

There's one that's really cheap ($229) and comes with 4GB's, definitively not a productivity machine. I went to Best Buy's website, and saw the best sold machines. It's also got MPRIS integration so I can control playback from the bar, so that's pretty sweet too. I select a folder, "Open With -> Audacious", it kicks off, I close (to tray), and it plays on with occasional notifications. It was perfect for my needs.Īudacious is the app I found that comes closest to replicating that workflow. Winamp would launch, I would immediately minimize it to the system tray, and it would be out of my way except occasionally popping up notifications on Play/Pause/Stop or when tracks changes.

In Winamp, when I wanted to play an album, I opened the directory containing my music, find the artist, right clicked on the album, and selected "Play/Enqueue in Winamp".

My music is organized according to my own system, and it works for me. So I've always resisted using the iTunes-like programs that try to organize all my music for me, both due to tagging issues and having the database explode if I disconnect the drive. This is because I have so much music that it's kept on an external HDD, and I wouldn't be able to properly tag everything to my liking if I spent a hundred years on it. I organize my music library at the file level rather than at the tag level (although I still tag my files, because I have a particular naming scheme I like for everything). If there is interest I would happily put the work-in-progress up on GitHub. Thankfully the kodi team already did a lot of the work with the DX12 migration, but used an older version of the Milkdrop source which doesn't seem to handle the HLSL/shader presets. I initially started porting it from DX9 to DX12 but figured getting the audio streaming input is more valuable to start with. Whatever it is I'm doing wrong with the PCM data shouldn't be too difficult to figure out eventually. But still progressing well enough for something I can only hack on occasionally after hours. I've got low-latency streaming input from the loopback device via WASAPI so it works with anything playing audio, but still having some obstacles getting the audio data from those buffers into Milkdrop properly.
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ProjectM is milkdrop-compatible, but does not have a handy Windows board, and sadly OpenGL support on Windows is not always the best. Interestingly, I just recently got Milkdrop building from source, and working on making it a standalone application.
