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.
There is Winamp skin museum - https://skins.webamp.org/
Oh, my trusty old Wolfplayer is on there too. Brings me back…
Now I can add a Plex integration. Finally my CD collection can return to winamp
What’s wrong with Plexamp?
It does not whip the llamas ass.
I’m not certain I want to know what this means. I kinda love the idea that this is just an idiom that is or was common. Is it modern? Ancient? Could be either, could be both!
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/winamp-it-really-whips/
This was loaded in the winamp queue when you installed winamp. Take a listen.
Why did they wait so long
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?
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.
What does this mean for WACUP ?
“Hey Internet, come do development on our product for free so we can monetize it. TIA”
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.
It annoys me, too, because there’s various open-source projects already, like QMMP and Audacious.
Are you complaining that they’re going open source?
Most of the complaining I see is that they’re not going open source, they’re going “source available”
I thought the source was already leaked a while ago
Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.
Mesa + DXVK/WineD3D/VKD3D/Gallium-Nine.
What’s the licence? It doesn’t sound like “open source” and sounds more like “source available”.
BSA
Bullshit Source Available
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?
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.
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.
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)
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.
It really whips the llama’s ass.
-RIP Wesley Willis
It really did.
Been using Foobar2000 since '03 (and now on mobile too). No need to change back.
But I have already switched to AIMP
And it’s good.
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.
Oh man, my whole desktop experience used to be themed. I would spend hours finding the perfect skins.
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
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
What happend
IG shopping malls haven’t changed very much in 20 years
Where?
