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
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Not a programmer but does that mean we will finally see Winamp come to Linux?
It really whips the penguins ass
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.
XMMS, Beep, Audacious or whatever were always good enough.
Linuxamp
Maybe Linamp, Lamp, or Gamp would be better? Kamp for a KDE version if the name isn’t already used.
Lamp is already the name of s Webservice Stack (Linux, Apache Webserver, MySQL, PHP)
GNUamp
GNU/LinuxAMP (two components of a system)
Glamp
Winamp still whips the Llamas ass.
Came here just to say something similar.
“Going FOSS really whips the llamas ass!”
They probably just want to cut down dev costs by outsourcing to
unpaid internsvolunteersCool. Maybe someone will finally add a mix/random option to the playlist.
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.
Assuming there’s no weird catch, this is amazing. I love winamp
I 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.
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 censts and comes with a 3 day trial (no subscriptions or other bs)
definitely the most feature packed player with no competition
the dev is @The_DoctorO \o/
I switched to Strawberry from a lifetime of Winamp usage purely because I wanted an open source music player, so this is amazing news!
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.
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.
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
And FOSS is an umbrella term encompassing both Free and Open-Source software.
I’m glad to see people taking interest in the meanings behind these terms. We all benefit from understanding them better.
Doesn’t FOSS refer to software this is both free and open source? Not a union of free software and open source software? My understanding is that if a piece of software is not both open and free then it is not FOSS.
EDIT:
From the wiki page:
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge. The public availability of the source code is, therefore, a necessary but not sufficient condition. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term for free software and open-source software.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software
Doesn’t FOSS refer to software this is both free and open source?
Not exclusively, no. It’s an umbrella term.
You maybe replied before seeing my edit, but I actually quoted that article in the edit.
Indeed. I clicked reply before your edit. Here is the key part of the quote you selected:
FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term for free software and open-source software.
That means Free software qualifies and FOSS, and Open-Source software qualifies as FOSS. It’s a broader category, not a narrower one.
god i hate words
Corrected. 👍
There is nothing here saying it will be FOSS or open-source, just source-available.
“This invites developers worldwide to contribute”
You can contribute to things that don’t have open source licenses, it’s just probably a dumb idea.
We’ll just have to wait and see what they mean I suppose
sure, and while we wait, claiming that they are releasing it as open-source is speculation, so lets not do that.
*FOSS
