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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. (about.winamp.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There isn't much point of that, XMMS was basically that — a faithful reproduction of Winamp for Linux between 1997-2007. Since then there's been a ton of forks — XMMS2, BMP, Youki, Audacious etc.

Audacious is still around, sort of (last release a year ago) and it's basically Winamp, it can use Winamp skins and has plugins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure all of those programs are great, but in the modern world I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't ever just use VLC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The only reason I can think of is all of the skins for winamp like players

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

XMMS! I was trying to remember what I started using when I switched to Linux. Couldn't leave my favourite theme behind. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any of them compatible with Winamp plugins? Because that's my reason for sticking to the past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Can't use Windows plugins, it has its own.