DCosta Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Is there any way, or rather, has anyone tried to convert Winamp for Macs? The old alpha is pure {censored}. I tried posting on the winamp forums asking why there wasn't one, and saying how they're cutting out an entire group of potential customers... Anyway, they pushed a bunch of Windows propaganda up my ass and said that they, who are owned by the internet giant AOL, by the way, havn't got the money to develop a Mac verison. --Yeah, right. So has anyone been able to make one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I hope that there will never be a Mac version of Winamp... Gosh, I hate Winamp... Some things are better left to be windoze only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCosta Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 lol, ok. i'll drop it then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 i used to like winamp, but i feel that the modern versions are too bloated. and i think im too used to having itunes keep track of al my music files http://xmms.darwinports.com/ xmms is almost a winamp clone, i used it on linux before, there is an osx port Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xequence Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Winamp is horrible in my opinion, almost as bad as iTunes. Yes, I am on a mac (sorta) forum posting that I hate iTunes as a player =P When I get OSx86 installed, ill hope for a foobar2000 port to OSX. Or use it in darwine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 i actually hated itunes for windows, but i dont think its much differant? i like it on mac and if i were to use windows now, id use it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 I agree with you belgrano Winamp does suck and should remain a Winblows app. I use to love Winamp before it was sold to AOL now it just bloatware I'm not a fan of iTune ether, I prefer Realplayer just kidding that's even worse then Winamp. I really like my Xbox with XBMC (Xbox Media Center) I so rarely play music on any of my PC's that Winblows media player or iTunes is just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Winamp is still cool once you desactivated all the {censored}, skins, plugins. That is to say once you got it back as it was at version 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moseschrist Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 actually thats how i run winamp on my windows install, the same way it looked back on winamp 2 days... but osx caused me to switch to itunes... it's amazing actually... though i hate the fact that it duplicates my music files... instead of moving them to the library, it copies them which is quite stupid IMHO... but still, they way it's incorported with LimeWire is great... my music d/l (legally of course...) are updated in itunes the minute the d/l is over... and if your using it on windows it has another perk... it works with MSN... i was quite surprised to see that when i play music it adds them to my "what am i listenening" it's really graet... and it burns CDs better than MediaPlayer, since it doesn't convert them to WMV (or AAC in case of iTunes) before burning them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I liked Winamp until I discovered iTunes. Now Winamp can suck a llama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmaus@mac.com Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 actually thats how i run winamp on my windows install, the same way it looked back on winamp 2 days... but osx caused me to switch to itunes... it's amazing actually... though i hate the fact that it duplicates my music files... instead of moving them to the library, it copies them which is quite stupid IMHO... but still, they way it's incorported with LimeWire is great... my music d/l (legally of course...) are updated in itunes the minute the d/l is over... and if your using it on windows it has another perk... it works with MSN... i was quite surprised to see that when i play music it adds them to my "what am i listenening" it's really graet... and it burns CDs better than MediaPlayer, since it doesn't convert them to WMV (or AAC in case of iTunes) before burning them... That's not right! If you either press and hold the Command+Option keys as you drag the music files ino iTunes, or adjust the settings not to copy the music into your iTunes Music folder, then it wont copy them into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo50 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 i use winamp only over 6-7 years ago, when it was the easiest player for PC. it's don't need much resources, and it was a best choise for my 300 mhz pentium. and for now i don't see any reason to use winamp. it's ugly, unusable. partially i agree with xequence - in windose i recommend to use a Foobar2000. really cool player with biuld-in support of any type of files, like FLAC or any not too widespread format. iTunes in windose have some lags, like that - if you rename song or PL you need double copy sometimes, sometimes it's works ok. library on windose is unusable (if you change the destination of file you have broken link - Mac os have no such problems) but in MacOS i preffer iTunes, i like it's style and it works with my iPod (i thought a lot of people here have ipods). at all - iTunes is my choice, because now i'm OsX only - single boot on my hackintosh and forgot about windoze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I don't care if winamp never makes it onto the mac, but I really wish SOMETHING would that is totally not like iTunes. If I could find a unibin of anything that wouldn't continually add to and resort it's current playlist I'd be in heaven....like, just double click a music file, and it plays, wiping out the current playlist completely...or AT LEAST just adding it to the END of the playlist instead of trying to intelligently sort it in a most cumbersome way as iTunes does. I like iTunes for it's shoutcast integration, not that that isn't anywhere else, but overall I think the program lacks any amount of fair usage control...it forces you into it's methods and too many of them drive me nuts. It's only real benefit IMO is if you have subcriptions to podcasts or shows that are in it, or are an avid iTunes Music store shopper, neither of which are for me. As a simple no frills music player it blows. So, to redirect the intial intent of this thread...if not winamp for mac, then what is there that works besides iTunes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo50 Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 you can double ckick a file and it plays in iTunes, and if you don't wish to auto sorted playlist (nevermind what playlist - what you playing now or any esle) you just need to choose sort list by the first collumn (number) and sort it manually as you wish... and here is smthng like foobar for osX. http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moongravy Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 Have a look at Songbird - songbirdnest.com Early days, but it's getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 if you have everything tagged properly in iTunes, it becomes an extremely powerful and easy to use media player. Looking for a song? just use the search box and the song you want instantly pops out. Looking for an album? use the browse option and find the album from genre to artist and then to the album. It's just so easy to use, and you can just plug in your iPod to sync everything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippin Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 Why Winamp when you have the best music app iTunes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenokira Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 if you have everything tagged properly in iTunes, it becomes an extremely powerful and easy to use media player. Looking for a song? just use the search box and the song you want instantly pops out. Looking for an album? use the browse option and find the album from genre to artist and then to the album. It's just so easy to use, and you can just plug in your iPod to sync everything up. winamp does the same using the jump feature. I would also like to see a decent mac clone of winamp.. I found some abandoned PPC project's but nothing that was impressive at all. I despise iTunes on Windows...and in OSX its alright...could just be the lack of options though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 XMMS is pretty much Winamp for not-Windows, although it hasn't had significant development in ages and pretty much does not support very many new things. Also, it requires X. If some crazy {censored} rewrote it to be the beefiest dashboard widget ever, though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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