It really whips the llama’s ass.
Millennials will see this and say “hell yeah”
I smashed that upvote button so hard. Whip that llamas ass
Hell yeah!
Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times… Real good times.
Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.
The best part was the commercially “exploited” parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.
There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.
You could actually set it to change skin on every song in playlist. Great feature if you were skin hoarder like me.
For anyone wanting to get a nostalgia hit: Winamp Skin Museum
Edit: Spelling
If you need a quick Winamp fix -> https://webamp.org/
Next can we get ICQ?
Uh oh!
Fuck I forgot my number
I still remember mine somehow.
I remember mine, but it’s cause mine is only 7 digits
I still remember mine too. I wonder what useful information I could remember if I didn’t remember shit like this?
Mine is 8, so I was behind you I guess.
I joined in the first month, and was still in the 8 million range. ICQ exploded when it launched.
When did it launch? I remember making my account at sometime in 1999.
It really whips the llama’s ass
OK, I’m confused.
I have seen 2 different articles that claim WinAmp is NOt going to be open sourced. At least in the common sense. But rather kind - of - sort - of - but - not - really.
Here is a https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/winamp-is-not-going-open-source-heres-what-it-is-doing-and-why/ ZDNET article about it.
They are open sourcing, just keeping a proprietary license on it. Yes, it’s weird, but it is not unheard of. The Unreal game engine’s entire source code is open, anyone can read or submit changes to it. Even make changes and distribute said changes. But it’s still a proprietary product owned by Epic Games, and commercial use is strictly controlled under the licensing terms. Open doesn’t mean Free (as in beer), or Freedom (licensing). Those are three different things. It is just that people have associated the term open source with the entire Free and Open Source Software philosophy. But they aren’t the same thing.
ZDNET is wrong, Winamp is open sourcing their code. The article is obtuse and refuses to elaborate or provide reasons about their claim that Winamp isn’t open sourcing.
it cannot be open source with that level of corporate control
Why?
It not only can, we have several examples of corporate products that are open source precisely like this with this level of control.
Open source requiring a specific license is a decades old debate that continues to this day. We have like a million different licenses and people argue and bicker all the time about which ones are Truly Open source ™ and which ones aren’t. It’s all legalese that make most people have headaches. But there’s one crux on this whole thing: Open source does not preclude commercialization of software. This is why people are proposing the term source-available software. Winamp might go for that model and the debate would still go on.
There is a different term for that:source-available
It is NOT open source. There is a meaning behind that specific term and they are said it in their announcement that they are only “opening up its source”. Don’t use that term for this.
A lot of companies are starting to do this most people are referring to it as source available rather than open source. I’m kind of surprised I don’t just turn it into an electron app and get it over with.
Wow this brings me back. What is winamp used for these days?
Whipping the llamas music.
To play music.
Like, ripped mp3s like the old days?
Nothing wrong with how it was done back then, I still do the same today
No nothing, I just didn’t think anyone did this anymore. I don’t even have any CDs anymore
I refuse to pay for a subscription where I don’t own the music. CD’s, records, tapes - I still do it. I do need to start ripping mp3’s off YouTube more though - just a matter of time before shit starts disappearing
So, where can I get a fresh copy of Limewire?
Screw limewire, soulseek is the way, an endless sea of perfectly organised music libraries, you’ll find what you want and stuff you didn’t know you needed.
All good until “for windows” fuck that.
It’s right there in the name . WINamp
isnt XMMS a port of something ?
That’s what I was thinking.
I’m not sure what can be brought to Winamp that’ll make it better through open source. Maybe it’ll be a default alternative for Linux distros? That’d be cool.
But, Winamp to me is just a program I use that plays video game soundtracks that are different formats aren’t MP3 or WAV. Like Super Nintendo with .SPC for example.
AIMP has predominantly taken the mantle on my system as default media player, it’s just feature rich and long won me over the day my PC suddenly rebooted and the song I was playing was just on pause with that program! Winamp couldn’t do this, whenever I re-opened it, song stopped playing entirely, gotta play it again.
Just like everyone else, at one point I used WinAMP, then when they started the upgrade to new and significantly more hardware demanding version I switched to Aimp, which to this day I use as mobile application. Am no longer on Windows, but I still miss those applications. VLC simply doesn’t fit that role of a music player.
Open sourcing WinAMP means we’ll probably get a ported version for Linux, which I am very much looking forward to.
While xmms is dead there’s qmmp. Supports xmms and winamp 2 skins.
I used both and things felt off. WinAMP of old was no nonsense player. Once version 3.x came it wasn’t as popular and it was much more of a polished product but came with bunch of features that weren’t needed in my opinion.
Before finding MediaMonkey Winamp was all I used. I like sticking to things I understand well.
