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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
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
#172Wow, for me Winamp was one of the first "enshittified" pieces of software. I remember one version was fantastic, and then the next version sucked. I'm pretty sure this was due to a change in ownership or something I remember I used to use http://oldversion.com [1] to download the previous one Ever since then I have been wary of "improvements" that make software worse, which has been happening a lot recently. I'd be r…
Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#173I want to see a wasm version of winamp.
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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
It's made in Flutter, well done!
Overall I’ve had a great experience with Flutter. I tried a few cross platform stacks before settling on it and it feels like the most polished and mature choice.
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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.
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?