Winamp is officially dead

"Winamp Winamp Winamp....it really whips the llamas a....."

One of my most memorable phrases growing up. Along with "its time to kick a.. and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outta gum."

You will be missed.
 
Noooo!!!! Not WinAmp!

I love that it plays everything, it has an equalizer, you can assign separate soundcards, start multiple instances, you can specify all manner of cross-fading and the visuals weren't half-bad either. What else combines all these features???

What sad, sad news. :(
 
Viva said:
In my honest opinion, Winamp's downfall was exactly the fact that it changed so little over the years. A default installation resulted in a dated-looking piece of software. It always was a great media player, but for software to stay relevant, development (especially with regards to UI) needs to constantly be advancing.
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I do not concur with this....

The purpose of Winamp is to play music, what more was it meant to do?, it already did ripping, managed my music library and could burn dvd's , in addition to all this, there were quite a few clever plugins and visualizations.... I for one hosted many a karaoke evening up here with the cd+g plugin.....

If you keep advancing, then you start to make the interface more complicated....
 
Back in the day (Winamp 2), I wrote a plugin that tracked and logged the messages and commands sent between various windows so you could see how various buttons and messages interacted across the app. Could filter the messages based on action too. Released to the dev community as a tool for free.

I then wrote a rating plugin where you could set a rating and tempo per track using global windows hotkeys. Done like this so you could rate your music with a quick keyboard press without winamp being visible. I listened to music a lot while coding - so handy.

Then I wrote a plugin for the play list that integrated with the filter options. Select tempo 5 (fast) for an upbeat day, or 1 for slow morbid stuff, then ratings 4+5 (great and best) and your play list is filtered by only this music. Made it easy to get to your best music based on mood. At the time, I don't recall another music player that could do any of this.

Winamp 3 changed the plugin architecture and I had no time to alter all my plugin (just some of them).

A mate of mine and myself used winamp to run an alternative/goth/metal club in PMB for a while. The plugin made it super easy to set the play list up and get on the dance floor ourselves :)

So ye - sad day. Was very fond of this player - and good memories. Not used in a while though (getting too old).
 
Oh no. I've been using it for ten years now. Can't deal with the loss.
 
Instead of shutting it down, they ought to have sent it opensource. Iam sure there are more fans out there
 
Agh no, this is so sad! I loved winamp 2.8. This is one of the best media players around and definitely part of my growing up and getting into "computers".

Like everyone else said, it did the job well and didn't need to have some fancy UI to make it more "market acceptable".
 
The creators have nothing to lose if they let the source in the open.

Nostalgia... :(
 
Mike Smit said:
Back in the day (Winamp 2), I wrote a plugin that tracked and logged the messages and commands sent between various windows so you could see how various buttons and messages interacted across the app. Could filter the messages based on action too. Released to the dev community as a tool for free.

I then wrote a rating plugin where you could set a rating and tempo per track using global windows hotkeys. Done like this so you could rate your music with a quick keyboard press without winamp being visible. I listened to music a lot while coding - so handy.

Then I wrote a plugin for the play list that integrated with the filter options. Select tempo 5 (fast) for an upbeat day, or 1 for slow morbid stuff, then ratings 4+5 (great and best) and your play list is filtered by only this music. Made it easy to get to your best music based on mood. At the time, I don't recall another music player that could do any of this.

Winamp 3 changed the plugin architecture and I had no time to alter all my plugin (just some of them).

A mate of mine and myself used winamp to run an alternative/goth/metal club in PMB for a while. The plugin made it super easy to set the play list up and get on the dance floor ourselves :)

So ye - sad day. Was very fond of this player - and good memories. Not used in a while though (getting too old).
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Hey Mike,

You keen on writing an open source player similar to Winamp? I'm game, would love to have a media player that has all of the good parts of Winamp and none of the bad
 
To be honest, Winamp was not really relevant any more. But one function that will be the reason for me still using it, is the Control-J which brings up an awesome and straight-forward search function.
 
Winamp killed itself with bloatware. I havent used winamp in such a long time... but I still remember the days my PC was too under powered to run (back in the day of the 386 processors)
 
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This is so sad. I haven't used any other music player since primary school. I still remember the speaker plugin where the cones used to move to the music. And tweaking your visualisations to get them running smooth on full screen... :'(
 
I really liked Winamp, before meeting VLC.

Sad that it will soon stop whipping the llama's ass...
 
I've never felt comfortable using VLC to play music. For videos, sure. But not music
 
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