Winamp News

[DJ Egg]

Hi Pawel.

Yes, it's taken waaay too long.

More recently caused by a combination of covid, personal tragedies (for me & other team members), funding (a lack thereof), availability of personnel (old and/or new), and just the general state of the world (politics, the human condition, etc.).

Winamp for Windows is alive and well.
We will have a new release in the coming weeks!

[NJK]

we could certainly do with a bit of good news, it's been far to long

[Alrock]

[0x5066]

Winamp 5 for Windows is still an ongoing project.

We've now got a whole new development team!!! Yay!

...And Other Hilarious Jokes You Can Tell Yourself.

i'll believe it when i see it, screenshots necessarily dont prove anything.
and even then, the reputation of winamp is destroyed, i dont think you can salvage it.

[DJ Egg]

O ye of little faith.

Winamp 5.9 will be released soon,
after 3+ years of refactoring,
which included a covid-lockdown hiatus period inbetween two different sets of devs.

[MrSinatra]

O ye of little faith.

Winamp 5.9 will be released soon,
after 3+ years of refactoring,
which included a covid-lockdown hiatus period inbetween two different sets of devs.

i'm a true believer egg.

u know i'm good with bugs, how about making me a beta tester?

has the team looked at wacup for some ideas to copy or include?

[Dr.Flay]

For a company expressing regrets that COVID etc. has slowed down the work on Winamp, it seems to have successfully spent a lot of that time focused on stuff that isn't a new player.

The priorities are screwy when so much time and effort over the past few years has gone into making flaky NFT projects, that could have been time spent on developing a media player.
Priority 1) Invest lots of time and effort into creating a way to make money.
Priority 2) Make a new media player that facilitates priority No.1

Personally I think the priorities should be the other way round.
Make a true and valid replacement for Winamp, that can monetise the services it can access.

Do people use Spotify, itunes or other player because of NFTs, or do they use it because of the actual content in the service ?
It certainly isn't because they look nice or appeal to an artistic eye.

Then there is the crafty way this NFT thing is being marketed as a way to support creators.
Uuuuhhhh....?
We already have an excellent way to support people that make music.
It is called buying their albums, singles and real-world physical merchandise and buying tickets to see them perform live.

As an artist I see more value in putting my work in bandcamp, where the priority is music and serving the buying public what they want.
I see real value in real world items connected to music, such as my rodies jacket from the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon tour in the 70s, worn by the guy that designed all their lighting effects.
I can take the jacket out of the wardrobe and hold it in my hands or even wear it.
I can even (as I did) wear that same jacket at a real Pink Floyd gig, where everyone was jealous.

Compare that to an image of the jacket and the actual jacket not existing but it is called an NFT.

[Myhrddin]

Hmm.. If Bandcamp and/or Patreon could be integrated into the new Winamp that could be interesting. I've supported artists on both for audio-based works.

Was just pondering that after reading the previous post by Dr.Flay.

[Aminifu]

O ye of little faith.

Winamp 5.9 will be released soon,
after 3+ years of refactoring,
which included a covid-lockdown hiatus period inbetween two different sets of devs.

I have plenty of faith, but maybe not a lot more time.

I recently turned 71 and I'm still using version 5.666.3516 released Dec 12 2013, occasionally. Version 5.8 is too crippled for my needs.

My condolences for your unfortunate personal issues. Glad to see you're still hanging in there.

[dynamicradio]

Looking forward to it but will add the website is a little slow/buggy

[DJ Egg]

Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming :-)


^^ Fond memories of the old Winamp Beta Team.
Would love to revive it somehow...

[NJK]

^^ Fond memories of the old Winamp Beta Team.
Would love to revive it somehow...

you mean the "class" of members who joined in 2000?
I believe that a lot of them still keep in touch so social media? or spread the word otherwise around.
Some of them lurk around every now and than and perhaps a former aussie Mod might know a few ways being balled and chained didn't stop them from meeting members back in the USA , i might know a way to contact Kaboon and perhaps Mr Jones knows a few?

[DJ Egg]

Yeah, it was a Beta List with an email address to send bug reports & ideas etc.
and also with access to an ftp server for beta build downloads.

All the mods and devs (past and present, at the time) were on it, including many other forum & irc channel members.

We lost it when AOL shut down the project back in 2013.

Probably just nostalgic wishful thinking on my part, but yeah, those were the days...

[Pawel]

Winamp Beta Team and Winamp Translation Team was great. Great adventure
I have very good memories of it. Now, it is all gone

All changes made to Winamp seems to be not good so far. For most users Winamp is dead and there is no return.
New Winamp Website is the worst piece of code I have ever seen...
Winamp is not released almost 10 years! You only share BETA... You only keep promising new version, new mega-hiper-application... and what user gets? NFT shit...
Ehh, is there a hope for Winamp yet?

Indeed, those were the days...
-Pawel

[0x5066]

All changes made to Winamp seems to be not good so far. For most users Winamp is dead and there is no return.
New Winamp Website is the worst piece of code I have ever seen...
Winamp is not released almost 10 years! You only share BETA... You only keep promising new version, new mega-hiper-application... and what user gets? NFT shit...
Ehh, is there a hope for Winamp yet?

and that is exactly what i meant with "and even then, the reputation of winamp is destroyed, i dont think you can salvage it.", and its not unreasonable to doubt anything coming out in regards to winamp if you've been following this whole thing for quite a long time, it's far too late to regain the trust of people, which is unfortunate but its the path you chose to go down to.

has the team looked at wacup for some ideas to copy or include?

terrible idea, btw, if you still want some sort of rep, i wouldnt do this