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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 4 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 130 points 4 months ago

It doesn't say what license they are going to use, so it may not be open source. The wording is very weaselly.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 39 points 4 months ago

This is news from September and linked blog post from December. Nothing happened.

[-] invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 53 points 4 months ago

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

[-] Xabis@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 4 months ago

They’re probably spending intervening 10 months cleaning all the embarrassing comments out of the code before the initial commit.

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

Good find, I honestly didn't notice that this was from Dec 2023.

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[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Audacious is already an open-source audio-player, that can display these 98,000 .wsz Winamp Classic skins, today.

[-] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 9 points 4 months ago

I like Audacious but it lacks the Winamp features of later builds. Went for Strawberry instead when I migrated to FOSS.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Strawberry looks very polished. I'm going to try it out. Thanks for the recommendation.

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[-] erwan@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Oh it's the continuation of XMMS, I have found memory of using that!

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

Fond?

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I only wish it had Milkdrop

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

linux port when

[-] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

It really whips the penguins ass

[-] worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 3 points 4 months ago

Not a serious suggestion, but I can confirm that WACUP does at least have no noticeable issues using WINE

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

What about the legendary music visualisation we could make it standalone at last ?

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 17 points 4 months ago

qmmp does pretty well with the winamp skin, but it would be a treat to run the real winamp on linux

[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 35 points 4 months ago

linamp really whips the penguin's ass!

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ya gotta try it, its almost impossible to tell ;

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[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 3 points 4 months ago

Audacious can even theme itself using Winamp themes!

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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago

Try installing Audacious.

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

If I'm correct Justin sold WinAmp and then created Reaper AKA the best DAW ever made.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

If Justin/anyone at Cockos is reading this: please open-source REAPER. You really would be doing the audio community a huge service.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

It really whips the llamas ass.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 14 points 4 months ago

wtf, winamp was closed source? What was I thinking running that back in the day!?!

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I think I was running x11amp, but it was Linux-only at the time.

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Can they open source their original code? IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMAS ASS!!!

[-] xcjs@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

Now the question is - are they open sourcing the original Winamp, or the awful replacement?

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

I still got my skins saved somewhere...

[-] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Found them!

https://skins.webamp.org/

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago

I wonder how long it will be before someone ports it to Linux

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 18 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

The only reason I can think of is all of the skins for winamp like players

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

imagine if we all leave vlc for winamp again

that poor llama

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[-] Captnkrk69@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

It whips the llamas ass!!

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[-] RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

"Llama tested... Mother approved!"

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[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I still use, Jesus, version 5 or something. Nothing has managed to be as handy as old winamp.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Version 2 fo life!

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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

At some point, the creator said "I don't need to update this anymore.....what am I going to do? Make it BETTER???"

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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...