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Goodbye Winamp, Hello Foobar
Mar. 11th, 2023 05:26 pmMiriam and I were talking about my annoyance and frustration with new versions of various software interfaces yesterday, and that might be a post in itself. But the conversation reminded me of my experiences trying other media players since Winamp 2.x and how annoying or unhelpful I found them. Winamp 2.71 did exactly what I wanted and very little else, so I just stuck with it.
Since Winamp 2.x does not play FLAC files, and I'm tired of opening up VLC player every time I want to play the files from my ripped CD collection, and a search online for a working FLAC plugin for Winamp was unsuccessful, I finally looked for and found a media player with a customizable interface that I like. I'm switching over to using Foobar.
Good bye Winamp 2.71: you were released in December of 2000 and you worked pretty well for me for most of 23 years. I'll miss the way your individual windows snapped to each other so readily.
Since Winamp 2.x does not play FLAC files, and I'm tired of opening up VLC player every time I want to play the files from my ripped CD collection, and a search online for a working FLAC plugin for Winamp was unsuccessful, I finally looked for and found a media player with a customizable interface that I like. I'm switching over to using Foobar.
Good bye Winamp 2.71: you were released in December of 2000 and you worked pretty well for me for most of 23 years. I'll miss the way your individual windows snapped to each other so readily.
