Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by euank on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @04:11PM (#6771211)

You don't need to. Since subsonic is Open Source, there's naturally multiple forks with the licensing code removed. The best fork, which also adds features, is madsonic[0]. I recommend it. In addition, if you already have subsonic, the license code is simply a check if your password = the md5 of your email. So using "[email protected]" and "23463b99b62a72f26ed677cc556c44e8" will make it think you're a valid subscriber and give you all features.

[0]: http://www.madsonic.org/

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by pacificmint on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @06:22PM (#6771999)

> the license code is simply a check if your password = the md5 of your email

That used to be the case, but the newer versions actually phone home and verify the license.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by euank on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @07:39PM (#6772344)

Thanks for the information. It was true the last time I used subsonic, but that isn't all that recently. Still, I have no doubt it wouldn't be hard to remove it from the code.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by cheapskate on Thursday November 21, 2013 @06:02AM (#6774058)

echo "127.0.0.1 subsonic.org" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by wattengard on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:29AM (#6773500)

Sorry but the front of that page made me throw up a bit in my mouth and just close it back down again...

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by 72deluxe on Thursday November 21, 2013 @04:31AM (#6773817)

I like how they used a massive picture and then scaled it down in the IMG tag instead of just resizing the picture and putting it on the page. Very entertaining...!

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