<story><title>Winamp has announced that it is &quot;opening up&quot; its source code</title><url>https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>Have you checked out foobar2000? To me, it always felt like the true successor to Winamp.</text></item><item><author>bcraven</author><text>I use the community update of Winamp, WACUP, and it&amp;#x27;s excellent. I&amp;#x27;ve tried other media players but always come back here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not even one of those people who likes the shitty visualisations, I just think the interface works perfectly.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getwacup.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getwacup.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>LocutusOfBorges</author><text>Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it&amp;#x27;s still nice to see.&lt;p&gt;Interesting that there&amp;#x27;s no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it&amp;#x27;s only available following email enquiries, of all things. I&amp;#x27;m surprised they&amp;#x27;re even bothering, at this point - the software&amp;#x27;s so obsolete that it&amp;#x27;s not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koito17</author><text>foobar2000 has been my go-to player on both Windows and Mac for about a decade now. Particularly, I like the dense (yet uncluttered) interface and functionality I take for granted, like selecting a dozen files and editing metadata all at once.&lt;p&gt;A few of my friends complain that the layout &amp;quot;sucks&amp;quot; or foobar lacks functionality they need, but for my use case, it&amp;#x27;s in a Goldilocks state. With that said, for people used to the functionality of Winamp, I think MusicBee is more likely to be the successor, in terms of out-of-the-box functionality and layout extensibility.</text></comment>
<story><title>Winamp has announced that it is &quot;opening up&quot; its source code</title><url>https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>Have you checked out foobar2000? To me, it always felt like the true successor to Winamp.</text></item><item><author>bcraven</author><text>I use the community update of Winamp, WACUP, and it&amp;#x27;s excellent. I&amp;#x27;ve tried other media players but always come back here.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not even one of those people who likes the shitty visualisations, I just think the interface works perfectly.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getwacup.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getwacup.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>LocutusOfBorges</author><text>Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it&amp;#x27;s still nice to see.&lt;p&gt;Interesting that there&amp;#x27;s no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it&amp;#x27;s only available following email enquiries, of all things. I&amp;#x27;m surprised they&amp;#x27;re even bothering, at this point - the software&amp;#x27;s so obsolete that it&amp;#x27;s not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>you&amp;#x27;d have a hard time replicating this UI [1] or other winamp skins in foobar2000, so i&amp;#x27;m not sure i&amp;#x27;d call it a successor except in the sense that it can play anything you throw at it.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getwacup.com&amp;#x2F;screenshots&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getwacup.com&amp;#x2F;screenshots&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>