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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on November 11, 2004, 09:40:23 pm

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Kamikaze on November 11, 2004, 09:40:23 pm

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/11/11/1348218.shtml?tid=120&tid=141

Nullsoft has finally lost all of its devs. Apparently winamp will still get
updated occasionally, but it sounds like there won't be any more feature additions.

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Martinus on November 11, 2004, 10:16:19 pm

[color=66ff00]It became bloatware after 2.91 anyhow. If you're feeling nostalgic though you can install one of the many clones available. :yes:
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Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Liberator on November 11, 2004, 10:24:16 pm

I like Winamp 5.  This is too bad.  But it's still better that Windows Media Player for MP3s, but I use MP Classic for everything else.

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Thorn on November 11, 2004, 10:49:19 pm

5 isnt as bloated if you turn off the advanced skins. I just use the classic style. Ugly as hell, but its not meant to be pretty. Its meant to play music.

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Kamikaze on November 11, 2004, 11:15:54 pm

Maeg: Yeah, I liked 2.91 too. On my Win boxes I use that. On my Linux boxes I use XMMS or BMP, both are winamp clones.

Foobar 200 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) and Zinf (http://www.zinf.org) are pretty good free alternative players. Foobar2000 in nice because it's made for the power user and has a lot of features   that require plugins for other players (MPC support is nice).

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Clave on November 12, 2004, 12:16:48 am

So... it's Loseamp now? :drevil:

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: ChronoReverse on November 12, 2004, 12:17:54 am

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It became bloatware after 2.91 anyhow. If you're feeling nostalgic though you can install one of the many clones available

And became unbloat againt when it hit 5.x

In any case, it too bad WA isn't going to be updated anymore.  I was really hoping they'd at least implement the WA3 Media Library in WA5 as well.

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Alan Bolte on November 12, 2004, 12:59:36 am

I really am enjoying WA5 with the Invicta advanced skin (stick mode) - on an ancient computer that barely plays Half-Life. This is a sad day, in my view.

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: kasperl on November 12, 2004, 01:27:17 pm

WA5 is actually quite a good player, very easy on the system, nice and reliable, good skinnability, nice system alltogether. A true pity.

Title: Winamp is Dead
Post by: Sandwich on November 12, 2004, 05:16:18 pm

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Originally posted by ChronoReverse
In any case, it too bad WA isn't going to be updated anymore.  I was really hoping they'd at least implement the WA3 Media Library in WA5 as well.

Uhh... Winamp5 HAS v3's Media Library. :wtf: