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Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by jmknoll »

cyber_kinetist wrote: post #19
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…

For context, here's the new revamped(!) Winamp coming up soon: https://www.winamp.com/ It's just... the complete opposite of what Winamp was all about, and it's horrible and leaves a bad taste in your mouth (-100 points for the atrocious "modern" website which loads MBs of Javascript, screams BIG TEXT at you, hijacks your scroll wheel, and still tells you nothing about the actual software other than it will probably…

At the bottom of their site, they have about 30 open full time positions, including Sales, Legal, and Finance. Seems strange for a 25 year old media player. Did they just close a big funding round or something?

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by lproven »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #161
lproven wrote: post #124

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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…

Fascinating. Thank you.

It is extremely hard for me to even _imagine_ this, as apparently my native accents both contain this merger. This is a rare experience for me, but a previous occurrence was discussing the rhotic-R phenomenon.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by garaetjjte »

RF_Savage wrote: post #168
gmueckl wrote: post #15

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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.

NSIS is open source, seems to be maintained by the community.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by goldenkey »

toyg wrote: post #128
yk wrote: post #87

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If memory serves, the update from 2.x to 3.x was the one were suddenly skins no longer worked and they decided to base the program around a db instead of the file system. Which is not that bad (though still strictly inferior to file based) in modern cell phones, but at a time when computers were a lot slower and everybody had organized their music library around files instead of metadata it was a bloody disaster.

That reminds me of this classic JWZ : https://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html (Note: you want to copypaste that link, not click it)

I clicked it and it is NSFW. :-/ Why does JWZ hate HN?

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by zwirbl »

0des wrote: post #150
ConceptJunkie wrote: post #68

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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.

>the clowns that made that awful new Winamp You don't have to be like that.

The site didn't have to like that either

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by leros »

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…

It's very likely about the brand and trademarks. The WinAmp software is dead, but the brand is alive and there is a company trying to build something under it.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by dale_glass »

RF_Savage wrote: post #163
EForEndeavour wrote: post #24

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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?

Code signing has been a thing in Windows for a long time now. Besides that, just the usual "the official .exe is whatever you find at the official site"

Downloading from random archive sites fortunately is a trend that went away.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by gonesilent »

thedoctor_o wrote: post #80
ConceptJunkie wrote: post #68

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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.

Supposedly they're still going to call it Winamp v6 assuming it happens. They've lied a number of times over the past 8yrs so don't hold your breathe but the new site is somewhat indicative of their disregard about why those still using Winamp (or clones of it) do so. -dro

how can i msg you a invite to the new landoleet discord?

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by asveikau »

smolder wrote: post #133
andrew_ wrote: post #114

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Is it bad that I start hearing the Aladdin (1992) soundtrack whenever I read that line?

A whole new world, a new fantastic paradigm! No more structs, Or bad raw pointer luck, I will use the whole damn STL. A whooole neeeeww woooooorld!

A whole operator new world?

(Apologies.)

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