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• CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No it’s not. It’s coming back as yet another subscription based garbage.

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  • shashi154263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh! Fuck that shit.

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  • zahel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    creators can sell content via subscription and they call the feature “the fanzone”

    MFs really brought onlyfans to winamp but for music.

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    • Lorela@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t that essentially what Patreon is for though? How is it different (other than I assume no ‘bonus content’ for your sub)?

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  • bro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Goddammit. I got so excited by the headline, and then you had to go and crush my dreams.

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  • girlfreddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I miss the time of the late 90’s - early 00’s when creators threw their products out on the web for all to use freely. Products like this (and DBAN, etc) were the only way many of us could truly enjoy and use what the world wide web had to offer without the intrusion of Micro$oft and Apple gatekeepers’ monetization.

    *sigh

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    • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s our own fault for not paying for that WinRAR license. I’m pretty sure that when the sun explodes there will be somebody out there on day 5,576,456,245 of their 30-day trial ;-)

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Meanwhile, us Linux users are wondering what the hell you’re talking about.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just use MusicBee. Nothing beats it

    And it even runs great in wine nowadays, if you’re on linux like me.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Foobar2000

      FOREVER

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• Tosti@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Winamp will allow content creators to manage their own subscription models. This means they will be able to configure different tiers to provide access to their content.

  As such, subscribers won’t pay a unique price to access the entire content on the platform, but stick with a smaller fee for each artist. A new section called Fanzone will allow artists to manage subscriptions and configure recurring revenue sources.

  Oh great, another subscription. And this one even less transparent than the others. There is probably a niche out there but still.

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  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would say this is more transparent. It’s less predictable but you actually have some idea who your money is going to.

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  • donnnnnnb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like Bandcamp but with a subscription. Not exactly reinventing the wheel here guys…

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• mettwurstkaninchen@feddit.de [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you want to use Winamp on a modern PC, just use WACUP: getwacup.com

  It’s a nearly perfect clone of the original Winamp and does work exactly as it should without all this NFT bullshit the new Winamp “promises”

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    WACUP! (wacup)

    Grab a brush and put a little MACUP!

    Hide the scars to fade away the SHACUP!

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    • thethirdobject@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few weeks but this is the best comment this platform will ever have

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  • KalabiYau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep. I use WACUP instead of Winamp and love it so much. It’s between that and MusicBee for my fav modern music player rn

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or just use an old installer of winamp

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• uollano@hexagonsun.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Subscriptions? NFTs? Yeah they can go fuck a goat

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  • Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps you mean “Yeah, they can go fuck a Llama” 😆

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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oooohhhh one of those relaunches. I.e. A cash grab on a nostalgic name.

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean “NFT’s”?

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  • Vlhacs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But it’s what modern users need!

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    • db2@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Modem solutions require modern problems.

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• The_Driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The official website tells us that creators will be able to release tracks as (limited) NFTs.

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  • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are we sure this isn’t some elaborate piece of satire? It’s wild to me that they’d try to execute such a blatant cashgrab when the name Winamp stands for pretty much the opposite of what they’re trying to peddle.

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    • alliestear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      remember when Napster became a legitimate music storefront?

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ever since I saw Limewire come back as a NFT market place I am convinced these people do not give a fuck. The more blatant, the better.

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  • Exec@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought NFTs have finally died out. Looks like some companies still haven’t got the memo.

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• HorseFD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Foobar2000 is the true modern day Winamp.

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wish there was a linux version. It with discogs tagger is my go to for mass tagging. But I can get it to work under wine for the most part.

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is AmaroK for KDE.

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    • endbringer93@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just use picard?

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Foobar2000 is great. But I don’t have an issue with AIMP either

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• quams69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It absolutely is not, it got a rebrand by some dipshit tech bros looking to capitalize on nostalgia. What a bunch of fuckin idiots.

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• DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good.

  Subscriptions

  Bad.

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  • Eyebrows@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How else do you think they afforded this blatant piece of content marketing being passed off as ‘news’?

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Too late; I already switched to foobar2000 and I don’t see myself switching back.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember when saying something like that would get you virtually stabbed in IRC.

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    • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Winamp is fine if you’re okay with its defaults; however, the moment you want to for example do something a bit more funky with the media library views, you’re out of luck. With foobar2000 and Facets I’m able to do stuff like showing different releases of the same album, showing bands and artists by country of origin (for which I do custom tags) and so on. I realise it’s a niche use, but that’s me.

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    • ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At least slapped with a trout.

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  • Atomdude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was using Foobar for the longest time, but I suddenly felt the need to have Mildrop visualization.
    I couldn’t get it to work with Foobar, so I installed Winamp (about a month ago, free, no mention of subscriptions anywhere), and it came with Milkdrop preinstalled.

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• rdri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How many chromium processes will it launch on first run?

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• dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It never actually left and the new versions are T-R-A-S-H.

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  • Spruce1538@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    how are the new versions trash? do you think the base model is bad too?

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• CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bots posting advertising on Lemmy. We’ve peaked!

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What absence? It never really went away, it just became less popular. AFAIK, the site and the download have been available this entire time. I even went and installed it like 3 months ago and recently found a way to play Spotify through it so now it’s once again my default music player on desktop.

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  • Philolurker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It wasn’t up the whole time. I went looking for it a few years ago after a new OS install, and found that, at the time, the site was in limbo with some message about coming back eventually, but no official way to download it. Glad it’s back, hope they didn’t turn it into enshittified bloatware.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to use winamp all the time back when I used to download mp3s. I have absolutely zero need for mp3s anymore. I don’t think they are going to have the come back that they think they will have

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• MoistMogwai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Winamp never left. Always one of my first installs.

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  • Prox@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to keep the portable version on a flash drive with a few dozen of my favorite tracks. Such a fantastic player.

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just need something that lets me manually sync my music with my iPod on Windows. iTunes has turned into total garbage (it’s apparently been abandoned on macOS altogether) and anytime I want to simply add a song to it it makes me want to punch my screen because of how frustratingly stupid the whole experience is.

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  • Prox@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t Winamp already do this?

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    • daFRAKKINpope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know it used to. No clue if Apple patched it out in the decade since I’ve tried tho.

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  • elrik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure there is a reason, but if you have a collection of mp3s, why not store them on your phone or stream them from the cloud? Why use an iPod at all?

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    • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I prefer having something locally available that doesn’t depend on a connection to anything. I listen to music while driving and hour-long walks, I don’t want to be using up all my data for something like that, I’m already maxing out my data before the end of each month anyways.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I heard the are/will be charging for it. Which is pretty fucking stupid, not to mention the fact that it was always free way back when. Hard pass.

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• SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the second relaunch that I remember then, because I think AOL bought it? I remember when it was changed, but I used to use an open source WinAMP on Linux that you could use the old skins with.

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Xmms, yes :)

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    • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And Audacious!

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …i just kept using the old one

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• art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Moved on to Tauon Music Box for the desktop and Phonograph Plus for mobile. Between those and Spotify I don’t really see a need for Winamp in 2023.

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  • Seraphim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me it’s MusicBee on desktop and Aimp on Android.

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• HikuNoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not content with whipping the llama’s ass, Winamp decided to shaft it. What a slurry filled disappointed.

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• stooovie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Again?

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve tried their new mobile app and it feels like Spotify-ish and Bandcamp combined, not something I really wanted out of this re-launch…

  The UI felt so lifeless and stale….

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  • Exec@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d bet their desktop app is written in Electron or some other bs bloated framework.

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised. They announced this re-launch like five years ago and so far we have a vague subscription concept and a buggy mobile app that looks generic as hell. A shame, really.

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• windowsphoneguy@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1 Mar 2023

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• hiire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I heard that the name was pretty much dead, so someone else just bought them and made an excuse to sell NFTs, pretty much what happened with LimeWire. At least they’re marketing the subscriptions more, are they trying to be the Patreon for music? I mean, bandcamp exists…

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• MonochromeObserver@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shame. I'm using Winamp but I decided to not upgrade it once this new update goes live. It doesn't look good on my 4k display anyway. I'd like to switch to foobar2000 but i have no idea how to customize it to look nice.

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• ClevelandRock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still use Winamp because people made plugins for it (like Chipamp) so I can listen to video game music in its native/emulated format. For me, that’s all Winamp is good for. This new Winamp is probably new software created from the ground up, so those plugins will be useless.

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• Trolled@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  looks like shid

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