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What are some things you would like to see a sort of spiritual successor to?

Not a remake or remaster or rerelease of something old, but something inspired or influenced by something either popular or a cult classic. Also this could extend to hardware/tech too, not only media.

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  • Winamp.

    There's WACUP, but it's not the same and you can't run it natively on Linux.

    • QMMP is good enough for me on Linux, feels like basic WinAMP which is all I need.

      • It takes Winamp dll plugins?

        • Really? Wow I haven't tried.. but there are lots of skins at least, here

          • No, I meant it as a question, does it take Winamp plugins 😂.

            Cuz I have this oddball mp3RPO plugin... sadly, I converted most of my media back in the day to mp3PRO (storage was expensive back then, I was a student, low on funds... 🤷). It's a discontinued codec now from Fraunhoffer (the idea was the same as with HE-AAC, spectral band replication, but do it with mp3) and... I just can't be bothered to redownload all of my collection to mp3/aac. There's just too many titles and that's the main reason why I still use Winamp on Linux, the mp3PRO plugin for Winamp 😔. If I could load that dll in any other player out there, I would gladly switch, but I can't 😔.

            • Ah :). Hmm, well someone else had a similar situation as you, perhaps xmms with those tweaks would work?

              https://www.thanassis.space/mp3pro.html

              • OK, I tried loading the library on Audacious x86, no dice 😔...

                ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: /usr/lib32/audacious/Input/libmp3PRO.so could not be loaded: /usr/lib32/audacious/Input/libmp3PRO.so: undefined symbol: xmms_cfg_open_file

                It's just way too old, support for XMMS and everything GTK+ related was dropped a loooong time ago 😔. Maybe with some sort of a wrapper... IDK... maybe it could work... have no idea where to start though...

                Oh well, back to using Winamp 5.24 with Wine I guess 🤷‍♀️.

              • Shit, I had no idea 😱... I have to find this library, it must be burried somewhere in archive.org.

                And isn't XMMS dead? Though Audicious is a decendant, I'd have to check if the library is compatible. Still, it's a starting point!

                Thank you a million times kind stranger 🤗🤗🤗!

                EDIT: OK, requires a bit more work than what I was hoping for... the library is probably x86 only, so I'd probably have to use the x86 version of Audacious or any other XMMS compatible player, but still, as I said, it's a starting point 🤗.

                I would just like to play them, I wouldn't recode them, will loose audio quality cuz this will be their second recode.

    • I've been using aimp2 for many years.

    • What specifically do you like about Winamp? I miss the whacky skins and even more so the Milkdrop 2 visualization system. There are some hacky ways to get it to work for Foobar or AIMP. I haven't checked what's the case for Linux media players though.

    • There's winamp in the browser now

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