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It's coming back with a monthly subscription.

It's dead already, then. WinAmp's heritage was providing a free audio player. I was looking forward to a refreshed build to test out, but I won't pay for it.

There are a dozen better, free, maintained, and actively developed players out there. This is less than too little, and far too late. Those of us who used winamp back when it was still activly developed will continue to have nostalgia for it, but I bet it will be DOA to most of the target audience.

I've only kept up on news for it because I was hoping it would be reborn true to itself. I have zero interest in it as a subscription model.

The MP3 era’s favorite player returns with a monthly subscription.

The sub-subtitle says enough that you should just look elsewhere.

"To take on streaming"

In a partnership with Deezer, Winamp will be reborn as a completely new player with its own premium subscription service, with Deezer providing the white-label streaming technology and licensed catalog.

So, basically a nostalgic skin for Deezer.

It's coming back with a monthly subscription.

All I want is a simple, nostalgic media player.

as a streaming service... That really sucks the llama's ass.

Again. Anyone remember Shoutcast?

Anyway, the old versions of Winamp work just fine for playing your local library.

Winamp will be reborn

No. No, it won't.

These owners are just whatever lawyers have gotten ahold of the WinAMP trademark.

Anybody remember when they attempted to push out the source code for WinAMP on GitHub and failed miserably? Or included NFTs?

After the "open source" fakeout that was nothing more than them trying to get free work without actually opening the source code for anyone to use, Winamp and Llamasoft or whatever their name is can get bent by an elephant.

I won't even use an old copy in Wine at this point. They fucked up repeatedly and now nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Get fucked, losers of Winamp.

Someone already revived Winamp in the best way years ago with Winamp 2.0 in a browser, complete with all the skins they could salvage: https://webamp.org/

Winamp revived: nostalgia tickled!

Subscription warning! Go fuck yourself!

This does not whip the Llamas ass.

I have the feeling the new version's tagline will be something along the lines of

"WINAMP, IT REALLY SUCKS THE LLAMA'S CORPORATE COCK!"

Will be reborn? If they had actually released Winamp under a real open source licence, it would have been reborn years ago! A bit late for it now!

You're bringing back everyone's favourite free pirated mp3 player as a subscription service.. why?

Last time I heard about a Winamp reboot it was a Bandcamp ripoff with added cryptoslop. While this seems marginally better it's still pretty disappointing.

Deezer seems alright as a streaming service, though, and they're French so there's that.

More like its corpse will be reanimated in an attempt to scam people using nostalgia. Wouldn't be the first time this trick has been pulled, remember when LimeWire got resurrected to shill a scam cryptocoin?

Foobar2000 it is then

This is a whole enshitification process right there. After a few months Deezer will start removing content that you will have access to over the winamp subscription, or winamp will pull an Amazon and insert ads into the paid subscription, call it basic subscription, and ask for more money for premium without ads.

Fuck this, I'm fine with my navidrome.

foobar2000 and mpv wreck the everloving shit out of it already

WINAMP! It really licks the llama's ass!!

Loved Winamp. But over the years how many reborn announcements did it have?

No, it won't.

Remember when it was reborn to sell NFT?
WACUP for the win

AIMP for life. Sure, it stands on the shoulders of llamas, but it's unbeatable. And it's got a native Linux version now, too!

WinAmp was already reborn as Wacup though?

https://getwacup.com/

Wait. Didn’t it already get rebooted?

Another subscription thing. Sad.

Why would I choose it over VLC?

kodi has visualisations

sorry winamp

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Fuck Winamp then.

I just realized it doesn't even need to be reborn to "take on streaming." Y'all with home servers and a big music collection can just start hosting Shoutcasts again and we can use the OG Winamp to stream. :P

Didn't they try to open source it only to nope out at the last second?