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Winamp 6, due out in 2019, aims to whip more llama ass
Rejoice, llama-whipping fans, a new version of Winamp is set to be released in 2019, according to a Monday report by TechCrunch. Alexandre Saboundjian, the CEO of Radionomy, said that the upgrade would bring a "complete listening experience."
[...] The Belgian company that bought Winamp from AOL in January 2014 hasn't really done much with it since buying the remnants of the property just months after AOL finally pulled the plug.
Related: "Whipping the Llama's Ass" with this Javascript WinAmp Emulator
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 16 2018, @10:40AM (3 children)
Drag and drop's easier for making a large playlist. GUIs do have their limited uses.
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(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Tuesday October 16 2018, @11:45AM (2 children)
I just switched to mpd (https://www.musicpd.org/), which allowed a choice of cmdline, API, or GUI interfaces, and has a library, playlist, and the basics I needed.
Indeed after winamp went away (the original, before Justin and NULLSOFT got bought out and left development), I switched to that, and have been happy ever since. It was one of the main things that helped me migrate away from windows completely.
Although I admit, for a long time, I used XMMS, because it was a clone, and the skins were compatible. Audacious nowadays still supports winamp 2 skins, which is quite nice, but not the later 3+ ones. I found the ability to completely decouple the UI from the actual player was quite powerful.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 16 2018, @12:19PM (1 child)
That approach has its merits and downsides but running a (possibly second) system daemon for playing audio fundamentally disturbs me. It very much belongs in userspace by my way of thinking.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Tuesday October 16 2018, @02:41PM
I agree I found it odd at first, however my desktop was always on, so rather than have to fire up the media player all the time, just have in the background, library updates are handled by cron, hosted on my file server via NFS share, any new media placed on the server gets synched quickly.
Also, I could pause a song, and come back to resume it tomorrow without thinking about starting up the player, finding the song again (if the playlist is still loaded), hitting play, etc... It was just seamless
Then there is the fact I can have multiple interfaces at once. The GUI for when I am setting up the playlist, or casual listening, then the cmdline for when I am hacking on something and don't want to move out of the shell, to the keybindings to the media keys on my keyboard, for hardware control. Then there is the mpd client on my phone, which allows me to control the music from wherever I am in the house (useful when I am doing chores to music and don't want to go up the stairs to change the song).
Indeed, as I found myself using the above system more and more, I actually moved mpd to a rasberry pi, and just keep it permanently hooked up to the hifi, so now the "media player" is just another unit on the hifi. My next goal is to build it into an old hifi deck with a VFD display, and then it will actually look like a piece of hifi equipment, and be an always on system for playing music.
However I do see the need for standalone players too. My laptop has a subset of my music collection, which I take when I am out of the house. There the benefits of a networked music player are not so strong, so I actually use audacious (with the XMMS winamp2 skin), for that comfortable retro feel (I am so used to the winamp interface I still think it is the "right" way a music player on the PC should look like, despite it being really just a skeuomorphic design of analogue controls).