Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years

Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by dzek69 on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:26PM (#18259280)

I'd love winamp as I remember it to be a client for Google Music, as their app is heavy and very bad ux. Spotify isn't very good either, but Google Music allows me to upload missing mp3's to keep my library full and for that feature I am ready to sacrifice a lot of convenience

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by dzek69 on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:41PM (#18259405)

Oh, of course I don't believe in Google music/Spotify/iTunes proving an API for winamp.

Reverse engineering is possible here, but will result in ban/lawsuit after it gains some traction.

How they're gonna do that then? No idea.

Still I dream about alternative client every say

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by supermdguy on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:58PM (#18259551)

Spotify has a playback SDK[0]. It's meant for web use, but it could probably be used to create a custom native player. You'd just need to have a webview somewhere.

[0]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk...

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by RexM on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:38PM (#18260603)

They used to have a C library called libspotify that they quietly stopped supporting and later killed off.

https://jonaslundqvist.net/2015/05/06/do-not-use-libspotify/

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by earenndil on Saturday October 20, 2018 @12:41AM (#18261799)

There's an oss alternative called librespot https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by RexM on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:33PM (#18284866)

Thanks, I didn't know that existed.

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by SSLy on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:54PM (#18259983)

IIRC this is used by Clementine, a QT-based desktop player.

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Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years by dewey on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:44PM (#18260620)

Apple Music also has a player SDK via MusicKit if I understand it correctly. Some people already build third party players and web interfaces.

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