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Wish they'd open source the thing already. Surely it can't be pulling the holding company much revenue at this point; I don't think you can even buy the premium version anymore. Just let me get a proper Linux port and I'll drop Audacious in a heartbeat.

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Many projects use more licensed commercial code than you’d imagine and are not able to open source.

And later versions of Winamp bundled or included popular third-party plugins and features too. IIRC things like Jump-to-File and the Media library were originally written by third-parties and were license-to or acquired-by Nullsoft... I think? Then there’s probably some stuff AOL added too.

At this point wouldn't it make sense to just rewrite it from scratch? I'm sure there are projects already doing this (take a look at this one for example! https://webamp.org/)

They could, I'm sure.

I mean again, I'm currently using Audacious, which even supports Winamp 2 skins, so it's pretty much the same aesthetically. And it works well enough for my workflow (which is that I rarely ever actually look at my media player--I just want to queue something to play and have it run it my system tray, with Play/Pause available through MPRIS or media keys).

I wouldn't be surprised if they had lost the source.

Highly unlikely as they just released an update

Winamp 5.666 and 5.8 have been out for years now. This blog is trying to pass them off as something new, which they aren't.

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