SPeedY_B said:
It was a great app (all the way up to v2.65
) but to be honest, I'd not used it in quite a while, also most people I know had moved over to WMP10 or iTunes.
I can't imagine this move will kill Winamp completely, I think they should just open-source it, would be a nice contribution to the OSS communities to get a look at it
There is a propierity decoder and encoder in the thing. They would have to rip it out, leaving it essentially barebones and without being able to play or rip MP3's. Would be useless to them. It would leave the OSS with a nice codebase to play with, and add the support back in. Considering we have open sources free MP3 decoders.
NetRyder said:
WMP10's using between 8,867K and 10,140K here at the moment. I don't think that's too much to ask for in a day and age when 256MB is almost a minimum standard.
Well, you have XMMS or Beep (GTK+2 version of XMMS, essentially) then that have pretty much the exact look-and-feel of Winamp...and those will still continue to remain in development.
XMMS even supports winamp skins, so you can make it look the same
. Only problem is, with KDE 3.x when you hit the minimize button, not all three of the open widgets minimize, only the first one. Something that is still not fixed.
XMMS is however a great app which works perfectly, except if you have to many plugins that are poorly written
.
chaos945 said:
- the program is far from dead or from being shutdown
Actually, no it is not. The two lead developers who created nullsoft got up and left. The rest of the team is slowly being abused in different places than winamp and other products that nullsoft created.
chaos945 said:
- AOL bought Nullsoft back in 1999
Sorry, must have missed it, but what is this supposed to mean? Yes AOL bought them in 1999, and now they are killing them off.
chaos945 said:
- there are still members of the original team working on it
Well, i am sorry to say, but if the two lead developers pick up and leave, it means they have lost their best people, their best men. Why? Well, the lead developers, the ones that created the product or applications in the first place are the ones that are to keep it going, have the best ideas, know where they want to go with it. The rest of the team most of the time is just there as support to help code, they do less of the thinking. Second, you need a leader, you need someone that can push others around and tell them what to do. A project without the original developers standing behind it, is a project doomed to fail. I have seen it happen in Open Source, and in ShareWare/PaidWare. Whenever a lead developer gets up and leaves, that is when the project basically starts a slow death.
chaos945 said:
- and an internal build for the next release in the works...
Sources? Have yet to read this anywhere. I have not heard this from AOL's mouth, or that of nullsofts.
chaos945 said:
- I question the validity of anything coming from Betanews or MajorGeeks
Even
http://www.gedikian.com/2004/10/closing-of-chapter.html (Steve, one of the lead developers) recognizes that AOL wants a different direction for the project, one that the nullsoft team would not want to go in, as it would make the product less "geeky".
Also, other developers inside AOL have stated that because of AOL splitting up, and other crap, projects have been cut. And we if we look at AOL's prior history, they have done the same thing with other products before. Especially Netscape, they bought it up, made it bloatware, and then left it out to dry up, and die. AOL seems to have no problem with letting people down.
