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

[bryonhowley]

Never used it. Installed it one time for about 5 minutes and then removed it. That was over 10 years ago found it to be a big pile of crap even back then.

 

[p05esto]

Hmm, I use WinAmp most days to listen to my MP3s. What in the world do other people use to listen to music while working on their PC? Seriously. People who know better would rather be shot than install iTunes and that's not really a music player anyway. Winamp is perfect for what it does and the 6yr old version I have works as good as I would ever want it to. I'll be using WinAmp for another 10 years I'm sure.

 

[smeezekitty]

I use VLC for most media

 

[sun-devil99]

I've been using WinAmp since around 1999 and still by far my favorite music player. I've tried Songbird, RealPlayer and others, but none had the playlist/media library setup I love with WinAmp. I hate iTunes and not just because it is an Apple product, but the whole interface (and install) is very difficult to use. I still have the WinAmp installer from when I put it on this computer this past summer, I have backed up it on a couple flash drives and my external hard drive.

 

[Darkk]

If they are shutting it down they should release the source code as open source so it can continue to be developed by the community.

 

[monsta]

What a shame I've been using it since it was first released, can't believe people prefer itunes over Winamp , this is sad news

 

[RedundantInk]

Here's to hoping AOL turns over the source code to GitHub or equivalent and we see an open source "Winamp Revisited" in the new year

 

[smeezekitty]

If they are shutting it down they should release the source code as open source so it can continue to be developed by the community.

+1

 

[hasten]

Loved it early and then even more in college. Nothing better than throwing on some plug in visualizations and some great tunes and melting away.

 

[thundervore]

Wow I didn't know this software still existed. I remember using this to listed my Napster downloads back in the dial up days. Then switched to realjukebox, then left realjukebox when they added realplayer to switch to WMP9. Now, I do not even listen to music on my computer. My phone takes care of that..

RIP. It was a long time coming

 

[keigo_kanzaki]

I regularly use Winamp too during browsing sessions, listening to classical or J-Pop radio from shoutcast. It still feels great.

Now after reading this news, I wonder if the shoutcast radio will also be turned off...

 

[trandoanhung1991]

People haven't moved on to Foobar2000 yet?

 

[smeezekitty]

Now, I do not even listen to music on my computer. My phone takes care of that..
ming

Doesn't that have less sound quality (not to mention not that practical)

 

[itchyisvegeta]

I still use it, and even have the app on my phone.

Sad.

 

[giovanni86]

This is a total bummer! I use it to stream digital trance and techno and hard music, i rather do that then try to use pandora. I primarily use winamp while gaming. If they don't sell it, they should release it and someone should keep it alive as a free download. That would be awesome

 

[gaborbarla]

I installed it the other day and it was like a blast from 1997. I was really surprised how Windows media player has evolved since the 90s and Winamp haven't. I guess that is why they have to shut stuff down.
Ps. I used to love winamp in the 90s but now it just feels very outdated compared to the competition.

 

[spentshells]

To bad, anytime I would buy a new gpu I would always fool around with the visualizations for an hour just to see if I could get it to throw an error.

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

The people who used winamp are in the 30s or 40s and don't care about music anymore. We are just realizing how much the music of today sucks and are tired of listening to songs from the 90s.

 

[knight_of_baawa]

I use Winamp for 98% of my audio files.

And never once has iAnything touched my computer.

 

[ksio89]

NOOOOOOOOO!

RIP buddy, thank you for those awesome 16 years ;(

 

[back_by_demand]

I have used it pretty much since day 1 in '97, it will be sad to see it go - instead of shutting down they should opensource it and release it to the world

 

[Pummel]

WINAMP....(echo Winamp).... it really whips the llama's ass!

 

[Guest]

Big mistake not on Linux UBUNTU!

XMMS. light on resources and works with old winamp skins.
http://www.xmms.org/

Well the last time I used Winamp it had live video streams tvstreams even movie streams(old classics), and beginner or amateur DJ's with a chat bar. You could search and browse inside the aplication for Winamp channels! Very entertaining I don't think it's included in XMMS.

 

[captainnemojr]

I guess the llama got the best of it...

 

[Pherule]

I used to use Winamp, then it started crashing. Then when I switched to Windows 8 and wanted most of my software to be portable, I found that it had no portable version.

I tried Aimp3 portable and found it to have all the features of Winamp and is better in almost every possible way.