Winamp is going open source
Winamp is going open source
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software.
EDIT: Here is the full press release.
Press Release- Inside information May 16, 2024 – 08:30 CEST Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide. Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve. Winamp has become much more than just a music player. It embodies a unique digital culture, aesthetic, and user experience. With this initiative to open the source code, Winamp is taking the next step in its history, allowing its users to contribute directly to improving the product. "This is a decision that will delight millions of users around the world. Our focus will be on new mobile players and other platforms. We will be releasing a new mobile player at the beginning of July. Still, we don't want to forget the tens of millions of users who use the software on Windows and will benefit from thousands of developers' experience and creativity. Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version," explains Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Winamp. Interested developers can now make themselves known at the following address: about.winamp.com/free-llama
The release doesn't say it's going FOSS. It doesn't specify, but it hints that it'll be "Source Available". Stuff like:
Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version.
Could mean FOSS but they keep the trademark.
You can keep the trademark with FOSS. That's why Debian had Iceweasel rather than Firefox.
Notice they avoid using the exact term "open source" in this press release. I'm ~90% sure it'll turn out to be under some proprietary source-available license.
I had the same though. No way they would choose that wording otherwise. they will probably just make it available, also make people who contribute sign their copyright away.
They've already talked about adding NFTs to it. Winamp is dead and this is it's corpse being paraded around like Weekend at Bernie's.
I stopped paying any attention to them when they started talking about NFTs. This is cool news.
Winamp still whips the Llamas ass.
Came here just to say something similar.
"Going FOSS really whips the llamas ass!"
Not sure if you're able to edit the title, but this doesn't look like FOSS, just open source.
doesn’t look like FOSS, just open source.
Open-source software is FOSS by definition. Did you mean source-available?
If you ask the FSF, open source is a bigger set than free software, mostly to do with restrictions on the uses of the code
god i hate words
Did you mean source-available?
I guess? Always thought there was some pedantic Stallman-esque argument for the differentiation between FOSS and OSS, independent of the Open Source vs Source Available distinction.
Very excited by this. Hopefully they go all the way and GPL it. There hasn't been any mp3 player I've enjoyed using as much as Winamp.
Not a programmer but does that mean we will finally see Winamp come to Linux?
I mean, you can just run Winamp in Wine already.
Linux support will depend on how tightly integrated the application is with the Windows API. It may very well be easier to just keep running in Wine, maybe after patching out some Wine related bugs.
It also depends on the llicense. If they don't license Winamp and just show off the code, nobody is actually allowed to do anything with it. The title of their announcement uses"source available" so I assume the license is quite restrictive.
It really whips the penguins ass
XMMS, Beep, Audacious or whatever were always good enough.
If you need a quick Winamp fix -> https://webamp.org/
They probably just want to cut down dev costs by outsourcing to
unpaid internsvolunteersI remember I used to use Winamp then Sonique then Foobar 2000 and that's when I switched to Linux.
And now there's a foobar2000 on Linux
Unless it can support the plugins already there (which I doubt... mono doesn't mean we can straight up run DLLs, right?), I'd have to hope it stumbles into an incredible ecosystem. Thanks for the find, I'll be looking out for it. We finally might have one people'd be content using. Now I'm wondering if/when I finally get enough motivation to start making a coverflow or a lyrics-scroll plugin, should I develop for Amarok or Fooyin?
We also used to have Guarapirangua and DeaDBeeF. G ran out of steam, and D decided to fuck over Russian-language users cuz "they country war so they people bad!", angering many plugin developers besides making me morally uncontent with what future decisions they'd make.
Sounds familiar.
I still use Winamp 5.5 or something, before it became bloated. Still kicks the same ass. Llama’s
I stopped on 5.666 just because
Assuming there's no weird catch, this is amazing. I love winamp
I’d love to see it ported to Linux and for Spotify to release a fork of it again.
With many people going from windows to Linux, they would have instantaneous users on nostalgia alone
That screenshot alone brings back so, so many memories.
Been with Winamp ever since my first 486DX all the way up to my first 4k screen when it became unusable due to size/scaling issues.
I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for this one to succeed.
They trip all over themselves just to seemingly not use the phrase "open source" huh?
Even a progression from "Closed Source" to "Source Available" is nice progress I think.
If we assume that the License is not restrictive we may be able to fork Winamp into a codebase that might actually be Fully Open Source Software and track changes of the upstream as we need.
This is cool. I switched from Winamp to Foobar2000 at some point, I don't really remember the reason.
I switched to Strawberry from a lifetime of Winamp usage purely because I wanted an open source music player, so this is amazing news!
the dev is @The_DoctorO \o/
Just tried the mobile version of Winamp looking for a better Android music player. The interface looks great tbh, but man, they got no support for wma files and some of the tags are not read correctly (on the songs I own). I know this is not an issue for most of the people, but for me, it's really limiting on the music players I can use on my phone. Sadly, Winamp doesn't fit in this category either. Thank god there is Foobar that supports all these from day 1
try Poweramp, it's paid but it costs like 10 cents and comes with a 3 day trial (no subscriptions or other bs)
definitely the most feature packed player with no competitionThanks! I'll check it out. Foobar is fine and does a lot of things that I do not see other players doing. What I didn't like was the fact that it has no adaptive icon and there is no way to display the lyrics of a song. Plus that I was looking for something that was following the material design guidelines more.
Edit: just checked it. Seems like it's not properly reading some artist tags, so it cannot find them:
i.postimg.cc/Y249YqV3/Screensh…
Plus, in Foobar, a split album is displayed in both artist's views. Poweramp simply creates a different artist entry, just for the split:
i.postimg.cc/66DQ0xxN/Screensh…
I did not check how an album with multiple discs is displayed, but I still find Foobar's library management capabilities unlike any other's.
I do have to admit that Poweramp has a cool interface though.
Cool. Maybe someone will finally add a mix/random option to the playlist.
I didn't know this was still around, but sounds super good and super cool and tons of people will get in on this. For sure.
This news really whips the Llama's ass.
