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Winamp oh winamp…
You still trying to exist even after so much other music player out there like AIMP, QMMP, CLEMENTINE, ELISA, etc…
Maybe back in my childhood days you’re king…but nowadays nah…You know you only need one period to end a sentence, right?
Winamp you were relevant for just a moment and then… well, back you go to cute memes about the olden times
For those that don’t know, they are going to release something called FreeLlama which might be FOSS (no public info as to what the license actually will be).
Winamp says that they still want to control ‘what features’ go into winamp and it’ll remain proprietary. I assume they really just want people to contribute interesting things to FreeLlama and then put the contribution into Winamp.
The license probably won’t be FOSS because they probably aren’t going to want anyone contributing to own copyright to the code that they are committing.
It is odd because FOSS contributors aren’t really known for being OK with this sort of thing in the past, so I doubt they’re going to get much out of it. Maybe it’s a Hail Mary and they’ll end up blaming people for not freely giving up their devtime and creativity to a company that wants to make money on it.
And now I’m curious how Winamp actually makes money.
**Edit
Just went to the website, it’s a subscription Spotify knock off now. Still doesn’t explain who are the people that actually pay for this.
The same ones who still pay for AOL
I wasn’t too worried about it tbh
This does not whip the llama’s ass.
WinAmp making their source code ‘source available’ instead of open source, and then dropping this phrase:
The release of the Winamp player’s source code will enable developers from all over the world to actively participate in its evolution and improvement.
Yeah I don’t think so
It’s simple. They want the free labor provided by the community with the ability to keep all of the profits they can potentially reap from said labor.
It’s a little bit sad to me that Winamp collapsed just a year or two before smart phones really took off because it’s interface and customizability were pretty well suited to the app format of smart phones. And now that the code and design are owned by a company that’s being run by greedy morons there is likely never going to be anything resembling the original available for the phone app market.
I just use VLC on my phone these days. It works, no bullshit ads, and no glitches.
I personally use Metro. I’m a sucker for that material you look.
its* interface and customizability were
OMG, I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE APOSTROPHE WHEN I VOICE TO TEXT MY COMMENT!!! IM THE ABSOLUTE WORST!
VLC is always respectable. I’ve been using AIMP. It lets you import folders as playlists and there’s not an ad in sight, so it won me over.
Why would they call the open version ‘openllama’? Isn’t llama that ai model?
“why would they call the AI llama? Isn’t that an animal?”
Because it has ‘llm’ in it? Makes way more sense than a music player formerly known as Winamp
they always had a llama as a mascot and as part of their slogan
Not always, since the Llama MP3 that came preloaded was introduced somewhere in 1.xx, yet that’s still long enough (from 1998 to 2011 or so).
“Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass”
The OG llama. Before The Emperor’s New Groove, before Tina in Napoleon Dynamite and before llm’s.
Not before SimCity’s llamas tho.
Or Jeff Minter.
That’s just a lie by the secret llama world government to distract us from whipping their asses.
Not before llamas though. They be the most og.
I mean… What contribution would this code actually be to the audio player world at this point?
Does anything else in the audio player world really whip llama asses?
I don’t think that you could reproduce the llama ass whipping feature even with all the code available.
I still miss the visualzers.
No need to, check out ProjectM
Love projectm!
I love it on the surface. It sadly has major issues with scaling and the window controls not allowing you to drag it about (at least on Wayland).
it’s immersive
And it’s available on Linux!
YOINK
Ha ha ha, playing your cards close. Only three steps away from profit.
Guess I’ll stick with foobar!
Same… I’ve had Foobar set up the way I like for about a decade now.
Been wanting to flip to the x64 version, but USF components (N64 music) doesn’t play.
Why would you want to switch? Legitimate question. 32-bit version seems to be working just fine, I doubt a music player needs the extra juice a 64-bit version provides.
Same reason for switching every other app to 64-bit I suppose; logical evolution.
I absolutely don’t need to though. Especially for something light weight like a music player.
Milkdrop even works in foobar!
Even outside of this obviously either clueless or AI-fabricated post, I’m still not convinced that it’ll be OSS, in the way that we expect it to be. The phrasing used in announcement leads me to believing that they’ll use some license, that allows them draconian control over the source. It’ll be “open” as in being able to see it, but not really fork, or meaningfully contribute.
Reverse engineer it.
Make an open source version that does the same.
Ai now makes it possible, since ai generated content is not copyright able
There’s countless desktop music players out there, so there’s no real need to reverse engineer it
