You’re bringing back everyone’s favourite free pirated mp3 player as a subscription service… why?
Let the dead stay dead.
as a streaming service… That really sucks the llama’s ass.
Winamp will be reborn
No. No, it won’t.
Anyone else still use Foobar2000?
Why would I choose it over VLC?
Because it really whips the llamas ass!
Winamp’s got a certain “je ne sais quoi”, … style? Personality?
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
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/
Underappreciated work. Note that you can drag-n-drop your own music and listen it there!
Another subscription thing. Sad.
Winamp isn’t even good. There are much better media players. Use Strawberry.
VLC? Foobar2000? I liked winamp.
“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.
And Deezer is owned by a Russian Oligarch who was personally sanctioned by Ukraine for profiting off of the war.
This is not the Winamp you’re looking for.
Damn I didn’t know that. I picked Deezer because they were the only music streaming service I could find not based in the USA and their Purple Heart logo is cool. Tho might as well go back to Apple Music which I know isn’t good morally either but at least it pairs perfectly with my iPhone
owned by a Russian Oligarch
TIL
Yeah, pissed me off when another lemming informed me cos I had left Spotify for deezer because Spotify basically joined the evil big tech club.
Only one that doesn’t seemed to have evil ownership is qobuz… Which I have now, but I hate it.
I don’t hit the high seas myself, but sometimes it sounds like the only sane choice. ☠️
It’s not like it already was shitty when version 3 was released
I still remember the hate for the new interface
Version 5 (“it’s so good, we skipped v4”) was even worse
“Know that mp3 player you love? Well what if it was also a really shitty video player?”
Stay in your lane: the media player
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.
Wait. Didn’t it already get rebooted?
Again?
