This is bullshit.
Until I see an OSI approved license, it’s not open source.
I am so sick of these rubbish licensing efforts calling themselves Open Souce. Fair code is a new atrocity.
There is no repository link. There is no open source code.
The Winamp announcement linked to in the article never says “Open source”, that’s the article writer not understanding the difference.
Tbf,
opening up its source code to enable collaborative development
sounds already close to open-source, though it isn’t necessarily, as the licence that is used matters.
Even CLA + GPL/MIT would suffice
https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code This page says they aren’t actually making the code open source until September 24, 2024, a date that has not happened yet…
Source-available ≠ open source
What’s the licence? It doesn’t sound like “open source” and sounds more like “source available”.
BSA
Bullshit Source Available
“Hey Internet, come do development on our product for free so we can monetize it. TIA”
It annoys me, too, because there’s various open-source projects already, like QMMP and Audacious.
Are you complaining that they’re going open source?
Most of the complaining I see is that they’re not going open source, they’re going “source available”
They just want more people being pushed to their NFT marketplace while getting free development. It’s astounding they are getting so much good press.
I went to the mall today and it felt like the early 2000s again
Look I know it is barely on topic but that shit was so wild I had to
What happend
IG shopping malls haven’t changed very much in 20 years
Where?
Lol sorry, I meant the fashion! Everything on sale and what people were wearing. … I don’t leave my house a lot lol
I wish foobar2000 was open source too. Maybe this will encourage the creator to do so.
Agree, also I never encountered other software so flexible in user interface. Every feature can be placed with panels everywhere to your own liking. The whole app interface is like a canvas. Took me a while to get the hang of it but after that …
Wished other apps were this flexible.
The sad thing about this is that 90% of the skins available for WinAmp since then are gone. You can’t find them to download them anymore.
There is Winamp skin museum - https://skins.webamp.org/
Oh, my trusty old Wolfplayer is on there too. Brings me back…
Now I can add a Plex integration. Finally my CD collection can return to winamp
What’s wrong with Plexamp?
It does not whip the llamas ass.
I’m not certain I want to know what this means. I kinda love the idea that this is just an idiom that is or was common. Is it modern? Ancient? Could be either, could be both!
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/winamp-it-really-whips/
This was loaded in the winamp queue when you installed winamp. Take a listen.
The desktop app ain’t great and I want milk drop
Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.
Mesa + DXVK/WineD3D/VKD3D/Gallium-Nine.
This really whips the llamas ass.
Why did they wait so long
It really whips the llama’s ass.
-RIP Wesley Willis
The lammas ass gets whipped again
I wonder what the aim is. Trying to get relevant again? I haven’t used Winamp in many many years. I’m a Spotify / YouTube kind of guy now. I drank the koolaid. It’s a little late and things like VLC have a pretty solid offering now, without all gotchas that this will have (such as you apparently can’t call it Winamp and will have to sign away a sacrificial child to actually get the code)
VLC is a video player. While it of course can play audio files, it is not intended for managing a library of them like winamp. I do agree that they’ve missed the boat though. I still buy CD’s and actually have a digital library of music that I own. As such, I never stopped using winamp. But I don’t know a single other person in real life that doesn’t just use a streaming service for their music.
What does this mean for WACUP ?