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

[Kelthar]

Farewell Winamp

 

[knightofzeal]

I need to make sure to never delete that old installer I still have, to this day I still use Winamp with the plugins for nes,snes, and old game music and it still keeps up just fine. Play on.

 

[Fierce Guppy]

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

Are you using WinAMP 2.0? WinAMP has been AOL's since 1999. Few software utilities have such a long lifespan. That one did thanks to the support of a big company.

 

[mforce2]

For anyone looking for a good alternative I highly recommend qmmp. It's a clone of Winamp 2 and works well in both Linux and Windows.
It's also open source so it's as free as they come.

 

[Bloodcrow]

Dear AOL, while your company has been on the cutting edge of obsolescence and irrelevance, Winamp has somehow (until now) escaped your incompetence. Perhaps as an accidental moment of conscious or common sense, you will release this IP to the public as an open source project. At least that way, there will always be a community of music lovers that will have a positive memory of AOL instead of all of us simply remembering you as the incompetent, pretentious boobs that you've worked so hard to convince us you are.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

If it weren't for googling it, I'd have guessed this to be posted on the 1st of april ...
What's next? GM shutting down to promote public transport? or maybe china moving it's population to the moon? All three equally irrational

 

[dextermat]

Hope someone picks it up open source or something

 

[happyballz]

One of the most awesomest players there... all this plus Shout-cast ... hopefully someone will pick it up and make it live.

 

[Simon Ayres]

FML

 

[boby1]

Foobar2000 killed it.

 

[tobalaz]

I guess Winamp is the only thing AOL didn't f@ck up...
Oh wait, nevermind.

 

[Draven35]

And Justin Frankel, the original developer, now works on DAW software called REAPER... which we use in our DAW tests on workstations.

 

[knowom]

I stopped using Winamp after discovering and trying out Foobar it's really a better program imo and open source.

 

[Fierce Guppy]

It hung a lot in every Windows OS I've had from Windows 98 to Windows 7 but the video streaming side of it was the bit I liked. I watched the first and second season of Battlestar Galactica using WinAMP, and long before then, 300kbps porno.

 

[computer_noob]

I still have Winamp installed on my computer, and my phone, even though I use Foobar a lot more. It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

 

[PanzerIV]

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[PanzerIV]

Seems like Winamp is only known from "old-school" people. Ask any kid these days and none ever heard about Winamp. They all just use that POS of iTunes or whatever is already built-in with their computer or gets automaticly installed on their computer because they just click next-next-next-install.

I've always used Winamp from version 2 to 5.63 as with 64 there was a bug with the playlist but since it's gonna shutdown I'll get the last version even though I prolly don't need it and then keep it on my computer. It's still sad but it was expected to happen someday.

I tryed Foobar2000 but I really don't like the interface. As for VLC I prefer it much more for videos than music and I like to keep both seperated.

 

[JeffDaemon]

I loved winamp since day 1. Back in the day when the ONLY way to stream mp3 music was winplay3, winamp was the messiah everyone had waited for. Even today I still tend to install it for easy mp3 playback cause it has a better UI then MPC and loads quick.

 

[newbie_mcnoob]

Goodbye old friend! You will be missed.

 

[Mike Stewart]

The best music player ever created, ! dont worry Winamp you will always be in my pc !

 

[sonofliberty08]

Big mistake not on Linux UBUNTU!

maybe they could have a new start with Linamp

 

[RXG9]

If anyone is looking for a replacement for Winamp checkout MusicBee.

 

[Guest]

Well the program suits me just fine, I have no intention of using anything else and will continue with Winamp installations from disk --- the player of choice for me ... easy !!