Re: Winamp going to heavens on 20th of December 2013
@Dark, that's exactly what I'm saying--you're resisting the migration to a centralised library, and are then surprised when more mainstream players don't appear to meet your needs. Well, of course they don't; you still find files using a filesystem browser. Migrate the files to your library instead, or better yet, distinguish between the good and the golden and only maintain the golden in your library, preferably in lossless format from the original CD. I can't disagree with the need to have choice, and I wish iTunes had more choices for playing files without adding them to library or queueing them up without their needing to be in your library first, but I still think your hatred of iTunes is a little bit unfair when you're not using it the way it was intended.
Again though, use the right software. I think MPC is a better fit than WinAmp ever was when I started to use it, though it might not have the same depth of file format support; it's limited to those file types supported by DirectShow. I don't think that includes ChipTunes or ModTracker. But, if the (now discontinued, by the looks of it) Foobar2000 will do it, that's awesome. Predictably, OS X is less gifted than Windows when it comes to obscure formats, but all the important stuff is covered including all of the open ones. And yes, try VLC--of all the players, the file format support (derived from work in mplayer and ffmpeg) is simply excellent.
Anyway, for now your plan of grabbing the latest WinAMP sounds about right. Presumably you'll have to turn off any Internet-related features it uses.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=156274#p156274
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