1 (edited by infocastme 2013-11-20 17:48:24)

Topic: End of an Era

On December 20th, Winamp will shutdown after 15 years. AOL no longer wants to support the product. I am sure if they had kept up on the product, it would have been neck and neck with iTunes.
This was one of the first MP3 players I used on my computer. I even used the DOS version for certain applications.

It was fun while it lasted.

Here is a great article about Winamp's history from 2012. Was it a prediction of what was to come?

Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06 … id-itself/

2 (edited by nathanm 2013-11-27 07:51:08)

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I was about to post this. Listening to Daft Punk through it right now! I suggest everyone to get a copy of the latest release here: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373755 and play some mp3s (Through Milkdrop2, of course) for old time's sake. I have all of the versions currently available of 5.66 archived, and it looks like Archive Team's backing up the website. I'm worried about what's going to happen to Shoutcast, however.

EDIT: For you time travelers out there, I've uploaded all 3 versions of the installer here:(Link snipped, see edit below)
EDIT 2: But They're In Space: Winamp just got updated with version 5.666. That's an amazing number to finish a release on. Anyway, the download for all 3 installers of the new version can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpyi169iljcxh … mp5666.zip

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Oldversion also has previous versions of Winamp...and a bunch of other stuff.

http://www.oldversion.com/

WARNING: going to this site will consume vast amounts of your time.  ;-)

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Wow, like the loss of another old friend. I still use Winamp 2.81 as my main mp3 player. Won't stream aac+, but who cares. It runs fine on Windows 7. At 700 kb, it fit comfortably on a floppy, didn't screw up the Windows registry, only went to the Web if you wanted it to. Yup, a real keeper regardless of whatever AOL was thinking. Thanks for memorializing it here.

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News of Winamps demise may just be a bit premature

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/source … -from-aol/

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BoloMKXXVIII wrote:

News of Winamps demise may just be a bit premature

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/source … -from-aol/

M$ buying it?  How is it's death premature.  If AOL kills the project it's dead.  If M$ buys winamp it's dead.

I haven't used winamp in about 10 years with the exception of giving the android version.  The reason?  The first 3 letters.

I tried the android version a couple years ago and hated the "flow" of the app.  Back didn't take you back across a breadcrumb trail, you couldn't navigate through intuitively, etc.  I don't like the google "Music" offering much better, but I do like it better.

Linux Guy - Occasional Chumby Hacker

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BoloMKXXVIII, thanks for the update. Like the article said, it is hard to see what MS would do with the product. Letting it go open source would be the best thing to happen but we all know that is just pie in the sky wishing.

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Note that AOL is also planning on shutting down SHOUTcast, however, apparently Microsoft is interested in acquiring both SHOUTcast and Winamp.

Of course, this has implications for Chumby - the current SHOUTcast functionality would certainly not survive a shutdown, and it's not clear what would happen should Microsoft take it over.

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I'm pretty sure that Microsoft's only buying it for Shoutcast, so they can integrate it into their "Xbox Music" software.

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I was curious on what was happening with Winamp since the site was still up and there have been no updates on the status.

Well is seems that the new owner is http://www.radionomy.com/en.

Visiting the site I found that they have hundreds of stations playing anything you would ever want to listen to. They even have the stations available in .m3u format.

Word on the forums is that the new owner is really interested in Shoutcast. It will be interesting where it all goes from here.

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@ infocastme- thanks for the info. FYI, the link above got a little lost in the HTML translation- the "period" was included in the URL, so it wouldn't go through for me. Link without the extra "dot"-

http://www.radionomy.com/en

The site looks good, great selection. But for some reason they only open for me in their own online player, not in Winamp. But, they behave like m3u/pls streams, and work with flash turned off. I can't figure out how to find the actual address of the stream with the m3u/pls extension. Any tips? Think I just forgot how to do it! Thanks.

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Honestly, I just think Radionoym bought Winamp so they could have the listener base of ShoutCast. I don't know what they'll do to the desktop application now.

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bobsz wrote:

@ infocastme- thanks for the info. FYI, the link above got a little lost in the HTML translation- the "period" was included in the URL, so it wouldn't go through for me. Link without the extra "dot"-

http://www.radionomy.com/en

The site looks good, great selection. But for some reason they only open for me in their own online player, not in Winamp. But, they behave like m3u/pls streams, and work with flash turned off. I can't figure out how to find the actual address of the stream with the m3u/pls extension. Any tips? Think I just forgot how to do it! Thanks.

Thanks for correcting the URL.

If you click on the station name, its information will be shown and m3u info will be in the upper right corner.
Hope this helps.