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What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010)

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TL;DR: The developers of XMMS gave the domain to a company which sponsored many individual developers of the XMMS program. A while after development had slowed down, the company unceremoniously sold the domain to a another company which was adding fake links and ads on many such old and trusted sites.

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When you place a tangible value on trust, trust becomes a commodity to be bought and sold.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432186

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TIL.

Nothing gives me that old computer feeling (that first time chatting to a stranger, first time online, modem sounds) more than looking at WinAmp and XMMS. Hard to understand perhaps but there was a sense of magic at first when you were chatting with someone, in a chat room, you played music and were writing a document. Idk, to me it felt very special at the time.

”Uh-oh”

ICQ!

> Idk, to me it felt very special at the time.

Of course it did, you were a kid :-)

Perhaps, still, I think even my father must have felt something when we went from a modem (don't pick up the phone!) to "unlimited" ADSL. I'll ask him :)

My music player is Audacious (itself a fork of XMMS I believe) with the classic WinAmp skin. Using this just makes me happy whereas using more modern apps or streaming services just make me feel confused.

I was chekcing the wikipedia and...

  Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player, which itself is a fork of XMMS.[...] Before version 3.0, Audacious used the GTK 2.x toolkit by default. Partial support for GTK3 was added in version 2.5,and Audacious 3.0 has full support for GTK3 and uses it by default. However, dissatisfied with the evolution of GTK3, the Audacious team chose to revert to GTK2 starting with the 3.6 release, with long-term plans of porting to Qt. Since August 8, 2018, the official website has HTTPS enabled site-wide and GTK3 support was dropped completely. As version 4.0, Audacious is using Qt as its primary toolkit but the GTK 2.x support is still available.

That's quite a development trip!

I am using Audacious every day on a Gentoo Linux (I can only assume it's a fairly recent version) and it still has a choice old-school 'skinned' UI mode that loads classic xmms skins (that can make it look just like old Winamp) and there's double-pixel mode too so it's not as tiny on modern desktops.. it's probably not for everyone but I love it!

I wrote a music playing bot/radio thing with XMMS that could remotely queue songs via a simple web interface and people would join in via Icecast.

My first open source contribution ever was for XMMS codebase, where I implemented two remote functions to get playqueue position for a playlist position and vice versa.

Thank you for the trip down the memory lane!

For MacOS - still has WinAmp skin support.

https://re-amp.ru/

xmms.org seems to be restored to as what it was. Last update 2007. Memories...

XMMS2 is a bit more recent: https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel/releases/tag/0.9.1

> python2 was deprecated ffmpeg had about infinite amount of releases and API changes

Yay. Why do i need python for a music player ?

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