Oh my God. My favorite piece of software of all time. Would love to read it's source.
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
#92Some 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.
Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#93The most impressive feature of classic winamp were it's skins. You can effortlessly watch them in all their classic glory on WebAmp.org [0].
(There is also some nice music there)
[0]: https://webamp.org/
Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#94Some 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/…
I really appreciate them doing this. I wish more companies would release their source - even as is - if they are dissolving the corporation anyway.
Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#95do people still use winamp over foobar?
Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#96Twenty 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.
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#97I want to see a wasm version of winamp.
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#98I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.
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.
That's one of the biggest reasons I still use it. Other music players have strictly fixed UIs that often focus on organizing a music library rather than actually playing your music. I'm quite happy organizing my music using the file system.
Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#99Some 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.
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Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
#100I just remembered I used to hangout in an IRC chat with the creator of Sonique as a pre-teen when I first started to teach myself to code - Sonique being the main competitor to Winamp way back when. Strange how memory works.
sonique was interesting because most skins ditched 'square-rectangle' all together. Sometimes it was really wacky, like raindrops on your screen. The visulization engine was very milkdrop-y, too.