I know from experience that Winamp plugins are hard to make money from. I also know a guy who put out a CD burning plugin. To distill his email:
X 30,000 downloads and 10 copies sold
X The French don't pay for software
X On average, more Americans pay registration fees than other people (eg, French)
X Have a time-limit (which you have) so people have to pay
X (my own experience) Cracking groups rarely pirate Winamp plugins
[additional]X There is a store for Winamp plugins (and has been for years). If you list there, you get a spotlight for a week or two, and you have to make the most of that - it usually gets a few 1000 downloads and then trails off.
Only winamp supports DSP API, so you could mix chords to actual song. Rest players are less open, but more popular. We are thinking to support other media players without mix functionality
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I know from experience that Winamp plugins are hard to make money from. I also know a guy who put out a CD burning plugin. To distill his email:
X 30,000 downloads and 10 copies sold
X The French don't pay for software
X On average, more Americans pay registration fees than other people (eg, French)
X Have a time-limit (which you have) so people have to pay
X (my own experience) Cracking groups rarely pirate Winamp plugins
[additional]X There is a store for Winamp plugins (and has been for years). If you list there, you get a spotlight for a week or two, and you have to make the most of that - it usually gets a few 1000 downloads and then trails off.
Only winamp supports DSP API, so you could mix chords to actual song. Rest players are less open, but more popular. We are thinking to support other media players without mix functionality