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Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite
possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC), Frankie wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite
possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

What's worst is that, they tried to twist open source: No forking.

It's not just upsetting third party companies, but it's upsetting the entire open source community - which roughly, is the world.

Well, fork you!

Good thing it's already been forked by many people.

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10 JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC), Frankie wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

What's worst is that, they tried to twist open source: No forking.

It's not just upsetting third party companies, but it's upsetting the entire open source community - which roughly, is the world.

Well, fork you!

Good thing it's already been forked by many people.

WACUP is still good: https://getwacup.com/

Hopefully, the developer got the source code. ;)
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC),
Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after >uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite
possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming >inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

I have winamp but haven't been using it. Is it likely my version, years
old, will continue to work as it did? Only asking about "likely",
don't expect a promise.

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:19:37 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC),
Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo >>
The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after >>uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite >>possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming >>inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

I have winamp but haven't been using it. Is it likely my version, years
old, will continue to work as it did? Only asking about "likely",
don't expect a promise.

my version 5.666 still works fine on windows 11.
YMMV
Me

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:06:15 -0600, james
moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:19:37 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC), >>Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo >>>
The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after >>>uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite >>>possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming >>>inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

I have winamp but haven't been using it. Is it likely my version, years >>old, will continue to work as it did? Only asking about "likely",
don't expect a promise.

my version 5.666 still works fine on windows 11.
YMMV
Me

Great. Thanks.

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On Mon, 10/21/2024 6:55 PM, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:06:15 -0600, james
moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:19:37 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC),
Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after >>>> uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite
possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming >>>> inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/ >>>

I have winamp but haven't been using it. Is it likely my version, years >>> old, will continue to work as it did? Only asking about "likely",
don't expect a promise.

my version 5.666 still works fine on windows 11.
YMMV
Me

Great. Thanks.

Well, you know about the Properties : Compatibility thing.

If you were to have any problem with it, you can try setting
the Compatibility, to a previous OS version.

Not every program will have compatibility issues. My copy of
Hello World for example, would not benefit from a modified
environment. But multimedia programs stand pretty good
odds of needing help. A thing like VLC doesn't seem to be
too bad for this. I think I may have had to fiddle Audacity
audio editor before, to make it work.

Paul

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james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:19:37 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:55:49 -0000 (UTC), >Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo >>
The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after >>uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite >>possibly, not all of it theirs.

The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming >>inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

I have winamp but haven't been using it. Is it likely my version, years >old, will continue to work as it did? Only asking about "likely",
don't expect a promise.

my version 5.666 still works fine on windows 11.
YMMV
Me

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
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In what Way?
Me

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james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?
Me

"... include bug fixes, updates of existing features & most importantly new features..."
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james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?

Updated plugins, etc.
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:49:38 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?
Me

"... include bug fixes, updates of existing features & most importantly new features..."

That doesn't tell me in what way it is "better" just that it has had
some of the 'broken' things fixed. Where for me winamp is already
working just fine, without any apparent 'broken' pieces that need to
be fixed.
My concern for using WACUP is A; the 64bit version can not use the
plugins, and B; these are prelim and beta versions of a program that
when finally ready for the big world may\will be a pay for program.
Free is always better than pay.
Running it the second thing that struck me was.... it played the last
song in the list first, then just stopped playing. I had to manually
start the first song to get it to play. The first was the windows
antivirus telling me it was an unsafe installer program and was I sure
I wanted to run it!
Me

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:48:47 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?

Updated plugins, etc.

As I am running the 64bit version, and it doesn't run the plugins at
all I am not sure that would qualify as "better"
ME

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james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:48:47 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?

Updated plugins, etc.

As I am running the 64bit version, and it doesn't run the plugins at
all I am not sure that would qualify as "better"
ME

Don't use the 64-bit version and read carefully in https://getwacup.com/preview_x64/ web page.
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:49:26 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:48:47 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?

Updated plugins, etc.

As I am running the 64bit version, and it doesn't run the plugins at
all I am not sure that would qualify as "better"
ME

Don't use the 64-bit version and read carefully in https://getwacup.com/preview_x64/ web page.

Again.... I am not seeing what would qualify as "Better" , Wacup seems
to do what winamp does..... and nothing I have seen with it makes it
'Better'
Me

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james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:49:26 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:48:47 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:50:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

WACUP is better: https://getwacup.com
--

In what Way?

Updated plugins, etc.

As I am running the 64bit version, and it doesn't run the plugins at
all I am not sure that would qualify as "better"
ME

Don't use the 64-bit version and read carefully in https://getwacup.com/preview_x64/ web page.

Again.... I am not seeing what would qualify as "Better" , Wacup seems
to do what winamp does..... and nothing I have seen with it makes it
'Better'
Me

Better MIDI, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, 669, etc.
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