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Winamp was great - I spent more time fiddling about with skins and visualisations than I ever did listening to music through it
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Bingo! You remember there was a time, the viz-plugins upgraded to 3D. Some of them were wonderful.
That was one of the grandest news, during the classic Windows Applications days. 
And I love the re-size & magnetic behavior of the player window frames, with Equalizer & Playlist.
That's a typical, slick Win32 Application.
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Sure, but that can be googled. What's your opinion?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not much of an opinion I'm afraid, long ago, in XP times I was very fond of the Windows MediaPlayer and had everything categorized nicely and added missing covers, but ... after updating to Windows 7 my whole configuration was gone !
You can guess what I think now of the Windows MediaPlayer, never used it again, I rely on an old IPod Touch to play my mp3 files 
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RickZeeland wrote: You can guess what I think now of the Windows MediaPlayer, never used it again, I rely on an old IPod Touch to play my mp3 files
heh. You're as bad as me.
In my kitchen, I've got a pair of ancient-but-decent left-over computer speakers and an old, cheap-as-dirt mp3 player hanging down from them. They do the trick, so I've never even considered replacing them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 Old speakers never die. I have the same set up. funny.
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I used to prefer one that I won't name, because it became adware, but Quintessential Media Player (dev discontinued, but it works, so they stopped fixing it) is, to me, nicer to use than winamp, and there are lots of others that are good -- foobar 2000, kmplayer, etc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I liked how Spotify automatically keeps the same playlist on my telephone as on my pc.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hell yeah I still use it!
It's the first item on my taskbar 
The "new future for Winamp" was announced back in 2014 or 2015 or something, but nothing changed for years.
This new v5.8 is the first I've heard since then, but maybe I'll just stick to v5.666 because it work fine for me 
Now I WOULD be willing to try a new v6!
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You are a real Winamper! 
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It has treated me right since I switched from WMP back in 2000/2001
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Cheers!
You know there were times, I aspired to write some basic plugins for Winamp. It never happened though. 
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It seems you're getting a second chance 
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Sander Rossel wrote: It seems you're getting a second chance
It's mutual !
I just gave WinAmp the second chance. It's been doing fairly well 
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I have almost always used and still use Winamp for music. During a time I used "mpc star" but it didn't convinced me and went back to Winamp.
If Winamp is the best media player or not... I can't tell. But it is the one I like most.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It STILL really whips the llama's ass!
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I use MediaMonkey largely becasue it runs on my Android device and on Windows.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I actually can't remember the last time I played any media on my PC that wasn;t in it's own player/app [e.g. spotify, youtube].
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Nand32 wrote: Whats the best Media player out there, these days? |
There are no good player out there.
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I use iTunes.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: There are no good player out there.
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I use iTunes.
There's no need to repeat yourself.
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I wanted to put it into perspective! 
I'd rather be phishing!
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I know...
If all you know is iTunes, then yeah, you'd think all players suck. As far as I understand it, iTunes is universally despised on Windows, which you'd think would be surprising given that it's pretty much necessary if you use Apple's hardware without an actual Apple desktop or laptop.
It's my firm belief that Apple is so petty, even though they have all the money in the world, they do NOT want to spend the resources to make a good product for any competitor's OS. Even though they have way more people using iTunes on Windows than MacOS.
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I still use WinAmp after many years. I tried Windows Media player and hated it.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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Paid a visit to your site and viewed the photo gallery, nice photo's
Especially the one with tea cup and books, that seems to be light reading (Das Kapital).
I once visited the German town of Trier where I stumbled upon the birth house of Karl Marx, didn't visit it though 
Well maybe next time when I'm in the neighbourhood ...
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