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foobar's selling point was "now you have to janitor your music player". turns out nobody was buying, even for free
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foobar2000 was a good platform for making a music player itunes was fine if your metadata was perfect, it sucked because of drm and syncing, you can copy music to your ipod but never the other way or even add music from 2 different computers without wiping everything really a good music player would have no drm and let you copy in and out like napster
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PIZZA.BAT posted:i'm the large dedicated 'burn cd' button it's a portcullis that reveals a radiation trefoil when there's a blank, which made the cool task of mp3 burning even cooler 
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Mar 8, 2023 15:59
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I'm still using this: Sure, I have my quibbles with the GUI. But it does its job and doesn't waste a ton of space. And It has actual scroll bars!
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Mar 8, 2023 16:02
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wizard wednesday my dudes
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Perplx posted:really a good music player would have no drm and let you copy in and out like napster rca's lyras did this and had a self-indexer but the physical interface was a mess with two joystick buttons 
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Mar 8, 2023 16:05
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while the controls were bad, the device was great at double the everything for less than an ipod (lmao double the physical size) and i used one as an external drive between windows and mac machines for years
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Mar 8, 2023 16:07
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I miss my Sansa Clip. It took a ride in the washing machine and died. Great little thing. So light I could use it while running, and I could control it blind as well.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:09
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hell of a pitch
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Mar 8, 2023 16:11
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rotor posted:zune was good tho i liked mine
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Mar 8, 2023 16:37
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i kinda miss dedicated music players like that but not quite enough to buy one. i wouldn't get that much use out of one
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Mar 8, 2023 16:39
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I had an iRiver mp3 player, and it was pretty great. worked like an external drive when connected to a computer, no software, just drag and drop files and folders. evenutally dropped it into a sink full of water and dirty dishes and it died 
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Cold on a Cob posted:a lot of the itunes hate was from two sources imo one of the factors that lead to a lot of nerd rage (probably from the same people with giant libraries) was that iTunes had no compunction against taking a carefully janitored music collection and moving files, renaming them, overwriting tags, deleting album art, and outright deleting your entire library off of the disk if somebody plugged the wrong ipod in. Lead to a small number of very loud complaints. as for foobar it's ludicrously barebones out of the box but I just put together one layout 20 years ago and haven't had to janitor it since  still looking for a good music player on linux though 
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Mar 8, 2023 16:58
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infernal machines posted:remember: itunes replaced this on pc this is just itunes with different colors
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Mar 8, 2023 17:01
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Cold on a Cob posted:a lot of the itunes hate was from two sources imo it wasnt worse on windows, it was identically bad on osx its just that everything else was also insanely bad on osx
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Mar 8, 2023 17:02
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do you fuckin remember safari from that era? lol
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Mar 8, 2023 17:02
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heh do you remember finder, from right now
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safari on os x and safari on windows were the exact same thing, so was itunes they literally ported the os x frameworks over to windows instead of making it native lol
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Mar 8, 2023 17:07
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Antigravitas posted:I'm still using this: you didn't mention audacious' killer feature - you can run it with a winamp skin interface
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AlbertFlasher posted:hell of a pitch Buddy added a bunch of games to my classic including a about five baseball. I was shocked to see the pitching in that game has no directional control just how hard you throw. We've come so far in the past 23 years
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Mar 8, 2023 17:19
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I remember the Windows quicktime player that wouldn't play videos full screen unless you payed Apple for the Pro version.
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Mar 8, 2023 17:22
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my windows 10 work laptop tried to charge me money for a .mov codec
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Mar 8, 2023 17:25
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y'all forgetting the king of mp3 players ... k-jofol
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Nfcknblvbl posted:my windows 10 work laptop tried to charge me money for a .mov codec Well? Did you buy that for a dollar?
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Mar 8, 2023 17:26
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Nfcknblvbl posted:my windows 10 work laptop tried to charge me money for a .mov codec love my OS to have microtransactions to speed up access to content
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Mar 8, 2023 17:26
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axolotl farmer posted:I remember the Windows quicktime player that wouldn't play videos full screen unless you payed Apple for the Pro version.
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rotor posted:y'all forgetting the king of mp3 players ... k-jofol sorry but it doesnt appear to whip the llama's rear end
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Mar 8, 2023 17:35
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I liked Audion
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My dad still uses an ancient version of Winamp with the easy to read mode enabled that made it like 3x its normal size. Still whipping the llamas rear end in 2023
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Mar 8, 2023 17:41
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can someone with a windows pc tell me if beep still works? https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/
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Mar 8, 2023 17:43
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doesn't seem to do anything for me, no
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Mar 8, 2023 17:48
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og itunes was great because it did a limited number of things (manage mp3 files, assemble them into playlists, and then output them to burned cds or an ipod) and the ui handled all that very well the problem was that they kept adding new features to it (buying music, renting movies, subscribing to podcasts, handling multiple devices with multiple accounts, listening to live streams, backing up mobile phones, and on and on) and just shoving them into the pre-existing ui, and the whole thing became completely incoherent and confused
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Mar 8, 2023 17:49
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Tankakern posted:you didn't mention audacious' killer feature - you can run it with a winamp skin interface i just use winamp it still works
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Radio Paranoia posted:love my OS to have microtransactions to speed up access to content this is one of those things that exists, is stupid because there are already free alternatives on windows, and you will never see unless you have trash tier best buy hardware
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Mar 8, 2023 17:52
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https://skins.webamp.org
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ADINSX posted:My dad still uses an ancient version of Winamp with the easy to read mode enabled that made it like 3x its normal size. Still whipping the llamas rear end in 2023 this is the thing about winamp, it's a relatively simple application and you don't have to touch anything that connects to online services, so it works, still. if you need plugins for asio or whatever, they're still there, they work as well as they ever did. it functions the same today as it did in 2003, and in terms of playing music, that's exactly what i want it to do
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Sagebrush posted:doesn't seem to do anything for me, no oh wait it did just make some noises when i launched a program. i think it just doesn't respond to every event anymore
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my biggest beef about itunes is it made every other mp3 player invented thereafter into a dumbdass excel spreadsheet-lookin-rear end app instead of cool poo poo like winamp and qt and realplayer (admittedly the last two were dogshit players, but the skinning was fun at least)
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Nfcknblvbl posted:my windows 10 work laptop tried to charge me money for a .mov codec you can download the package directly and install it on your own, but it's a little complicated
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