Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released (bleepingcomputer.com) 198
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."
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Does it still whip the llama's ass?
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Does it still whip the llama's ass?
It never stopped.
Right now, I'm running the old version of WinAmp (5.66) on the latest version of Windows 10 and it works just fine. It's small, simple, it works and it plays any audio file I want.
When I see "Big Update Planned" it just means "We're going to fuck things up".
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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.
Re: But (Score:2)
I switched to foobar2000 many years ago for my Windows audio player and never looked back.
The cloud stuff is intriguing though. I haven't researched it recently but I am not aware of a plugin for FB2K that streams media directly from cloud storage. I use CloudPlayer on Android for that. That could be a killer feature for WA on mobile platforms....
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ooooorrrrrrrr......
The population as a whole doesn't care about hording digital music files anymore and pays for a music service that has 99% of what they are looking for.
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Non-sequitur much? How does your comment relate in any way to what the guy above you said?
I think you've got mental problems. You're imagining things and having fake arguments.
Also, I don't care what the population as a whole does because I can think for myself. Some of us aren't into mainstream pop music and I like having my music locally with me. It means I never have to worry about having a reliable internet connection (or a connection at all) or internet congestion or services removing stuff or perpetua
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MediaMonkey! (Score:2)
I think MediaMonkey is the best music player by far.
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Re: But (Score:1)
I've though so about earlier updates and you run the latest (before this leaked one) and are happy with that so I don't understand your worries.
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Right now, I'm running the old version of WinAmp (5.66) on the latest version of Windows 10 and it works just fine. It's small, simple, it works and it plays any audio file I want.
I actually bought it back in the day, and it works just fine on Win10 for me as well, including visualizations.
Re:But (Score:4, Interesting)
I seriously still use Winamp to this day.
https://i.imgur.com/ZjA2AcC.pn... [imgur.com]
It plays MP3s, FLAC, OGG, etc. It has modular plugin API for obscure things like NES music. It supports global hotkeys. Skins.
And uses 16MB of RAM and 0% CPU to play an MP3. AS IT !@#$'ING SHOULD.
I haven't tried the newest version yet. But every "winamp clone" I've tried (on Linux included) was actually far more CPU and RAM usage and missed actual useful features like global hotkeys.
Although, in the last few years, I've really started to use YouTube (+Ublock) as a music player since it has literally everything ever.
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So a few quick comparisons:
Foobar2000: 15.6MB of RAM, 0% CPU playing an MP3. - Plugin ecosystem bigger than Winamp's
VLC: 18.2MB of RAM, 0% CPU playing an MP3. - Haven't installed any customisations, plays everything I've ever thrown at it.
Now to insult your requirements a bit:
Windows Media Player: 19.5MB of RAM, 0% CPU playing an MP3. - Plays anything for which a DS filter exists, which is pretty much everything.
But since we're measurbating:
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema: 9MB of RAM, 0% CPU playing an M
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And for a non-retarded question... does it come with an updated version of Milkdrop??
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The last I saw, ProjectM was pretty weak compared to MilkDrop.
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Too bad... (Score:5, Insightful)
... that in the meantime I've completely moved to Linux, where one thing is surely not missing: decent audio player options.
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where one thing is surely not missing: decent audio player options.
Please give us some recommendations as well. I have personally found the media players in Linux to be lacking in various departments. Mind you I don't like Winamp's interface otherwise XMMS may be suitable but what do you actually use that you consider decent?
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My personal preference would be Audacious.
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Thanks I'll give it a go. I dismissed it early for looking quite ugly.
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I used it with an xfce desktop. Everything was ugly.
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hahahah. *tips hat*
Clueless troll much? (Score:3, Informative)
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
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Winamp afaik was one of the very first clients that allowed you to control it from other programs. DDE I believe it used on windows to begin with and then it also had command line options so you could call it from command line from any program and change song/playlist or a bunch of other options. Really was ahead of its time back in the 90's and early 2000's.
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The UIs/UXs for pretty much all Linux distros universally suck.
Tried Mint+Cinnamon yet?
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KDE FTW!
Ass (Score:1)
My llama's ass has never been so whipped.
Ass-whooping. (Score:2)
Be glad they didn't switch to a donkey.
How to install Winamp under Linux (Score:2)
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Didn't the plethora of open-source, and linux players eclipse Winamp's functionality long-ago? Thought so, but I stopped paying attention.
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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 W
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It does do "Album art" Seeing as you obviously know fuckall about winamp.. You should probably rant about things you know more about. And yes I stopped reading there as you're a moron. Open the damn audio library.
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"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.
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No I just didnt continue reading. I impulsively shit posted and carried on with my day.
Modern Operating Systems (Score:3, Insightful)
"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?
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The NT kernel is also modern and in active development. Troll harder.
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It is in active development?
So there IS hope after all?
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Yup. It even has a stable driver ABI. Maybe with Torvalds off trying to get "woke" Linux can start catching up!
Re: Modern Operating Systems (Score:2)
Didn't that die when Apple was taken over by NeXT?
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Didn't that die when Apple was taken over by NeXT?
Basically what we call macOS is a fork of NeXTSTEP. We all knew that the Mac OS X developer preview was really a snapshot of Rhapsody. It delivered on many of the promises made by the years old announcement of the Copland project. The developer preview of OSX proved to some of us that the only possible fix to MacOS System 7 was to throw it away and start over.
The softwarethat people run on their Apple hardware today (macOS, OSX, iOS) was not technically originally created by Apple engineers, but by enginee
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I remember the Slashdot of old where trolling drivel wouldn't be voted Insightful.
If you're 12 maybe give it a Funny vote. But seriously, people here should grow up a bit. (not the ACs, but rather the moderators).
Still running Winamp 2.95 from 2003 (Score:2, Informative)
It's a bit bloated at 2.36M, but it does an excellent job of playing my mp3 files.
Winamp 2.95 [oldversion.com]
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Use the "lite" version if all you want is mp3.
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Who's that? (Score:2)
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Simplicity and focus on what user needs at expense of everything else.
You have to agree a License... (Score:5, Informative)
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You have to agree to a license which is a dead link? Awesome! That means you only have to agree that there was a 404. Document this fact for posterity.
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For anyone interested in a winamp replacement... (Score:2)
... foobar is a decent option if your needs are just music.
http://www.foobar2000.org/ [foobar2000.org]
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I love how something is "dead" if continuous updates aren't being done. At some point you are finished. It works as intended. Quit adding shit for the sake of adding shit.
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Hopefully Mozilla Foundation employees are in the neighborhood and reading your comments. I would mod you up if I had points at the moment.
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I love how something is "dead" if continuous updates aren't being done. At some point you are finished. It works as intended. Quit adding shit for the sake of adding shit.
It works as intended, until the OS or a dependency or a standard or some combination of that gets changed and breaks it.
However, I will agree that it'd be nice if there was a point where a program could announce that it's got all the features in and any future updates will be maintenance updates--and not be considered dead merely because there's not been any need for a while to release any of those because nobody's broken it & there's not been any need to release a bugfix update yet. (Presumably there'
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It works until you have a high DPI display and/or use display scaling, and things go horribly wrong from there. "2x mode" works to make it from impossible to use to barely able to use, but it only scales the main player window by 2x - option windows, equalizer, playlist and other sub windows are still ultra tiny.
New version?? (Score:3)
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Streaming radio stations (Score:2)
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...
Most famous? (Score:1)
the world's most famous media player
So... Windows Media Player is less famous? VLC? Kodi?
I don't have a preference really (I use mpv normally), but I'd think "the famous media player" would have been sufficient.
Audio distortion (Score:4, Insightful)
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)
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Sounds like you had a hardware problem.
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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)
So with VLC you can get to 110%?
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VLC allows you to set the volume to more than 100%, yes. The control goes up to 200%.
This is useful for very quiet tracks. Distortion doesn't set in until the audio starts clipping because the signal doesn't fit in 16 bits any more.
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Why not just make it louder, but still 100%?
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Why not just make it louder, but still 100%?
These go to 110%
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At 100%, there is no attenuation or amplification of the signal in the audio file: the signal gets sent to the OS' audio system unmodified.
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In Windows, that's living on the edge. It takes considerable fiddling before you can safely do that: you have to reduce the volume of every sound-capable application to safe levels, otherwise your music will be nice and quiet, but a notification, Windows system sound or (the worst offender of all) an incoming VOIP call will sound like a bomb going off.
I got so sick and tired of applications doing that, that I bought an external DAC for my headphones, and only VLC gets routed to that DAC. All other sounds go
Still using 5.666 (Score:2)
AIMP (Score:2)
Try it.
I use it in windows and android. Nice design. Easy to use. Light.
So, someone review it... (Score:2)
...and let me know why I'd possibly replace the nice little old winamp that I STILL USE?
Winamp should be open sourced (Score:2)
I think Radionomy should have open sourced Winamp after acquiring it. I really have no interest in it or them anymore.
It's a leaked beta that was made official. (Score:2)
It's now officially sanctioned, but it's still a beta. I have previously been shouted down for proposing stories of beta releases -- "we aren't interested in unstable releases", I was told. Why is this one different?