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It's most likely deeply tied into Win32, WASAPI and similar stuff, so even if you had the code, you'd have to rewrite most of it

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It wouldn't surprise me if v6 were mostly a rewrite... Hopefully they target mutliplatform and get the visualizations, equalizer and a few other aspects the same, or very similar.

I really do miss the android version, and hope they update and bring it back.

Nullsoft tried the "ambitious cross-platform open source rewrite" thing in 2002 with Winamp3/WASABI and everyone hated it because it broke all their Winamp 2 plugins :) https://betanews.com/2002/08/10/winamp3-makes-its-official-d...

They went back to the 2.x codebase to release 2.92 and 2.95 before skipping Winamp 4 and jumping to Winamp 5 (2 + 3) which was based on Winamp 2 but with the Wasabi skinning system bolted on.

It's a different day and age... we aren't running shell replacements with winamp integration these days. While we are running iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and who knows what else. Personally, I lean towards tooling I can use everywhere, even if it is a bulky electron app.

Also, the Android version was great imho.

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