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

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

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Post by rocky1138 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I've felt for a long time that hacker News was dead, then I read your post and it made me warm inside

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

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Post by cageface »

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.

I'm working on my own cross platform music player that I think has a more polished interface than foobar. I have mac builds now and will start doing windows builds soon:

https://plastaq.com/minimoon

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

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

RevEng wrote: post #96
LocutusOfBorges wrote: post #3

Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see. Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it's only available following email enquiries, of all things. I'm surprised they're even bothering, at this point - the software's so obsolete that it's not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.

I still use it for all of my locally stored MP3s. I haven't seen a music player in a long time that focused on playing music rather than being a media library.

Foobar2000?

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

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Post by defrost »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #144
RevEng wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still use it for all of my locally stored MP3s. I haven't seen a music player in a long time that focused on playing music rather than being a media library.

Foobar2000?

Foobar2K still has an active low key community, it has plugins and a framework that allows tech users to add features and share them, but the main release has the approach I prefer - good display capabilities for media library meta data with flexible layout options .. and it's on the user to populate that meta data with third party tools (or plugins).

Primarily it's just a player, potentially it's a lot.

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Post by xtracto »

bcraven wrote: post #7
LocutusOfBorges wrote: post #3

Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see. Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it's only available following email enquiries, of all things. I'm surprised they're even bothering, at this point - the software's so obsolete that it's not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.

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/

I love QMMP ( https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ ). It is compatible with Winamp Skins, supports network playing (shoutcast) and works pretty well in my Linux Mint installations. I may be old fashioned, but man my brain has got so much "muscle memory" on years and years of Winamp use during the 90s ...

I cannot live without stuff like equalizers, visualization plugins, Last.FM scrobbing and even automated track "ripping" of radio stations.

It makes me so sad the state of current audio players like YouTube Music, Spotify, Tidal and the likes. featurewise they are so... bland. Millenials and GenZs just don't enjoy music the same way I used to enjoy it. Maybe it is because there so much of it now that it doesn't matter so much

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

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Post by mrmincent »

wrigby wrote: post #107
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.

I realize this is a joke, but can’t resist mentioning that LimeWire was (is?) open source (or at least used an open network in GnuTella)

And funnily enough, gnutella being a creation of Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp as well.

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

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Post by ihatehn »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #51
LocutusOfBorges wrote: post #3

Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see. Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it's only available following email enquiries, of all things. I'm surprised they're even bothering, at this point - the software's so obsolete that it's not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.

Literally just yesterday I was staring at Winamp's basic visualizer because I was trying to make something similar in my Godot game. I'm still not sure exactly what I'm missing, as I have the "gist" of the visualizer working, but it just doesn't look as smooth as Winamp's. I think I need slight persistence and the little effect with the 'caps' that slowly fall down for each column (right now mine looks too jittery).

Those might be called peaks or peak indicators: common in audio interfaces to indicate the maximal decibels in each frequency bucket over the last second or so, so that you don't miss seeing a split-second super loud sound.
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