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I use Winamp on my PC.
First of all, it respects albums. Other players like VLC and Fubar2000 would order the songs alphabetically; it’s annoying. Also in the “artist” list “The Beatles” comes right after “Beasty Boys” the way God intended.
Second it has an “always on top” feature so you can easily control it while gaming.
Winamp was made for people who listen to music the way I do. You know, old people.
Foobar2000 has all of these features. You might need some tweaking, but foobar can do practically everything as far as music library management goes. My default sorting is album artist, album year, disc, track number.
As for song sort, if you meant sort by track number, it would be hard to find a player that does not support that. If VLC really does not support that, that is somewhat understandable, it is not meant as a serious music player after all.
I am still looking to find an alternative to winamp that does the album sorting well
Why not, y’know, just use Winamp? It’s still available to download and you can even get installers for older versions if you prefer.
Yes I do do that :p
AIMP on Windows (and probably Wine). Has good converter and tag editor as a bonus. You can try v2 or v3, they are pretty different. Both support Last.fm scrobbling if it’s still relevant. The android app is nice too but I haven’t used it that much. It kept my evergrowing library nicely structurized, mostly folder-based, with a little effort. It’s russian, but I haven’t noticed it doing anything funny, and it’s probably too niche since most people use streaming nowadays.
Aimp is awesome!
I have it installed in Windows and android. It’s good and the developer is constantly working on it.
Even just using PC programs makes me feel old in this day and age. That said, I am the same age as Windows XP…
That said, I am the same age as Windows XP…
Jesus Christ, get off my lawn! What is a 10 year old doing unsupervised on the internet??
checks Wikipedia
Windows XP 2001-10-25
Damn, you’re old enough to drink.
Yeah, this feels wrong.
Anyone else remember what a huge deal windows 95 launch was? With The Rolling Stones.
It always struck me that “start me up” was used for the launch, since the chorus has “you make a grown man cry” in it. It could just be my 16 year olds sense of humor at the time though.
I just finished a Windows XP rig so I could relive some of my classic gaming moments. From my college years…
That still makes you a young’un then, maybe just an old soul?
Yes, I grew up on hand-me-downs so I was still playing with floppy disks in 2013
you can still download old winamp, and it still works!
I forgot about Winamp! I’m going to have to give it a try again. The last time I used it was in 2013, because there was a plugin for extracting the music from Turbografx roms to .wav files. The soundtrack of my childhood.
I’ve converted my music library to opus and it’s all offline, on my phone and PC. It’s the only way to listen to some things that get caught in licensing hell, and that’s only going to get worse over time.
First I’ve heard of opus - checking it out now.
It’s an open source codec. I convert from FLAC (lossless) to Opus (lossy), I couldn’t hear much if any difference between FLAC and 128kbits opus, your mileage may vary, but it saves me 10x space, very useful for a big library on an SD card compared to lossless.
winamp Winamp WINAMP!
It Really Whips The Lamas Ass!
Llama noise
“Damn Son, Where’d You Find This.mp3”
The (full) Shrek OST isn’t on Spotify. So messed up.
I wanna stay hooome todaaaaay.
oh man i googled winamp skins and had the biggest nostalgia flashback
i couldn’t scroll past this without at least giving Webamp a mention
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I recently began de-corpoing my life, and spotify is my most recent cancellation after I was a premium subscriber since soon after its launch.
Took a bit of effort to convert my library, but I found a useful app to automate the process. And now I have my library back, offline and on my devices forever and for free.
It’s actually kind of empowering, reclaiming your life from subscription hell and corporate voyeurism.
This is one of those things that I dream of doing one of these days. I’d love to have a massive media library stored locally, so that I’m not chained to streaming services.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
Also, Amazon Music sells DRM-free MP3 files, if you don’t feel like sailing.
Or just buy on Bandcamp if the artist is on there. Support artists really directly (they get 85-90% of what you pay for an item) and you usually get a royalty free lossless download as well as subscription-less streaming.
Hope recent dealings doesn’t fuck up this absolute gem of a site.
Dude what is the app?? I’ve been looking for exactly this.
Further down:
Amazing thank you!
After you’ve done so, if you have interest in hosting your own music server, have a look at Navidrome.
We used to own our music!
Totally didn’t download all of it from LimeWire.
DAE had that one copy of a song that everyone shared with a glitch during the second verse, and now you find it jarring to hear the song without that artifact.
I miss when you could buy CDs and rip them to your computer so if your shitty mp3 died, you could just move everything on there.
Degrees of freedom revoked
You still can. I do it all the time.
It’s entirely possible that I’ve missed more recent legislation, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada has a “blank media tax” courtesy of the record lobby back in the recording tape days. There was much pushback from consumers when that fee was applied to things like video tapes, recordable CDs, hard drives, etc, but still exists as far as I know.
The recording industry was pushing for laws more in line with other jurisdictions, primarily the US. The government was open to it, but would then abolish the fees on blank media. Industry backed down because they get more from that fee distribution than they would ever get by having more restrictions. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from trying to shame us or blow smoke up our asses.
That means we are already paying a licence fee allowing us to copy recorded or broadcast material for personal use. “Personal use” is defined by what it’s not: rebroadcast, playing for the general public, and reselling. Thus, making a strictly personal copy is fine, as is making a copy for a friend, copying from an original you’ve borrowed (from a friend or from the library), recording legal broadcasts (like from radio, etc), and recording concerts unless the terms of admission expressly forbid it, etc.
What’s stopping you from doing that now?
DRM protection on music discs, and general distrust of “cracking” software due to my ignorance in The Scene as it stands today.
DRM protection on music discs
Unless I’m mistaken, this hasn’t really been a thing for like 15 years.
Nowadas we have better open source software but people have nostalgia for Winamp.
I mean, winamp had playlist, shuffle, and played music. What more do you want?
cue list, but winamp had that too. I like my cue list separate from my playlist.
I can’t listen to music without data collection, subscriptions and ADs
name names
foobar
vlc. its kludgy on desktop, but will play anything and the mobile ux is perfect.
Yeah but I always had weird playback bugs, like a hickup after a minute or two in many mp3s.
On two different PCs (like 5+ years apart).
I’d love to use winamp for music again, it was my goto player in I around 2000.
Edit: removed brainfart.
I haven’t noticed anything weird in the past decade, not that I couldn’t trace pretty easily, anyway.
depends on the mobile platform perhaps, vlc on iphone is garbage in my experience
that makes sense; who the hell still uses an iPhone? why?
I know it’s a small backwards country but roughly 3 out of 5 people in the US do
Americans lol
winamp can play online stuff too
AND offline stuff
and it has skins
and its free
and it has no ads
If you weren’t staring at a zooming vortex visualization while high on shrooms, you were missing out.
“Geiss” was the shit!
I was a fan of Goom.
Finding a decent copy of music was in no way “simpler” than Spotify/YT.
At least now it is pretty simple. Not sure about Spotify, but you can download exact audio files Deezer has. That’s my favorite method unless Deezer has a bad remasters of older albums, then I fall back to Soulseek to do some hunting of better version.
None of that is more simple than clicking a link and having everything on all of your devices.
I’m not saying Spotify is the end all. They have a lot of terrible shit. But none of the torrent/usenet based shit or open source crap is easier to use. Nobody is going to secondary sources on Spotify for bad remasters. You are handwaving away the pain in the ass part.
Obviously it’s not more simple and never will be, but at this point pirating music is as simple as it was using ITunes
How many people you know using iTunes for music? The apple folks I know are streaming from Apple music.
Nobody, everyone is streaming since it is more convenient. All I was saying is that getting local music is also more convenient now.
