WACUP

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: green87e on October 17, 2018, 02:34:18 PM

Title: looks like there will be an "official" winamp in 2019
Post by: green87e on October 17, 2018, 02:34:18 PM

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/audio/a23797304/winamp-is-coming-back-in-2019/

This just popped up on my news feed. I don't know if it will be anywhere near the greatness WACUP offers.

Title: Re: looks like there will be an "official" winamp in 2019
Post by: dro on October 19, 2018, 03:07:29 AM

Probably not especially as they've done as I thought they would based on the recent techcrunch article with winamp 5.8 noted as the last 'official' windows release (am more surprised they actually did this & now the internet will freak out 🙄).

The difference between what's been released and the leaky build is also underwhelming (feels like a rush job to tick a box somewhere tbh) but matches with what the techcrunch interview implied. Plus one of the WACUP beta testers noted that it's still the 'beta' installer so that doesn't instil confidence & I'll stick with my WACUP build thankyouverymuch, heh.

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Changes since unofficial build 3563

Removed ml_nowplaying; updated libogg, libvorbis, libflac & libopenmpt; copyright updates; added more genres to file info dialog; new digital cert; various other general tweaks, fixes and prep work....

-dro