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.
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
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.
Oh it’s the continuation of XMMS, I have found memory of using that!
I only wish it had Milkdrop
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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.
It really whips the llamas ass.
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!!!
I still got my skins saved somewhere…
Found them!
It whips the llamas ass!!
I wonder how long it will be before someone ports it to Linux
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.
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???”
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…
