Millennials will see this and say “hell yeah”
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows
Submitted 4 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code
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bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I smashed that upvote button so hard
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
‘Sweet.’
Also acceptable: Dope, dude, w-t-f, oh my God, holy shit, duuuuuude.
Gen X: Radical, gnarly, cowabunga, I want a living wage.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, no. We want a thriving wage at this point. This living wage BS isn’t getting us anywhere.
wrekone@lemmyf.uk 4 months ago
Tiiiiiight
404@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
zOMG!!
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Hell nah. I moved to Plexamp years ago and nothing will bring me back.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times… Real good times.
OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.
Hule@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
The best part was the commercially “exploited” parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.
You999@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Deebster@programming.dev 4 months ago
b3an@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This! 😵💫
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Still whipping the llama’s ass all these years later! So glad this one never died. Way too much time getting all my music tags right so everything would be formatted correctly in Winamp when I was young.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the ONLY music player I found with a logical and reasonably laid out library.
saywhatisabigw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Next can we get ICQ?
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Uh oh!
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
I use that sound for notifications to this dy.
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It really whips the llama’s ass
nobleshift@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can get behind this.
No unfuck Shoutcast next
zurchpet@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
If you need a quick Winamp fix -> https://webamp.org/
nucleative@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Damn, I’d even works on mobile
Ifera@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Turns out one of my favorite bands is that Playlist (Diablo Swing Orchestra), pretty cool of them to release free music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, TIL.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve seen this before, but didn’t realise they got milkdrop working. I bought an MMX compatible processor specifically to be able to run this, back in the day.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Meh. No Ella Fitzgerald.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If this gets updated and ported to Linux, I’d switch. Until then, Sayonara Player is still the best I have found on Linux.
Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What about xmms? It was basically a winamp clone, I used to use that on my Linux boxes 20+ years ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have never found a Linux media player I liked (I don’t really like Sayonara). I would love Winamp for Linux!
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All good until “for windows” fuck that.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Port it then, you coward, lol.
Winamp hasn’t seen real development in 20 years, and was exclusively a windows app at that time. What’re you expecting?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah we’re cool 😎.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My guess is this is a win32 program or a codebase that is very Windows specific. It was probably discarded because it did not port very well to other platforms. Again, just a guess.
Still, it’s nice to see such a historicaly popular program get its source officially released.
germtm_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Audacious has support for Winamp skins and EQ presets, so you could call it a Winamp-like.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 4 months ago
… which is also not open-source. But yeah, really good music player and organizer.
dukethorion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So, where can I get a fresh copy of Limewire?
dumbass@leminal.space 4 months ago
Screw limewire, soulseek is the way, an endless sea of perfectly organised music libraries, you’ll find what you want and stuff you didn’t know you needed.
kamen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The problem is when they’re perfectly organised in a different manner from what you expect :D
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Thanks for this. I’d not heard of soulseek. I’m an *arr person with Usenet. It’ll be nice to see if I can find some rare / missing items.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
if you’re being for real, it’s successor is this. though compared to other offerings these days I don’t really prefer to use it. open source and no ads tho so that’s cool.
dukethorion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wasn’t, but thanks!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Be cool, use Frostwire
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Audiogalaxy for me. But then I love BBC radio dramas and I got I have no idea how many hours from there. Most of it lost now sadly.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I have unironically used Winamp since 2003, and I continue to do so now, even with a lossless passthrough DAC, lol
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 4 months ago
I really liked winamp when my screen resolution wasn’t so high. I wish the interface could scale so I can still use the original look without having to squint.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well, I mean I loved Winamp, but streaming ease of use pretty much killed it. Even then, I’ve been Linux Desktop forever, and other options there with better network and non-file aware media management tools kinda took over. Would love to see them make it as extensible as VLC though, even just for the nostalgic purposes.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just like everyone else, at one point I used WinAMP, then when they started the upgrade to new and significantly more hardware demanding version I switched to Aimp, which to this day I use as mobile application. Am no longer on Windows, but I still miss those applications. VLC simply doesn’t fit that role of a music player.
Open sourcing WinAMP means we’ll probably get a ported version for Linux, which I am very much looking forward to.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m still using Winamp 2.91. I’m just too used to it to change. Now, if someone added Flac support to the same interface, I’d be happy. And if someone ported it to Linux and Android, I’d pay big bucks for it.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I have mine configured as a background service with a Rainmeter desktop widget to play music at a moment’s notice. Works better than any official Windows option.
menemen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Switched to Linux in 2005 or 2006. Been missing Winamp ever since. :) Finally.
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 months ago
OK, I’m confused.
I have seen 2 different articles that claim WinAmp is NOt going to be open sourced. At least in the common sense. But rather kind - of - sort - of - but - not - really.
Here is a zdnet.com/…/winamp-is-not-going-open-source-heres… ZDNET article about it.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Man. I still use winamp to this day and I’ve been using them since they came out.
It’s the only music player that organizes the music in a way that makes sense. I love the library interface.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The only thing I don’t like about the new WInamp is the NFT library, Hotmix and Fanzone things they added to it. But I guess the new owners had to try and make their money back somehow. Plus they’re easily ignorable.
exanime@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Very cool but even 15 years ago or so when I moved to Linux, I was already over Winamp and using Foobar… Loved it
snrkl@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Mac Port! Mac Port! Mac Port!
art@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 4 months ago
this is cool but what is the point now given all the options today and the way we listen to music now?
snownyte@kbin.social 4 months ago
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.
HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow this brings me back. What is winamp used for these days?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What use do we have today for a music focused media player? Is it common for people to use mp3, flac or wav for playing music? I feel like music streaming services hold the market here.
I like winamp back when it was an alternative for the basic windows media player to listen to all my music but I dont keep mp3s anymore so I don’t know if I can see the point.
Was it anything more than just a music player with eq and skins? Did I miss the point back then?
Maybe I just don’t have the vision that others have and will be pleasantly suprised when someone comes up with a good use case and develops it.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It really whips the llama’s ass.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I can still hear this.
dukethorion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Came here to say that. Somebody better warn the llama.
b3an@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Baaaaaa! 🦙
Emerald@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t like animal abuse but I make an exception for llamas
Jessvj93@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How else will they learn to not eat hands?