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The WinAMP source was opened a long time ago. See http://www.wasabidev.org/.

And I do not recall WinAMP ever being open source. There is an extensive SDK available, but the program itself is not available in source form.

The code for Winamp v. 3 was released after it proved to be such a miserable failure. It's difficult to find even now on the web since no one wants to work with it, but it is out there (it's here). After this happened, the 2.9x line was continued until version 5 was released.

there is still some of us that prefere winamp3. I still use it, mostly because of the playlist manager. just too bad they stopped working on it too soon, would been perfect had they removed some of the few bugs. but still even with those bugs i think its way better than the version 2

just let us hope they will continue the work on the wasabiplayer. www.wasabidev.org one of their goals is to get it on linux aswell. a reason winamp3 had buildt names like 499a, 499b as the version 500 was supposed to work on linux.

Furthermore, the Nullsoft-guys already brought us the open Gnutella protocol.

Might want to check yourself on this, Nullsoft brought us the Gnutella protocol but they did not make it open. Other talented individuals reverse-engineered the Gnutella protocol. Nullsoft never released any source-code or specs.

All of this would indicate that the good people at Nullsoft are pretty cool with open source

Might want to check the license on wasabi http://www.wasabidev.org/license.php you can't even distribute the closed source wasabi.dll with what you write using that sdk, ie it is useless and windows only. It is most certainly NOT open source./p

Well, they have already released most of the Winamp 3 sourcecode (without any of the DRM stuff) under the Wasabi project.

Furthermore, the Nullsoft-guys already brought us the open Gnutella protocol.

All of this would indicate that the good people at Nullsoft are pretty cool with open source. So if the Winamp 5 source code is not going to be released, then I think we should blame AOL for that, not Nullsoft.

http://www.wasabidev.org/

they dropped wasabi.

Really?

Going from the link to Wasabi that you provided, I stumbled upon their license page, which specifically says that Winamp 5 uses Wasabi:

"Wasabi is not totally open-source: the core skinning and Maki scripting framework (wasabi.dll) is still closed-source, as it is used in Nullsoft's flagship product Winamp 5."

Obviously, I could just be missing something. But it sure seems like Wasabi is indeed used in Winamp 5.

winamp3 was the bloated piece of crap. winamp5 is not a bloated piece of crap. they dropped wasabi. please check your facts before making posts.

It actually did become Open Source. They released the Wasabi kit and the Wasabi.player part of it is Winamp Three. It's all right here.

for those of you that prefere winamp3,
it will continue as wasabi-player. http://www.wasabidev.org/,
with they call a mostly opensource licence. but they do mention crossplatform :)

for those of you that prefere winamp3,
it will continue as wasabi-player. http://www.wasabidev.org/,
with they call a mostly opensource licence. but they do mention crossplatform :)

Hmm, that'd be me. Being rather melodramatic.

I was rather more optimistic about things until yesterday. Most of Winamp3 is now open-sourced (except the skinning and scripting engine), and there are people working on a fully open-source version of Winamp3, now known as wasabi.player (and much improved since the old, old release which is still on the winamp.com frontpage).