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New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 16 2018, @02:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the Whip-it-Good-says-Devo dept.

takyon writes:

Winamp 6, due out in 2019, aims to whip more llama ass

Rejoice, llama-whipping fans, a new version of Winamp is set to be released in 2019, according to a Monday report by TechCrunch. Alexandre Saboundjian, the CEO of Radionomy, said that the upgrade would bring a "complete listening experience."

[...] The Belgian company that bought Winamp from AOL in January 2014 hasn't really done much with it since buying the remnants of the property just months after AOL finally pulled the plug.

Winamp.

Related: "Whipping the Llama's Ass" with this Javascript WinAmp Emulator

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 16 2018, @08:43AM (5 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday October 16 2018, @08:43AM (#749443) Homepage
    > I don't have to sign into it.

    Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to music

    > Winamp doesn't molest my library.

    Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to music

    > Winamp doesn't upload files it finds.

    Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to music

    > Winamp doesn't try to sell me things.

    Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to music

    > Winamp stays out of the way and plays the music I want it to.

    Which is the essense of the complete experience of listening to music - all the prior things are not "complete", they are "unnecessary additions".

    I *do* want the complete listening experience, which is the music files I specify being decoded and squirted out to the speakers. End of.
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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 16 2018, @04:56PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday October 16 2018, @04:56PM (#749596) Journal

    While what you say is true. The fact is that a lot of music apps are doing all of those things. With the side benefit of doing the last thing on your list.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:01AM (2 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:01AM (#749856) Homepage
      There used to be a joke (a 'meme', one might call it in today's argot) about software evolving until it can send email. I think the current equivalent of that is that software evolves until it can send tweets or facebook updates. I wouldn't know, as I use the mpg123 command line utility to play music, but I suspect that a lot of modern Win/Mac/Gnome players do in fact let you tweet to the whole world what you're playing.
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      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @05:24PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @05:24PM (#750040)

        What you're thinking of is last.fm, which is basically Twitter for music and about as useless. Every maintained music player (except WMP, though I don't think you can call that "maintained" anymore) can post to last.fm since it's just a matter of making an HTTP request with an authentication token.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @07:35AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @07:35AM (#750821)

          Last.fm was useful, once upon a time, several years ago...
          I fed it several months worth of music listening, and by exploring what it deemed my 'nearest neighbours' were listening to and picking artists I'd never heard of, I discovered a fair number of bands I'd have otherwise ignored, but as I then discovered a number of blog sites run by people with similar eclectic musical tastes to my own who provided me with a better signal to noise ratio when it came to artists I'd never encountered before, I switched off the 'scrobbler' and stopped using their site.
          A couple of months back when I was purging my unused accounts, I logged in to last.fm, a quick check of who it thinks are people with similar tastes to mine are listening to was informative, there was a lot of what I'd regard as 'commercial pop', and, rather weirdly, a number of messages about goth/metal (including one for a dating site) not genres I listen to a lot of...so, interesting, says I..and put a stay of execution on deleting the account. As I've now currently got the time, I think i'll investigate if they're 'gaming' these 'similarity' matches for commercial gain.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:33AM (#749859)

    It can be trivially demonstrated a gui isn't necessary for a complete listening experience.
    Unnecessary additions is what this game is about. Their use of Complete Listening Experience is unquestionably different than yours.