Winamp News

[Victhor]

Haha good one! Ideal for a logo.. "I´m a Whenamp Enthusiast"

[djpete]

Draw it up pls Victhor. :-)

[musicf8]

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

I swear when I first read that I thought... "wait, nullsoft is pulling a RIM and changing their company name to Winamp?"

[Victhor]

Draw it up pls Victhor. :-)

Nahh.. That would be mean.. Let's wait a couple of months and it'll be more suitable hehe. You can re-use the "Radiohnomywinamp!" in the meantime..

[djpete]

You can't blame people getting just a lil frustrated after waiting 1.5 yrs Just a few official updates on where we are at would be very nice, but I am probably asking too much of course. Yep my version works fine but I would like some confidence that Winamp will be continuing and moving forward. Even if I heard something along those lines from someone up the top that would be enough to shut me up and wait even longer. It's the silence that is killing us all. Maybe they just want us to go away? Who knows. Great Marketing Dept in any case...lol

[Pretzel4]

I know - I have to keep reminding myself that I have better things to do than check for latest versions of my software. Hopefully it will be released this year like they said.

[Koogle]

most of the issues raised in the last few posts are all due to having a skinned ui and not conforming to the OS UI design. dropping skinning would make it so much more simpler for whoever is maintaining Winamp to leverage the OS support for all of the things which then makes docking, aero snap, scaling, etc a lot lot simpler to do (often with the OS automatically doing it) and just make Winamp more consistent with the Windows theme.

well considering windows theme/ux has gone to shit since win8 anyway

really don't see why that would be an issue.. i'm all for seeing multiplatform amp ..the transition to linux desktop would require one less piece of software to go looking for.. at least if its any good.

[musicf8]

well considering windows theme/ux has gone to shit since vista anyway

FTFY

i'm all for seeing multiplatform amp ..the transition to linux desktop would require one less piece of software to go looking for.. at least if its any good.

there was xmms, but I would think OSX would be the next desktop target after Windows for winamp, depending how well winamp will do now

[GorillaCat]

OSX would be the next desktop target after Windows for winamp

OSX does have a larger following and user base than linux plus it may bring some sync features(among other OSX things) to Winamp through iTunes.

What would it be called? Macamp, iAmp, or just Winamp for Mac?

[musicf8]

What would it be called? Macamp, iAmp, or just Winamp for Mac?

I guess Macamp or Macast?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAmp

[Pretzel4]

What would it be called? Macamp, iAmp, or just Winamp for Mac?

I have a feeling iAmp would be the most likely. I hate how Apple puts the "i" in front of everything - I just reminds you that they're watching you.

[kissds]

How can you test the closed beta version?

[Pretzel4]

How can you test the closed beta version?

How do test the beta version of...the one they are developing right now?
Or the last released? I don't quite follow you.

[DrO]

I guess Macamp or Macast?

it would be called "Winamp for Mac" as that's what was the name of the actually released software and the fact people aren't referring to it shows it didn't fare very well at all. so desoite all those calls for a Mac version and basically no one used it when it was provided...

[MrSinatra]

to be fair, the mac version was beta, stripped to the bone, and didn't work well, and came out well after all those calls were made, so by then iTunes had more than caught up.

in other words, there was not, as yet, a reason to use that beta instead of iTunes.