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Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by starman@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How is foobar2000 not on Linux?

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

There are other WinAmp-like apps - including ones that can use old WinAmp skins in classic now etc - such as QMMP or Audacious

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, it is on Android...

But the main app is tightly integrated into the win32 api--moving it to linux would basically require a complete rewrite. DEADBEEF is an example of something like this. Parallel values and ideals, but open source.

There are wine-bottled versions out there. Of course, whether or not output is bit perfect would depend on the wine settings. Bottling it, of course, defeats the point of the program being highly modular/extensible.

Also, you have to remember that a lot of proprietary formats have proprietary encoders/decoders that are incompatible with the GPL.

Shipping Windows binaries are much less of a hassle for the dev than than trying to reverse-engineer everything they need or figuring out how to manage dependencies with different licenses across different package managers and distros with different goals.

tl;dl foobar2000 is an excellent sum of its parts; like Winamp was back-in-the-day. You start changing parts and you get a different sum.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Does xmms fit the bill?

Edit: oops. It had its final release in 2007. Shows how much I use Linux for multimedia lately! Around 2000 this was my go-to. I had it hooked up to an Inspiron laptop in my car with a usb game controller to switch tracks and stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS