After 15 Years Of Whipping The Llama’s Ass, Winamp Shuts Down

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

jimbo

Yep. I do!

 

[boohbah]

me too, but my preferred movie player of choice is splash player, well worth giving it a try.
there is a free version also but it has less features.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Dedicated Music Player

I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

jimbo

Yep. I do!

Agreed.

In W7, I use:

• MPC-HC as my main video player
• VLC as my backup video player (and when I want to hardsub videos)
• Winamp as my main music player

In XP, I use:

• MPC-HC as my main video player
• VLC as my backup video player
• WMP 10 as my main music player (IMO, the last good WMP version)
• Winamp as my backup music player

In Linux Mint 16 MATE, I use:

• VLC as my main video player (and when I want to hardsub videos)
• Banshee as my music player

 

[M1GU31]

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

 

[OvenMaster]

I think a lot of people keep VLC for VIDEO while using a dedicated AUDIO player for audio applications.

jimbo

Yep. I do!

Yep I do too. Winamp for music. VLC for video etc.

+1
Absolutely. When I got Windows 7 I reached for Winamp immediately after discovering what a piece of junk WMP12 was. I'll keep using it as long as I can install and run it.

 

[Sub Styler]

I have been using winamp since win98, it was better back then as an audio player. Once support was added for .wma's I would say winamp was at it's peak. Since the addition of the media library and all that came with it, although I still used winamp it had lost it's edge as a fast light player that would play anything you could throw at it.

Well theres my 2 pence worth. I still use winamp and will continue to do so.

 

[jimbo45]

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

Hi there.

I HATE ICHOONES !!

Also it's nearly (or almost) impossible to get GOOD UNCOMPRESSED music from them these days -- OK nothing wrong with some compressed formats for listening on portable music devices on the go (while travelling) but I like HIGH QUALITY UNCOMPRESSED music on high end equipment - and ICHOONES often has stuff riddled with DRM so it's a hideous mess if you want to move / play music on other devices.

Huge Mass storage devices are ridiculously cheap these days so there's no problem keeping uncompressed music and then compressing it as and when you need to for Ipods etc. Remember also every time you process a LOSSY compressed music format such as edit it etc you get LOWER quality - so eventually the mp3 or so will degrade to barely listenable after a few edits -- FLAC / WAV is uncompressed so you can use this as your master copy and make mp3 copies as often as you like --- some of you will soon want better than the 128 kps mp3 that ICHOONES often has.

@Sub Styler

- you don't have to use Media libraries in winamp - you can simply use it as a basic Audio player. It seems to play FLAC,WAV,APE,OGG, MP3 (and probably others) without any problems -- I don't have any other formats other than some ATRAC Minidiscs and I don't bother with Windows Media format either, but If I'm playing minidiscs I do it via a professional Studio quality minidisc player connected directly to a stand alone high end audio set. For Computer listening I'll continue to use Winamp until it no longer functions. (Minidiscs are still great for recording at concerts / live gigs etc - even though it's old technology - the newer stuff just doesn't have the recording quality).

BTW there's no LIMIT to a folder size you can play in Winamp -- I've set up some disks as "Spanned Volumes" in Windows so I've got an aggregate of a few older 750 GB disks as a spanned set of a 3 TB data space (you don't need RAID 0 in Windows - Windows spanned volumes does it better and you can have DIFFERENT size volumes in the set as well). This is my main Music folder -- I can set Winamp to play the entire 3TB if I want to !!!

If you do span volumes though remember to have backups as a loss of any volume in the set results in the loss of the whole data space - HDD's are reliable these days if they are used for things like music libraries or user data rather than for the OS itself - taking backups every so often will ensure you won't have a problem --you don't need to backup the entire thing in one go - just backup various sub directories every so often,

Cheers
jimbo

 

[lehnerus2000]

It also has a nice built-in format convertor too (I sometimes need to covert FLAC into other formats).

 

[Indianatone]

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

This is not an insult or meant to start any kind of a flame war, but only an Apple user would say "why add or change stuff it just works". Just working has never been good enough for me. iTunes is an abomination that takes over and organises your files as Apple sees fit and does not have a place on any of my systems. Even Quicktime has grown into an overblown monster that installs extra crap that is not needed.
There I said it. Perhaps you should try Winamp instead of itunes. Winamp plays music and it plays it very well and does as it is told.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
Anyway nice to see how many people are still using WINAMP -- I never realized how many people still like it.

With Winamp you can arrange your music how YOU like (or not arrange if you want to) and play it via URL, Folder, OPF (audio live streams) Files etc etc -- No way will I ever use proprietary data base systems for my music libraries -- apart from most of them restricting you to a single volume these proprietary libraries can break and it's impossible to re-create them. Also if you want to move or re-arrange stuff - it's often IMPOSSIBLE too.

I'm not one for AOL though -- although it DID come out with the "Kiddy Arrangement" for a desktop long before Ms even thought of Metro for the W8 interface (although at least for W8.1 you can bypass this and boot straight to desktop).

Notice though the AOL interface was marked for Kids only -- so that's where Ms is heading is it. !!

Enjoy this picture also of Bygone days.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[synth]

I'm 22 and I started learning about computers about 11 years ago and back then Winamp was the music player of choice, but tbh, I haven't used it since I bought my first iPod roughly 9 years ago and HAD to install iTunes. I used WMP10 for a while but I really like iTunes for the reason of not wanting to install two music players because of my iPod. But still, Winamp has been a big part of my early stages in Information Technology.

Although I do not use it anymore, just the fact that knowing it is not there anymore will be nostalgic. It will be missed indeed. I share your sympathies.

 

[TVeblen]

Sorry, off topic....
Boy Jimbo, that picture says it all! I think you graphically expressed what has been bothering me about Win8 all along.

Windows 7 is like an old, classic car - with it's transparent windows, glowing buttons, and just an bright, elegant look to it, as opposed to Win8 that is just flat - a 16 color, crayon world that does (now) remind me of Windows 3.1.

 

[sreesesr]

Aol sucks...

That's too bad Winamp got handed over to such a crappy company...they let a great player go to crap. Paid for it years ago and still use it.

 

[Indianatone]

That's too bad Winamp got handed over to such a crappy company...they let a great player go to crap. Paid for it years ago and still use it.

Welcome to Seven Forums sreesesr

 

[Indianatone]

I have found a new player that sounds better than Winamp and is free. It also has some very nice skins including a record deck, several cassette decks and a couple of reel to reel tape decks. The visualizations and plug-ins from Winamp work in it too. I live the default orange grey and black set-up too (easily changed). Another useful media player.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_aimp/

 

[A Guy]

Petition to turn Winamp into open source software has over 12,000 signatures

Last week, AOL announced that version 5.66 of its Winamp media player would be its last and that all support and downloads for the 15-year old free application would end on December 20th. Now a movement to convince AOL to turn over the Winamp code to the open source community has started a petition that has already generated over 12,000 online signatures.

Source

A Guy

 

[M1GU31]

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

This is not an insult or meant to start any kind of a flame war, but only an Apple user would say "why add or change stuff it just works". Just working has never been good enough for me. iTunes is an abomination that takes over and organises your files as Apple sees fit and does not have a place on any of my systems. Even Quicktime has grown into an overblown monster that installs extra crap that is not needed.
There I said it. Perhaps you should try Winamp instead of itunes. Winamp plays music and it plays it very well and does as it is told.

I don't own any apple stuff besides the phones or ipods. Anyways is just easy, does everything already that I need. I already tried winamp it feels like any other player since the only time i open them up is to hear music nothing else or to put music in the phones or ipods ect. I got no loyalty to apple if that's what you think. I just use what ever to be honest and since I need itunes for the ipods ect I just keep that installed and don't feel the need to have multiple music players installed. I don't use it for anything professional I just want to hear music and this is just what happens I end up using though I am open for anything else that could be a good music player. Winamp is fine and works fine , I just don't like having multiple apps that do pretty much the same stuff and i'm more of a casual music listener where ill'l just open the app to hear music or put music on one of my devices. I will give it a go again but I haven't found anything worth while at least yet to keep using it , the radio thing is nice but I don't use that since I just listen to what ever is on my computer. I'm happy you enjoy winamp and encourage you to keep using it since you like it. I don't use quick time myself so I have no opinion on that matter.

I just use itunes easy and can put music on the iphone/ipods we have. For videos I just use the default WMP just works why change or add stuff if it just works.

Hi there.

I HATE ICHOONES !!

Also it's nearly (or almost) impossible to get GOOD UNCOMPRESSED music from them these days -- OK nothing wrong with some compressed formats for listening on portable music devices on the go (while travelling) but I like HIGH QUALITY UNCOMPRESSED music on high end equipment - and ICHOONES often has stuff riddled with DRM so it's a hideous mess if you want to move / play music on other devices.

Huge Mass storage devices are ridiculously cheap these days so there's no problem keeping uncompressed music and then compressing it as and when you need to for Ipods etc. Remember also every time you process a LOSSY compressed music format such as edit it etc you get LOWER quality - so eventually the mp3 or so will degrade to barely listenable after a few edits -- FLAC / WAV is uncompressed so you can use this as your master copy and make mp3 copies as often as you like --- some of you will soon want better than the 128 kps mp3 that ICHOONES often has.

I respect your ideas on their app and have no problem with and can see why you dislike it. Thanks for commenting learned a couple things. As I said the app works fine and sounds fine imo though i'm open to trying other things and hearing them in that other format. I mainly just use mp3's and a couple flac's. If there was another app that could sync to iphones ect trust me I would be using something else.

 

[Indianatone]

NBC news comments :
Still love Winamp? You can try to save it from being shuttered by AOL - NBC News.com

 

[michaelst]

I use WinAmp on my Galaxy Tab2 7", but on my desktop PC, I use Zune. It's actually pretty nice.

Another alternative is Songbird.

But still, sad to see WinAmp go. It was a straight forward, no non-sense organizer of music.

 

[boohbah]

I signed the petition now, expecting tons of spam each week about other petitions but it was worth it.