Talk:Winamp

message: Moved this here:
*MetroLyrics: is default on-line service displaying lyrics to songs played in the Winamp.
So far, Winamp "online services" have received little RS coverage.  It can't be an exhaustive list, anyways, so choosing which online services to include becomes problematic, unless we have a source or two to support a limited list. Discuss? --Lexein (talk) 11:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online services 

message: * Exclusive Interview: GUI Olympics talks to Nullsoft about Winamp 3 and the future. Interview with Steve Gedikian of Nullsoft, Tuesday, April 02, 2002 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lexein (talk • contribs) 03:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: As was stated in numerous places (in various degrees of officialness) at the time of its release, the reason for the version number of Winamp 5 was to stress that it combined the benefits of Winamp 2 and Winamp3, which were totally different codebases.  The jokey statements currently in the history section are all very well, but they should be replaced with the real reason.  I would do it myself, but it really needs a citation and I don't have time to dig one out at the moment. Quietbritishjim (talk) 03:45, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winamp 5 

message: Boldyrev is reliably sourced as an author of Winamp, so I'm supporting the non-controversial reinsertion of that claim, with these sources.
*1998:  Article includes short interview fragments with Boldyrev, and lists him as "one of the developers at Nullsoft" of Winamp. 
*2000: Playmedia 1997 News item archived 2000-08-18:
::97.06.01:  Nullsoft licenses the AMP® 0.7 Layer 3 Decoder for MP3-Playback in Winamp.  Now the world's most popular MP3 music player for the PC.
::97.02.01:      Dmitry Boldyrev, creator of MacAMP, becomes the first licensee of the AMP® 0.7-series MP3 decoder for the now-legendary MacAMP MP3 player for the Macintosh™ operating platform.  Shortly thereafter, Boldyrev introduces MP3 technology and the AMP® decoder itself to Justin Frankel.   Boldyrev and Frankel subsequently form Nullsoft (now a unit of AOL) with Branden Williams and others.
*2005: 
*2005: 
*2006: Boldyrev's authorship first stated in Wikipedia Winamp in 2006 (per this Wikiblame search) in this edit. 
Note: There is a 2004 posting on BetaNews ("Death Knell Sounds for Nullsoft, Winamp". BetaNews. Nate Mook. November 10, 2004.) with a comment #291693861 by "mewse" who claims to be Dmitry Boldyrev. I don't consider this a reliable source, but it does contain a link to the CNN article above.
 
The assertion in this edit summary and in the article Wikipedia has somehow become a source of this claim, is provably false. Until we get a source that definitively asserts that Boldyrev was not involved, stop deleting Boldyrev.  I don't know Boldyrev or Frankel or anyone at Winamp, Nullsoft, or AOL, I just support what multiple reliable sources have stated about Boldyrev's (to me) uncontroversially sourced involvement. Yep, it was easily researched. --Lexein (talk) 23:32, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boldyrev edit warring 

message: Winamp.com will not be available after 20 Dec. 2013.  Is there a way to download the help file? Or at least relevant information from the site? other than copy and paste??? I have to say that I have about 5 different music players and winamp has the best sound, something I discovered only recently.
````  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.144.73.133 (talk) 23:53, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The Wayback Machine has an extensive archive of the winamp.com site as it looked at various stages in the past, dating back to December 1998, including the help section. This means that even after the site is taken down in December 2013, researchers will still be able to see what was on the site.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 06:45, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much!````  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.144.73.133 (talk) 18:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There are also versions of Winamp at OldApps dating back to the original 0.20 version in April 1997. These links could be added to the external links section of the article after December 20.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 09:06, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  A way to download winamp help file? 

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replies: text: This was 404 in the archive. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:32, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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message: Hello all! I maintain an open source web recreation of Winamp (webamp.org) that closely reproduces the Winamp interface. Given the inclusion of XMMS and qmmp in the "See Also" section I thought my project might be worth including as well. However, I know better than to try to add it myself, so I figured I'd leave some context here and see if existing editors thought it might merit inclusion.
It has been covered in several mainstream tech press outlets:
* Gizmodo
* Vice
* TechCrunch
* Mashable
It was also called out by the W3C, the main standards organization for the web.
I've also collected a list of over 100 other articles and blog posts that have been written about it in ~25 languages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Captbaritone (talk • contribs) 14:51, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Strictly speaking, it is a web based emulation of Winamp 2. It's fun to use, but is not affiliated to the official Winamp project. Possibly suitable as an external link, but not for a mention in the main text of the article.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 15:21, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

text: Agreed. I thought it would make sense to include as a link in the "See also" section alongside XMMS and qmmp.Captbaritone (talk) 15:49, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added this as an external link.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! Captbaritone (talk) 19:25, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  While the site is impressive, I removed it. :MOS:SEEALSO makes it clear that items in that section should be internal (on Wikipedia) and so the site doesn't meet that requirement. :Wikipedia:External links, specifically, :WP:ELYES states official sites, sites about the subject or that add neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject should be listed. This site doesn't do that. I'm not sure what the copyright status of the songs are either, which may be a separate issue. Also, the UI may be copyrighted. We cannot link to copyright violations. Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:41, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for taking the time to document your reasoning. That helps me understand why Audacious can be included but Webamp may not. 2600:1700:AB10:3A90:D921:441:8735:894 (talk) 07:35, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of Webamp? 

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message: According to the Gracenote article, Winamp hasn’t used Gracenote for several years, and I for one don't blame it.  Though this does raise the question of what it uses instead… Mr Larrington (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr Larrington (talk • contribs) 18:49, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gracenote? 

message: On March 16, the winamp twitter account announced they were switching their direction into creating and selling NFTs. The article needs to be updated to reflect this, so I changed the banner at the top. I didn't start a new section because I wasn't sure if somebody wanted to lead the charge in adding this information. What details about this announcement should be prioritized and should a section make note that the original creators of Winamp don't have anything to do with this? Ctaetcsh (talk) 02:02, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: In general, the announcement does not say that Winamp 6 is cancelled. I still recommend to add a paragraph about the critics - it should be the first time that "Winamp" (whoever it currently is) received such a lot of negative comments. --Tuxman (talk) 23:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There is something very similar happening at LimeWire. In both cases, the people doing this are not the original creators of the software, and appear to be jumping on the NFT bandwagon by using famous brand names from the past. The article needs to make this clear.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:19, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
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