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Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by fps_doug »

echelon wrote: post #40
fps_doug wrote: post #10

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Does work

Sorry for bringing the thread completely off topic, but your username triggered a tinge of nostalgia for something I haven't seen referenced or thought of in a long while. Is your username a reference to the mid-2000s pre-youtube video series, "Pure Pwnage"? That's right before the Internet became dominated by platforms. EzBoard was taken over by phpBB, Invision, etc. Blogs. Sorry, I need to turn off the nostalgia. F…

Yes :) Not that I post very often/frequently, but that's the first time anyone ever asked about or referenced my username.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by toyg »

goldenkey wrote: post #184
toyg wrote: post #128

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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?

Well, I did warn you...

JWZ's hate of HN is long-running and due to a combination of factors, but I reckon his real annoyance is the amount of traffic this site can send to his little servers.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by thedoctor_o »

axiolite wrote: post #312

Has everyone forgotten Winamp was open source? Winamp3 was released as Wasabi.player, source code was free: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=16613.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20031210093403/http://www.wasabi... Seems nobody cared at the time. Never heard of a community springing up around it, and you can hardly find it now. Got it in my archives somewhere.

Alas that was never a complete open sourcing & you couldn't just build it from what was provided. There was a small effort to try & fill in the gaps (it used a trac site I think to cover what was going on) but sadly it never amounted to much.

-dro

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by CamperBob2 »

0des wrote: post #313
CamperBob2 wrote: post #272

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He can do what I do with my own personal projects: if you install something I wrote, you get the source code whether you want it or not. Setup.exe basically dumps a copy of my development directory into the specified installation folder. That way, if I get hit by a bus, it's fine, The Source Is Out There. If someone wants to send a bug fix or improvement, great, thanks, I'll be glad to take a look. Otherwise, don't b…

> if you install something I wrote, you get the source code whether you want it or not. Setup.exe basically dumps a copy of my development directory into the specified installation folder. This is really cool, can you share a bit about how you do this? Are you using a makefile and putting a gzip as an embed into the setup? Is this a function of the installer you're using? Thanks for any insight.

Not a whole lot to it. I just add the makefile, .cpp and .h files, Windows resource script, and other sources to the .iss file that Inno Setup uses to generate the setup program. They all get dumped in the same directory at installation time, for better or worse.

In the case of one commercial application, there are also binary blobs in the form of DLLs that support custom hardware.

It's not one of those practices that scales particularly well, but it works for me...

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by ficklepickle »

geocrasher wrote: post #71
IggleSniggle wrote: post #61

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After years of listening to Adlib MIDI soundtracks on the computer, I was absolutely blown away to be hearing “Yesterday” by the Beatles coming out of the speakers. I played that tiny little file (not a whole CD!) countless times on repeat. Just unbelievable that such a thing could be coming from a tiny (relatively) little file.

Yes, I remember feeling that awe as well. For giggles, I just went to YouTube and listened to "Higher" again, and man... that really took me back. Haven't listened to it in years. Still one of my favorite heavy metal songs of all time. I also remember being so thrilled to be able to store several MP3's on my 64mb Sharp Zaurus SL-5600.

Wait, creed is metal? I always thought of it more like Christian rock. A good tune, all the same.

A 64mb CF card in an RCA Lyra for me. Drop the bitrate to ~64kbps and you can jam most of an album on there :D

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by VortexDream »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #324
0des wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you install something I wrote, you get the source code whether you want it or not. Setup.exe basically dumps a copy of my development directory into the specified installation folder. This is really cool, can you share a bit about how you do this? Are you using a makefile and putting a gzip as an embed into the setup? Is this a function of the installer you're using? Thanks for any insight.

Not a whole lot to it. I just add the makefile, .cpp and .h files, Windows resource script, and other sources to the .iss file that Inno Setup uses to generate the setup program. They all get dumped in the same directory at installation time, for better or worse. In the case of one commercial application, there are also binary blobs in the form of DLLs that support custom hardware. It's not one of those practices tha…

Seems to me like the fact it doesn't scale is why you do it. It's a decent way to avoid the responsibilities of having to lead an open source project while still giving others the benefits of having the source code available and modifiable. I wish more devs would do this.

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Post by majke »

thedoctor_o wrote: post #323
axiolite wrote: post #312

Has everyone forgotten Winamp was open source? Winamp3 was released as Wasabi.player, source code was free: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=16613.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20031210093403/http://www.wasabi... Seems nobody cared at the time. Never heard of a community springing up around it, and you can hardly find it now. Got it in my archives somewhere.

Alas that was never a complete open sourcing & you couldn't just build it from what was provided. There was a small effort to try & fill in the gaps (it used a trac site I think to cover what was going on) but sadly it never amounted to much. -dro

I did some digging

The source seem to have been on trac on wasabi.t0x.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060508052407/http://wasabi.t0x...

And this might be the same on github: https://github.com/bizzehdee/wasabi/blob/49d293042ce17b0d137...

Fair to say: doesn't look like it's related to winamp and doesn't look very complete.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by axiolite »

majke wrote: post #327
thedoctor_o wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alas that was never a complete open sourcing & you couldn't just build it from what was provided. There was a small effort to try & fill in the gaps (it used a trac site I think to cover what was going on) but sadly it never amounted to much. -dro

I did some digging The source seem to have been on trac on wasabi.t0x.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20060508052407/http://wasabi.t0x... And this might be the same on github: https://github.com/bizzehdee/wasabi/blob/49d293042ce17b0d137... Fair to say: doesn't look like it's related to winamp and doesn't look very complete.

> Fair to say: doesn't look like it's related to winamp

Wasabi is just the toolkit. It is indeed used by Winamp. What you need to look for is Wasabi.player, as the first couple sentences in the second link I provided explains.

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by makeworld »

astrange wrote: post #298
makeworld wrote: post #48

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All archive.org items have a torrent file, so even if IA goes down you can still download the item from seeders.

This isn't an archive.org item strictly speaking, just a page on the wayback machine. I'm not sure you can download it.

Sure you can. Add 'oe_' to the end of the datetime, and you'll get the original HTML file.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210515031018oe_/https://github...

Re: Winamp source code leak

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Post by mvkel »

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…

I miss apps like this. The UX is just so efficient and perfect. That settings screen is chef’s kiss
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