🦙Nooo
What did they realize that they open sourced their product a decade too late for anyone to actually revive it?
well that was… something
TIL Winamp was still active as a project
It wasn’t, really. It was passed around as IP for a long time like a used car everyone wanted to fix & sell, but no one wanted to do anything with.
Would anyone care if they did? I didn’t see anyone reviving xmms and that is open source.
Well, qmmp is very much alive: https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com
That is pretty cool actually - I didn’t know about that!
And it makes no mention that they were modifying and using GPL code prior to making their code “open source”.
Id argue that this story is not over until the GPL code can be confirmed removed by a third party
For those that want some additional details Brodie Robertson created a video on what was happening 3 weeks ago on how things were going into the lead up to this. Here’s the link. It’s 16 minutes long and kind of funny. It shows how mismanaged things were from the beginning
Maybe WinAmp was the llama all along.
WinAmp hurt itself while slapping
Whips?
Of course!
If we can synthesize the idea of WinAmp owners, it would sound like, “Please contribute your free labor in an attempt to monetize the app in pursuit of our financial goals.”
I’ve made a comment like that somewhere. They wanted free labor to make some money, that’s all. Lol. It was a failed attempt at exploiting people’s emotions.
It’s astonishing that they were so open about it. They didn’t even hide to try to hide it
That license was laughable and blatant
WinAmp owners
I’m a visual person so I need to put a face to these windowlickers to laugh at in my head.
Is it this guy?
I don’t know. Try visualising him with Milkdrop.
I watched a video a little while ago , I think the only value winamp has is nostalgic and historical. If it was really open source maybe we could get a really good fork and that’s about it, I think. Maybe I’m missing the point, let me know I’m not very smart at this stuff.
Legal issues aside, are there any publicly available forks of the repo?
Not Open-Source, but there’s a fork called WACUP, which is Winamp with modern features.
Website states: "It is however not being done as an open source project & there are other options out there if that’s something you need your software to be. It does rely on open source libraries & a number of modified plug-ins for which their changes are being provided to comply with their code licensing requirements.
Ultimately I don’t want to spend the time to run a properly done open source project when there’s no guarantee of any assistance vs the overhead involved & my time management isn’t great so spending more time on project management isn’t imho a good use of my time."
I also hold to the view that source code without at least 1 developer is pointless & implies a dead / abandoned project. I do appreciate that it does allow for taking things on if it’s then entered into such a state without any developer(s) attached as I’ve done with some of the plug-ins which has benefited WACUP. So whilst I’m in a position to keep making WACUP I don’t intend on open sourcing all of it & view doing that as the end of my time developing it.
Same weird non-sequiturs chain that foobar2000 author uses.
They could’ve honestly said “I don’t wanna”, and that would be the end of it.
Repository ownership appearently got transferred to “alexfreud”; my fork on GitHub of the original repo redirects to it.
https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp
For reference, the fork I made
Same here.
Statement from dev about the shit show
That truly is a shitshow
Yep, but I think it’s good for the former dev’s to see what crap the management is making and instead of taking credit, they’re more likely to get a shitstorm.
Just sad for the work of the dev’s.
Yeah well, VLC has been open source for 23 years.
Do people really use VLC to listen to music?
Music, no. All sorts of other audio like BBC radio dramas, yes.
Yes. I mostly use it for video though, but since my Video and Music libraries are side by side, I play my music in it too. I’m not really interested in the visualizer stuff so I’m not looking directly at the player, but I think I know what you are going to say, that it’s organization and search capabilities for music has a lot of room for improvement, ha.
I used, but today I use Clementine (is still alive) and sometimes QMMP with some winamp skin
VLC It’s a good Music player if you only need to play music
Yes in android
I used to, 15 years ago.
Good times.
AIMP [Windows/Android] has been my Winamp replacement for ~15 years. I’ve never found a player that comes close to rivalling it.
P.S. I have no idea what the licence is for AIMP, I just know it’s free and is excellent. You don’t need Winamp.
What about jet audio? Is it FOSS? I can’t find anything about that. I used it after Winamp started disappointing with it’s media support.
It’s propietary
For one is was under a license what not only not Foss but completely violated Github TOS.
Also the repo had a bunch of code they didn’t own the rights to like the Adobe stuff.
Yeah, like one of the few things GitHub actually requires you to let people do is press the dang fork button.
I like how they were like “you can’t fork this repo” and it’s like — actually yes I can.
