Re: Zinf Status?

> I'm currently trying out Zinf-- I used to be a Winamp follower, but I =
> don't like their 3.0, so I thought I'd see what libre alternatives 
> there =
> are out there. I've been trying out Zinf, and while it has a few rough 
> =
> edges, I'm impressed enough that it's my main music player for the 
> time =
> being.
>
> I'm wondering though-- is Zinf an active project? There's been very =
> little traffic on this mailing list, and zinf.org has no "News" 
> section. =
> What's going on, and what are the future plans for Zinf?

*Please* turn off MIME messages. At least when sending messages to 
email lists (which cut out the coding and just shows up as garbage). 
Few clients support MIME anyway...

I'm not sure on that status at the moment on the developer end (maybe I 
should join the other list?).  Pretty much, there was much arguing and 
complaining but it seems it was decided to cut windows support. There 
is about 3  developers, doing the project. They all primarily do linux 
and one of them knew enough about windows to add support on the side. 
They were planning/working on doing some major cleanup/reworking of the 
code but it would be a major pain in the butt to keep the windows code 
working. If there was more developers/coders in the project, then it 
probably would have been fine.

Many users complained that killing the windows version would leave them 
in the dark. Well, mainly because (at the time - a couple weeks ago), 
Zinf was the *only* way to get/play music from emusic.com. Originally, 
Zinf was "freeamp" and was funded by emusic. Now emusic has dropped 
funding for "freeamp" (and other legal worries) brought around the 
changing of the name to zinf. Now there is  emusic download "manager" 
so you don't need zinf anymore. There is also the "real jukebox".

I'm not sure what is happening now.
Either everyone got angry and left the project or the coders are hard 
at work doing the overhaul and can not be bothered.

This is the best I could figure out over my time here on the list.

Thanks,
Ian Sidle



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