Winamp is officially dead

foobar2000 to the rescue.

Turned into bloatware long ago, I don't remember anyone that used it in years.

Really? what bloatware? I have used the pro version for years, why? because it is a damn good player that has a lot of decent skins, plugins and visualizations. I guess those things you might consider bloatware but I personally like eye candy sometimes. I have the latest version on multiple backups so I will not miss it. 

If I remember right, WInamp was one of the first programs that could be skinned, so it is a hstorical event for skinning also.

When I click a song in a folder, I expect it to play, not wait 2-3 minutes while all this other shit loads.

I don't know what you are talking about. I load songs fast and as a matter of fact just as fast or faster then any other player I use. There are plenty of options you can uncheck to stop the other thing from loading but even with them checked it does not take 2-3 minutes to load a song. You must have a bug in your install or some other issue going on.

Thanks for the headsup c242!

Ya thanks for passing that along.  WinAmp and I have always gotten along just fine.

I used winamp for quite some time as it was the default player for Sysmetrix. Then Xion came along and that was that.

I've been using Winamp to sync my Ipod for years.  That way I haven't been forced to load Itunes which is legitimately annoying software.

Buddy and I talked about this for a while last night.  Amazing how many college and post college memories are tied to early Winamp.  Lots of Winamp controlled music in those days.  

I like the Android version as well. Got em both!  Thanks, Carl!

Thanks for the info c242!

 muchas gracias por la informacion. winamp es mi reproductor de música por excelencia, me encanta sus visualizaciones es la

diferencia entre una computadora y un reproductor de música  :'(

thank you very much for the info. winamp is my quintessential music player, I love your visualizations is the difference between a computer and a music player :'(

No... it's really kicked the llama's bucket.

I'm going to have to completely disagree with that. iTunes is my default music player.

Sad...........All good things come to an end, so they say!

Thanks for the heads-up, Carl

Not sure what others are using out there now (aside from iFolk).  I'm currently trying out MusicBee.  So far, so good..

http://getmusicbee.com/

MusicBee looks like the copycat of Foobar2000. 

This news really f-ing sucks. I love me some Winamp. I've used it for as long as I can remember. It was the first app that introduced me to skinning and all of it's possibilities. Winamp's skins and the need to find more is what brought me here. I will definitley be downloading the last available version.

I didn't see anything about the mobile version, which I use on Android.

My fallback is MediaMonkey, which happens to run all of the Winamp plugins, so I don't know how that will play out either.

Maybe someone or some group will rescue/revive it. 

Agreed.

I use an old version of winamp without all the bloat.

Hey PO you may be in luck according to TECHCRUNCH news this morning Microsoft is in talks with AOL about the purchase of Nullsoft Winamp and ShoutCast radio. I also have used Winamp Pro version for 3 years now and I will have no other media player period. Also on Petition.org they have A petition drive to save Winamp or make it Open Source!!!!

Sorry I posted wrong address it is Change .org where you can sign a petition to save Winamp. For all you Winamp lovers PLEASE GO SIGN!

Good riddance to bad rubbish, Winamp turned into bloat ware long ago. I am going to petition Change.org to set up a petition to NOT save Winamp.