CoolPlayer is going Open

Published on July 17, 2001 By MadIce In WinCustomize News

CoolPlayer (by Niek Albers) will be Open Source. He is inviting programmers to co-develop future versions of this great player.

Niek believes that he needs other programmers on his CoolPlayer project to compete with other players.

At the moment he is cleaning of the code for the release.

Comments

GypC

on Jul 17, 2001

It's good to see more Windows programmers sharing their code. It really builds a strong community by promoting cooperation and learning.

Alexandrie

on Jul 17, 2001

Cool! good idea. I hope it will become more popular than winamp. Winamp is getting too big.

iMike

on Jul 17, 2001

yeah! coolplayer can only get better with this announcement. i am very excited as to what this will bring

Xymantix

on Jul 17, 2001

I think that's great news! I know that Niek has a lot of projects going on all at once, so this means that CoolPlayer will probably get a lot more attention than it has in the past. Perhaps all of the people that think WinAmp is going the way of Windows Media Player (overwhelming, too many features, complicated to skin) will become CoolPlayer converts.

kenray

on Jul 17, 2001

i think, when someone puts CD support into it, it will creep up on winamp very, very quickly...

Elwin

on Jul 17, 2001

I'm with Kenray - when coolplayer can play my CD's, I'll retire Winamp!

MurkWorks

on Jul 17, 2001

I'm with Elwin who is with Kenray.

l0c

on Jul 17, 2001

So now we get to see how he jammed all that goodness into 150kb

kenray

on Jul 18, 2001

10c rox

e-roz

on Jul 20, 2001

I remember that when I was younger..
I saw the source code for an app called "Axe" - It taught me how do skinning. I began to play with it...
Then after two years, kewlpAd came out.

Hmmm..how much money will you give me for the CD support?? oh damn, it's open-source

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