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What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010)

37 points by ecliptik 4y ago

teddyh 4y ago
TL;DR: The developers of XMMS gave the domain to a company which sponsored many individual developers of the XMMS program. A while after development had slowed down, the company unceremoniously sold the domain to a another company which was adding fake links and ads on many such old and trusted sites. … When you place a tangible value on trust, trust becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432186
- iszomer 4y ago
  ... TIL.
BozeWolf 4y ago
xmms.org seems to be restored to as what it was. Last update 2007. Memories...
- Sin2x 4y ago
  XMMS2 is a bit more recent: https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1 https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1
  - hulitu 4y ago
    > python2 was deprecated ffmpeg had about infinite amount of releases and API changes Yay. Why do i need python for a music player ?
teekert 4y ago
Nothing gives me that old computer feeling (that first time chatting to a stranger, first time online, modem sounds) more than looking at WinAmp and XMMS. Hard to understand perhaps but there was a sense of magic at first when you were chatting with someone, in a chat room, you played music and were writing a document. Idk, to me it felt very special at the time.
- antics9 4y ago
  ”Uh-oh”
  - fb03 4y ago
    ICQ!
- oblio 4y ago
  > Idk, to me it felt very special at the time. Of course it did, you were a kid :-)
  - teekert 4y ago
    Perhaps, still, I think even my father must have felt something when we went from a modem (don't pick up the phone!) to "unlimited" ADSL. I'll ask him :)
pluijzer 4y ago
My music player is Audacious (itself a fork of XMMS I believe) with the classic WinAmp skin. Using this just makes me happy whereas using more modern apps or streaming services just make me feel confused.
- tecleandor 4y ago
  I was chekcing the wikipedia and... Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS.[...] Before version 3.0, Audacious used the GTK 2.x toolkit by default. Partial support for GTK3 was added in version 2.5,and Audacious 3.0 has full support for GTK3 and uses it by default. However, dissatisfied with the evolution of GTK3, the Audacious team chose to revert to GTK2 starting with the 3.6 release, with long-term plans of porting to Qt. Since August 8, 2018, the official website has HTTPS enabled site-wide and GTK3 support was dropped completely. As version 4.0, Audacious is using Qt as its primary toolkit but the GTK 2.x support is still available. That's quite a development trip!
  - danwills 4y ago
    I am using Audacious every day on a Gentoo Linux (I can only assume it's a fairly recent version) and it still has a choice old-school 'skinned' UI mode that loads classic xmms skins (that can make it look just like old Winamp) and there's double-pixel mode too so it's not as tiny on modern desktops.. it's probably not for everyone but I love it!
jdhawk 4y ago
For MacOS - still has WinAmp skin support. https://re-amp.ru/ https://re-amp.ru/
fb03 4y ago
I wrote a music playing bot/radio thing with XMMS that could remotely queue songs via a simple web interface and people would join in via Icecast. My first open source contribution ever was for XMMS codebase, where I implemented two remote functions to get playqueue position for a playlist position and vice versa. Thank you for the trip down the memory lane!

37 points by ecliptik 4y ago

TL;DR: The developers of XMMS gave the domain to a company which sponsored many individual developers of the XMMS program. A while after development had slowed down, the company unceremoniously sold the domain to a another company which was adding fake links and ads on many such old and trusted sites. … When you place a tangible value on trust, trust becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432186

iszomer 4y ago
... TIL.

BozeWolf 4y ago

xmms.org seems to be restored to as what it was. Last update 2007. Memories...

Sin2x 4y ago
XMMS2 is a bit more recent: https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1 https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1
- hulitu 4y ago
  > python2 was deprecated ffmpeg had about infinite amount of releases and API changes Yay. Why do i need python for a music player ?

teekert 4y ago

Nothing gives me that old computer feeling (that first time chatting to a stranger, first time online, modem sounds) more than looking at WinAmp and XMMS. Hard to understand perhaps but there was a sense of magic at first when you were chatting with someone, in a chat room, you played music and were writing a document. Idk, to me it felt very special at the time.

antics9 4y ago
”Uh-oh”
- fb03 4y ago
  ICQ!
oblio 4y ago
> Idk, to me it felt very special at the time. Of course it did, you were a kid :-)
- teekert 4y ago
  Perhaps, still, I think even my father must have felt something when we went from a modem (don't pick up the phone!) to "unlimited" ADSL. I'll ask him :)

pluijzer 4y ago

My music player is Audacious (itself a fork of XMMS I believe) with the classic WinAmp skin. Using this just makes me happy whereas using more modern apps or streaming services just make me feel confused.

tecleandor 4y ago
I was chekcing the wikipedia and... Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS.[...] Before version 3.0, Audacious used the GTK 2.x toolkit by default. Partial support for GTK3 was added in version 2.5,and Audacious 3.0 has full support for GTK3 and uses it by default. However, dissatisfied with the evolution of GTK3, the Audacious team chose to revert to GTK2 starting with the 3.6 release, with long-term plans of porting to Qt. Since August 8, 2018, the official website has HTTPS enabled site-wide and GTK3 support was dropped completely. As version 4.0, Audacious is using Qt as its primary toolkit but the GTK 2.x support is still available. That's quite a development trip!
- danwills 4y ago
  I am using Audacious every day on a Gentoo Linux (I can only assume it's a fairly recent version) and it still has a choice old-school 'skinned' UI mode that loads classic xmms skins (that can make it look just like old Winamp) and there's double-pixel mode too so it's not as tiny on modern desktops.. it's probably not for everyone but I love it!

jdhawk 4y ago

For MacOS - still has WinAmp skin support. https://re-amp.ru/ https://re-amp.ru/

fb03 4y ago

I wrote a music playing bot/radio thing with XMMS that could remotely queue songs via a simple web interface and people would join in via Icecast. My first open source contribution ever was for XMMS codebase, where I implemented two remote functions to get playqueue position for a playlist position and vice versa. Thank you for the trip down the memory lane!