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Shame, they are legendary piece of software ever created. I stopped using them years ago tho, latest version is full of bloat and features that I don't need. Now I'm using AIMP3 which is simple and lightweight enough for me.

Related to the topic, what's your favorite music player at the moment?


UPDATE: AOL reportedly to sell Winamp to Microsoft Linky

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VLC Media Player :D

11 years ago
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Last time i used winamp was when it was 2.x and on my pentium 1 pc >.< now i use xmplay

11 years ago
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Spotify and VLC!

11 years ago
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I am gutted to see it go. I have been using it since around the time it was first released many many years ago, I am still using it to this day. Hopefully someone buys it and continue the software, or they release it as open source.

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IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMA'S ASS

11 years ago
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I will REALLY miss that.

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:(

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To people looking for a replacement: A month ago WinAmp had gotten really slow for me, and as I have a tonshit of music, the Library wasn't working well at all. Then I tried MediaMonkey!! Never going back, MediaMonkey is great.

11 years ago
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Haven't used winamp since ~ version 2. Just use foobar2k now.

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foobar2000 ftw.

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I used to keep it updated till a couple years ago or so... i'm not listening a lot of music on my PC nowadays...

But there was a time when having GBs of music was quite an e-peen to show, and Winamp ruled then...

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Same as OP, I used it for many years, but then I found out about AIMP and never went back. It used to be great until they decided to throw in a whole bunch of unnecessary features.

11 years ago
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damn. i cant stand foobar2k and winamp works great for me.

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Oh:s I've used Winamp for most of my years but switched to AIMP3 recently. I still miss Enhancer 0.17 plugin though. I share the thoughts of Romanesco about foobar and iTunes is just crap. I use VLC for video but wouldn't use it for music. I don't use WMP for anything.

11 years ago
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Good riddance...

11 years ago
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it was great a few years ago, but now everyone forgot about it, sad but true.. goodbye winamp

11 years ago
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so, no Clementine users here? :D

It's sad to see an old icon shut down but that's the way of things. AOL didn't know where to take the Winamp brand and newer, more specialized software took over the market. It's a shame though, Winamp really whipped the llama's ass for a long time xD

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Yes, I'm using Clementine ! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one :)

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It was my player of choice for years, I'd collected MBs of skins and add-ons too, it was great. Then it got very buggy and unstable, I wasn't able to use it anymore without it freezing or even crashing the os. Shame, I loved it until it worked well. Now I use random programs including VLC, but I can't stand itunes.

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Spider Player is another alternative for those whom don't like FB2K

11 years ago
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iTunes + Spotify

11 years ago
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Winamp got too bloated for me. I've been using VLC for years now.

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WMP with k-lite codec pack here.
im so mainstream, that it's not mainstream anymore.

i never liked winamp tbh...

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Same, I used to use Winamp to play music years ago, but since 2 years Im using AIMP3 with Alfa skin.

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Mostly I listen to music on the net. There are only a few songs on my pc, I use basic windows player for that (about once a month or maybe when net is out).

Nonetheless sad to hear, I used winamp for a long time when i had a much larger music collection on my pc.

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Haven't used it in a long time and didn't use it too much.

For a certain period of time it was the best platform for watching stable sports broadcasts that you weren't supposed to watch in your country, or without subscribing to expensive channels/ ppv. There were quite a few solid services where you could pay a small monthly fee and they'd stream the games (I was mostly interested in football/soccer) over winamp for you. These services got eclipsed by free ones utilising other programs long ago.

That was cool though, and around the same time I thought it looked quite good for would-be broadcasters as there were loads of winamp radio stations which I'd sometimes tune in to. Didn't really use it outside of that.

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im using something like 10 years already JetAudio Basic as my main music/video player and i have no plans to change it.

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Using winamp for more than 10 years and nothing can stop me now.

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Closed 10 years ago by RanTH.