I've been using foobar2000 for years now. I stopped using WinAMP because of all that bloat they were adding to the program.

Foobar2000, works wonderfully with my "tiny" collection of music.
Just above 294GB of music(23188 unique songs)

I use iTunes and VLC (sometimes windows media when adding music to some devices). That being said I think iTunes is a bit unintuitive, clunky and annoying. When I had a Zune the software was much easier to use.

The Winamp Lite version of 3 wasn't as badly bloated as the regular version, but I never bothered to install Winamp after switching PCs.

I'm honestly more worried about Shoutcast. Winamp's web page still lists Shoutcast as a Winamp service, and Winamp services are getting shut down as well. And I used Beat Hazard's Shoutcast support.

I use windows media player for music and vlc for most video

I've been using Foobar2000 for years, and I don't plan on changing any time soon. I used Winamp a long time ago and it's a shame to see it go, but considering what it became in more recent years I'm not sad about it at all.

Foobar2000 master race

Switched from Winamp Classic to Foobar2000 years ago. I have no regrets.

That sucks. I've been a Winamp fan since the 90's.
I'm still using it to listen music from my hard drive.

am i the only person who thinks windows media player is fine? i mean, its just a really tiny window that you can minimize and play your music.

haha...on winamp i have to download some things to make my 5.1 work (witch has no logic)...I always use AIMP for music and BSPlayer for videos.

Found the article as well. I'm quite sad that WinAMP is about to shut down. Though the later versions all have lots of unused options, I still am using an older one (5.5.x) and still love that one over all other players. I only wish WinAMP would have added DVD/BluRay playback to their player as well.

Some good news finally

Still use it after many, many years with classic skin. Will probably still use it, have never had any issues. Just as long as Last.fm will still recognize it for scrobbling!

Foobar2000. Lightweight and has more features than i need anyway.

aimp ftw!

Sad. Winamp was brilliant. Well, Winamp Lite, at least. But the good thing to come out of it is that it's easier than ever to find a good music player because people are giving Winamp-alternative recommendations wherever you look.

AIMP3 is my new favourite.

Winamp has been my music player of choice for many years now, and I'm shocked to learn that it's going to be shut down. I sincerely hope that the code will become open source or that someone will buy the rights from AOL and continue development. Winamp is one of the very few pieces of software that I've used consistently throughout the years, and I'd really prefer not to have to replace it eventually.

Gutted, used (and use) winamp for over a decade. I'd better download the install file for latest version and back it up.

So what's the general consensus on a valid replacement? (Please don't mention foobar and AIMP. One is the ugliest, most user-unfriendly piece of software ever, the other is Russian.)

I still use Winamp 2.91. Never saw a reason to change from all the way back then; it's incredibly lightweight and I have an awesome skin. I keep the executable for every time I format the PC or get a new one ^^

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