Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times... Real good times.
Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.
The best part was the commercially "exploited" parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.
In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!
Still whipping the llama’s ass all these years later! So glad this one never died. Way too much time getting all my music tags right so everything would be formatted correctly in Winamp when I was young.
Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it's not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they're allowed to include this stuff on their website?
Turns out one of my favorite bands is that Playlist (Diablo Swing Orchestra), pretty cool of them to release free music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, TIL.
I've seen this before, but didn't realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.
My guess is this is a win32 program or a codebase that is very Windows specific. It was probably discarded because it did not port very well to other platforms. Again, just a guess.
Still, it's nice to see such a historicaly popular program get its source officially released.
if you're being for real, it's successor is this. though compared to other offerings these days I don't really prefer to use it. open source and no ads tho so that's cool.
Screw limewire, soulseek is the way, an endless sea of perfectly organised music libraries, you'll find what you want and stuff you didn't know you needed.
I am a mildly net savvy person who only knows about torrents and file sharing. Can you point me to resources where I can learn more about Usenet? Also, what client and service do you use to access it? Thanks in advance.
For the files themselves lately I've been doing something like Country of Origin/Artist/Original Year - Album (Catalogue Number) (Release Year)/ (used to do it without the country, but at one point they became way too many, and I don't really like organising by letter or whatever). I love foobar2000 with Facets because of the fact that you can shove any arbitrary tag into the files and then have columns show it (I'm doing that with the countries for example), but I'm now suffering a bit because of that habit - I started also self hosting my library and Navidrome that I'm using doesn't like just any tags that you throw at it (it especially doesn't like it if you have multiple releases of the same album that have come out in the same year).
My view is that not having separate artist folders is wild, but hey, whatever works for you.
All in all however specific folder structure is not terribly important to me; what's important is that the tags are in order and that I can make the app I'm using present the stuff in the manner that I want.
Do you share music on p2p services or do you just have a personal collection? The reason people don't like seperate artist folder is because when sharing the folder it won't include the artist name.
Here is my current playlist. Using the "modern" (blue background) skin.
1981-Time\09 - Lights Go Down.mp3
1974-Eldorado\03 - Boy Blue.mp3
1975-Face The Music\06 - Strange Magic.mp3
1979-Discovery\02 - Confusion.mp3
1981-Time\08 - From The End Of The World.mp3
1976-A New World Record\02 - Telephone Line.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\03 - Sweet Talkin Woman.mp3
1979-Discovery\05 - Last Train To London.mp3
1974-Eldorado\02 - Can't Get It Out Of My Head.mp3
1981-Time\05 - The Way Life's Meant To Be.mp3
1980-Xanadu\09 - All Over The World.mp3
1981-Time\10 - Here Is The News.mp3
1976-A New World Record\05 - So Fine.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\10 - Standin In The Rain.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\11 - Big Wheels.mp3
1981-Time\03 - Yours Truly 2095.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\12 - Summer And Lightning.mp3
1979-Discovery\07 - On The Run.mp3
1976-A New World Record\08 - Do Ya.mp3
1981-Time\04 - Ticket To The Moon.mp3
1979-Discovery\04 - The Diary Of Horace Wimp.mp3
1975-Face The Music\03 - Evil Woman.mp3
1979-Discovery\03 - Need Her Love.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\13 - Mr. Blue Sky.mp3
1980-Xanadu\08 - Dont Walk Away.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\01 - Turn To Stone.mp3
I really liked winamp when my screen resolution wasn't so high. I wish the interface could scale so I can still use the original look without having to squint.
The newest one fixes scaling but you need to set a compatibility setting. Use the newest version. After install right click and hit properties. Click compatibility settings. Set for all users if applicable. Select override hdpi settings. In the drop down select system enhanced. Ok apply ...... Restart the application. Enjoy.
You can also adjust the test in the actual winamp menus. But you can look up how easier than what I laid out.
Well, I mean I loved Winamp, but streaming ease of use pretty much killed it. Even then, I've been Linux Desktop forever, and other options there with better network and non-file aware media management tools kinda took over. Would love to see them make it as extensible as VLC though, even just for the nostalgic purposes.
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