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Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Post by nextaccountic »

mesh wrote: post #108
yazzku wrote: post #15

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The fact that you can re-skin it at runtime with such a wide variety of skins and load such a variety of plugins puts modern software to shame.

I owe my entire career to the fact that Winamp added the ability to re-skin. I had just graduated graduate school for international economics, and was working for a government contractor who only hired me because I had a masters (they could charge the government more). Because of this, I literally had nothing to do and would just sit in the office. I eventually figured out an excuse to get my employer to buy Photosho…

Did you create Macromedia Flash? Or otherwise worked on it

Anyway your winamp skin is cool

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Post by nehal3m »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #116
peppertree wrote: post #92

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Still waiting on KaZaA open source. Kids these days don't know what it's like trying to download a music video and end up watching someone getting beheaded.

Or downloading Windows XP.ISO and booting up Ubuntu. 15 year old me was confused and enraged.

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, l33tness.

Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

nirav72 wrote: post #97

I want to see a wasm version of winamp.

It's no skin off my nose either way, but I don't understand why you would want to take a nice slim desktop application and turn it into another web application that runs in a bloated browser. Seems to defeat the purpose of winamp at that point.

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Post by gunapologist99 »

Dwedit wrote: post #79
QuercusMax wrote: post #25

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It's windows-only? Weird.

There have been Linux-based clones of Winamp for a long time, such as XMMS (which directly supports Winamp skins).

XMMS is the O.G. but audacious and Qmmp now also support classic winamp skins.

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Post by testernews »

ndiddy wrote: post #56

Some context: Winamp's owners have been going through financial difficulties since last year and as a result have laid off the skeleton crew they previously had maintaining Winamp (their main focus seems to be a streaming service also called Winamp for HTML5 and phones). This looks like they're willing to let the community take over maintenance for PC Winamp, which beats letting it die IMO. https://forums.winamp.com/…

that explains why i had such a terrible fucking time with their “creator” side, was supposed to have a rep, help setting up, promotion, etc and they didn’t do fuck all for a year and then tried to charge me for it a year later

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Post by dvngnt_ »

babypuncher wrote: post #55
bcraven wrote: post #7

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I use the community update of Winamp, WACUP, and it's excellent. I've tried other media players but always come back here. I'm not even one of those people who likes the shitty visualisations, I just think the interface works perfectly. https://getwacup.com/

Have you checked out foobar2000? To me, it always felt like the true successor to Winamp.

musicbee is my favorite

Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Post by Uehreka »

larodi wrote: post #101
ndiddy wrote: post #56

Some context: Winamp's owners have been going through financial difficulties since last year and as a result have laid off the skeleton crew they previously had maintaining Winamp (their main focus seems to be a streaming service also called Winamp for HTML5 and phones). This looks like they're willing to let the community take over maintenance for PC Winamp, which beats letting it die IMO. https://forums.winamp.com/…

Why does a company has to go bankrupt to open source? It’s like something that owners want to do in order to be able to fork, not something that is being done for the community or open side of it.

I just got here from the “DoJ moves to legalize weed” comment section, and I have the same thing to say: I don’t care why people do a good thing, I’m uncomplicatedly happy it happened.
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