Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
It doesn't say what license they are going to use, so it may not be open source. The wording is very weaselly.
This is news from September and linked blog post from December. Nothing happened.
Not a serious suggestion, but I can confirm that WACUP does at least have no noticeable issues using WINE
With this initiative to open the source code,
The wording is quite evasive. They didn't say directly "With this initiative to open source" but "to open the source code." They do however mentioned collaboration and contribution.
I'm quite confused what license they would use.
wtf, winamp was closed source? What was I thinking running that back in the day!?!
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.
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.
The only reason I can think of is all of the skins for winamp like players
What about the legendary music visualisation we could make it standalone at last ?
Can they open source their original code? IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMAS ASS!!!
