Huh. Last time I checked, Egg had also recently left which has left the desktop player in standstill, which was why I asked. While I’ve moved to MusicBee, some things (visualisations especially, as pointed out in this thread) just can’t be replaced. 
(I’ve actually been trying to find an old Winamp for my XP virtual machine, the old AVS stuff works best on older operating systems…)
Interesting. I had not seen that Winamp thread or heard that DJ Egg had left. So I’ll likely keep to my beta as it is today and never change it. Just that one page of that thread has many of the reasons why I never returned to that forum.
As to an XP version of Winamp? Sounds a mad request but should not be that hard to locate. Just have to work out a version number you are looking for.
Just read back though a year of Beta emails I had not read… and can see when things borked. They even lost access to beta.nullsoft.com. Ouch. So you may want to try here instead: Winamp - Download Old Versions for Windows
Funny to see the first Winamp listed on there is 79.79KB!!
Check out lil hand-bot 
Hacked together by @rob:
Who’s going to join us remotely at the '23 summit and make use of this colourful new team member? So soon already… October 2 - 6.
(via DJ MAG Germany)
When I’m thinking music I’m thinking BMW. No, that’s the wrong way around.
When I’m thinking BMW I’m thinking music. No, that doesn’t sound right either.
Were you already “visited” by their bot?
I’m the bot that powers the Soulseek functionality of MH Covers ( https://covers.musichoarders.xyz ).
Policies:
- I will only download image files.
- I will ignore scans to the best of my ability.
- I will not display your username or filenames from your share on the site.
Its name is awesomeme
I was confused for a second, but I get it, this is how it searches Soulseek?
Very clever!!
Tried to load this in Firefox, got nothing lol
and then there are apparently “variants” of Phonk
If Bandcamp goes down this might become an alternative:
https://twitter.com/subvertallmedia/status/1712873130836807706
I don’t know if or how there’s monetization with it, but another potential option is Funkwhale (tho it might be a closer substitute to SoundCloud than Bandcamp…), built on the same framework as other Fediverse social media, like Mastodon and Peertube
edit: I did go ahead and make a ticket for adding Ampwall links in a similar way to Bandcamp links already appear tho~
via @rob on IRC:
Related (from my bookmarks):
Now Playing: Ambient Music Mod v2 (“Port of Now Playing from Pixels to other Android devices”)
https://research.google/pubs/pub46522/
Existing music recognition applications require both user activation and a connection to a server that performs the actual recognition. In this paper we present a low power music recognizer that runs entirely on a mobile phone and automatically recognizes music without requiring any user activation. A small music detector runs continuously on the mobile phone’s DSP (digital signal processor) chip and only wakes main the processor when it is confident that music is present. Once woken the detector on the main processor is provided with an 8s buffer of audio which is then fingerprinted and compared to the stored fingerprints in the on-device fingerprint database of over 70000 songs.
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It existed for more than 20 years.
DMOZ has been succeeded by Curlie. Its slogan is still “Humans Do It Better”
What programs do you use to play music?
I like:
And sometimes:
When I’m being a lazy scrub, Spotify.
When I’m on the move it’ll be either Spotify or something similar, however I do have a Sony Walkman NW-A55L as a “digital music player” which I’m going to start using again as 4G coverage can often leave me without music in some places, and there’s plenty of stuff that just isn’t on streaming services full stop.
On my computer I also use MPC-HC and I think it’s the bees knees! Don’t get me wrong VLC is great, but I just find I like MPC-HC a bit more.
Although not used it in a while, MusicBee for library management - had previously used MediaMonkey.
I tried using the resurrected Winamp for a bit but it ended up getting pissy about something and stopped working; also it renders horribly on high-resolution screens.
