RIP Winamp :(
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/winamp_to_disappear/
I have been a lover of Winamp since the late 90's as I first used it to listen to songs that I spent hours getting on dial up & then went on to use it on a regular basis, including with the Shoutcast Plugin, when I ran a Internet Radio Station. At the time it was truly a great peace of software.........
Winamp really whipped the Llama's Ass.
The latest version of Winamp, released on Wednesday, will be the last, with the venerable media-playing software scheduled to all but vanish from the internet next month.
"Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013," reads a notice posted to the Winamp website on Wednesday. "Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/20/winamp_to_disappear/
I have been a lover of Winamp since the late 90's as I first used it to listen to songs that I spent hours getting on dial up & then went on to use it on a regular basis, including with the Shoutcast Plugin, when I ran a Internet Radio Station. At the time it was truly a great peace of software.........
Winamp really whipped the Llama's Ass.
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Still, winamp 2.whatever it was, a classic. o7
I dont think it was ever quite right after version 3. Yeah they managed to repair some of the damage in 5 but then AOL took over and it went from bad to worse.
When I switched to Linux for a bit, I even went out of my way to find the most winamp-like player i could. I even used it on my Galaxy S2 and S3.
It is quite heavily pirated nowadays (like most things i suppose), but I wonder why they didn't go down the ad-supported free route for the full version though ?
Like the OP I also used to spend hours downloading music and waiting impatiently for the next download to complete so I could listen to it. Gone is the era of loading up a well known music listing site with links to au files (remember those?) hosted on free website services such as angelfire then waiting hours only for the file to be removed during the transfer!
I think the last version I had installed was version 2.91 or something on a Windows 98 machine then I moved to Foobar2000.
XMMS? Argh, those tiny buttons were so annoying.
Yep, that's the one. I managed to find a winamp classic skin for it as well - which i still have saved in my dropbox as well
Version 5.3 runs really flawlessly on my netbook at only 30% processor power, so its great for running my own little personal radio station. For me, the great thing about it is its ability to remember its position in the playlist so it starts where it left off, and gapless crossfade playback.
Its a shame to see it go. Have saved my backup copies.
Edit - as an aside, whats now going to happen to Shoutcast? Winamp was the main supporting software, with it offline, will all those tiny radio stations fade away?
There are plenty of programs out there for providing audio to streaming services.
Even if Shoutcast dies off there's always Icecast which is superior in every way (other than the radio directory).
Winamp3 in 2002 was their biggest mistake and probably lost them a lot of users.
Foobar 2000 is much better if you just want a simple mp3 player.
I even used to run my karaoke evenings using a VB programme written by me that sent the selected song to play in winamp with the CD+G plugin.
to Netscape a decade ago, by slowly drawing it's lifeblood away. Netscape first got killed off in 2003, then its corpse
in 2004 when they starting to kill Winamp, by first laying off most of the Nullsoft staff, and declared the v5.x series
would be the last, with no more major upgrades to be developed. Netscape was finally laid to rest in 2009.
(To all intents and purposes ... Netscape was maimed by Microsoft, and murdered by AOL!)
AOL often acquired other companies to gradually run them into the ground and eventually destroy them.