r.i.p. Winamp shutting down on December 20, 2013

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Found via Reddit: The end of an era - Winamp will shut down a month from now. 

 

 

Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.

 

Source: Winamp.com

 

Shame, I used Winamp for ages back in the early 2000s. R.I.P.

[Boo Berry]

Wow, end of an era. I used to use Winamp back in the day, then I switched to iTunes/foobar2000. I was actually thinking about giving it a shot again before I moved to JRiver Media Center.

 

R.I.P. Winamp. :(

[RadishTM Veteran]

Ah, Winamp v2 on Windows XP. Those were the days, R.I.P. (Y)

[tagerd0g]

that's too bad. I currently use Winamp

[LimeMaster]

This is sad to hear as it was a decent player and supported some of the more obscure music file formats. :( R.I.P Winamp.

[trag3dy]

That's a shame. I like most others used winamp, too. And then Foobar for quite a while and am now using Aimp3. I find that Aimp3 is a pretty good successor to winamp. 

[Boo Berry]

Honestly, I stopped using Winamp after Nullsoft was bought by AOL. Winamp 2.10 forever. <3

[Vvo]

same here

[Phouchg]

Any guesses as to why? I mean, it's one thing to just discontinue updates or fixes and barely anyone would notice, another is suddenly slamming the door shut.

[snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member]

Winamp lost much of its traction because of 3 being pretty crappy. I don't think it ever really gained its following back.

[Boo Berry]

Maybe AOL is loosing so much money they're shutting Winamp down? I mean, seriously, the whole Winamp Pro thing was a disaster - I don't know anyone who bought a license.

[protocol7]

Any guesses as to why? I mean, it's one thing to just discontinue updates or fixes and barely anyone would notice, another is suddenly slamming the door shut.

 

AOL most likely.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Guess the llamas ass finally got kicked too much! :no:

[fusi0n]

Winamp, what great times we had together. 

[torrentthief]

I have been a loyal winamp user, i've used it for 15yrs, i use the classic skin as i don't like the modern look, it also uses way less ram. I'm really sad to see the development stopped. I doubt it will be opensourced.

 

v5.66 was released today btw.

[Max Norris]

That's a shame, was my go-to a few years back before switching to Foobar... just got too bloated for my tastes. Been around a good long time.

[tsupersonic]

Wow, sad. v2 was my go to player for music back in the day. 

[simonlang]

what?!?! i did NOT see that one coming. not at all.

i associate great times and memories with winamp and winamp.com. i remember it was probably 13-14 years ago when i learnt about the mp3 format, i even installed winamp but had no internet so i spend many weekends with my uncle and downloaded massive ammounts of skins from winamp website - i loved those emulating car-radios :punk:

also later on, when it became a pro version i found their concept fair to still offer a free basic version.

 

RIP :(

[FiB3R]

Maybe if I ever paid for the Pro version, things would have been different :(

 

I've only just started using foo, and I'm happy enough with it, but this is still sad news.

[Mystic Mungis]

Guess the llamas ass finally got kicked too much! :no:

I'm embarassed by how much I laughed at this. 

 

R.I.P Winamp, used to use it around 2009 and I remember having a Fast And The Furious skin for it and when you launched Winamp a car would drive out and skid around then the hood would pop open and the controls were in it... I thought I was the bee's knees :p

[mps69]

Wow really surprised to read this. Like everyone else used this back in the day, until I found foobar.

Hopefully the source code will be made public and someone will pick it up reviving it in the near future.

[Xenon]

I loved winamp. It would be nice if they open sourced it.

[Andre S. Veteran]

Guess the llamas ass finally got kicked whipped too much! :no:

Fixed that for ya ;)

[Elliot B.]

This is really sad news!

 

I've used Winamp for at least 10 years now :( So much software on my computers have come and gone and Winamp is one of the only ones that stuck!

[Pupik]

Shoutcast will be going down too :( ?