WinAmp was already reborn as Wacup though?
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Loved Winamp. But over the years how many reborn announcements did it have?
"To take on streaming"
In a partnership with Deezer, Winamp will be reborn as a completely new player with its own premium subscription service, with Deezer providing the white-label streaming technology and licensed catalog.
So, basically a nostalgic skin for Deezer.
kodi has visualisations
sorry winamp
These owners are just whatever lawyers have gotten ahold of the WinAMP trademark.
Anybody remember when they attempted to push out the source code for WinAMP on GitHub and failed miserably? Or included NFTs?
Will be reborn? If they had actually released Winamp under a real open source licence, it would have been reborn years ago! A bit late for it now!
I have the feeling the new version's tagline will be something along the lines of
"WINAMP, IT REALLY SUCKS THE LLAMA'S CORPORATE COCK!"
Who needs it? Audacious + Winamp skin.
AIMP for life. Sure, it stands on the shoulders of llamas, but it's unbeatable. And it's got a native Linux version now, too!
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It's coming back with a monthly subscription.
It's dead already, then. WinAmp's heritage was providing a free audio player. I was looking forward to a refreshed build to test out, but I won't pay for it.
There are a dozen better, free, maintained, and actively developed players out there. This is less than too little, and far too late. Those of us who used winamp back when it was still activly developed will continue to have nostalgia for it, but I bet it will be DOA to most of the target audience.
I've only kept up on news for it because I was hoping it would be reborn true to itself. I have zero interest in it as a subscription model.
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i hope "under no circumstances should you Check new versions of Winamp at startup" option continues to work
Winamp was great back then, but now anything respecting my folder sorting and supporting Milkdrop works for me.
foobar2000 and mpv wreck the everloving shit out of it already
Winamp revived: nostalgia tickled!
Subscription warning! Go fuck yourself!
WINAMP! It really licks the llama's ass!!
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The MP3 era’s favorite player returns with a monthly subscription.
The sub-subtitle says enough that you should just look elsewhere.
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Foobar2000 it is then
It's coming back with a monthly subscription.
All I want is a simple, nostalgic media player.
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🏴☠️
Fuck Winamp then.
Again. Anyone remember Shoutcast?
Anyway, the old versions of Winamp work just fine for playing your local library.
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After the "open source" fakeout that was nothing more than them trying to get free work without actually opening the source code for anyone to use, Winamp and Llamasoft or whatever their name is can get bent by an elephant.
I won't even use an old copy in Wine at this point. They fucked up repeatedly and now nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Get fucked, losers of Winamp.
Qobuz + jellyfin > winamp plus
Remember when it was reborn to sell NFT?
WACUP for the win
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I'm still using the latest winamp, a new winamp would be great but I'm never paying a subscription for music.
More like its corpse will be reanimated in an attempt to scam people using nostalgia. Wouldn't be the first time this trick has been pulled, remember when LimeWire got resurrected to shill a scam cryptocoin?
I loved Winamp years ago. And I love nostalgia but not like this. I will just stick with my Navidrome instance and its tons of open source free clients.
No, it won't.
Didn't they try to open source it only to nope out at the last second?
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They finally released a Mac version. Still doesn’t support m4a out of the box. Dragged it to the bin so fast.
Where are my fellow SoundJam MP users at? I still miss the Eclipse visualizer.
Lame. I really want a super powerful local music player. One that takes iTunes smart playlists to the next level. One that can sync to an equally powerful mobile app. There's enough streaming, give it a rest.
I read the title in the voice of one of those crazy prophets
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