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.
No, I meant it as a question, does it take Winamp plugins π.
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... π€·). 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 π. If I could load that dll in any other player out there, I would gladly switch, but I can't π.
OK, I tried loading the library on Audacious x86, no dice π...
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 π. 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 π€·ββοΈ.
Shit, I had no idea π±... 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 π€π€π€!
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 π€.
I would just like to play them, I wouldn't recode them, will loose audio quality cuz this will be their second recode.
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.
Nothing too fancy, I like that it can load Fraunhoffer's mp3PRO plugin π. Sadly, I converted most of my collection to mp3PRO back in the day and there's just too many titles in there to redownload everything. So basically, I just need a player that runs natively on Linux and can load Winamp dll plugins, that's it. Well... it would be nice if it replicated the classical Winamp look as well π.
Though I do agree, Milkdrop 2 was awesome π. It runs with Winamp in Wine though, so that's not such a big deal.