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I'm not being a drama llama here, but sad llama is sad.



http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11 ... -for-good/

Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica wrote:Winamp, the storied MP3 player bought by AOL in June 1999 for over $80 million, is set to shut down in exactly one month.

"Winamp.com and associated Web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years."

Happy Nation? Really? What a song choice for this screenshot... :-/


On a more personal note, I think I actually still have the Command and Conquer or Westwood Studios skin that I used to use on my installation of Winamp back in the day. Memories...

hope they release the code...

you can take my winamp from me when you pry it from my cold, bacon slathered, dead hands...

i-tards and their clueless consumerism...

Huzzah!

The problem is that VLC is so much better than Winamp...

GDI_Lord wrote:The problem is that VLC is so much better than Winamp...

... if you enjoy error prone, bloated, spamware... sure...

light, solid and packed with meaningful features... the llama still whoops it...

Error prone? Bloated? Spamware? I think you must've downloaded your installer from [url=http://www.YourFriendlyAndTotallyTrustworthyAbsolutelyNotMalwareInfectedEXEMirrorSite.com]www.YourFriendlyAndTotallyTrustworthyAbsolutelyNotMalwareInfectedEXEMirrorSite.com[/url]

I stopped using Winamp when it started having errors playing videos. I installed VLC and it plays everythings. I tried Winamp on my cellphone: um, no. It crashed playing MP3s, I didn't bother trying to play videos. I installed VLC beta for Android and it works perfectly: it's played all the video formats that I threw at it perfectly fine.

GDI_Lord wrote:I stopped using Winamp when it started having errors playing videos.

so.. you have an issue with an audio player not playing videos all that well?

VLC encompasses a plethora of 3rd party codex plug-ins which are, at best, slightly smudgy... while it's OK in supporting a large number of codecs by default, it's quality is outright terrible in comparison to virtually everything else out there... even mickeysoft's labrious attempts render better quality video... and they used rotten pig trotters and ditch water...

GDI_Lord wrote:I tried Winamp on my cellphone: um, no. It crashed playing MP3s

a shoddily-ported windows mp3 player pranged on android?! NOOOOoooooo......

show me another mp3 player using as few resources and offering the enormous visualisation library and i'll start to care...

also, a curse on AOL and it's freakish ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... every.. sodding... time...

winamp for movies... hah! kids these days...

Yahoo! A religious war! (no, not about a search engine or portal)

rustypup wrote:so.. you have an issue with an audio player not playing videos all that well?

Yes actually, I do. I want one player for everything.

rustypup wrote:it's quality is outright terrible in comparison to virtually everything else out there...

If it does I haven't noticed it.

rustypup wrote:

GDI_Lord wrote:I tried Winamp on my cellphone: um, no. It crashed playing MP3s

a shoddily-ported windows mp3 player pranged on android?! NOOOOoooooo......

rustypup wrote:show me another mp3 player using as few resources and offering the enormous visualisation library and i'll start to care...

I used to be bothered by resource consumption, but now I'm not. It's ok if it uses 100MB or 200MB (which is what it's using currently while having a playlist of eight videos.) How much would another player use?

rustypup wrote:winamp for movies... hah! kids these days...

Would you like me to get off your lawn?

**Random words insulting puppy**
**Random words questioning puppy's heritage**
**Random words insinuating things about puppy's sexual orientation and love of cats**

*dramatic pause*

*melodramatic pause*

*llama llama seasick llama, llama llama sprinting llama, llama llama dramatic pause dramallama with a side order of llama llama duck*

**Calls puppy a n00b**

Will miss you Winamp, the king of audio players!

@GDI_Lord:
For video - Shark007 codecs and windows media player. So much nicer than that crudware vlc

I stopped using winamp around version 3 and version 5 didn't get me to go back. A shame though.

Good riddance I say.

WMP for life!

mickeysoft now threatening to complete the fail by subjecting winamp to unnatural mutations and stripping out everything worthwhile before plugging it to console-tards...

:/

/WMP is for pensioners... ask hamin...

rustypup wrote:/WMP is for pensioners... ask hamin...

So you should be using it?

Sorry but VLC is not a good choice for playing Audio... its navigation and GUI are not pleasant to use constantly.
Its great for playing Video but with audio you have to get fiddly and use the GUI often and I hate it...

TBH I am not a huge fan of any Winamp release post 2.9
The 5x iterations have been just as bloated and overwhelmed with unnecessary "features" as most competing media players.

They got it right with 2.9 and should have just stopped then.
I continued to use it well after that and even paid for pro to keep supporting them in the hope they corrected their mistake. I even started a thread on the Winamp forums once about it which went south pretty fast.

TLDR; Winamp 2.9 was the best. Meh to the rest.

No mention of foobar? Wow... Best music player ever!

Sad to see- won't stop me from using it even after they're gone.
I am a Winamp supporter- bought pro for my pc and Android.
I wonder what, if anything will fill the gap.

I love Sony's Walkman app on my phone, pity Sony wouldn't do something for pc.

Hman wrote:I love Sony's Walkman app on my phone, pity Sony wouldn't do something for pc.

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