The Freeamp ( http://www.freeamp.org ) project, which produced the cross-platform mp3 and ogg vorbis player, is now known as the Zinf project. Freeamp distinguished itself early on as an easy-to-use music player for both Linux and Windows, with integrated support not only for the mp3 format, but also for the open source ogg vorbis format.
The project is unable to continue using the name “Freeamp” due to legal action from PlayMedia Systems, Inc over the use of “amp” in its name. Additionally, Emusic.com (currently owned by Vivendi Universal Net USA ) – which had previously sponsored the Freeamp project – has dropped its support for the project.
Fortunately, since Freeamp was run as an open source project, its source continues to live on – under the current stewardship of Robert Kaye (at the helm of Zinf.org), one of the original programmers for the project. The Zinf project,however, is looking for new project leaders, programmers, documenters, and user – support people.
If you have some free time, and would like to keep Freeamp alive as Zinf, please visit the Zinf website ( http://www.zinf.org ) or its Sourceforge website ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinf/ )where you can add yourself to a user or programmer mailing list, download the source code or compiled files, check out the list of open bugs, and get in contact with the project .
Thanks for reading this. Lets keep Zinf – and diversity in the music player landscape – alive.”
