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  1. Trying #ProjectM again. Which basically is the good old #Winamp #MusicVisualizer.

    Is anybody using this live on stage with #Linux?

    There used to be a decent GUI frontend to it, but it went down some open source drain. I even had used that live and via screen capture, some minor snippets had ended up in a film that was shown in a movie theater. But that GUI has gone nowadays.

    So I have #projectMSDL now, but I don't know how to access a preset directly. I could copy a selection to a different folder and then step through. There's nothing too practical… there's hundreds of presets, some are astounding, most are annoying. There isn't even a command line option to open one specific preset file only.

    Since ProjectM is open source, there are many projects using it, such as #VLC, there even is a module for the #vcvRack #synthesizer, yet this also doesn't win a prize in preset selection and it can't show a full screen window.

  2. Trying #ProjectM again. Which basically is the good old #Winamp #MusicVisualizer.

    Is anybody using this live on stage with #Linux?

    There used to be a decent GUI frontend to it, but it went down some open source drain. I even had used that live and via screen capture, some minor snippets had ended up in a film that was shown in a movie theater. But that GUI has gone nowadays.

    So I have #projectMSDL now, but I don't know how to access a preset directly. I could copy a selection to a different folder and then step through. There's nothing too practical… there's hundreds of presets, some are astounding, most are annoying. There isn't even a command line option to open one specific preset file only.

    Since ProjectM is open source, there are many projects using it, such as #VLC, there even is a module for the #vcvRack #synthesizer, yet this also doesn't win a prize in preset selection and it can't show a full screen window.

  3. Trying #ProjectM again. Which basically is the good old #Winamp #MusicVisualizer.

    Is anybody using this live on stage with #Linux?

    There used to be a decent GUI frontend to it, but it went down some open source drain. I even had used that live and via screen capture, some minor snippets had ended up in a film that was shown in a movie theater. But that GUI has gone nowadays.

    So I have #projectMSDL now, but I don't know how to access a preset directly. I could copy a selection to a different folder and then step through. There's nothing too practical… there's hundreds of presets, some are astounding, most are annoying. There isn't even a command line option to open one specific preset file only.

    Since ProjectM is open source, there are many projects using it, such as #VLC, there even is a module for the #vcvRack #synthesizer, yet this also doesn't win a prize in preset selection and it can't show a full screen window.

  4. Trying #ProjectM again. Which basically is the good old #Winamp #MusicVisualizer.

    Is anybody using this live on stage with #Linux?

    There used to be a decent GUI frontend to it, but it went down some open source drain. I even had used that live and via screen capture, some minor snippets had ended up in a film that was shown in a movie theater. But that GUI has gone nowadays.

    So I have #projectMSDL now, but I don't know how to access a preset directly. I could copy a selection to a different folder and then step through. There's nothing too practical… there's hundreds of presets, some are astounding, most are annoying. There isn't even a command line option to open one specific preset file only.

    Since ProjectM is open source, there are many projects using it, such as #VLC, there even is a module for the #vcvRack #synthesizer, yet this also doesn't win a prize in preset selection and it can't show a full screen window.

  5. Trying #ProjectM again. Which basically is the good old #Winamp #MusicVisualizer.

    Is anybody using this live on stage with #Linux?

    There used to be a decent GUI frontend to it, but it went down some open source drain. I even had used that live and via screen capture, some minor snippets had ended up in a film that was shown in a movie theater. But that GUI has gone nowadays.

    So I have #projectMSDL now, but I don't know how to access a preset directly. I could copy a selection to a different folder and then step through. There's nothing too practical… there's hundreds of presets, some are astounding, most are annoying. There isn't even a command line option to open one specific preset file only.

    Since ProjectM is open source, there are many projects using it, such as #VLC, there even is a module for the #vcvRack #synthesizer, yet this also doesn't win a prize in preset selection and it can't show a full screen window.

  6. TIL audacious have a Winamp classic mode with compatbility with Winamp themes

    #winamp #audacious #musicplayer

  7. No music player has ever equalled classic Windows Media Player for visualization quality (Winamp came the closest) but quantity has a quality all it's own.

    #WIndowsMediaPlayer #Winamp #Audacious

  8. Ten tydzień zaczynamy bardzo nietypowo, bo od historii formatu #MP3, #WinAMP, #Napster i generalnie wczesnych lat cyfrowej dystrybucji muzyki. Czasy piękne, nostalgiczne, choć zdecydowanie wątpliwe pod kątem legalności.

    #muzyka #dotcom

    joemonster.org/art/78173/MP3_k

  9. Al parecer Winamp tiene movidas y aunque estuvo un corto periodo de tiempo siendo libre ahora está la cosa así así. Intenté descargar la última versión desde su página y Windows lo bloquea.
    Bicheando vi que hay un soft que es su sustituto espiritual y que incluso es compatible con las skins antiguas. (Skins quue se pueden bajar del museo de skins de winamp)
    Se llama #Wacup y luce exactamente como el #winamp (y tb tiene módulos extra como el de carátula (album art) >

  10. Je me suis dit : bon, j'ajoute l'EP sur le baladeur numérique et je l'écouterai lundi ou mardi… mais ma main à bougée seule et a fait clic droit -> Ouvrir un dossier avec...

    #Magoyond #Zeppelin #winamp

  11. Anyone remember Winamp? I remember finding something similar called Xion. The cool thing was you could create your own skins for the interface using PSDs. All you had to do was name your layers certain words and the app automatically assigned button code to the design for you. My intro to code... Naming layers 😆😆

    #winamp #xion #mediaplayerskins #mxit

  12. Hach ja, ich nutze es immernoch. ist zwar mittlerweile #qmmp, aber mit #winamp skin.

  13. 📰 «El origen del formato MP3 y cómo alcanzó la popularidad»
    🔗 proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/1

    Como un ALEMAN LOCO creo el MP3 y CAMBIO EL MUNDO

    Hace mucho tiempo enlacé un artículo sobre la historia del WinAmp, pero… antes de la llegada del reproductor MP3 más famoso tenía que inventarse el propio formato. Facu Peralta nos cuenta esa historia para que entendamos al fin por qué es ese su nombre o cómo la piratería ayudó a estandarizar su uso en todas partes.

    #️⃣ #audio #compresión #curiosidad #digital #historiaDeInternet #historiaDeLaInformática #mp3 #música #sonido #Winamp

  14. 📰 «El origen del formato MP3 y cómo alcanzó la popularidad»
    🔗 proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/1

    Como un ALEMAN LOCO creo el MP3 y CAMBIO EL MUNDO

    Hace mucho tiempo enlacé un artículo sobre la historia del WinAmp, pero… antes de la llegada del reproductor MP3 más famoso tenía que inventarse el propio formato. Facu Peralta nos cuenta esa historia para que entendamos al fin por qué es ese su nombre o cómo la piratería ayudó a estandarizar su uso en todas partes.

    #️⃣ #audio #compresión #curiosidad #digital #historiaDeInternet #historiaDeLaInformática #mp3 #música #sonido #Winamp

  15. @plinubius
    Eine gute Entscheidung!

    Bei mir war es das Lesen der #AGB eines potentiellen #Winamp-Nachfolgers (nach dessen Übernahme und Enshittification durch AOL).
    Das war dermaßen abschrechend und erhellend, dass Windows98SE mein letztes Betriebsystem / "Produkt" aus dem Hause Microsoft war. 🤷‍♂️
    Naja, Apple und Google sind ja auch nicht besser, also ging es dann seinen Gang. 🤔

  16. Exciting news for music lovers! #Audacious 4.5 is here with a new Playback History plugin, #Winamp 2.9 skin, and improved PipeWire output. 9to5linux.com/audacious-4-5-op

  17. Funny thing about #Music and #SelfHosting Now that I have my music locally and not in a cloud through some streaming service, I notice that there was normally a "big" wait from the time I pressed the play button until the song actually played compared to the self hosting way. Now the music plays instantly..

    Reminds me of a time long gone when #WinAMP and #XMMS were the default players of local media!

    God it's good to be back..

  18. Funny thing about #Music and #SelfHosting Now that I have my music locally and not in a cloud through some streaming service, I notice that there was normally a "big" wait from the time I pressed the play button until the song actually played compared to the self hosting way. Now the music plays instantly..

    Reminds me of a time long gone when #WinAMP and #XMMS were the default players of local media!

    God it's good to be back..

  19. Funny thing about and Now that I have my music locally and not in a cloud through some streaming service, I notice that there was normally a "big" wait from the time I pressed the play button until the song actually played compared to the self hosting way. Now the music plays instantly..

    Reminds me of a time long gone when and were the default players of local media!

    God it's good to be back..

  20. Funny thing about #Music and #SelfHosting Now that I have my music locally and not in a cloud through some streaming service, I notice that there was normally a "big" wait from the time I pressed the play button until the song actually played compared to the self hosting way. Now the music plays instantly..

    Reminds me of a time long gone when #WinAMP and #XMMS were the default players of local media!

    God it's good to be back..

  21. Funny thing about #Music and #SelfHosting Now that I have my music locally and not in a cloud through some streaming service, I notice that there was normally a "big" wait from the time I pressed the play button until the song actually played compared to the self hosting way. Now the music plays instantly..

    Reminds me of a time long gone when #WinAMP and #XMMS were the default players of local media!

    God it's good to be back..

  22. TLDR; Framework 13 laptop coming back from the dead, list of parts/things I want to fix. Specifically screen and keyboard due to modifications creating issues.

    Looking forward to reviving my #framework13 back from the dead. I had a Batch 3 11th Gen Intel 1165 mainboard and it was suffering from the USB interference issue, so I quit using it. Which led to the CMOS battery dying and rather than fix that issue, I sold off the last device made by a big corp: Macbook Air M1 base model.

    (I still have the iPad Air 5th Gen since it's a tablet I only use for consumption.)

    I also have a Samsung Fold 4 for my phone, but at least with that I have more control over it.

    I really wanted to go Linux only as much as feasible at home. I have a desktop that runs W11 so I can play #starcitizen and run #winamp as a #podcatcher and media playback of my FLAC files.

    So for the time being I'm using a machine that was malfunctioning (Dell Latitude) and funnily enough a BIOS update actually fixed the problem it was having so I decided to stress test it as a daily driver while I worked out how to bring the Framework back from the dead. Shockingly, it's held up in comparison to what it was doing before (keyboard was intermittent, but I'm writing this on that laptop now and not a problem with it.) so after I get the new mainboard I'm going to pull my parts out of the Latitude and get the Framework up and running fully. I only need to get new RAM, going from DDR4 to DDR5, but I'll use this as a good opportunity to also update the WiFi card from the old Intel card (it's so old I can't do faster than 40Mb/s on it, but it worked in monitor mode so at the time I was willing to make that tradeoff) and get into something a bit more current.

    Eventually, since it is a Framework, I want to replace some other parts because of choices I made as a modder. Firstly, I modded the original keyboard to Dvorak, and I needed nubs to find the home row. Well, my choice in using Loctite caused damage to the screen (I had let it cure for 24 hours before closing the lid but that wasn't enough) that is superficial, but it's visible and a distraction. So my plan is to get the higher res display especially since it helps with scaling.

    Then I want to get the clear ISO (well, I live in the USA, so that might not be entirely wise...) keyboard and have a 3rd party make up a clear sticker set (if he does a see through variant that would let the backlight shine through I'd actually prefer that, but take what you can get) so I can build the Dvorak set without needing to swap around all the keys.

    After that, it's mainly just replacing parts of the chassis that has had improvements done like the original hinges, the lid to the CNC version, a new finger printer reader (I dropped it once or twice on the same corner...) and adding 1 USB storage module so I can dual boot between Windows and Linux on distinctly separate disks with a shared partition that they both can handle without issue.

    This is why I bought the Framework: I can fix it over time and it may seem like it's going to cost more but in practice I'm saving money by buying only the parts I need to replace. Just don't drop the darn thing and it won't be as expensive to fix! LOL

  23. Listening to the new Chris Hülsbeck-Album how it is meant to be played: On an Amiga with AmigaAMP and a proper visualisation 😀
    This software actually plays mp3-files on the Amiga and mimics a famous player from the nineties. That is awesome. Soon I will no longer have any use for Windows 😄
    It is day 11 of #AmigApril

    Music credits: Chris Hülsbeck - Leap Year Rhapsody from the album Desert Love Mirage
    patreon.com/chris_huelsbeck

    #retrocomputing #retrogaming #amiga #commodore #chrishuelsbeck #winamp

  24. @rubenerd

    You can install classic #WinAmp skins on #QMMP, just FYI. ;)

    P.S., that way, you get the classic WinAmp feels on a modern player.

    I bring it up every now and then, but now kew is my new favorite music player.
    It runs in the terminal, but it's very easy to compile and easy to use.

  25. Me he puesto a buscar skins de Winamp para QMMP y me esta sorprendiendo que la comunidad de hacer skins sigue viva, he encontrado un skin de One Piece de Nami con la actriz del Live Action

    #Qmmp #Audacious #Winamp #WinampSkins

  26. CW: Tech history - WASTE, an early, decentralized P2P protocol

    In 2003, Justin Frankel (from #Nullsoft, developer of #WinAmp) released a peer-to-peer file sharing application called WASTE. This is actually slightly after the initial release of BitTorrent. WASTE is named for a motto in Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. The acronym WASTE stands for We Await Silent Tristero's Empire. It's a term used by an underground postal service. Their symbol is a crude, stick figure image of a horn with a trumpet mute in it.

    WASTE as software did more than just allow file transfer. It had chat built in. Like the Fediverse, it's decentralized. However, the networks don't necessarily connect to each other. You would need an in with someone else to join a WASTE network.

    Almost as soon as Justin published it, the company that owned Nullsoft (AOL) pulled WASTE back and said that Justin hadn't been authorized to distribute the software so the GNU GPL license it had been released under wasn't valid.

    WASTE has been reimplemented a number of times with new features and protocol changes that, in some cases, aren't cross compatible with other WASTE implementations. According to a Sourceforge page, Blackbelt WASTE had its most recent update on 2025-01-27, hinting that WASTE is alive and in operation today.

    (This toot owes an obvious debt of gratitude to Wikipedia for the particulars. I had the WASTE software, but never used it beyond opening it. I read The Crying of Lot 49 but it's hard to know whether I read it before Justin released the software.)

    #WASTE #p2p #TechHistory #TechIsCoolSometimes