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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: Ryan on January 14, 2018, 01:33:26 PM

Title: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: Ryan on January 14, 2018, 01:33:26 PM

Who on Computer Hope Forum remembers the media player Winamp?  I used it many years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApI2a1S-4EQ

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: DaveLembke on January 14, 2018, 01:40:39 PM

Havent used that since the Windows 98 SE days on a Celeron 700Mhz. Thinking I got it bundled with my CD Burner. When I moved to XP I used other media players like Windows Media Player and later iTunes.

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: BC_Programmer on January 14, 2018, 01:57:35 PM

I still use Winamp 5.623 as my Music Player on my PCs and laptops, and have for a number of years. I gave up trying to replace it. As good as programs like Foobar2000, VLC,  MediaMonkey, MusicBee, and so on are, they just can't replace it for me because of the wealth of Input plugins I use. (Native Game System formats)

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: Mark. on January 14, 2018, 02:20:07 PM

it used to be my go to media player, and although I can't remember why now, I moved over to VLC many years ago and haven't looked back.

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: Geek-9pm on January 14, 2018, 04:33:44 PM

Anybody can make one player the audio player and another the video.
I have Windham as the audio, VSC for the video.   :D
And I do not let Windows media player do anything.  >:(

Here are five alternatives to Windows Media Player
(http://help9pm.com/CH/media-players.jpg)

    VLC media player. Hands-down one of the best multi-format media players out there, VLC supports a wide range of file formats. ...
    UMPlayer. UMPlayer is based on another solid multimedia player, MPlayer. ...
    KMPlayer. ...
    PotPlayer. ...
    SPlayer.

https://en.softonic.com/articles/5-great-alternatives-to-windows-media-player

Also worth mention:
 Foobar2000 (Windows)
 Media Monkey Free (Windows)
 MusicBee (Windows)

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: BC_Programmer on January 14, 2018, 07:08:24 PM

For Video I use Media Player Classic, VLC, and KMPlayer. I've found some files don't play properly with one or the other. Sometimes I even need to resort to Windows Media Player for some reason.

VLC is the only software I've found- other than paid, commercial products- that can be made capable of playing Blu-Ray Discs.

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: JockB on February 08, 2018, 06:57:06 AM

I do that has been in good use for more than 13 years, it kinda is sad they turned the plugs off

Title: Re: Does anybody remember Winamp?
Post by: nil on February 08, 2018, 12:53:09 PM

It really whipped the llama's...

Interesting side note, a developer named Jordan Eldredge has recreated WinAmp 2 in the browser using HTML5 and JavaScript.

https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/

https://mobile.twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168

https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js