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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."
Does it still whip the llama's ass?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
... that in the meantime I've completely moved to Linux, where one thing is surely not missing: decent audio player options.
"Modern" operating systems are, literally, Linux and MacOS.
Microsoft's Windows, any version, isn't one.
Maybe what you wanted to say was "recent" Windows versions?
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. :)
...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.
What are the best music players for Windows?” foobar2000 is ranked 1st while Winamp is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose foobar2000 is:
Foobar2000 has a clean, minimalistic UI, small filesize, and is light on resource usage.
My UID is prime!
I can do that now? Wow, thanks for that incredible addition. I must have been doing something else for at least the last 15 years...
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Does it still distort the audio if you get close to 100% volume?
(That was the reason I moved from Winamp to VLC a long time ago)
"I found that one thing that you're sorta, kinda wrong on that is tangential to the whole you're saying and in no way key to it. Therefore you're wrong on everything".
In reality, this is an admission that you concede the remainder of the points.