this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
27 points (100.0% liked)

retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

320 readers
1 users here now

Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.

This community is software and internet focused. For retro hardware discussion try [email protected]

Some Cool Links

Archive.org Software Library

BBS: The Documentary

Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine

cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays

Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities

Web Design Museum

Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

It really whips the llama's ass.

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may never have mastered vim but in Winamp 2 I had Q (queue) and J (jump to & alt-Q queue) absolutely nailed. Even with my peasantlike 15k tracks I felt like a boss navigating around my collection-as-a-playlist in split-second bursts of keyboard scrabbling. Sadly these shortcuts didn't make it into Winamp 5. Ever since, it's always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower - doing the equivalent search/queue in Spotify or Apple Music might require the mouse and waiting for loading spinners.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ever since, it’s always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower

100 x the processing power, 10 x slower. Unfortunately that's where most software is heading.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried QMMP? It's an awesome modern alternative

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll second that for Linux. On Windows I used to use XMplay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Audacious on *nix also supports Winamp skins and the classic player 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I used to put on my music and have MilkDrop go fullscreen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Winamp can’t be retro, it only came out a couple of years ago!!

Man I feel old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Back when software had personality lol

load more comments
view more: next ›