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Loved this web project ever since I learned about it.

Also think Winamp, hands down is one of the best pieces of software to withstand the test of time.

Winamp v2.92 still runs on Windows $LATEST. Geiss/Milkdrop Plugins and all.

Lets not forget the high quality audio output; its 834 KB (854,016 bytes) binary size and next to nothing CPU/MEM usage (Testimonial: left it playing my entire music collection in a forever loop and memory usage never budged more than it start with <3)

My primary music player still to this day and when on Linux Audacious or VLC

Of course other notable players: FooBar2000 Media Player Classic (MPC-HC)



> Winamp v2.92 still runs on Windows $LATEST

I loved Winamp, but this has more to do with Microsoft maintaining backwards compatibility for a long time. Try running something from Mac OS 9 on a modern Mac.


For what it's worth, qemu-system-ppc works extremely well on a modern Mac and setting up a virtual OS 9 system is very easy.

And because you're emulating and not virtualizing, it works just as well on ARM Macs, too.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/3usNwXz.png


I think his point was that no average user is going to do that -- whereas any Windows user can just double-click the .EXE and it works.


I wonder how difficult it would be to make a wrapper program around qemu to reduce this problem to a couple of clicks.


> (Testimonial: left it playing my entire music collection in a forever loop and memory usage never budged more than it start with <3)

Were you trying to bump up your Scrobble count, or what?


winamp 2.92 was the last version I used. Never bought into 3/5 and all the flashy things they tried in. It did one thing and did it well.




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