It astounds me that here in the year of our tech overlords 2024, it is now so much harder than it was in 2000 to sync up a music track with a GPU shader that would generate some cool visuals for you. Computers just used to come with that, like it was what they were for!
Is Winamp not working for you?
It really kicks the llamas ass!
Sorry blacked out for a second
Whips.
It really whips the llamas ass.
oops! It’s been a couple years lol! Even though i can still hear his voice perfectly in my head. Even the echo…
Always thought it to be “kicks” as well.
Hah, I suppose it would, and yes there’s MilkyDrop and Processing (which I should really play with sometime) but most of the music I listen to now is streaming. And yeah, that’s like 100 other problems before “lame/nonexistent visualzers” with streaming, but ripping my cd collection and setting up my own music streaming servers and all that is a lot of work and time that I also don’t have.
Like some other poster said, to paraphrase, maybe I just miss how music sounded and felt when I was 14?
The milkdrop visualizer format is still around and kicking, but yeah, visualizers aren’t built into nearly any desktop software anymore.
I have an old formative memory of a big crt TV sitting on the corner of the librarian front desk (I think in elementary school?) with really mesmerizing animations on it. Looking back, they were definitely some sort of procedurally animated art thing, or much more likely they were music visualizers. Maybe given the year they were just VHS’s of trippy computer graphics in the same style that we’d eventually see with visualizers.
No matter what it was, it sparked a lifelong interest in that sort of art and style.
Damn, I should pick back up my old Processing language image manipulation projects. Can do some real trippy stuff really easily by just doing arbitrary math on pixel color values and x,y coordinates.
Anyone know of any glitch art communities on lemmy?
My PC had winamp in the corner, 3 AIM chat windows, 2 yahoo chat windows, and kazaa downloading “weird al” songs.
kazaa downloading “weird al” songs.
We’re spending most our lives living in an Amish paradise
Why would you do that in Windows Media Player when Winamp is clearly installed with a shortcut right there on the desktop?
I think winamp and all those skins are still available…
Yes! Here is winamp: https://winamp.en.lo4d.com/windows
Skins: https://winampheritage.com/skins
I use VLC for this now. I wonder why VLC doesn’t have so many awesome skins. It does have a few lame visualizers built in.
I think most people have moved on to other programs past VLC. I think the “informed nerd choice” is MPC Classic now for videos, but don’t quote me on that.
For music, the last time I checked it was MusicBee. Intensely customizable, tons of skins, visualizers, and some (kinda janky) support for WinAmp visualizers.
Interesting. Thanks.
I’ve been ripping with windows media player. Any recommendations for a better ripper?
I use EAC- Exact Audio Copy. It’s definitely more hardcore than the average person needs, including features for testing the physical capabilites of your disc drive and having settings for detecting and attempting to re-read CD sectors that have errors, but after you set it up you can easily rip to .flac (lossless, technically the best format to rip to, but larger) or to .mp3 vbr0 (99.9% of people can’t tell the quality difference from flac, and it’s much smaller size).
I know EAC and have used it. Have it on this PC, actually.
I’ve been just doing quick and easy rips to flac with Windoze Media Player.
I’ll have to try ripping to flac with EAC. Sounds like an adventure.
Music just sounded better when I was 13
Doesn’t it work in the OP? Asking because I know different people have different experiences depending on how they use Lemmy
