Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows.
Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
Phegan, It really whips the llamas ass.
delirious_owl, 
wtf, winamp was closed source? What was I thinking running that back in the day!?!
johannesvanderwhales, I think I was running x11amp, but it was Linux-only at the time.
RhondaSandTits, 
“Llama tested… Mother approved!”
AngryCommieKender, Do they still make Kix?
ace_garp, 
afk_strats, Bookmarked
erwan, Oh it’s the continuation of XMMS, I have found memory of using that!
AlexWIWA, I only wish it had Milkdrop
ChallengeApathy, I like Audacious but it lacks the Winamp features of later builds. Went for Strawberry instead when I migrated to FOSS.
ace_garp, Strawberry looks very polished. I’m going to try it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
ace_garp, Update:
Found 2 new players today.
Clementine (the player that Strawberry is forked from), it’s awesome. Thanks for the info to find this player.
Also cmus, which is a console music-player, and basically looks like vim for audio files.
umbrella, (edited ) 
linux port when
worsedoughnut, 
Not a serious suggestion, but I can confirm that WACUP does at least have no noticeable issues using WINE
Threeme2189, It really whips the penguins ass
ZombiFrancis, I still got my skins saved somewhere…
TheAgeOfSuperboredom, Found them!
interdimensionalmeme, What about the legendary music visualisation we could make it standalone at last ?
Yerbouti, If I’m correct Justin sold WinAmp and then created Reaper AKA the best DAW ever made.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 
If Justin/anyone at Cockos is reading this: please open-source REAPER. You really would be doing the audio community a huge service.
TSG_Asmodeus, 
I still use, Jesus, version 5 or something. Nothing has managed to be as handy as old winamp.
Lost_My_Mind, And none are more asswhippening to llamas.
AtariDump, Version 2 fo life!
TSG_Asmodeus, 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.
AtariDump,
cupcakezealot, 
imagine if we all leave vlc for winamp again
that poor llama
Spider2013, (edited ) Does Winamp play videos? I can’t remember right now, but ppl could implement if it doesn’t, right ? I miss the old 2.x skins and the playlist and the plugins
cupcakezealot, i don’t think it originally did it might now if someone adds it!
biscuitswalrus, I have a feeling it did because I remember watching early rtsp multicast streams of the anime initial D found through winamp in like 1999 at 240p. It’s so long ago that I’m not even sure that’s a correct memory.
VieuxQueb, 
I did too around that time. I could use realtime to stream my tvtuner on a pentium 90MHZ and play it with winamp on another device.
biscuitswalrus, That’s so cool
umami_wasbi, 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.
electricprism, Can they open source their original code? IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMAS ASS!!!
RobotToaster, 
It doesn’t say what license they are going to use, so it may not be open source. The wording is very weaselly.
n2burns, 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.
KISSmyOSFeddit, Would this allow a fork under a different name or would it have to be rewritten, replacing all original code, like Unix?
Chewy7324, (edited ) 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.
monobot, This is news from September and linked blog post from December. Nothing happened.
Alphane_Moon, Good find, I honestly didn’t notice that this was from Dec 2023.
noodlejetski, 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”: social.treehouse.systems/…/112452636130622939
invisiblegorilla, Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application’s source code will be open to developers worldwide.
Xabis, 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, They’re probably spending intervening 10 months cleaning all the embarrassing comments out of the code before the initial commit.
Peffse, 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…
cmnybo, I wonder how long it will be before someone ports it to Linux
lemmyvore, 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.
sik0fewl, XMMS! I was trying to remember what I started using when I switched to Linux. Couldn’t leave my favourite theme behind. Thanks!
Peffse, Any of them compatible with Winamp plugins? Because that’s my reason for sticking to the past.
lemmyvore, Can’t use Windows plugins, it has its own.
SSJ2Marx, 
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, 
The only reason I can think of is all of the skins for winamp like players
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