Winamp - media player

[giulia]

Tested WACUP_Preview_v1_99_13_19100 x86.
However, once everything was over and I moved the resulted files where I wanted them, the app itself seems to be portable and stealth.

hi
may i know how to create a portable and stealth WACUP application?
just because with winamp is not possbile , even with the tutorial
thanks

[joby_toss]

I just executed the WACUP installer in Sandboxie, chose portable mode when asked, copied the installation folder outside and removed the sandbox to clean everything.

[giulia]

I just executed the WACUP installer in Sandboxie, chose portable mode when asked, copied the installation folder outside and removed the sandbox to clean everything.

hi
well i will it try to make full portable
can i ask you 2 questions?
1) should i run winamp.exe or wacup.exe ?

2) is there a way to disable browser and visualization ?


thanks

[joby_toss]

1) wacup.exe

2) That is the "Big bento" skin. You can disable visualization plug-ins and web browser from Preferences.

[giulia]

1) wacup.exe

2) That is the "Big bento" skin. You can disable visualization plug-ins and web browser from Preferences.

hi
wow , you know winamp in this case wacup still rocks
thank you so much for the screenshots

[Midas]

Via the Winamp Skin Museum: Oh, the joys of retro-computing.

In January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them. Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension, so I tried extracting their files to see what I could find. This ended up leading me down a series of wild rabbit holes...

Finally, I thought to look for skins that contained other skins within them, and discovered 127 skins! 54 of which were not already in the museum, so I uploaded them.

@ https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins/

[Midas]

FYI, official Winamp's source code is now available from Github:

Winamp is a multimedia player launched in 1997, iconic for its flexibility and wide compatibility with audio formats. Originally developed by Nullsoft, it gained massive popularity with still millions of users. Its development slowed down, but now, its source code was opened to the community, allowing developers to improve and modernize the player to meet current user needs.

@ https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/

The official changelog is at https://help.winamp.com/hc/en-us/articles/8109376746260-Version-History.

There's also an unofficial resource page at https://winampheritage.com/.

[freakazoid]

FYI, official Winamp's source code is now available from Github:

Winamp is a multimedia player launched in 1997, iconic for its flexibility and wide compatibility with audio formats. Originally developed by Nullsoft, it gained massive popularity with still millions of users. Its development slowed down, but now, its source code was opened to the community, allowing developers to improve and modernize the player to meet current user needs.

@ https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/

The official changelog is at https://help.winamp.com/hc/en-us/articles/8109376746260-Version-History.

There's also an unofficial resource page at https://winampheritage.com/.

Lots of drama on Hacker News about the source license and redistribution of custom builds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636804

[Midas]

Alas, source is gone now...

Winamp, through its Belgian owner Llama Group, posted the source for its "Legacy Player Code" on September 24 so that developers could "contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve". Less than a month later, that repository has been entirely deleted, after it either bumped up against or broke its strange hodgepodge of code licenses, seemingly revealed the source code for other non-open software packages, and made a pretty bad impression on the open-source community.

@ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/
winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/

[antonio]

WACUP
A media player that's made to emulate some of your favourite media players from the past & bring them into the future. The latest available public preview build for x86 & x64 is #23528 (January 12 2026) & the limited to access beta build is #23528 (January 12 2026) (x86 & x64 changelogs).

https://getwacup.com/

[Midas]

WACUP

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WACUP was first mentioned by billon back in 2019 -- see https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=92357#p92357...