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Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see. Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released u
by LocutusOfBorges 2y ago
Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see.
Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it's only available following email enquiries, of all things. I'm surprised they're even bothering, at this point - the software's so obsolete that it's not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.
- bcraven 2y agoI use the community update of Winamp, WACUP, and it's excellent. I've tried other media players but always come back here. I'm not even one of those people who likes the shitty visualisations, I just think the interface works perfectly. https://getwacup.com/ https://getwacup.com/
- QuercusMax 2y agoIt's windows-only? Weird.
- Lammy 2y agoWeird? It's Winamp lol
- xnx 2y agoWith the source code someone can port it to make Linamp.
- callwhendone 2y agodon't forget Macamp.
- nathell 2y agoRemember that before Winamp, there was DOSamp! I used to use version 0.8. Playback was jerky on a 486DX2/66 but once I upgraded to a Pentium, it was smooth sailing.
- Lammy 2y agoActually yeah I had forgotten about that alpha version awkwardly called “Winamp:Mac” because “MacAMP” was already taken by not-Nullsoft https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/winampmac https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/winampmac https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macamp-10-preview-edition https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macamp-10-preview-edition And the Android version which I used briefly around 2010 before getting into Subsonic/D-Sub https://forums.winamp.com/forum/winamp/winamp-for-android/291711-winamp-for-android-current-version-v1-4-15 https://forums.winamp.com/forum/winamp/winamp-for-android/29...
- maximilianburke 2y agoThere once was xmms
- kbenson 2y agoBefore that it was called x11amp, and after that it's been succeeded by a fork that ended up being Audacious, apparently.
- JohnTHaller 2y agoQmmp is still being developed: https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
- m00x 2y agoWho's gonna build TempleAmp?
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoMusic does not sound good on a PC speaker.
- Dwedit 2y agoThere are DOS-based MOD and MP3 players that output to the PC speaker.
- kbenson 2y agoYeah, if you want something similar for other systems, try x11amp. (Yes I know it's not called that anymore and I'm showing my age).
- stuaxo 2y agoIt's Windows only for now. The architecture of Winamp is made of various plugins. WACUP is replacing them bit by bit. Once everything is replaced then porting could be possible, though it's been only built for Windows so there must be a lot of Windows-isms in there.
- Dwedit 2y agoThere have been Linux-based clones of Winamp for a long time, such as XMMS (which directly supports Winamp skins).
- gunapologist99 2y agoXMMS is the O.G. but audacious and Qmmp now also support classic winamp skins.
- RunSet 2y ago5.666 installed and is running well under wine for me.
- pessimizer 2y agoThey seem to be just as cagey about the licensing. Not that there's any obligation for people to be FOSS if they want to give software away, but the intentional avoidance of the question is always instructive. Just say that it's not FOSS, it's fine. > Will it be free ? > Yes WACUP will be free to download & to use. > This is an independent project & due to the amount of time & effort which is involved, I am accepting donations (and other means of support) to help cover my living costs whilst I'm working on getting this developed & released. As at this time, this is a full-time project for me whilst I see where the future will take me & this project.
- babypuncher 2y agoHave you checked out foobar2000? To me, it always felt like the true successor to Winamp.
- leeoniya 2y agoyou'd have a hard time replicating this UI [1] or other winamp skins in foobar2000, so i'm not sure i'd call it a successor except in the sense that it can play anything you throw at it. [1] https://getwacup.com/screenshots/ https://getwacup.com/screenshots/
- babypuncher 2y agoI consider it a successor in that it's compact with an emphasis on user customization and community-designed plugins/components. Like Winamp, most functionality you get out of the box is provided by bundled plugins, and they can be replaced with alternatives. Out of the box, you could certainly customize it to have a similar layout to winamp even if none of the dressing looks at all the same. My layout[1] is certainly very different than Winamp, but still conforms a lot more to the basic shape of Winamp than the usual giant screen-filling squares that are iTunes, Windows Media Player or the Spotify desktop client. 1. https://i.postimg.cc/R0JzVTK8/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/R0JzVTK8/image.png
- koito17 2y agofoobar2000 has been my go-to player on both Windows and Mac for about a decade now. Particularly, I like the dense (yet uncluttered) interface and functionality I take for granted, like selecting a dozen files and editing metadata all at once. A few of my friends complain that the layout "sucks" or foobar lacks functionality they need, but for my use case, it's in a Goldilocks state. With that said, for people used to the functionality of Winamp, I think MusicBee is more likely to be the successor, in terms of out-of-the-box functionality and layout extensibility.
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- xtracto 2y agoI love QMMP ( https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ ). It is compatible with Winamp Skins, supports network playing (shoutcast) and works pretty well in my Linux Mint installations. I may be old fashioned, but man my brain has got so much "muscle memory" on years and years of Winamp use during the 90s ... I cannot live without stuff like equalizers, visualization plugins, Last.FM scrobbing and even automated track "ripping" of radio stations. It makes me so sad the state of current audio players like YouTube Music, Spotify, Tidal and the likes. featurewise they are so... bland. Millenials and GenZs just don't enjoy music the same way I used to enjoy it. Maybe it is because there so much of it now that it doesn't matter so much
- davidgerard 2y agoI was surprised to find how many people still use Winamp now.
- callwhendone 2y agotook them 20 years to figure out that they can't monetize their media player
- TulliusCicero 2y agoLiterally just yesterday I was staring at Winamp's basic visualizer because I was trying to make something similar in my Godot game. I'm still not sure exactly what I'm missing, as I have the "gist" of the visualizer working, but it just doesn't look as smooth as Winamp's. I think I need slight persistence and the little effect with the 'caps' that slowly fall down for each column (right now mine looks too jittery).
- foxandmouse 2y agohave you looked at the ProjectM: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
- ihatehn 2y agoThose might be called peaks or peak indicators: common in audio interfaces to indicate the maximal decibels in each frequency bucket over the last second or so, so that you don't miss seeing a split-second super loud sound.
- swatcoder 2y agoIt may carry downstream license obligations of its own, that prohibit/complicate public release. Relatedly, they might be hoping that one of the people looking at it might be willing to buy out or take over contractual responsibility for any components that can't be relicensed to traditional open source. Basically, parading the source around like a debutante because other channels to find buyers haven't panned out. Or it's just real-world commercial code and is kind of embarassing by the standards of public open source projects.
- RevEng 2y agoI still use it for all of my locally stored MP3s. I haven't seen a music player in a long time that focused on playing music rather than being a media library.
- rocky1138 2y agoThey tried to shove that in at the end but it's easy to one click it away the first time you turn it on
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y agoFoobar2000?
- defrost 2y agoFoobar2K still has an active low key community, it has plugins and a framework that allows tech users to add features and share them, but the main release has the approach I prefer - good display capabilities for media library meta data with flexible layout options .. and it's on the user to populate that meta data with third party tools (or plugins). Primarily it's just a player, potentially it's a lot.
- M95D 2y agoNo, it's not. We still don't have a decent not-bloatware not-crippleware music player in Linux.