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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. (about.winamp.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Might be cool to hack in support for Plex and subsonic. It's not 1998 anymore, my mp3s aren't sitting in a folder on my desktop anymore. Would be fun to return to winamp and use it to stream music from my server though.

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

is it bad that all of my music is on my desktop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If it works for you then no!

But for me, I like using Plex or subsonic so that I can easily access my entire collection from my phone. I have my server setup with automated tooling to download new albums from artists I have monitored, torrent client is always on, I can search for and add music from my phone (as long as I connect to my VPN on the home network). All of this makes sense for my use case, especially considering that I already run the Plex server 24/7 so friends and family can stream whenever they want from it. None of it is on my desktop, so that the server doesn't grind to a halt when I'm gaming or visa-versa. Also I don't have to leave the gaming computer running all the time. And I have the server drives setup to pool their storage together, so adding new drives is relatively easy.

But obviously a setup like this doesn't make sense for everyone. I've spent way too much money on server equipment (mostly hard drives), but one could do a similar but scaled back version of this stuff with an SBC like the raspberry pi. As long as you have the time and will to get it setup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

ah, makes sense. definitely can't afford a server haha