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Winamp Down for the Count
Artifex writes "BetaNews is reporting that the doors at Nullsoft have been closed: 'The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected.'" The Register also has a story.
Winamp was a piece of shit anyway. Long live xmms!
He censored his DUPE, just like the Censorware Project.
-Seth
I have just moved my whole music library from iTunes to Winamp, took me hours, if not days.
I was really amazed of the power, that lasts in winamp.
I hope this great project will nevertheless live on.
What does this have to do with free software?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
I've been using Winamp for a long time on my Win2k box. After the latest update from MS, however, it just doesn't work any more. Oh, it starts up, it attempts to play an mp3 (or any) file, then it just....stops.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, checking the registry, etc. Nothing works.
Oh, and by amazing coincidence, WMP still works fine. Microsoft, you fucking bastards.
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You're kidding right? Winamp 5 was a steaming turd compared to 3. After Justin Frankel left the team, they lost their edge and "rewrote" the amazing Winamp 3 to do a bunch of crap that didn't matter, mainly adding a bunch of kruft that made it unstable and slow. I know a bunch of people that rolled back versions to 3 after trying 5 for a while.
I don't know about everyone else, but despite my love of eye candy, Winamp 5 just wasn't worth it (and took ages to get out of beta). I won't even get into how they evolved their business model to start selling their software. Its OK if you start off and are selling, and move to giving some stuff away free, but going the other way (free --> selling) doesn't typically bode as well.
On the other hand, this is a sad day, since Nullsoft did have the Gnullsoft arm that were the original creators of some stuff that ended up being very successful: Gnutella and WASTE. Even though both were pulled from the site hours after release, they still made their mark. Good job, guys. Maybe the original team will get back together and form GNN (GNN's Not Nullsoft) and make more things like Gnutella and WASTE - lord knows they have the talent.
Your comment is way off base. First of all, Winamp 2.x is the "classic" winamp. When Nullsoft release Winamp3, it added a ton of features, but was a complete rewrite, so a lot of the customizability and usability of Winamp2 was lost. Enter Winamp 5 (2 + 3). It used the old codebase of Winamp2 and they just added on the library and other new features people liked from Winamp3. Winamp5 is by far the best winamp available, and this is from a person who's been using when Justin was letting us beta test it in #mpeg3 efnet.