Winamp News

[synthetiq]

Any news from dev team?
Almost 5 months and no news... nor plans, nor nothing!
Give us some timeline...

[ravermeister]

I too think it is time to tell us wha'ts going on.

a little info like:

+ We are still in Developement phase
+--- Winamp: not started yet (starts in about 2 month)
+---Shoutcast: nearly finish (about 2 month)
or...
+ We don't like you and Winamp anymore
or...
+ Only VIP's get the new Winamp

But just saying nothing is like a kick in the Ass for the users who Contribute and spent time around Winamp...

[musicf8]

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Well, it's not like they have been keeping us in the complete dark, they have specified that the priority is shoutcast right now and they have to change a lot of the winamp code due to AOL proprietary crap in there.

it would be one thing if Winamp didn't work or it had serious bugs that needed to be addressed, but it doesn't tmk, so why the rush? Let them do their thing and be glad that Winamp and Nullsoft wasn't left for dead by AOL.

[A11ectis]

Let them do their thing and be glad that Winamp and Nullsoft wasn't left for dead by AOL.

I'm just kinda bugged that even if Winamp was left for dead by AOL, we would in no different position then we are at now. Sure, Winamp may had been "saved". Has anything come from it though? No accurate news or updates. No signs of Winamp existing outside of these forums and winamp.com. No noticeable gains. Just DrO suddenly appearing again, only with the title "SHOUTcast Team".

[thunderhayes]

Sure, Winamp may had been "saved".

Winamp has left the library. Winamp has been saved.

Bad sci-fi references aside, I think that Winamp does have a future. The question is, when does that future start? We know that there was a lot of stuff AOL slipped in, like the Gracenote CDDB, that can no longer be used. We also know that a new version is Windows is set to be released, later this year if I'm not mistaken. Perhaps the few devs that are able to do work on Winamp are waiting until Win10 to see how different things shape up on it.

[altae]

Well have it your way. But the facts are: Winamp was bought by Radionomy almost 1.5 Years ago. 1.5 years and not a single screenshot, no features list, no changelog, no beta... Basically when asked about it the devs (actually it's only Dr0) repeatedly say that they are stripping out AOL stuff and improving performance. Well performance must be really bad if it takes 1.5 years to improve it. Too bad I have never realized that Winamp has got performance issues...

[GorillaCat]

Well the 1 1/2 year wait is to be expected. DrO is the only one working on the AOL free Winamp, replacing all of the AOL proprietary code with all original code from scratch that will work just as good or better than what it replaced, replacing AOL licensed services, etc...

I gotta admit it would be nice to hear some kind of update and letting us know if we could help in any way, like alpha/beta testing

[Benski]

replacing all of the AOL proprietary code with all original code from scratch that will work just as good or better than what it replaced, replacing AOL licensed services, etc...

There's not any AOL proprietary code in there. Just licensed technology that needs to be replaced or removed. I suspect that the delays are mostly a matter of limited resources and competing priorities.

[GorillaCat]

I suspect that the delays are mostly a matter of limited resources and competing priorities.

My thoughts exactly

[musicf8]

letting us know if we could help in any way, like alpha/beta testing

I think the last time that happened it all fell apart (Winamp3)

[GorillaCat]

I think the last time that happened it all fell apart (Winamp3)

Then it looks like all we can do is wait. Oh well I'm sure it'll be worth it

[riahc4]

Its too bad that AOL didnt remove all their BS and allowed the code to go open source under GPLv2.

It would have made development A LOT faster in this case.

[Pretzel4]

I know, right? Talk about corporate laziness.

[musicf8]

Its too bad that AOL didnt remove all their BS and allowed the code to go open source under GPLv2.

It would have made development A LOT faster in this case.

and from a corporate standpoint how would that benefit the company and the shareholders?

[djpete]

not sure if this is true but I heard from a good source that Winamp are changing their name to Whenamp...