Winamp's death greatly exaggerated
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http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 Thanks, Simey
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http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 Thanks, Simey
Good to hear. WinAmp continues to be my favourite media player on Windows. I've tried the new WMP ver. 10, and although it's improved considerably it still feels to unwieldy for me. The WinAmp Media Library just works: it's powerful but much leaner. And iTunes, oh god what a monster. And I hate that it comes bundled with QuickTime.
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http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 Thanks, Simey
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http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 Thanks, Simey
I read that and thought "What a weak counter". He says "While yes, our team might be a bit lean at the moment, we aren't the starved, skeleton-thin relics we've been rumored to be." and then goes into an anecdote. The rest of the message does not touch on the subject again. So, they are lean and... and what? Where is "we secured funding for another year" or "AOL is committed to us"* or "we've hired three new brilliant coders to take Winamp forward" etc. It doesn't fill me with confidence. Seriously, Winamp was great but it's time has come and gone. The founders have left and a skeleton team remains just doing what is now a J.O.B. They should move on, take their Winamp experience and create a new free, open audio-player that tackles the challenges of iTunes and kin. Winamp is on life support then, waiting for the court order to terminate life. * Which they most certainly are not, they are not even committed to more core business like broadband and they are laying people off left right and center. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 Thanks, Simey
http://www.gedikian.com./[^] Too bad that management issues sometime break a great bunch of guyz doing great things. :( Salil Khedkar [^]
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I read that and thought "What a weak counter". He says "While yes, our team might be a bit lean at the moment, we aren't the starved, skeleton-thin relics we've been rumored to be." and then goes into an anecdote. The rest of the message does not touch on the subject again. So, they are lean and... and what? Where is "we secured funding for another year" or "AOL is committed to us"* or "we've hired three new brilliant coders to take Winamp forward" etc. It doesn't fill me with confidence. Seriously, Winamp was great but it's time has come and gone. The founders have left and a skeleton team remains just doing what is now a J.O.B. They should move on, take their Winamp experience and create a new free, open audio-player that tackles the challenges of iTunes and kin. Winamp is on life support then, waiting for the court order to terminate life. * Which they most certainly are not, they are not even committed to more core business like broadband and they are laying people off left right and center. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
I don't get why Winamp isn't just dumped out as open source, the way the old Netscape 4 source was - then hopefully the OS community can do what they have for Firefox -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
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I don't get why Winamp isn't just dumped out as open source, the way the old Netscape 4 source was - then hopefully the OS community can do what they have for Firefox -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I was going to say "AOL put Winamp out to pasture in OS for free? Yeah right!" and then remembered they effectively created the Mozilla foundation and look now. So yeah, good idea. The Winamp Foundation. Maybe Winzilla. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I was going to say "AOL put Winamp out to pasture in OS for free? Yeah right!" and then remembered they effectively created the Mozilla foundation and look now. So yeah, good idea. The Winamp Foundation. Maybe Winzilla. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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...or, hmm, AmpZilla... yeah...
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things..."I'm glad we didn't go to school together. You'd be the kid that takes my brilliant but whispered idea, put some spin on it and say it louder so that the teacher and cool kids hear it. So yeah, AmpZilla. So much better than WinZilla. :sigh: ;P regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I'm glad we didn't go to school together. You'd be the kid that takes my brilliant but whispered idea, put some spin on it and say it louder so that the teacher and cool kids hear it. So yeah, AmpZilla. So much better than WinZilla. :sigh: ;P regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I was going to say "AOL put Winamp out to pasture in OS for free? Yeah right!" and then remembered they effectively created the Mozilla foundation and look now. So yeah, good idea. The Winamp Foundation. Maybe Winzilla. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa Michael Dunn wrote: "except the sod who voted this a 1, NO SOUP FOR YOU" Crikey! ain't life grand?
Oh please - not another 0.99c.9 "we rewrote the CAD software from scratch because you can't run free music on soundcards designed with proprietary software" FooZilla
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