Winamp is officially dead.
After 15 years of llama-whipping, AOL shuts down Winamp for good
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Apart from the obvious "we all started with Winamp" factor, Winamp was a huge influence on Linux's audio players. Slackware 14.1 still ships with xmms, which is a faithful Winamp 2 clone. And I believe Audacious is still compatible with Winamp 2 skins. |
WTF? Do we have epidemic that kills good stuff now? Like recently Opera died now Winamp dies..who is next?
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Windows 98?? Darn Newbies. Some of us started with the Commodore 64 midi player and piggybacked our own SID chips to get stereo.
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I can't help but see Winamp as something that was unofficially dead since ages ago. And for good reasons: the UX leaves a lot to be desired.
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I think the great thing about old versions of WA is that they were simple yet powerful and pretty much just worked. What more could you want from a music player? Sure, if you're into specialist stuff, or like to organize albums etc then you'd want something a bit more elaborate, however if you had a list of tracks that you wanted to play with a lightweight free tool then Winamp hit the spot. It certainly has a place in my heart from growing up in the 2000's :) .
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What I most liked about Winamp was its skinability. I still use some of my old Winamp skins with XMMS, though mostly I use VLC now because it just works.
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Dang, thats a shame. I have very fond memories of Winamp, and messing with it's plugins. Hell I still have Winamp on my system, even though I am only running Slackware now, I still have Winamp installed under Wine...
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Goodbye winamp!
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FINE! Use Foobar2000 then for offline music. People still brag how great this one is... :rolleyes: Also Firefox is next in line for Chrome disease.. |
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