Winamp Was Always Windows and Proprietary, Now Its Code is Also Controlled by Microsoft
It's not "free" or "Open Source"; it's just outsourced to Microsoft with its GPL-violating code blender
Use Audacious instead. Audacious had a new release 2 days ago:
Download links:
- audacious-4.4.1.tar.bz2 (624 KB)
- audacious-plugins-4.4.1.tar.bz2 (1.8 MB)
New features and improvements:
- Support titlebar dimming for Winamp skins also with GTK
- Allow to never show playlist tabs also in GTK interface (#1409)
- Improve controls responsiveness with the Sndio output plugin
- Add Qt 6 support for the Qt Multimedia output plugin
- Support many more MPRIS metadata fields
- Include .adx as file extension for the FFmpeg plugin (#1466)
Bugs fixed:
- Include patch version in SONAMEs again (#1408)
- Fix writing tags into audio files on Windows (#1421)
- Make drag and drop work with GTK on Wayland (#1423)
- Fix build with GCC and Meson on macOS
- Handle big-endian systems correctly with Meson
- Fix excessive CPU usage with the Qt Multimedia output plugin
- Enable scroll buttons for playlist tabs on macOS (#1455)
Other changes:
- Lower GTK 3 version requirement from 3.22 to 3.18
- Offer SHA256 checksum files for our release tarballs (#1432)
- Make CDDB support optional for the Audio CD plugin (#1437)
- Allow minimum speed of 0.25 for the Speed and Pitch plugin (#1447)
- Prefer PulseAudio plugin over PipeWire plugin for better backwards compatibility
- Specify application ID and icon name for PulseAudio
- Update translations