Winamp, the Legend of an Era, Becomes Open Source

The first program that comes to people’s mind for listening to music for a while winamp was. The program, which was a great success in the years when there were no music streaming services, later fell out of favor. The program, which continued to exist, survived even though it started to appeal to a smaller user group. Winamp CEO Alexandre Saboundjian said: On September 24, 2024 Announced that Winamp will be made open source.

program all source codes It will be made available to everyone on the announced date. Thus, anyone who wants will be able to create a modified version of Winamp according to their wishes. The company’s aim is to make the application stand out again, thanks to the creativity of its people.

Winamp trusts developers

Making statements on the subject saboundjian, “This decision will delight millions of users around the world. Our common ground will be new mobile players and other platforms. We will release a new mobile player at the beginning of July. However, we do not want to forget the tens of millions of users who use the software on Windows and will benefit from the experience and creativity of thousands of developers.” Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide what improvements will be made in the official version.” he said.

In 2021, Winamp started a renewal process, but It wasn’t very successful.. Especially with the entry of companies such as Spotify into the market, people have started to move away from third party applications. Let’s see if Winamp can return to its old days with the transition to the open source system.