27 years of tech debt will do that to you ;)
Comment on GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player
314xel@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At first I was… wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!
But then I went through the Github issues. As someone else put it, “This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i’ve seen to date.”. The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a mess. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter’s “open sourcing” of its recommendation algorithm they did last year.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yeah it’s not open source at all. This is source-available.
Also, they uploaded the source to Shoutcast’s proprietary stuff: github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The latter hints that it’s an error and not a mistake, and maybe it’ll get fixed, and maybe even with a better license.
That said, there are a few “winamps” I can install right now (audacious, qmmp, xmms if I bother to compile it and gtk-1.2, bmp if I bother to compile it).
Something like milkdrop I’d love, but … nah.
And nah, getting back to MPD with an ed-like “client” (script with mpc) that jumps to the right entry and position by number, by name regex, by “:”-separated time format.