Don't think of it as beating a dead horse, think of it as whipping the llama's ass once more.
  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The sad thing about this is that 90% of the skins available for WinAmp since then are gone. You can’t find them to download them anymore.

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Now I can add a Plex integration. Finally my CD collection can return to winamp

    • takeda@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They just want to get profit from the purchase but they are no longer competitive.

      Looks like they are looking for suckers to contribute to their code base for free without even making it actually open source.

      IMO at this point WinAmp does not offer anything beyond name recognition and nostalgia. Isn’t qmmp essentially an open source version of WinAmp?

      • Pleb@feddit.de
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        6 months ago

        IMO at this point WinAmp does not offer anything beyond name recognition and nostalgia. Isn’t qmmp essentially an open source version of WinAmp?

        Even as nostalgia, I just tried out loading a winamp skin from the winamp skin museum someone linked further up with qmmp and it handles that just fine too. So I’ll be just using that going forward.

    • Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
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      6 months ago

      They just want more people being pushed to their NFT marketplace while getting free development. It’s astounding they are getting so much good press.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      It annoys me, too, because there’s various open-source projects already, like QMMP and Audacious.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    What’s the licence? It doesn’t sound like “open source” and sounds more like “source available”.

    • Onihikage@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      This line gives me some hope that it will actually be open-source:

      Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version.

      Would they really bother to specify “official version” if it was only source-available and forks weren’t allowed?

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
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        6 months ago

        In the official announcement, they have very carefully and deliberately avoided the term “open source”.

        “Open source” has a very specific meaning, and probably the key part for this is if there are any restrictions on what you do with any derivative software you create.

        Can you use the Winamp source code to create a new media player and sell it? If there is say a restriction on if you can use it in a company or on if you can sell it, then it’s not “open source” even though you can publish noncommercial software based on it.

  • FryHyde@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    I’ve used so many other FOSS solutions to replace winamp at this point, and they’re all functionally the same. I remember liking the interface of Clementine at some point, but honestly I don’t think I have any loyalty to any specific music software anymore.

  • fury@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I wonder what the aim is. Trying to get relevant again? I haven’t used Winamp in many many years. I’m a Spotify / YouTube kind of guy now. I drank the koolaid. It’s a little late and things like VLC have a pretty solid offering now, without all gotchas that this will have (such as you apparently can’t call it Winamp and will have to sign away a sacrificial child to actually get the code)

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      VLC is a video player. While it of course can play audio files, it is not intended for managing a library of them like winamp. I do agree that they’ve missed the boat though. I still buy CD’s and actually have a digital library of music that I own. As such, I never stopped using winamp. But I don’t know a single other person in real life that doesn’t just use a streaming service for their music.

  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    The main reason I like Winamp: Advance Visualization Studio. And skins. Bring back skins in applications. I don’t care if 99% are ugly and unusable. We don’t need jerks like Gnome team deciding what everything should look like.

    • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Oh man, my whole desktop experience used to be themed. I would spend hours finding the perfect skins.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Bring back skins in applications.

      I love the Cristal Disk Mark / Info applications for this. Some cool Japanese guy, going by hiyohiyo, develops them as free software. And he is not afraid to make editions decorated with presumably his favourite Anime girls

  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I went to the mall today and it felt like the early 2000s again

    Look I know it is barely on topic but that shit was so wild I had to