Alright, Winamp. You can go be forgotten forever now.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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Fondly remembered forever. As it was around 2000..
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I'm making my farts open source 😉
WinAmp making their source code 'source available' instead of open source, and then dropping this phrase:
The release of the Winamp player's source code will enable developers from all over the world to actively participate in its evolution and improvement.
Yeah I don't think so
Yup, as much as I like Grayjay, I'm not going to help development much because it's "source available" instead of open source. There was an annoying bug I wanted fixed, and I was willing to go set up my dev environment and track it down, but they don't seem interested in contributions, so I won't make the effort.
Likewise for WinAmp. The main benefit to it being "source available" is that I can recompile it and researchers can look for bugs. That's it. They're not going to get developers interested.
Even if they accept patches, contributing still sounds like a bad deal. It's free labor for some company. FOSS at minimum means the right to fork, precisely what "source available" seeks to deny.
Leaving aside the question of winamp vs comparable programs, does anyone even care about desktop music players any more? I'm a throwback and use command line players, but I thought the cool kids these days use phones for stuff like that.
I understand there is some technical obstacle to porting Rockbox to Android, but idk what it is and haven't tried to look into it.
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Even outside of this obviously either clueless or AI-fabricated post, I'm still not convinced that it'll be OSS, in the way that we expect it to be. The phrasing used in announcement leads me to believing that they'll use some license, that allows them draconian control over the source. It'll be "open" as in being able to see it, but not really fork, or meaningfully contribute.
Just use WACUP
Ha ha ha, playing your cards close. Only three steps away from profit.
This does not whip the llama's ass.
No, it teased that llama's ass.
It might wipe it though.
Winamp oh winamp.......
You still trying to exist even after so much other music player out there like AIMP, QMMP, CLEMENTINE, ELISA, etc.....
Maybe back in my childhood days you're king.....but nowadays nah.....
You know you only need one period to end a sentence, right?
Nope.........................................
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And now I'm curious how Winamp actually makes money.
**Edit
Just went to the website, it's a subscription Spotify knock off now. Still doesn't explain who are the people that actually pay for this.
The same ones who still pay for AOL
I mean... What contribution would this code actually be to the audio player world at this point?
Does anything else in the audio player world really whip llama asses?
I don't think that you could reproduce the llama ass whipping feature even with all the code available.
Why would they call the open version 'openllama'? Isn't llama that ai model?
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes people, I'm sorry for not knowing a meme in a language that's not my native from before I was born
"why would they call the AI llama? Isn't that an animal?"
Because it has 'llm' in it? Makes way more sense than a music player formerly known as Winamp
Edit: it seems the company that owns it rebranded itself to llama last year. Still think it's a stupid choice since nobody knows their name and everybody knows Winamp. 'freeamp' would be the logical choice
they always had a llama as a mascot and as part of their slogan
Not always, since the Llama MP3 that came preloaded was introduced somewhere in 1.xx, yet that's still long enough (from 1998 to 2011 or so).
"Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass"
The OG llama. Before The Emperor's New Groove, before Tina in Napoleon Dynamite and before llm's.
Not before SimCity’s llamas tho.
That's just a lie by the secret llama world government to distract us from whipping their asses.
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Not before llamas though. They be the most og.
Cease your heresy!
Is it important? It was a cool program 30 years ago but it's just a playback UI right?
It looks like their May 16th tweet stated source code would be made available to developers, and they are clearing up some ambiguity in this new one.
It’s not the old program anymore, and it already leaked a long time ago. It was obvious that the new one wouldn’t be open.
I have the old one (5.x) installed and use it regularly. Is it still available for download anywhere? Would love for that one to be officially open sourced.
It's at best abandonware, but the source will never be released officially as it now belongs to a random megacorp.
There's WACUP: https://getwacup.com/
Oh, now that is interesting. Thank you for that piece of information!
The new one is just a web UI with options for streaming music. There were talks of the old original Winamp going open source though, which bought nostalgic memories to many. Eithercase, with so many music players on both Windows and Linux, I doubt Winamp would a niche case to fill.
But do any of them Whip the Llama’s Ass?
I wonder how well XMMS would work on mordern Linux
It works quite fine, use it daily. Well, XMMS2 to be pedantic.
Just some shellscripts bound to windows-keys to pause/play and load new files.