After a prolonged absence, Winamp is making a historic comeback with a new generation of features designed to cater to modern users’ needs. The relaunched version aims to combine the nostalgia of the original Winamp with cutting-edge enhancements, such as integration with streaming platforms, cloud syncing, and support for various audio and video formats. While specific details about the relaunch remain scarce, this announcement has sparked excitement among longtime fans and new users alike, as they eagerly await the revival of this beloved media player.
No it’s not. It’s coming back as yet another subscription based garbage.
Oh! Fuck that shit.
creators can sell content via subscription and they call the feature “the fanzone”
MFs really brought onlyfans to winamp but for music.
Isn’t that essentially what Patreon is for though? How is it different (other than I assume no ‘bonus content’ for your sub)?
Goddammit. I got so excited by the headline, and then you had to go and crush my dreams.
I miss the time of the late 90’s - early 00’s when creators threw their products out on the web for all to use freely. Products like this (and DBAN, etc) were the only way many of us could truly enjoy and use what the world wide web had to offer without the intrusion of Micro$oft and Apple gatekeepers’ monetization.
*sigh
It’s our own fault for not paying for that WinRAR license. I’m pretty sure that when the sun explodes there will be somebody out there on day 5,576,456,245 of their 30-day trial ;-)
Winamp will allow content creators to manage their own subscription models. This means they will be able to configure different tiers to provide access to their content.
As such, subscribers won’t pay a unique price to access the entire content on the platform, but stick with a smaller fee for each artist. A new section called Fanzone will allow artists to manage subscriptions and configure recurring revenue sources.
Oh great, another subscription. And this one even less transparent than the others. There is probably a niche out there but still.
I would say this is more transparent. It’s less predictable but you actually have some idea who your money is going to.
good point, maybe for independent creators this could work.
If you want to use Winamp on a modern PC, just use WACUP: https://getwacup.com/
It’s a nearly perfect clone of the original Winamp and does work exactly as it should without all this NFT bullshit the new Winamp “promises”
WACUP! (wacup)
Grab a brush and put a little MACUP!
Hide the scars to fade away the SHACUP!
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few weeks but this is the best comment this platform will ever have
Or just use an old installer of winamp
The official website tells us that creators will be able to release tracks as (limited) NFTs.
Are we sure this isn’t some elaborate piece of long-form satire? It’s wild to me that they’d try to execute such a blatant cashgrab when the name Winamp stands for pretty much the opposite of what they’re trying to peddle.
remember when Napster became a legitimate music storefront?
I thought NFTs have finally died out. Looks like some companies still haven’t got the memo.
They’re late to the grift. Hopefully too late.
Subscriptions? NFTs? Yeah they can go fuck a goat
Perhaps you mean “Yeah, they can go fuck a Llama” 😆
Nah, they’d probably enjoy it
But it’s what modern users need!
Modem solutions require modern problems.
Sounds like Patreon for music.
It’s actually more dangerous than that. They want to be the music distributor also. Yes, they are currently separate subscriptions, but with enshitification you know they’re going to link them into 1 package eventually, meaning if you want to stop 1 you’ll lose the other.
An example of that would be, you(the artist) find a new Patreon kinda thing that takes less of a cut so you want to move there, but because winamp are also your distributor if you decide you want to leave, they’ll also cancel your distribution removing all your music off of online platforms like Spotify. It’s a seriously dangerous path to take as an artist.
They are not the llama we once knew. This one I think is a wolf in llama skin.
I’d love to be proven wrong.
Exactly, but since this is music and I listen to 28 different artists and each of them has a minimum subscription fee of 1 euro, I’m down 28 euros a month. I don’t see how this model would be viable for most people.
It absolutely is not, it got a rebrand by some dipshit tech bros looking to capitalize on nostalgia. What a bunch of fuckin idiots.
Too late; I already switched to foobar2000 and I don’t see myself switching back.
I remember when saying something like that would get you virtually stabbed in IRC.
Winamp is fine if you’re okay with its defaults; however, the moment you want to for example do something a bit more funky with the media library views, you’re out of luck. With foobar2000 and Facets I’m able to do stuff like showing different releases of the same album, showing bands and artists by country of origin (for which I do custom tags) and so on. I realise it’s a niche use, but that’s me.
I was using Foobar for the longest time, but I suddenly felt the need to have Mildrop visualization.
I couldn’t get it to work with Foobar, so I installed Winamp (about a month ago, free, no mention of subscriptions anywhere), and it came with Milkdrop preinstalled.
What absence? It never really went away, it just became less popular. AFAIK, the site and the download have been available this entire time. I even went and installed it like 3 months ago and recently found a way to play Spotify through it so now it’s once again my default music player on desktop.
I’ve read some shit about “WinAmp Premium” while looking for the Spotify thing tho. Is that what this is actually about? It sounds like they’re trying to take a feature that has existed in the app for years (shoutcast) and make it a subscription based thing.
Can you explain how you got Spotify to play through it?
I switch between both and its quite the pain
I found a thing called SpotiAmp on GitHub.
Please stop whipping the llama. He’s already dead
The original works fine in Wine… it just isn’t useful for anything but nostalgia.
What’s next, a rerelease of ICQ?
“Uh oh”
I think I’ll stick with my old version that does the basics without fuss or heavy resource usage. All these modern music players forget their primary objective is to play music.
Your primary objective is for them to play music. Their primary objective is to make money off of you.
The relaunched version aims to combine the nostalgia of the original Winamp with cutting-edge enhancements, such as integration with streaming platforms, cloud syncing
Noooo!
Shoutcast was streaming before it was a thing.
Not content with whipping the llama’s ass, Winamp decided to shaft it. What a slurry filled disappointed.
I’ve tried their new mobile app and it feels like Spotify-ish and Bandcamp combined, not something I really wanted out of this re-launch…
The UI felt so lifeless and stale…. You’re better off just using the old Winamp or foobar
I’d bet their desktop app is written in Electron or some other bs bloated framework.
I wouldn’t be surprised. They announced this re-launch like five years ago and so far we have a vague subscription concept and a buggy mobile app that looks generic as hell. A shame, really.
