Winamp music player shuts down for good -- or not? UPDATE

I just use VLC to play music and videos. It works very well and have never had a problem with it.

damn, have used Winamp for like 15 years.

I remember using it ages ago - now can't be bothered with it. I guess the same, they attempted to make something good better by just slapping extra crap no one wants on it, throwing in some additional adware and spyware, etc.

"I stopped using them years ago tho, latest version is full of bloat and features that I don't need."

So according to that logic, next news report - Microsoft Windows shuts down for good?

Winamp 1.666!
But seriously... these days, YouTube or VLC. Nowhere near as feature-nice as oldschool Winamp, but everything else is lacking and AOL destroyed newer Winamp with all the (mostly optional, but still annoying to disable) bloat.
tbh, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did with AOL.
And I'm thankful that Justin and co. have other projects that are still very useful (Reaper, Twitch.tv)

I don't listen to music...

I also use AIMP. It's what Winamp 2 should have become: it improves it in every way without adding any bloat.

Most of the music I listen to is via a bloat-reduced Winamp player with the Maiko WASAPI plugin and then through my DAC. This is sad.

EDIT: If anyone knows another player that supports Wav, Wavpack, FLAC, ALAC and APE files and bit-perfect playback up to 24 bit/192 Khz please let me know. Foobar is too ugly, but it has fairly good plugin support so that might be the only option if the current Winamp build gets buggy (the version before the current build suddenly started to freeze when scanning the library).
I would probably use itunes if the output wasn't so restricted, I like the clean interface and the organization (+ I have an ipod), the sound quality is just subpar for home listening.

While I mourn for this popular audio player I love iTunes and have tried many other alternatives without success.

RIP Winamp...used it so much in middle/high school

I still use WinAMP :(

Foobar2000 is awesome, especially for people with large audio collections.

I have the mobile app...I paid for some of the features on it too like the Album Washer very recently....:(

I use both WinAMP and Foobar2000, but I still like to use the former. :/

welp, RIP winamp, used them before for maybe 6 years, then switched to foobar

Never liked it, I use Windows Media Player for mp3s, VLC for everything else.

Used it during the Napster and Kazaa days.

MediaMonkey.

I liked WinAmp 1 & 2, but with 3 they gone in a wrong lane...

Amarok 1 was a good player too, I liked it, but with the release 2, I did not really liked the changes... I know, there are forks from it, but it needed some time to happen, and I wanted listen to music in the meantime of course, so I searched for another player.

Nowadays I use Rhythmbox & VLC for music.

Winamp 5 forever.

Tempted to download a copy of Winamp before it gets herder to find, just in case I feel like using it again for some reason. I think the more amazing story is that AOL is still around. How have they not died the horrible slow death they've been deserving for 10+ years yet?

I use VLC, just because it's easy. Foobar2000 is fine with my huge library, but I find it's easier to use VLC for just a few songs at a time, which is all I tend to listen to anymore.

Mplayer with no gui.

I still rock the 15+ year old Winamp 2.95. No bloat, no spyware, no forced network communication, easily disabled "Winamp Agent", no intrusive installed bits and bobs, no frills, no bullcrap. Just a music player that can play internet radio, has extensive file type support, a visualization thingy which you can install stuff like Geiss / Milkdrop to (although I never use them, only when people are over / house party). It NEVER crashes (it even keeps running if everything else including Windows itself crashes :P), takes a tiny amount of resources, and is fast. Been happy with it all this time. I saw what they did with Winamp 3.x, then 5.x, never installed either of them on any PC I've ever owned.

On that topic - check out oldversion.com. All proggies you'd ever want an old version of! :D

I'm using AIMP too. Never liked WinAMP myself, but not totally against it, could see why people liked it before "bloating"...

To me this is the thing that buries software nowadays. Now KMPlayer has gone that way as well... guess I'm gonna be switching to PotPlayer soon

Whaaat!!!?? But i still use it everyday with DFX and i didn't have a single issue with it, a sad day to me...