WinAmp dies today - download it while you can

No major loss... decent media players are a dime-a-dozen on the interwebs!

These days I'm using foobar2000... great sound quality... but the ui is a bit dated!
 
Switched to MediaMonkey years ago and then forgot about good 'ol Winamp. I think back then MediaMonkey had better direct iPod support and better mp3 tagging features.
 
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so it’s probably best to get it while you still can
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Lol. Those files will remain forever available on the internet on a thousand repositories.
 
I have been using VLC for a few years now and prefer it to anything else. It plays everything we throw at it.

I use Winamp back in the day but found VLC easier to use, made a switch and never looked back.
 
fond memories of pre WinXP days... used to get lots of extras for Winamp, ..... remembering the Christmas dancer chicks :)
 
I will still use WinAmp. I like the search function (control-J) for large playlists. It will never me dead for me.
 
Garyvdh said:
Why don't the owners just release the source code to the public domain? :confused:
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They're hoping to make some money from it someday? (likely by selling it)
Similar to how EA sits with the Dungeon Keeper license but doesn't make a sequel.
 
Garyvdh said:
Why don't the owners just release the source code to the public domain? :confused:
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Simple answer: the owners may not own all of the source code. The code would likely contain code licensed by, and belonging to third parties (I'm thinking of music and video decoding code in particular), and this code cannot simply be open-sourced unless the third parties concerned agree to do so.

It would only be possible to release the parts of the source code owned by Nullsoft/AOL/whoever under the GPL, or whatever other license takes their fancy. The parts of the source code not owned by them will either have to be excluded from the release or rewritten from scratch by people without any knowledge of the non-owned code to avoid potential taint issues -- both of which are extremely time-consuming operations; going through the code to make sure that nothing is accidentally published that can be later brought up by some patent/copyright troll is both expensive and risky. With the multitude of alternative players currently available, there is little benefit to be had.

If it were a matter of simply dumping code on the web, you'd find a lot more companies doing it, for the PR boost if nothing else. Sadly, this is not possible.

That said, the Milkdrop component was released under the BSD license a few years ago.
 
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Sad to see it go but in all fairness a few years after Its release there were far better music players released.

The only thing that I hope doesn't stop is Shoutcast, I've been using it for decades, and its the main music streamer for Second Life, if it stops Second life Clubs would really suck :(
 
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