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Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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https://x.com/winamp/status/1793615140241240395

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[–] solrize 106 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is it important? It was a cool program 30 years ago but it's just a playback UI right?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’s not the old program anymore, and it already leaked a long time ago. It was obvious that the new one wouldn’t be open.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The new one is just a web UI with options for streaming music. There were talks of the old original Winamp going open source though, which bought nostalgic memories to many. Eithercase, with so many music players on both Windows and Linux, I doubt Winamp would a niche case to fill.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

But do any of them Whip the Llama’s Ass?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how well XMMS would work on mordern Linux

[–] Tanoh 10 points 6 months ago

It works quite fine, use it daily. Well, XMMS2 to be pedantic.

Just some shellscripts bound to windows-keys to pause/play and load new files.

[–] Plopp 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have the old one (5.x) installed and use it regularly. Is it still available for download anywhere? Would love for that one to be officially open sourced.

[–] tordenflesk 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's WACUP: https://getwacup.com/

[–] Plopp 2 points 6 months ago

Oh, now that is interesting. Thank you for that piece of information!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's at best abandonware, but the source will never be released officially as it now belongs to a random megacorp.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

It looks like their May 16th tweet stated source code would be made available to developers, and they are clearing up some ambiguity in this new one.