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

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Post by captbaritone » Thu, May 16, 2024, 8:56 PM UTC

Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
about.winamp.com

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Post by ssahoo » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:09 PM UTC

Good. Love the reimplementation in HTML https://webamp.org/

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Post by LocutusOfBorges » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:26 PM UTC

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.

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Post by xxpor » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:26 PM UTC

I'm skeptical this will be a fully free license based on the cagey language in the announcement :/

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Post by 0x1ch » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:27 PM UTC

The dozen people still using Winamp rejoice...

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Post by hodder » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:28 PM UTC

It really whips the llama's ass.

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Post by bcraven » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:30 PM UTC

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/

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Post by solardev » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:30 PM UTC

Maybe now we can finally add RealVideo support to it.

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Post by semireg » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:30 PM UTC

ssahoo wrote: post #2

Good. Love the reimplementation in HTML https://webamp.org/

This satisfied whatever cravings I still had. Thank you!

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Post by xyst » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:31 PM UTC

til: Winamp is still alive and kicking