• yesman@lemmy.world
    81·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        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.

      • Prox@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      Even just using PC programs makes me feel old in this day and age. That said, I am the same age as Windows XP…

      • Syn_Attck@lemmy.today
        1·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          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.

          https://youtu.be/P0AJM6HMYjM?si=A8-pv0n03c_l7g7x

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        I just finished a Windows XP rig so I could relive some of my classic gaming moments. From my college years…

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • CassiniWarden@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • CassiniWarden@infosec.pubEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
      0·
      10 months ago

      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

      • jadero@lemmy.ca
        1·
        10 months ago

        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.

          • kamiheku@sopuli.xyz
            01·
            10 months ago

            DRM protection on music discs

            Unless I’m mistaken, this hasn’t really been a thing for like 15 years.

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    winamp can play online stuff too

    AND offline stuff

    and it has skins

    and its free

    and it has no ads

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
      0·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
        01·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
          1·
          10 months ago

          Obviously it’s not more simple and never will be, but at this point pirating music is as simple as it was using ITunes

          • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
            0·
            10 months ago

            How many people you know using iTunes for music? The apple folks I know are streaming from Apple music.

            • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
              1·
              10 months ago

              Nobody, everyone is streaming since it is more convenient. All I was saying is that getting local music is also more convenient now.