• yesman@lemmy.world
    1182·
    8 months ago

    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.

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
        102·
        8 months ago

        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.

      • Prox@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Why not, y’know, just use Winamp? It’s still available to download and you can even get installers for older versions if you prefer.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
      123·
      8 months ago

      Even just using PC programs makes me feel old in this day and age. That said, I am the same age as Windows XP…

      • Syn_Attck@lemmy.today
        19·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, this feels wrong.

          Anyone else remember what a huge deal windows 95 launch was? With The Rolling Stones.

          It always struck me that “start me up” was used for the launch, since the chorus has “you make a grown man cry” in it. It could just be my 16 year olds sense of humor at the time though.

          https://youtu.be/P0AJM6HMYjM?si=A8-pv0n03c_l7g7x

      • jqubed@lemmy.world
        8·
        8 months ago

        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)

        • Agrivar@lemmy.world
          10·
          8 months ago

          …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.

          • viking@infosec.pub
            2·
            8 months ago

            Apparently I’m as old as DOS 2.13, but only really remember using 5.0 and 6.22, must have been 5 or so at that time.

            I remember Windows 2.0 on a b/w screen (more like amber honestly), played Reversi (without knowing how it really works) and used paint to make all black images and then use the eraser to play digital mole.

            Simpler times…

          • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            I was 2, but we had an Apple 2 and then Macs until I was in college and built a PC right as Win 98 released.

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        I just finished a Windows XP rig so I could relive some of my classic gaming moments. From my college years…

    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
      4·
      8 months ago

      Foobar2000 has all of these features. You might need some tweaking, but foobar can do practically everything as far as music library management goes. My default sorting is album artist, album year, disc, track number.

      As for song sort, if you meant sort by track number, it would be hard to find a player that does not support that. If VLC really does not support that, that is somewhat understandable, it is not meant as a serious music player after all.

        • uis@lemm.ee
          3·
          8 months ago

          Quck search suggests sorting by album will also sort by track number in it. Also I found 4 year old feature request for VLC Android for sorting by track number that was added 4 years ago.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      42·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        17·
        8 months ago

        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.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
      261·
      8 months ago

      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

          • jqubed@lemmy.world
            9·
            8 months ago

            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.

            • Poutinetown@lemmy.ca
              6·
              8 months ago

              Yeah you can literally buy flac instead of relying on CDs to get lossless quality. Also recording these days is so much better, you could easily get a lot of good remastered version of your favorite songs now.

        • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
          21·
          8 months ago

          DRM protection on music discs, and general distrust of “cracking” software due to my ignorance in The Scene as it stands today.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        8·
        8 months ago

        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.

          • frezik@midwest.social
            1·
            8 months ago

            Yes, that’s what I tried first. There’s a Windows ripper that some people had success with, but didn’t work for me.

            • uis@lemm.ee
              1·
              8 months ago

              And it didn’t work? Wierd. Was it mount and copy as files or dding without mounting? Did vlc play cd?

      • jadero@lemmy.ca
        4·
        8 months ago

        You still can. I do it all the time.

        It’s entirely possible that I’ve missed more recent legislation, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada has a “blank media tax” courtesy of the record lobby back in the recording tape days. There was much pushback from consumers when that fee was applied to things like video tapes, recordable CDs, hard drives, etc, but still exists as far as I know.

        The recording industry was pushing for laws more in line with other jurisdictions, primarily the US. The government was open to it, but would then abolish the fees on blank media. Industry backed down because they get more from that fee distribution than they would ever get by having more restrictions. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from trying to shame us or blow smoke up our asses.

        That means we are already paying a licence fee allowing us to copy recorded or broadcast material for personal use. “Personal use” is defined by what it’s not: rebroadcast, playing for the general public, and reselling. Thus, making a strictly personal copy is fine, as is making a copy for a friend, copying from an original you’ve borrowed (from a friend or from the library), recording legal broadcasts (like from radio, etc), and recording concerts unless the terms of admission expressly forbid it, etc.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    44·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          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.

      • Jarix@lemmy.world
        41·
        8 months ago

        I was prepared for that to go the other way.

        “…Spotify fucks over artists”

        *“This is one of those things that I dream of doing one of these days”

        • someone from the internet"*
      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
        17·
        8 months ago

        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

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      8 months ago

      Just today I was listening to a Tidal Playlist amongst friends and the whole thing seized up and just stopped playing music all together when it ran into a song on the Playlist that apparently Tidal lost the rights to. Really frustrating when your music library is in flux at the whim of corporate dealings.

    • antidote101@lemmy.world
      32·
      8 months ago

      “subscription hell and corporate voyeurism”

      For me, this is just a place I knew to never go. The writing was on the wall when Warcraft 2/3 became World of Warcraft, one of the first subscription based game.

      I’d already been pirating software, music, and games by then and just, stayed on that path. Never so much as used Netflix or Spotify.

    • dumbass@leminal.space
      2·
      8 months ago

      Every so often I download Winamp just to hear that intro, takes me back to being a kid everytime.

      I know it’s probably on YouTube, but it’s not the same when it’s not playing through Winamp.

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    28·
    8 months ago

    winamp can play online stuff too

    AND offline stuff

    and it has skins

    and its free

    and it has no ads

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 months ago

      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

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      Not that I was (much obliged to lets just forget present tense exists and is a thing) popular enough to go to pool parties let alone get drunk at one,

      But aside from eminem and robbie whoever, i definitely have a playlist on winamp on my computer at this moment with those exact songs in it. It was probably created when i was a teenager lol

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      8 months ago

      Back in my day, I had an old computer I stuffed under my desk that I installed Linux on. It’s only job was to connect to a cifs share where I kept my (totally legally obtained) music, and play it using xmms2.

      I did that so I could reduce the fairly minor load that winamp would put on my system while gaming. I had my PC and this music box both connected to a small mixer where I plugged in my headphones. So I could listen to whatever I wanted and had a dedicated screen and keyboard to control xmms2, so I didn’t have to alt-tab my gaming computer when I wanted to change tracks. Between the convenience of the control and the small benefit I got while using my computer, it was a nice setup that lasted me a long time I eventually stopped using it when I moved one time, I just didn’t bother to set it back up, and I eventually found that all the sliders in my mixer were messed up. From lack of use.

      I’m sad to hear that xmms2 also had a similar problem of being more or less ignored and falling into disrepair. It was a good alternative to winamp on my desktop. Everything was very very similar, so it was very easy to swap between them.

      I also similarly stopped using winamp, because reasons. I suppose the go to music player is now foobar2000.