and more. "There will be a completely new version next year, with the legacy of Winamp but a more complete listening experience," Saboundjian stated in the interview. "You can listen to the MP3s you may have at home, but also to the cloud, to podcasts, to streaming radio stations, to a playlist you perhaps have built."
It's a bit bloated at 2.36M, but it does an excellent job of playing my mp3 files.
Winamp 2.95
ffmpeg is the basis for a shitton of decent players.
For videos, I recommend SMplayer in its classic theme (so it takes the look and feel of the OS, instead of a crutch for Windows).
Or VLC, if you are that kind of person.
For music, it's Clementine, if you want somebody to manage the libary for you.
And DeadBEeeF, if you know how to use a file system and like foobar2000.
And then there is mpd, music player daemon. Which works, regardleys whether you control it via a full GUI client, your phone, an internal web page, or a script. Aka: How things should be, if it wasn't for those clueless Wintards.
Functionality? Yes.
Usability? Nope.
WinAmp works so well because it has a relatively narrow focus, which actually covers the majority of what folks use. It doesn't do 'album art' and only tangentially supports even the most basic of video playback, it's entire purpose for being is audio playback with optional visualizations and a straightforward EQ that has enough bands to be useful for headphone/cheap desktop speaker compensation.
Most of the alternative players were made to scratch some itch for a section WinAmp didn't handle, or to mimic other commercial players like iTunes at some points.
WinAmp doesn't cater to audiophiles, it doesn't try to support every new audio format invented for that use and weird esoteric playback rates and techniques. It handles the 80% majority of stuff you can download off the internet and is far more designed to be a secondary 'background' app you usually only interact with to jump over a song you hate, replay a song you love, or go pick a specific song you really want to hear right now.
A lot of 'modern' players keep missing that part about being a background app with trivially easy playlist adjustment/re-ordering, and focus on nonsense like album art and overlaying lyrics on-screen thinking they'll be the focus while playing a bunch of songs, and worry so much about having 'auto curated' lists based on various metadata tagging that they actively fight you organizing things how you may want.
- WolfWings, too lazy to login to /. for far more important conversations, let alone this toss-away comment. :)
Oh, yes it did. Winamp is long obsolete.
foobar2000 is objectively the best audio player but a long, long way. It's so far ahead that nothing else is even close to catching up.
XMPlay is a player with a simplistic, Winamp-like interface, but it plays many more file formats and is just a lot more finished and professional feeling than Winamp.
1by1 is great if you want a basic player directory player without any extras.
...that is a dead link: https://www.winamp.com/legal/e.... Also the privacy: https://www.winamp.com/legal/p... Let's hope it get fixed.
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