I agree with that. For me, Amarok is simply the best audio player in comparison with all audio players I've tried in other platforms. Didn't know there was a Clementine version for Windows; I'll install it next time I boot Windows.

Today someone reminded me of Winamp. Dunno why because i prefer to not use it anyway. And winamp website seems to have changed but works!

You were playing Quake, you played like a llama, and you got your ass whipped?

Napster?

You think that they are newbies...Until this thread, I've never heard of Winamp. My first computing experience was Windows ME on our family computer. I remember I would type a letter every week and mail it to my uncle in a nursing home until he died... there were [looks in the directory] ...wha? I kid you not, there are 128 typed letters in there. I didn't even know what binary was back then....wow.
Who would have thought that this forum would have lead me to discover that???

Back to WinME- I never remember having any problems with it... regardless of what people say, for a 8-to-10-year-old, it worked fine. But then again, we had dial-up, so I never touched the Internet until we got DSL during 8th grade.

When we got our XP desktop in 05 (which we still have and use), my dad copied over ALL of our files through two 512MB flash drives...and we had to reboot ME every time we unplugged

Wow, I really got off topic there...sorry

And to prove your point, I spend a lot time in the newbie forum

win... dows?

Actually no. My family was not that rich and only got PC later.

To be honest, Winamp died when AOL took over and slowly fired all of the original Nullsoft. They've been at version 5 for quite a while now....

By the way, MPD deserves a mention here. It's great for building entertainment centers, and has clients for a variety of PC and mobile platforms.

that's really sad that wimamp is dead.

All our good memories are maybe gone now, so far, of our early ages of computer in 95s...

Long live VLC! Oh, sorry had to blurt it...

VLC is nothing to be compared to Mplayer.

Usually Windows users prefer VLC rather than SMplayer or mplayer, because it is simple to use.

I've only used mplayer for CLI (lots of choices...) plus VLC goes deeper than most users realize especially winblow$ users.

Nonsense, but you are entitled to your opinion.

Both are fantastic, although personally I've been using mplayer for a long time. It is hugely configurable, and supports everything from ladspa plugins to jack to the framebuffer.

Coming back to the original discussion, Winamp might come back, I mean, yes they've got to remove the "proprietary" code that AOL "owns", but the company that bought it will do something with it, rather than just close it down. They would have done better to just release the code as they did with Mozilla, but I don't think it would have mattered much. Sure, it plays mp3, but so does everything else.

I am more concerned about Opera. Decades of developing the Presto rendering engine, and they're just gonna call it quits? What's gonna happen to the code? Actually, they would have done better to release it as open source, but I doubt they will. For one, it still runs their opera mini transcoders (or does it?)

You guys aren't using vlc and mplayer to listen to music, right? Right?