Winamp is dead, long live Winamp.
http://techcrunch.com/2013....ts-down
I just checked my archives, the oldest version I have filed away is 2.04 from 1998. Can anyone beat that? Also a bunch of old skins and visualizations. Back in the days of 28.8 baud modems, it was quicker to archive shit than just re-download when you needed it again. I can probably dump most of that old stuff... but hell... DASD space is cheap, as we used to say back then.
Winamp is shutting down.
Winamp is shutting down.
65k WInamp skins. Winamp remains beloved. I still use it.
https://skins.webamp.org/
I'd pay money for a Winamp that would run on my Google Hub screens, and pull mp3s from my networked drive.
https://skins.webamp.org/
I'd pay money for a Winamp that would run on my Google Hub screens, and pull mp3s from my networked drive.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
I guess it stopped whipping the llama's ass.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Winamp is shutting down.
To my knolwedge, Google nest system still can't play mp3's off a networked drive. That 90's technology.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
I last looked into it heavily a year or two ago. My sense then was that google wanted you to use streaming services.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
Which isn't the point. I want to play mp3s off my network drive. Very old functionality, which google won't allow on their devices.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
I don't feel like this is on the level of wanting the return of 5.25" floppy disks. This is a very small software thing that they've chosen to not implement, in spite of >1 customers wanting it.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
Can they charge you for it? No. Then they don't want you to have it.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Winamp is shutting down.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Winamp is shutting down.
winamp 4 lyf. As long as I have a PC, I will be running winamp on it.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
WInamp is back.
There's new functionality, but I'm not seeing casting functionality, which I'd like.
https://player.winamp.com/trending
Also......... I was looking at new swim earbuds, recently. Last time I shopped for them, maybe 4 or 5 years ago, there were a plethora of stand-alone players on which you could load your own mp3s.
But now, most of them are bluetooth, and they all say "these won't work well when they're under water, like when you're swimming laps."
MP3 used to be king. Has that gone by the wayside, since streaming is ubiquitous and most kids don't know how to navigate windows, don't have a laptop, and if they do it doesn't have a cd player? Has the industry killed the mp3 as efficiently as they've destroyed the the ability of most artists to make a living off music?
There's new functionality, but I'm not seeing casting functionality, which I'd like.
https://player.winamp.com/trending
Also......... I was looking at new swim earbuds, recently. Last time I shopped for them, maybe 4 or 5 years ago, there were a plethora of stand-alone players on which you could load your own mp3s.
But now, most of them are bluetooth, and they all say "these won't work well when they're under water, like when you're swimming laps."
MP3 used to be king. Has that gone by the wayside, since streaming is ubiquitous and most kids don't know how to navigate windows, don't have a laptop, and if they do it doesn't have a cd player? Has the industry killed the mp3 as efficiently as they've destroyed the the ability of most artists to make a living off music?
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
Artists are doing much better now.The U.S. recorded music industry grew its revenue by 8% in 2023, reaching an all-time high of $17.1 billion and marking eight consecutive years of growth
Adjusted for inflation, still not the best ever, but solid.While 2023's revenue was the highest since 1999, when adjusted for inflation it still falls short of the $19.3 billion peak in 1978 and the $26.7 billion peak in 1999.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Winamp is shutting down.
The industry is making a shitload of money, but artists aren't getting paid shit for their streams.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -streaming
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -streaming
These aren’t artists failing to connect with a public; on the contrary, they are releasing widely reviewed albums, going on tours and communicating (constantly) with their fans via social media. But this work is not paying them enough to manage without second jobs or side hustles.
Has the industry killed the mp3 as efficiently as they've destroyed the the ability of most artists to make a living off music?
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Winamp is shutting down.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Winamp is shutting down.
Artists always got small pieces from music sales. The %age they make from streams is nothing new.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Winamp is shutting down.
There used to be contracts and record deals, though. A band formed, played the local scene, got discovered. They were paid a shitload for what they had, and a shitload for 3 more albums. If they were smart, they had a good career. Often they were young and dumb and were broke in 18 months. But even so.... there was a career path, a way forward.
Most people who follow music, and a lot of the old timers in the industry, say as hard as it was before, it's all but impossible, now, to have a fabulous life streaming music. And now the studio isn't even providing an overpriced studio and engineer to put the album together, peeps are doing it on their own on rockband and then getting shit deals on Spotify in order to make scores of dollars from millions of streams..... while Spotify is making a shitload off subscriptions and ads for the little guy's product.
https://www.loudersound.com/news/gene-s ... -killed-it
Gene says rock is dead, and fans killed it.
I say piracy's part of it.... another part is the industry doing their best to kill mp3, which I observed elsewhere, recently. That's piracy. The last time I purchased a streaming-only album on amazon, there was supposed to be a "download" option, but I never got it to work. I could listen to it on amazon music or not at all. No good to me at all on my mp3 swim earbuds.
Some old-school musician recently says there's no point in making an album any more, because no one listens to albums, as albums. It feels like an artform has been lost there, yet another thing that no longer connects people as a society. I dunno, that's just me waxing rhapsodic. Another common thread gone. Never another The Wall, Kid A, or a thousand other bands who touched our lives because some old, out of touch music producer didn't understand the current trends, so just signed anybody.
The industry was making plenty of money back then, and exploiting bands all day long. Now they're letting the bands exploit themselves, and keeping ALL the money. I don't think anyone is saying "yeah it's way better now" except for maybe career contrarians.
Most people who follow music, and a lot of the old timers in the industry, say as hard as it was before, it's all but impossible, now, to have a fabulous life streaming music. And now the studio isn't even providing an overpriced studio and engineer to put the album together, peeps are doing it on their own on rockband and then getting shit deals on Spotify in order to make scores of dollars from millions of streams..... while Spotify is making a shitload off subscriptions and ads for the little guy's product.
https://www.loudersound.com/news/gene-s ... -killed-it
Gene says rock is dead, and fans killed it.
I say piracy's part of it.... another part is the industry doing their best to kill mp3, which I observed elsewhere, recently. That's piracy. The last time I purchased a streaming-only album on amazon, there was supposed to be a "download" option, but I never got it to work. I could listen to it on amazon music or not at all. No good to me at all on my mp3 swim earbuds.
Some old-school musician recently says there's no point in making an album any more, because no one listens to albums, as albums. It feels like an artform has been lost there, yet another thing that no longer connects people as a society. I dunno, that's just me waxing rhapsodic. Another common thread gone. Never another The Wall, Kid A, or a thousand other bands who touched our lives because some old, out of touch music producer didn't understand the current trends, so just signed anybody.
The industry was making plenty of money back then, and exploiting bands all day long. Now they're letting the bands exploit themselves, and keeping ALL the money. I don't think anyone is saying "yeah it's way better now" except for maybe career contrarians.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."