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Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by goldenkey »

no_time wrote: post #12
goldenkey wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you would think it would have been leaked already.. Winamp is a cultural artifact!

It was in fact leaked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379346

Oh wow. Is that source code from a newish version? (I don't see any files in the main root.)

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by einpoklum »

hk1337 wrote: post #14
warning26 wrote: post #2

It's too bad they won't just open source it...

XMMS is the closest we had, I don't think it's kept up anymore.

I'd say it has effectively been succeeded by Audacious:

https://audacious-media-player.org/

... which is under active development:

https://audacious-media-player.org/news/53-audacious-4-2-rel...

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by ugh123 »

olyjohn wrote: post #18
hk1337 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XMMS is the closest we had, I don't think it's kept up anymore.

There's another open-source media player that will let you load up WinAmp skins. But heck if I can remember what it was, or find it. It looks nothing like WinAmp without the skins though... While I was searching, I did find this though. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ QMMP seems to be a QT-based player that looks like WinAmp. And I can't find a WinAmp clone that works on MacOS, either. I'm dying for one since I have to u…

Try this: https://desktop.webamp.org/

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by fngdbfsv »

flatiron wrote: post #8

Does it still have the “it whips the lamas ass” track?

confirmed. plays as soon as you launch winamp for the first time.

runs well in wine too. I'd say it's like 1998 here, listening to the new pornographers on winamp if not for the flac and wine and linux

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by squeaky-clean »

> but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019

Worst I've ever had to do was 2008 to 2015 but damn I don't envy those teams.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by xeromal »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #25

> but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019 Worst I've ever had to do was 2008 to 2015 but damn I don't envy those teams.

That is a monster migration. I wonder how big the migration compatibility list was. I haven't used VS since about 2017, but in some ways I miss it. It's big and unwieldy, but very powerful and helpful and was a staple of my 20s as a software dev.

Re: Winamp 5.9

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Post by 6yyyyyy »

alrlroipsp wrote: post #28
jraph wrote: post #4

It would be good to remove the trackers from this URL.

Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer ?

No, he means this:

  http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120&utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=winamp5.9&utm_term=july2022
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