Why isn't there a simple audio player like WinAMP was?
I tried a bunch of different players, but they all try to be a whole audio ecosystem. WinAMP was simple and unobtrusive. Only half the size of a window bar, it sits always on top and thus gives me a fast way to pause/play and access my playlist. In the other players I tested I always need to bring their window from the back to the front.
I still have WinAMP running, but I'm in a pinch now because I cannot make it play Opus encoded audio in mka or ogg containers.
Is there really no good KISS alternative? I don't want a metric shitton of features; just start/stop/pause and a playlist.
>cannot make it play Opus encoded audio in mka or ogg containers. so you're saying it sucks technically
Evan Allen
and since it's proprietary who knows what spaghetti code is lurking there
Connor Martin
Winamp lover, turned MusicBee here.
Nothing will ever quite be the same, but after configuring musicbee and changing it's vast customization settings, I'm happy with it.
Angel Moore
There is. It's called Audacious.
Jaxon Flores
AIMP is pretty good. Doesn't winamp still exist though? It shut down but then came back. It's changed ownership so it will probably turn into one of those 'old versions were better' programs...
Grayson Richardson
P.S. check out GOM Audio that's sweet too
Hudson Powell
This. MusicBee is an amazing piece of software
Sebastian Martinez
Is there an option to have it sit always on top with play/pause buttons? Haven't found that
I'm sure you read every single line of the sourcecode before compiling and installing or updating the software on your box.
Looks great, thanks! Will sure test it
Caleb Lee
>I'm sure you read every single line of the sourcecode before compiling and installing or updating the software on your box. you missed the point with your knee jerk reaction
Zachary Smith
Was Winamp ever really that simple, though? Even the 2.x versions tried to install extra stuff, and I had to make a rule in my firewall to keep it from connecting to the internet every time it opened just to play a song.
Zachary Moore
AIMP with the ZiX skin is the closest i've come to classic Winamp
Robert Clark
forgot pic
Angel Scott
Qmmp
James Evans
just use foobar bruh, you can configure it however you want and remove the shit you don't need
Jordan Barnes
>Is there an option to have it sit always on top with play/pause buttons? Haven't found that View -> always on top View -> layout -> enable layout editing mode
Brody Moore
Tested this one in Windows 7 with the classic WinAMP skin and I am very pleased. It plays opus in mka/ogg/opus containers without any issues.
The only bug I ran into is that positioning it minimized in the upper left corner will cause it to open about 3mm from the left and 10mm from the top after launching it again. A few mm from the left, but at the top gets remembered.
Not tested yet, but I just assume it handles replay_gain tags, as well as APEv2. Big bonus if chapters in mka are working too. I also love that it's not overloaded with options.