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WinAMP going bye bye?
« on: November 21, 2013, 12:12:48 AM »
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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.

Is this true? WinAMP is closing its doors? No more kicking the llama's ass? Say it ain't so!

Even though I keep my MP3 library sorted via iTunes, I still kept WinAMP installed to play stuff not integrated into my library. Also it was good at playing most old MOD files.

Well, feh. Yet another thing going away. I downloaded the last available free version now. At least it will continue to work for now.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2013, 01:44:34 AM »
Winamp is all I use.  Boooooo!
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2013, 04:54:34 AM »
Already grabbed my copy of the last release.  It's not that I use it anymore as my primary player on my PC, but back in the days of a Pentium II, it was something I could run while coding and not take a noticeable chunk of CPU time when I compiled.  Then AOL got it and well ...
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2013, 05:16:38 AM »
Bookmark oldapps.com. I love it for getting previous versions of applications, and they have discontinued ones, too (Netscape, for example).
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2013, 06:39:16 AM »
Wow. That rates up there with CoH on the list of things I never expected to get shut down.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2013, 07:22:52 AM »
And look, a certain big company that owns it refuses to comment why they're dropping it - right after a major release, at that.
Sounds, I don't know, familiar?
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2013, 08:33:17 AM »
that stinks. wonder if aol management was taking lessons fron ncsoft? lol.
another good product bites the dust.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2013, 01:20:06 PM »
Good riddance to what became bad rubbish.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2013, 12:53:37 AM »
Quote from: General Idiot on November 21, 2013, 06:39:16 AM
Wow. That rates up there with CoH on the list of things I never expected to get shut down.

The way things are going now, I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow there was an announcement from Microsoft that they are discontinuing Windows forever.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2013, 11:15:56 PM »
Winamp (the 2.81 version) is awesome. It play all kinds of media including .oggs. I like the no frills, no nonsense look of it, ant there are some great plugins that you can get. My favorite is a stick-figure rock band that plays/sings in time with the your music. There is also an amazing dancing girl that most guys would enjoy.



Winamp dancing girl


you can download it here
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2013, 03:36:25 AM »
sigh

Now I have a reason to use WinAmp again.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2013, 08:25:18 PM »
You're welcome, Father
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2013, 04:45:08 AM »
I'm going to miss Winamp, I've been using it for almost 15 years now. I wouldn't be surprised if AOL followed Microsoft's footsteps and shut it down to relaunch it under a new name and with pay for use features replacing ones that used to be free.
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Re: WinAMP going bye bye?
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2013, 07:04:25 PM »
Last day to grab the last version of WinAMP. I just wished to give a little heads up.

So sad.  :(
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