Winamp is back?

[Sariki]

Hey all!

So through my internet escapades I found that Winamp is back!

What a blast from the past oh my! I used to use this with shoutcast and DJ online radios back in the day.

Here is a link to the announcement thread:

Winamp 5.9 RC4 Released - Winamp & Shoutcast Forums

Winamp 5.9 RC4 Released Winamp Discussion The free customizable Winamp media player that plays mp3 + other audio files, syncs your iPod, subscribes to Podcasts and more.

forums.winamp.com

For those of you who don't know what WinAmp is:

From Wikipedia:

Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev[6][7][8] by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.
Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997, and quickly grew popular with over 3 million downloads,[9] paralleling the developing trend of MP3 (music) file sharing. Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded Windows applications.[10] By 2000, Winamp had over 25 million registered users[11] and by 2001 it had 60 million users.[12] A poor reception to the 2002 rewrite, Winamp3, was followed by the release of Winamp 5 in 2003, and a later release of version 5.5 in 2007. A now-discontinued version for Android was also released, along with early counterparts for MS-DOS and Macintosh.
Winamp 5.8 (written as Winamp 5.

) was leaked to the general public in 2018. The Radionomy team decided to release the version themselves to maintain security levels.[13] Radionomy later announced their intention to eventually release Winamp 6.[14]

Winamp - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I am just excited about this I won't lie. It was huge during the early 2000's and I used it a ton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp#cite_note-14

 

[PGen98]

It was definitely the go-to for playing MP3s back in the day. I remember having so much fun using so many different skins and playing around with the various levels. It had a huge following for a long time. It's nice to see it return, even if it's only a niche product now.

 

[Smiley]

I never cared much for it. I had it installed, but rarely used it. Today, I see even less use for it, next to K-Lite and VLC.