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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 trogdor »

testernews wrote: post #128
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

Winamp has (/had) a creator side? I thought it was just a media player.

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

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Post by yazzku »

dale_glass wrote: post #54
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.

You can reskin a lot of modern software, it just went out of fashion.

Modern software won't run on a 30 year-old Win95 computer like Winamp did. CSS inside browser-based applications does not count as skinning; that's just an abomination.

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

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Post by M95D »

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.

No, it's not. We still don't have a decent not-bloatware not-crippleware music player in Linux.

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

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Post by M95D »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #30
dark-star wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm one of those 12 people apparently. I don't know, I still listen to mp3 music on my PC almost every day... And I have yet to find another player that is as fast and lightweight as WinAMP

foobar is great

It's great until you move your music and the notice that the carefully sorted playlist you kept updating over 10 years doesn't use relative paths and you can't do search and replace because it's binary.

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

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Post by Rinzler89 »

talldatethrow wrote: post #131
cortesoft wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, their business model was selling the software… it is harder to do that if it is open source. Once you are going bankrupt, you are going to lose the asset anyway, so there is no incentive to keep it closed source. Is it really that hard to figure out why a company open sources when going bankrupt?

Wouldn't the lenders be pissed you essentially gave away one of the valuable assets they could have sold off to someone else?

Source code is not the main asset that makes the final product. Doom is also open source but if you compile the source you won't get the game that's on the self. You still need the game assets for that and those are not open source, you need to buy the game to get those.

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

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Post by RunSet »

QuercusMax wrote: post #25
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/

It's windows-only? Weird.

5.666 installed and is running well under wine for me.

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

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Post by Rinzler89 »

M95D wrote: post #164
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.

No, it's not. We still don't have a decent not-bloatware not-crippleware music player in Linux.

XMMS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS

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

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Post by flexagoon »

M95D wrote: post #164
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.

No, it's not. We still don't have a decent not-bloatware not-crippleware music player in Linux.

A search for "music player" gives a ton of results many of which are not bloated

https://flathub.org/apps/search?q=Music%20player

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

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Post by niutech »

peppertree wrote: post #92
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/…

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.

There are open source clients for FastTrack protocol based on giFT (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/): Apollon (https://apollon.sourceforge.net) and KCeasy (http://www.kceasy.com).
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