[HN Gopher] Winamp 5.9
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       Winamp 5.9
        
       Author : distantsounds
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2022-07-29 17:14 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (forums.winamp.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (forums.winamp.com)
        
       | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
       | I thought this was another one of the fan-patches until I saw
       | that the Direct Download URL was from download.nullsoft.com. This
       | is official!
        
       | jraph wrote:
       | It would be good to remove the trackers from this URL.
        
         | alrlroipsp wrote:
         | Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer ?
        
       | ProAm wrote:
       | version 2.91 is all you need.
        
       | no_time wrote:
       | >Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt
       | 
       | huhhh I thought they had their own in-house tracker parser. I
       | always had the impression that some songs just sound better in
       | winamp compared to any other player I've tried.
        
         | HeckFeck wrote:
         | I read they were swapping some components for FOSS equivalents,
         | so perhaps it is a result of that.
        
           | no_time wrote:
           | Kind of a bummer to hear they are giving up on theirs (if it
           | even exists lol)
           | 
           | But at the same time I wouldn't expect the people that put
           | out that abomination of a frontpage to even know what's an xm
           | file.
        
             | einr wrote:
             | WinAmp's mod player was wildly inaccurate anyway, so it's
             | probably not a great loss. IIRC it specifically didn't
             | support a lot of IT features (instrument filter envelopes,
             | etc)
        
       | squeaky-clean wrote:
       | > but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the
       | entire project from VS2008 to VS2019
       | 
       | Worst I've ever had to do was 2008 to 2015 but damn I don't envy
       | those teams.
        
         | xeromal wrote:
         | That is a monster migration. I wonder how big the migration
         | compatibility list was. I haven't used VS since about 2017, but
         | in some ways I miss it. It's big and unwieldy, but very
         | powerful and helpful and was a staple of my 20s as a software
         | dev.
        
       | flatiron wrote:
       | Does it still have the "it whips the lamas ass" track?
        
         | fngdbfsv wrote:
         | confirmed. plays as soon as you launch winamp for the first
         | time.
         | 
         | runs well in wine too. I'd say it's like 1998 here, listening
         | to the new pornographers on winamp if not for the flac and wine
         | and linux
        
         | chrisco255 wrote:
         | Hasn't the llamas ass been kicked enough at this point? At what
         | point do we report Winamp for animal abuse?
        
         | huhtenberg wrote:
         | That should've been taken out as soon as they sold to AOL.
        
       | dleslie wrote:
       | How is this any better than WACUP?
        
         | recursive wrote:
         | It's standalone.
        
       | warning26 wrote:
       | It's too bad they won't just open source it...
        
         | hk1337 wrote:
         | XMMS is the closest we had, I don't think it's kept up anymore.
        
           | einpoklum wrote:
           | I'd say it has effectively been succeeded by Audacious:
           | 
           | https://audacious-media-player.org/
           | 
           | ... which is under active development:
           | 
           | https://audacious-media-
           | player.org/news/53-audacious-4-2-rel...
        
           | olyjohn wrote:
           | There's another open-source media player that will let you
           | load up WinAmp skins. But heck if I can remember what it was,
           | or find it. It looks nothing like WinAmp without the skins
           | though...
           | 
           | While I was searching, I did find this though.
           | http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ QMMP seems to be a QT-based
           | player that looks like WinAmp.
           | 
           | And I can't find a WinAmp clone that works on MacOS, either.
           | I'm dying for one since I have to use a Mac for work, and
           | that's when I do most of my listening. I love having the
           | little tiny player up in the corner. Visible, accessible, but
           | out of the way because it's so small and you can shade the
           | window!
           | 
           | EDIT: I found it! Audacious supports WinAmp skins also!
        
             | ugh123 wrote:
             | Try this: https://desktop.webamp.org/
        
         | goldenkey wrote:
         | Yeah, you would think it would have been leaked already..
         | Winamp is a cultural artifact!
        
           | no_time wrote:
           | It was in fact leaked.
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379346
        
             | goldenkey wrote:
             | Oh wow. Is that source code from a newish version? (I don't
             | see any files in the main root.)
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | Dwedit wrote:
       | I really wish they could just open-source this.
        
         | rschachte wrote:
         | https://getwacup.com/
        
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