News Winamp owner deletes 'Open Source' repository after a bumpy month on GitHub

[Admin]

The Llama Group takes down its Winamp GitHub repository after less than a month amid concerns that it doesn't own all of the project's source code

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[GenericUser]

It would take a massive investment and a lot of time to clean up Winamp’s back-end for an open-source release, but would anyone do it, knowing they wouldn’t make back a cent?

With how long it's been around and how popular it's been, you know there's someone who would do it. There are people who go to crazy lengths to preserve/resurrect their favorite software all the time.

 

[Pierce2623]

Like what does Winamp do that Kodi or something else can’t do? I don’t get the big deal. I used Winamp back when it was modern but now I don’t really understand the draw.

 

[Jame5]

In it's original form it was self contained, extremely lightweight, fast, and the UI was very easy to use.

Like launched from a 5400rpm hdd that was also running the OS in less than a second fast.

Most modern applications depend on SSDs to hide their launch times for their bloated software, or have a call home in them, etc.

Winamp just worked. (tm)

Audacious seems the closest in spirit to the original winamp, and it's FOSS and cross platform. I use it on my linux desktop systems.

For my WIndows desktop my current player choice is Foobar2000 for local media playback. It is also a peer from the Winamp days.