Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
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.
Good find, I honestly didn’t notice that this was from Dec 2023.
Oh it’s the continuation of XMMS, I have found memory of using that!
Fond?
Yes, autocorrect messed it up
Bookmarked
I only wish it had Milkdrop
linux port when
It really whips the penguins ass
What about the legendary music visualisation we could make it standalone at last ?
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.
If I’m correct Justin sold WinAmp and then created Reaper AKA the best DAW ever made.
Can they open source their original code? IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMAS ASS!!!
It really whips the llamas ass.
It whips the llamas ass!!
Even more so now
Now the question is - are they open sourcing the original Winamp, or the awful replacement?
wtf, winamp was closed source? What was I thinking running that back in the day!?!
I think I was running x11amp, but it was Linux-only at the time.
I still use, Jesus, version 5 or something. Nothing has managed to be as handy as old winamp.
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.
And none are more asswhippening to llamas.
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…
My only windows machine left still runs Winamp. It may be old, but at least for playing my offline library, I really don’t know what they could possibly change. For everything else, I wouldn’t use Winamp anyway.
I install it every time I reinstall Windows. It’s not like the native music player is any better than this program that hasn’t been updated in 10 years.
At some point, the creator said “I don’t need to update this anymore…what am I going to do? Make it BETTER???”
