After a 16-year Run, Winamp to Shut Down Next Month

[exfileme]

Winamp is joining Alta Vista and Voodoo Extreme in the Internet graveyard. Sob.

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[robax91]

I still use it, custom skins FTW!

 

[nukemaster]

Awww and to think I still use it all the time(OpanAL plugin and all).

 

[Darkk]

Loved WinAmp back in the day. Easiest and coolest music player until extra stuff got added in. May have been changed now.

 

[Guest]

Winamp2 was awesome. On another note, anything is better than realplayer!

 

[skit75]

Still using ver. 2.78 here...... Winamp, it really kicks the lama's ass

 

[Cons29]

plugins, skins, one of the best player out there

 

[-Fran-]

I've been using the same skin for Winamp since like 1998 when they added support and I found the skin. When they switched to v3, I stuck with v2 and when they got v5, I've been using it as v2 all these years. They have improved in some key areas, but most of them I don't use.

The plug in library for Winamp is amazing though. You can find pretty much anything in it, for whatever you want to do.

Man... I just hope they keep a full offline installer before closing the shop. I'll keep using Winamp until I can't do it no more.

Cheers!

 

[foxmulder_ms]

makes me somewhat sad. this big companies always ruins the small innovative ones after buying them out...

 

[Guest]

Big mistake not on Linux UBUNTU!

 

[bmwman91]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Aaah memories of OC'ing my Voodoo2 Banshee card to crank up settings and resolution on visualizations and stuff. I've been busting out Milkdrop on the projector at parties since, well, a long time. While I am sure that installers will still be available for download across the web, it is sad to see the end of an era.

 

[Fahrenhe1t]

Save Winamp, kill AOL.

 

[nukemaster]

[quotemsg=11995991,0,284247]Big mistake not on Linux UBUNTU![/quotemsg]
XMMS. light on resources and works with old winamp skins.
http://www.xmms.org/

 

[smeezekitty]

It used to be the best choice a while back. Now it is kind of long in the tooth but still I don't see why they need to discontinue.

 

[Sid Jeong]

but I've been using winamp forever! I thought it was the most popular music player on windows? what are the alternative?

 

[tolham]

people still use winamp? lol. I've been using foobar2000 for the last 10 years.

 

[futureyes]

Nooooo!!!!!!! I've used Winamp since the beginning and never looked back! :-/ Someone needs to save Winamp! If I had the funding I would! :-/

 

[kenyee]

downloaded 3.66 lite and will keep the installer around...sad to see an old friend go...

 

[bochica]

It used to be the only player I used, then I switched to Songbird for a bit. After that, I ended up joining the Internet Radio Apps (Pandora -> Slacker -> Spotify). Such a shame, but AOL has ruined a lot of good things on the internet. It was a good run while it lasted.

"Winamp, It really whips the llama's ass!"

 

[eodeo]

I use winamp every day. I'm listening to music on it right now. I haven't updated it recently, but it works flawlessly. I really don't feel the need to.

Still, it's sad to see it get shut down.

Can anyone recommend a valid alternative? Also, what for?

 

[Guest]

Sad news... Mainly because of nostalgia. I stopped at version 5.35 because they introduced the new tag editor in 5.5 which I didn't like. Well, I didn't want to get used to it. Then 5.35 started crashing when I switched to Windows 7 and I started using foobar2000 instead. Bye bye, Winamp! It was fun while it lasted.

 

[bochica]

[quotemsg=11996206,0,1445593]but I've been using winamp forever! I thought it was the most popular music player on windows? what are the alternative?[/quotemsg]

Try Songbird, if not, go to the Wiki chart of MP3 players and figure out what works. Songbird runs off of Mozilla engine, and to me had a similar feel to Winamp with the customization and stuff.


EDIT: LOL, go to check Songbird, and seems they lost support when they decided to dump Linux versions. Users came up with "Nightingale," to support all platforms. So I guess it is that, or like a few others are saying, Fubar2000.

 

[Vigilence]

The article would feel more complete if a list and mini review of winamp alternatives were included.

 

[smeezekitty]

There are tons of media players out there. Depends on what functionality you need but you will surely find one.

 

[Stimpack]

Good night, sweet prince.