WinAmp shuts down!

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  1. Keitosha

    Keitosha Ancient Guru

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    As per 20th of December, WinAmp will be no more. :(

    Source

    Some may love it or hate it. For me, I used it from the beginning and I can start looking for a replacement (Foobar2000? AIMP?).
    What would happen to Shoutcast?
     
  2. Extraordinary

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    wow, a blast from the past, never used or spoken about winamp for years

    I remember it having cool visualisations and something about a Llama :D
     
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    lol winamp i thout that was gone years ago i used it in win98 days
     
  4. eclap

    eclap Banned

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    used it since day one. until some years ago. rip

    @Keitosha - give foobar a go
     

  5. Undying

    Undying Ancient Guru

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    That's a shame indeed.
     
  6. Speed Weed

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    Does foobar live up to its name?
     
  7. Extraordinary

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    I just use MPC or VLC
     
  8. BigBlockTowncar

    BigBlockTowncar Ancient Guru

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    what a shame...I use Winamp every day. I'll have to save the download file for future use.
     
  9. IcE

    IcE Don Snow

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    I'm one of those weirdos who likes WMP for playing music, so this doesn't affect me...lol
     
  10. Ghosty

    Ghosty Ancient Guru

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    I use Foobar these days too. Winamp had some great skins though.
     

  11. MiMiK

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    What!!?!?!?!
     
  12. Extraordinary

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    It'll still be easy to find once they remove the official link
     
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    Still using winamp for 10+ years now
     
  14. -Tj-

    -Tj- Ancient Guru

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    :(


    Was my favorite for a long loong time. Well it still will be, 5.66 looks stable enough..


    I just found new great plugins (maiko wasapi.dll and dsp enhancer v0.17)and finally discovered how to manually tweak skins *(xfi skin mod):D
    [​IMG]
     
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  15. nhlkoho

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    Oh noes what about Shoutcast? I use that every day to listen to Howard Stern.
     

  16. lmimmfn

    lmimmfn Ancient Guru

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    started using it in 1998 until about 5-6 years ago when it just became a bloated/awkward to use mess, i dont know if it changed after that but before that it was my favourite compact and tidy mp3 player for PC.

    Now i just use XBMC on my media centre and crappy WMP on my gaming PC.

    Shame its going but i can see why.
     
  17. airbud7

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    Me too...I see nothing wrong with wmp.
     
  18. dark_surge

    dark_surge Master Guru

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    I used to use Winamp all the time back in the early to mid 2000's. From what I remember it became kind of bloated. Still, it always sucks to see a small company go under.
     
  19. tsunami231

    tsunami231 Ancient Guru

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    NOOOOO Winamp the only music player I like, I damn near use it every day to listen to Shoutcast and my mp3's, I absolutely despise WMP and have so since wmp8
     
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  20. Ryu5uzaku

    Ryu5uzaku Ancient Guru

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    Ah finally it's dying :eek: winamp was so bloated and whatnot that hurrr.
     

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