Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
I only wish it had Milkdrop
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I like Audacious but it lacks the Winamp features of later builds. Went for Strawberry instead when I migrated to FOSS.
Strawberry looks very polished. I’m going to try it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
Update:
Found 2 new players today.
Clementine (the player that Strawberry is forked from), it’s awesome. Thanks for the info to find this player.
Also cmus, which is a console music-player, and basically looks like vim for audio files.
Oh it’s the continuation of XMMS, I have found memory of using that!
Fond?
Yes, autocorrect messed it up
It really whips the llamas ass.
I still got my skins saved somewhere…
Found them!
qmmp does pretty well with the winamp skin, but it would be a treat to run the real winamp on linux
Try installing Audacious.
linamp really whips the penguin’s ass!
I would love Winamp on Linux. I just switched off Windows this year and I haven’t been able to find a media player I liked yet. I haven’t tried qmmp though.
ya gotta try it, its almost impossible to
;Audacious can even theme itself using Winamp themes!
linux port when
Not a serious suggestion, but I can confirm that WACUP does at least have no noticeable issues using WINE
It really whips the penguins ass
I wonder how long it will be before someone ports it to Linux
There isn’t much point of that, XMMS was basically that — a faithful reproduction of Winamp for Linux between 1997-2007. Since then there’s been a ton of forks — XMMS2, BMP, Youki, Audacious etc.
Audacious is still around, sort of (last release a year ago) and it’s basically Winamp, it can use Winamp skins and has plugins.
Any of them compatible with Winamp plugins? Because that’s my reason for sticking to the past.
I’m sure all of those programs are great, but in the modern world I can’t think of any reason why I wouldn’t ever just use VLC.
The only reason I can think of is all of the skins for winamp like players
XMMS! I was trying to remember what I started using when I switched to Linux. Couldn’t leave my favourite theme behind. Thanks!
“Llama tested… Mother approved!”
I still use, Jesus, version 5 or something. Nothing has managed to be as handy as old winamp.
And none are more asswhippening to llamas.
Version 2 fo life!
Man, can you even still download that? Man, it’s the only programme I can think of that I never had an issue with. Even the default skin is so usable.
It doesn’t say what license they are going to use, so it may not be open source. The wording is very weaselly.
This is news from September and linked blog post from December. Nothing happened.
Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application’s source code will be open to developers worldwide.
The date is given on the page, which hasn’t lapsed yet.
They’re probably spending intervening 10 months cleaning all the embarrassing comments out of the code before the initial commit.
Good find, I honestly didn’t notice that this was from Dec 2023.
it shows “Dec 16, 1” when I open the link, but the first time I saw someone post it, the date on the screenshot said “May 16, 2024 - 08:30 CEST”: https://social.treehouse.systems/@amie/112452636130622939
Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application’s source code will be open to developers worldwide.
IMHO, it sounds like it’ll be “Source Available.” Especially
Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version.
Would this allow a fork under a different name or would it have to be rewritten, replacing all original code, like Unix?
If they chose an open source license, a fork under a different name would be possible (else it’s not open source).
Their wording is ambiguous, so maybe they only talk about keeping the name/trademark to themselves, which is definitely a good choice.
It’s also not clear if they accept contributions, but they’ll likely keep deciding what features should get added or not.
At least that’s how I understand it.
It’s been too many years since I’ve dabbled in code licensing so I’m a bit in the dark as to what this implies, but if this results in a Linux fork that’s capable of running Winamp plugins…
If I’m correct Justin sold WinAmp and then created Reaper AKA the best DAW ever made.
If Justin/anyone at Cockos is reading this: please open-source REAPER. You really would be doing the audio community a huge service.
Now the question is - are they open sourcing the original Winamp, or the awful replacement?
Can they open source their original code? IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMAS ASS!!!
With this initiative to open the source code,
The wording is quite evasive. They didn’t say directly “With this initiative to open source” but “to open the source code.” They do however mentioned collaboration and contribution.
I’m quite confused what license they would use.
It whips the llamas ass!!
Even more so now
