Mistakes were made but now it seems mostly abandoned other than how to fleece people of money (though that might have been removed as well, not sure as I don't use anything from them now). Sadly too much negative was already levied at it even though some of the complaints such as having to make an account often made no sense when getting their stations out to a wider audience often needed accounts to be made on other platforms. Now I get that's business being business & the need to make $$$ but without those other 3rd parties you'd never have the perceived value of the property at all (same goes for winamp vs all of the community generated context).Īlas I worked on it from 2010-2015 so I've seen the late AOL era (demise of the firehose platform & a messy attempt to replace with v2 as some hard-core dog-fooding - it helped but 1 dev vs everything was tough) & the ways of the new lot along with trying to make v2 more v1 like (as people wanted).
Also it's ironic that the 'shoutcast' platform uses icecast for it's implementation (which is basically the radionomy platform with new branding). As I don't have an issue with being part of the overall ecosystem that shoutcast created from it's time under aol, my issue is them trying to have all of the pie & throwing legal crap around which pissed off so many prior partners.
The directory was hidden away as it's more about how to get $$$ from the associated ecosystem. I never got why they did that especially when they brought in limitations on streaming MP3 above 128kbps when that format was already license free - just came across as a desperate cash grab but people sadly paid it from what I gather. Please, make an effort to keep the record straight, and to warn users that TargetSpot cannot be trusted with the Winamp IP. With 5.9's "release candidates", they were just too happy to crap out obviously broken beta builds, and the press ran with it, leading many people to blindly download these builds and wondering why they got so many issues. Then of course, the whole NFT thing, and how clear the response was from Winamp itself, they simply don't care what the old users had to say, and those bringing up that fiasco at the Winamp Forums, shunned and ridiculed for daring to speak their biased opinion, rather than telling the truth.
But please, do your best to remember the period between 2013 - 2022 when nothing happened with the IP, multiple empty promises by CEO Alexandre Saboundjian that Winamp 6 is coming, 5.x however deserved no mention, a 5.8 build mysteriously leaked and (then) Radionomy jumped on that to respond with their own leak, it sure was the best version to use (not) but hey, this isn't an on-going project! (Ah, what a lie.)
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