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At first I was… wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!

But then I went through the Github issues (because, 6 hours since first commit and already 5 issues open?). As someone else put it, “This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i’ve seen to date.”. The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a dumpster fire. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter’s “open sourcing” of its recommendation algorithm they did last year. Not sure if I should make coffee or popcorn in the morning.

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Yeah it’s not open source at all. This is source-available.

Also, they uploaded the source to Shoutcast’s proprietary stuff: https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11

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The latter hints that it’s an error and not a mistake, and maybe it’ll get fixed, and maybe even with a better license.

That said, there are a few “winamps” I can install right now (audacious, qmmp, xmms if I bother to compile it and gtk-1.2, bmp if I bother to compile it).

Something like milkdrop I’d love, but … nah.

And nah, getting back to MPD with an ed-like “client” (script with mpc) that jumps to the right entry and position by number, by name regex, by “:”-separated time format.

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And some copyrighted shit from Dolby. Granted, header files only.

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27 years of tech debt will do that to you ;)

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