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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
submitted 5 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure what can be brought to Winamp that'll make it better through open source. Maybe it'll be a default alternative for Linux distros? That'd be cool.

But, Winamp to me is just a program I use that plays video game soundtracks that are different formats aren't MP3 or WAV. Like Super Nintendo with .SPC for example.

AIMP has predominantly taken the mantle on my system as default media player, it's just feature rich and long won me over the day my PC suddenly rebooted and the song I was playing was just on pause with that program! Winamp couldn't do this, whenever I re-opened it, song stopped playing entirely, gotta play it again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

There are likely lots of improvements that can be made under the hood. I'm willing to bet that it depends on several aging libraries that could probably be swapped out for something better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would be huge for me

Being able to type

$sudo apt install winamp

Would be so cool

[–] Prox 1 points 5 months ago

Would it be possible to add (smoother, in some cases) integration with music services? Imagine one library that could reach into Spotify, Tidal, etc. all in one player.

[–] btaf45 1 points 5 months ago

Winamp for me is a program that makes it easy to create my own music playlist (.m3u) files.