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.

  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Winamp.

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

          • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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 😔.

              • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                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.

    • Voyager@psychedelia.inkEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Nothing too fancy, I like that it can load Fraunhoffer’s mp3PRO plugin 😂. 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 😁.

        Though I do agree, Milkdrop 2 was awesome 👍. It runs with Winamp in Wine though, so that’s not such a big deal.

        • cobra89@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Nero’s Soundtrax application, bundled in the Nero Multimedia Suite, is capable of encoding and decoding this format into several others.

          It’s available for free now: https://nero-soundtrax.en.softonic.com/

          If you’re willing to run a windows VM you could probably convert them back to normal MP3s.

          • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            That’ll just make them sound awfull. I know I can, I even have an old copy of Adobe Audition 1.5 that runs perfectly in Wine and supports conversion to mp3PRO and back (Adobe Audition was Cool Edit before it got bought by Adobe), but… that will be the second time these files have been converted 😔.