Winamp News

[lostinsound]

I'm using 'Dopamine' at the moment until something happens with Winamp. Not the drug, the music player. It feels a lot like a newer version of Winamp. I highly suggest giving it a try.

Just gave it try and I really like the look and feel of it and the flexibility with organizing the music. It doesn't seem to have gapless playback or replaygain so I can't see myself switching to it though. It definitely has potential.

[Sabine Klare]

About the Winamp-Milkdrop-Videos on YouTube, I have very much music-playlists with these music-videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Sternenmaschinebine/playlists

Of course You need also a screenrecorder, Fraps, Camtasia, Hypercam or MAGIX Video 17 Deluxe Premium (or another version number), although MAGIX records with the double speed and I have to play the song twice. I had bought MAGIX on the old-fashioned way, for the other screenrecorders online-banking is required, and I still don't make online-banking. There is also a tutorial in the forums how to turn off the flickering, if Milkdrop should run on the desktop.

@ bgd , maybe we will see us on YouTube...

[CthulhuSaves]

There are music players other than Winamp?

Nah, don't care...

[ksenit13]

hi

thanks!!!

[tapi0]

I use Winamp only to listen streams and mp3's from my HD's but it's the best for that IMO.

[llandyw]

A couple bits of interest.

Someone mentioned in a previous post that they are dismayed that Winamp was never produced for Android.

Well, I have had Winamp for Android quite some time now. It certainly isn't full featured, and is somewhat cumbersome to use, but it is (or was) available. Since I got it a long time ago, it still shows up in the list. However, I don't know if those who don't already have it can still get it. Anyway, the link to it is:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nullsoft.winamp

The other item.

The patent on MP3 has expired. While code from specific individuals and companies may still be copyrighted, new code can be developed by anyone now that the patent is no longer in effect.

That means Winamp can still play mp3s without having to pay a licensing fee to a patent holder. Still have to write the playback code, but that shouldn't be too hard to do. I know someone who wrote code for it just this past weekend in order to use MP3 with the games she develops.

[musicf8]

Wait... Winamp is still in the play store? I thought they removed it...

Anyway, anyone who is a fan of Winamp should know that there was a winamp for android. Should they ever create a winamp app for android worth using imo, then i'd gladly use it as my primary player.

[llandyw]

It's there, but as I said, it might be available only to those who downloaded it before it was removed. That's how I got the link was by going there from the icon given to me when I looked at the My Apps list.

[twc]

RemoteControl for Winamp

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RemoteControl&hl=nl

[tapi0]

Nice to know about but atleast I don't need that.
Good if there is someone in need.

BTW. You should have remove that language prefix from the URL...we are not all from netherlands you know. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....RemoteControl

[GorillaCat]

I've been using GoneMAD Music Player for a while, it's perfect aside from a bug that changes my eq preset every time I open it. Worth every penny.

[jesseg]

Cool, I've never heard of Izotope before - gonna tryit out. I've always used OctiMax and Volume Logic (stacked). They are the best sound enhancers/DSPs for Winamp i've found.

Volume Logic is the successor to OctiMax but OM is a DSP and VL is a general plugin so they can be used in tandem. They're both by Plantronics (IIRC it was a small swedish developer who made the algorithm and was acquired by Plantroincs) but stopped being supported in 2010 or something.

It pretty much stopped being supported when the company was sold to Plantronics, which was long before 2010.

Leif Claesson, the developer, has kept very active since then. His "Linear Acoustic" processors handle around 85% of all TV now. He also has several processors with the #1 brand "Omnia" who does FM, AM, DAB, streaming, etc.

There's also been several flavors of "Breakaway" which is his consumer and broadcaster software audio processors for over 10 years now. The broadcasting versions have been unified into a single version that can have various combinations of licensing added to it, which you can find here: http://www.breakawayone.com/

The consumer version hasn't been updated to his new development framework yet, but you can still get that here: https://goo.gl/HiQ5rL ( claessonedwards.com ) for the silly low price of 30 bucks. To put that into perspective, a closely comparable broadcast audio processor from 20 years ago was $16,000 (one that's still used on the air in "hand me down" markets).

The next big update of Breakaway for consumers will likely be an APO so the users don't have to fiddle with buffer settings, routing through virtual soundcards, etc... which is over most people's heads. Not so much the people on this forum but the public at large yes.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/audio/windows-audio-processing-objects

Cheers

[skribb]

It pretty much stopped being supported when the company was sold to Plantronics, which was long before 2010.

Leif Claesson, the developer, has kept very active since then. His "Linear Acoustic" processors handle around 85% of all TV now. He also has several processors with the #1 brand "Omnia" who does FM, AM, DAB, streaming, etc.

There's also been several flavors of "Breakaway" which is his consumer and broadcaster software audio processors for over 10 years now. The broadcasting versions have been unified into a single version that can have various combinations of licensing added to it, which you can find here: http://www.breakawayone.com/

The consumer version hasn't been updated to his new development framework yet, but you can still get that here: https://goo.gl/HiQ5rL ( claessonedwards.com ) for the silly low price of 30 bucks. To put that into perspective, a closely comparable broadcast audio processor from 20 years ago was $16,000 (one that's still used on the air in "hand me down" markets).

The next big update of Breakaway for consumers will likely be an APO so the users don't have to fiddle with buffer settings, routing through virtual soundcards, etc... which is over most people's heads. Not so much the people on this forum but the public at large yes.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/audio/windows-audio-processing-objects

Cheers

Thanks a lot for the info, I forgot about Breakaway. Your post made me remember tho. I remember trying it out, but the virtual soundcard thing put me off it. I also recall it didn't sound any better than OM or VL (which might have been because of incompetence on my part).

[AudreyBlair]

Winamp is currently a 32-bit program, so you need to install the 32-bit version of ffdshow, not the 64-bit version, regardless of whether your OS is x64 (64-bit version has "64" in the filename, 32-bit version doesn't, heh).

[motox22a]

Agree with others...Winamp is already pretty much perfect (to me)...
But hey I'm kinda old school...