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 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…
I just finished a Windows XP rig so I could relive some of my classic gaming moments. From my college years…
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.
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
winamp can play online stuff too
AND offline stuff
and it has skins
and its free
and it has no ads
Still use it to this day on the Win laptops. Zero issues in 20 years. (v5665), and using XMMS2 on the Nix boxen.
We used to own our music!
Totally didn’t download all of it from LimeWire.
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
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.
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.
winamp Winamp WINAMP!
It Really Whips The Lamas Ass!
Llama noise
“Damn Son, Where’d You Find This.mp3”
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.
