Music Tastes among ETARCers?

Find light in the beautiful sea and choose to be happy.
All of you and i, we’re like diamonds in the sky… a constellation
We saw the life inside your eyes :eyes:
Eye to eye, so alive :eyes:
We’re beautiful like diamonds in the sky :gem_stone:

Shine bright like a diamond
:gem_stone:

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Love this piece. Here’s another classic sampled by the very same Doctor :slight_smile:

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Just picked up their debut album on band camp <3 Hopefully they stick around and make a few more.

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You are protected :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Destination Infinity :infinity:

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Blast from the past, Frazzlesprite just reminded me of WinAmp, grabbed the Legacy version, extracted it with 7zip, and its still as good as it ever was ..

Just found the old steampunk skin for WinAmp too, “Unison Brainstormed v5”

Soo happy Frazzlesprite found a youtube about winamp on the Main Fam discord, WinAmp is an excellent music player.

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It really whipped the llamas ass. Visiting a friend and seeing what winamp skins they had was something of a rite of passage.

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I had to give up waiting for the Winamp 4 skin, they just wouldn’t release it. Something about the name.

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Go :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Always good things to look forward to in september. Like all those game releases. Or the COSMOS update. Or this song.

Always an instant good mood, works every september, guaranteed.

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I have been using Winamp for quite some time. I have my media drive specifically setup for using it, playing over BT on my main audio system too.

I am always playing catch-up with ‘archiving’ all the music I own though, been slacking quite a bit lately. I have yet to digitise all my vinyl and cassettes, which I dread getting started on, especially the latter.

It is however really nice to just start up my full DB as a single mixed playlist, currently closing in on 300GB, with just over a month of continuous playtime :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

For nostalgic reasons, I prefer the default classic look.

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Theres a newer version than the OG Legacy?, I need to look into this, I grabbed the Legacy from winamp.com

Thank you for the link :smiley:

Edit: The ones for Win 11 at your link seem to be older version than the WinAmp Legacy I already have from winamp.com. My WinAmp.exe is v5.9.2.10042

Will check this out more later .. shopping stuffs to do.

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I had to look back for any links as it has been a while I last checked for it. I do know you’ll have to be very careful with downloads, not just for Winamp itself, but also skins etc. This goes for the link I posted too by the way. The forum on the website you linked used to be quite ok, but does appear to have been abandoned mostly, with spam creeping in regularly. I personally dislike the frontend with their artist promotion stuff and paid plan.

The latest version is still v5.9.2.10042, which released in April 2023 IIRC. There are community sourced versions and spinoffs too, like WACUP. Best bet is probably v5.666 for full compatibility all the way down to Win98.

Have to say it again though, be careful, especially if anything starts complaining.

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Speaking of ‘wake up’ …
A 1993 classic with lots of memories attached. The version I got here is the remastered 2019 reissue.

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Yep I remember years ago they used to get entangled with companies that wanted to include their own bits n bobs in the installers (PUPs), aswell as the various reuploads which included worse malware. The current legacy one from WinAmp.com is also treated suspiciously by Windows, you have to extract the installer with 7zip instead of running it. All the files contained though are clean (tested with VirusTotal and Windows Defender has no beef with the extracted files).

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I assume you are referring to Win11 to be treated suspiciously? Not sure, been seeing quite a few posts mentioning this. I never had any issues, but it has been a while and I am on Win10 (until I switch to Linux rather sooner than later). Good practice to verify :wink:

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Yep, Win 11 is being over protective a lot. A recent update enforced some memory protections, and smart filtering of files is just ridiculous sometimes unless the .exe has a signed certification. Vector_Cmdrs new releases of NMSE get the VirusTotal treatment (by himself), but Win 11 often tries to deny its use until the download becomes more popular. Thats why I use 7zip to extract an auto-extracting zip like WinAmps first before checking out the files, Win 11 just will not allow you to run WinAmps self extracting installer.

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Great track from the original “man with the red face” iykyk :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Reminiscing about Winamp, the Geiss visualiser plugin was awesome, we actually projected it at a few underground rave/parties that me and my brother organised in the 90s.

https://www.geisswerks.com/geiss/

https://www.geisswerks.com/geiss/shots.html

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I checked the Geiss visualiser, I like it, but it looks like it can only play fullscreen, unless there is something I missed to get it in a separate window.

Philippe sucks :laughing:

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When the french touch is enhanced by a “tenor”

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