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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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There is no reason to shorten the url here, and I much prefer to be able to see where I'm going before I click.

Here is the original: https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

Why does Google do this. There isn't any need for so much data just to link a resource

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Love it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.

Ctrl-Z to the rescue!

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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I think AOL sold it to a random company at least a decade ago, and then they announced they will modernize it and have a big surprise and shit, then nothing happened for years, and then maybe two years ago they actually released a new update to winamp 5. Also while it's not open source, the source also leaked years ago, and there are unofficial updates to the old AOL winamp too. No idea if they kept going once the re…

I worked for that company 7 years ago, they were looking a way to make money with it but didn’t found out how. They already make money from radio advertisement products and didn’t seems willing to put resources on anything not lucrative. Updating/open sourcing was not on the agenda.

Tbh I'm not surprised. Or rather I'm surprised why that wasn't crystal clear to them before the acquisition.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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I worked for that company 7 years ago, they were looking a way to make money with it but didn’t found out how. They already make money from radio advertisement products and didn’t seems willing to put resources on anything not lucrative. Updating/open sourcing was not on the agenda.

Tbh I'm not surprised. Or rather I'm surprised why that wasn't crystal clear to them before the acquisition.

Because they primarily wanted shoutcast (ironic since they sold that off last year & got played in the process of doing all of that) which meant taking winamp with it. It's all a mess now but most care not for that and just see that "winamp is back".

-dro

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Soon source available at least, slow progress: https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co... Not quite clear to me which version they are releasing though.

source available is not the same as open source nor have any terms been provided on what that'd actually be other than it's seemingly just about them getting a free dev team or looking to be doing some good from an investors view point.

-dro

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked for that company 7 years ago, they were looking a way to make money with it but didn’t found out how. They already make money from radio advertisement products and didn’t seems willing to put resources on anything not lucrative. Updating/open sourcing was not on the agenda.

Tbh I'm not surprised. Or rather I'm surprised why that wasn't crystal clear to them before the acquisition.

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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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I've always love WinAmp due to the simple reason that it is keyboard friendly. For example, the 5 buttons for Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next map to zxcvb. Simple and fun. Operations like searching for and queuing up files to play are lightning fast compared to Spotify, YT Music, et al. Also, I absolutely detest how YT Music keeps A/B testing ALL THE TIME, changing the location of things around. Ultimately, a websi…

As a home grown hacker from before the time of internet, I increasingly understand why people despise computers. I was always telling people, that you can make computers do your bidding, make them part of your life, frictionless. But I never needed IT help, I knew that whatever frustrations I might have are because of something I can work and fix with some digging around. But having things like Windows auto updates,…

Windows auto update could always be disabled. A person must be extremely tech incompetent if they couldn't do the simplest of windows tasks.
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