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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

lproven wrote: post #124
totetsu wrote: post #54

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NB four and fore are sound the same in some accents

Thank you for so delicately pointing out the problem/joke here -- I hadn't noticed it, not even back then. My question is: in what English accents do "four" and "fore" *not* sound alike?

This is the Horse-Hoarse merger. [1]

> Accents that have resisted the merger include most Scottish, Caribbean, and older Southern American accents as well as some African American, modern Southern American, Indian, Irish, and older Maine accents.

If my understanding is correct, in some accents that don't pronounce their "R"s at the end of words, the vowel shape changes slightly while pronouncing "four," but "fore" is pronounced with a simple vowel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...

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Post by [deleted] »

jchw wrote: post #120

I just can’t understand the point of the DMCA takedown here. This software is very dead and abandoned at this point, and the only thing bearing its name is vaporware that appears to be so distant from the original as to effectively not even compete with it. Of course, the copyright holders have every legal right to do so. But doesn’t it seem pointless? This codebase probably has more historical interest than commerci…

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Post by RF_Savage »

EForEndeavour wrote: post #24
OneTimePetes wrote: post #18

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Trojans, Spyware and Miners. Oh my.

Naive questions: - what do you mean by "miners" in this context? Malicious contributors sneaking crypto-mining logic into the codebase? - doesn't the concern about Trojans and spyware affect every other open-source project in existence? How have they been protecting against that, and why couldn't the Winamp maintainers take similar measures?

More like precompiled binaries being distributed by malicious stuff added in.

How will you know which winamp.exe is the legitimate one?

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Post by xtracto »

hk1337 wrote: post #118
caddywompus wrote: post #12

Interestingly enough, there has been a community project dedicated to keeping the last Winamp version alive (last version from the original creators), and it really great to use. https://getwacup.com/ It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor. Edi…

XMMS was a really nice Winamp clone for Linux way back when. Might be a good starting point. http://www.xmms.org/

I've been using QMMP myself: https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/. It's another WinAmp clone.

The thing that I liked about Winamp that stopped being cool were visualizations. net Audio player nowaday are so bland and featureless (including Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and others I've tried).

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Post by shikoba »

adrian_b wrote: post #159
shikoba wrote: post #155

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I can force mono with Winamp. That's the sole player I know that has that option.

For Linux there are various command-line players, e.g. mpg123, with this option and with any other imaginable options.

I want a full working application with the equivalent of global hotkeys. I use deadbeef on GNU/Linux, but I still haven't find a way to force mono.

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Post by Malakun »

hk1337 wrote: post #118
caddywompus wrote: post #12

Interestingly enough, there has been a community project dedicated to keeping the last Winamp version alive (last version from the original creators), and it really great to use. https://getwacup.com/ It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor. Edi…

XMMS was a really nice Winamp clone for Linux way back when. Might be a good starting point. http://www.xmms.org/

And QMMp! https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by RF_Savage »

gmueckl wrote: post #15
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #5

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It depends on whether Github or Winamp can be arsed; given that it's been posted on HN now, they are probably on the trail now. Archive.org can't just ignore a DMCA takedown, that would threaten their safe haven status.

Winamp at this point in time is just a trademark that ended up at a Belgian company. And I think they want to use it to launch a music streaming service. The rest of Nullsoft went down with AOL. I wonder which party would even have the legal rights to move against such a source code leak.

I wonder what happened to NSIS, the NullSoft InstallSystem?

Used it myself as a teen to have a professional looking installer for my software releases.

I still occasionally see software with NSIS installers and Nullsoft copyright. So I wonder what entity is behind it now days.

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Post by vikingerik »

caddywompus wrote: post #12

Interestingly enough, there has been a community project dedicated to keeping the last Winamp version alive (last version from the original creators), and it really great to use. https://getwacup.com/ It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor. Edi…

Winamp 2.xx was generally the favorite. And there's no reason to talk about it in the past tense -- you can still just use it even now.

I do. 2.95 works fine right up to Windows 10 and probably 11, and still plays any MP3 and pretty much any other format with a plug-in. It even has a double-size display option built right in which makes it perfectly usable on modern 4k resolution.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by hermitdev »

ConceptJunkie wrote: post #68
lelandfe wrote: post #26

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You're both right! https://web.archive.org/web/20131219003849/http://www.winamp... > What happened to Winamp 4? You're not imagining things. Yes, we skipped a version number for the following reasons: a) Winamp 5 combines the best aspects of Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 into one player. Hence Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! b) Who the hell wants to see a Winamp 4 Skin :P c) We think that a Fibonacci sequence for versioning…

So I can't imagine that the clowns that made that awful new Winamp site would be cool enough to call the new one Winamp 8. Or release a version that anyone actually wants, for that matter.

If the new website is any indicator of the quality of the new Winamp, it's going to be a huge nope from me.
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