nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia
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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.
I am still looking to find an alternative to winamp that does the album sorting well
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.
Even just using PC programs makes me feel old in this day and age. That said, I am the same age as Windows XP...
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.
Hah! I’m as old as MS-DOS 2.0! (But really got comfortable using computers on my own with Windows 95/98/NT 4.0)
...I was already eight years old when MS-DOS 1.0 was released.
Ugh.
At least I'm likely to die of old age before the resource wars really get kicking.
We used to own our music!
Totally didn’t download all of it from LimeWire.
DAE had that one copy of a song that everyone shared with a glitch during the second verse, and now you find it jarring to hear the song without that artifact.
I have an old copy of "American Pie" from Napster just like that. Couple little glitches at the start that gave me a twitch for years if I didn't hear it.
It's also what I tell people who like the sound of vinyl. The pops and hisses of vinyl are objectively wrong, but you can get subjectively used to hearing things a certain way. It's not better, it's just what you have always done.
Even that all said, I do like listening to vinyl because the whole process of listening to it is very deliberate. Like I'm preparing for an event and this is what I'll be doing for the evening.
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?
Seriously. Everyone complains about how it was so much better back then, when you owned your music on physical media.
Meanwhile, the choice of music available to buy on CD's (and even LP's) has never been greater than today.
Plus, you can easily download whatever you want from any streaming service and burn your own CD's (but please don't do that, it violates the TOS and copyright!)
Or you can buy DRM-free music files at higher quality than was ever available on physical media outside of niche formats that were never widely adopted. Costs are not outrageous and you can listen to them however you like on whatever device you like, and the artists actually get paid and there’s no question of legality.
I bought a CD of Green Day's "American Idiot" and tried to rip it. The version still sold these days has some kind of copy protection on it that gives rippers fits (which isn't very punk rock of them). Tried a few different things, and then gave up and downloaded somebody else's flac rip.
27 years later, it still really whips the llama's ass
27 years later
You stop that right now!
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.
Or just buy on Bandcamp if the artist is on there. Support artists really directly (they get 85-90% of what you pay for an item) and you usually get a royalty free lossless download as well as subscription-less streaming.
Hope recent dealings doesn't fuck up this absolute gem of a site.
Do you mind sharing any details on your process / tools?
I did a bit of web searching and found spotDL on github, you can give it Spotify playlists to convert and it will search them on YouTube/YouTube music, and output them as local files.
Includes metadata and can output in different formats too. It works great about 99% of the time, though you sometimes need to search manually for individual songs it couldn't match somehow. But that were about a dozen tracks out of over 4k for me.
If you are interested in the other things I did/found aside from music feel free to ask
winamp can play online stuff too
AND offline stuff
and it has skins
and its free
and it has no ads
Aside from eminem and robbie whoever, i definitely have a playlist on winamp on my computer right now with those exact songs in it
Edit: replied to completely wrong comment, soz
If you weren't staring at a zooming vortex visualization while high on shrooms, you were missing out.
I was staring at it completely sober. I think it still produced the same effect.
Definitely did. Dad was a stoner, I was too young to get stoned, we both sat and watched it for ages while dad shared his favorite tunes with me. Ah, good times.
I really missed those, i only recently discovered vlc still has them. Was a little nostalgia trip
Holy Fuck that playlist makes me want to get drunk like only a teenager at a pool party could
I crossed the streams and made a Spotify playlist of the playlist seen in this photo of WinAMP:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0do6Ech8s3etvYUteF321m?si=127f8f2aa9d9490e
Egon, you said crossing the streams was bad.
Fuckin hell I can feel this in my bones
But my dreams, they aren't as empty
No, this was the simpler time:
You don't gotta go all the way simple just to be simpler.
I was still using Milkdrop 2 visualizations on Foobar until I stopped using Windows a couple of years ago. If anyone knows how to use Milkdrop with MPD on Linux, you'd make me very happy.
I mean, it lets me use my old winamp themes...
Wac me up
WAC ME UP INSIDE
you can still download old winamp, and it still works!
I've converted my music library to opus and it's all offline, on my phone and PC. It's the only way to listen to some things that get caught in licensing hell, and that's only going to get worse over time.
oh man i googled winamp skins and had the biggest nostalgia flashback