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Winamp Down for the Count

Posted by michael on from the elvis.mp3-has-left-the-building dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Woah! by Bzap · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm still using the latest 2.x version, stable as hell, lightweight, does exactly what it's supposed to.

  2. Open Source it by DigiitalWiz · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Just open source it. Let the rest ofthe world improve it.

  3. Configurable Interfaces Rule! by meehawl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is news to me.

    How true that is. iTunes is classic Apple: "You'll take your music this way and no other. THis is unquestionably the single greatest design ever... until *we* change it in the next release".

    The best media jukebox software on Windows (for customization and probably overall) is Media Center. It has several modes (Maxi, Mini, Theatre) and the "Playing Now" screen can be customized with HTML, Flash, Java and ActiveX widgets to load and manipulate tag info, or anything else. So you get to make your own killer playback screens. But your streamer is a nice workaround iTunes' lack of interface flexibility.

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  4. J River Media Center by meehawl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lots of people say 'iTunes". But one of the great things about WinAmp was its complete interface flexibility with skins and mods. iTunes is classic Apple: "You'll take your music this way and no other. This is unquestionably the single greatest design ever... until *we* change it in the next release". The kind of people who like WinAmp for its freeform nature would probably find iTunes too limiting.

    The best media jukebox software on Windows (for customization and probably overall) is Media Center. It has several modes (Maxi, Mini, Theatre) and the "Playing Now" screen can be customized with HTML, Flash, Java and ActiveX widgets to load and manipulate tag info, or anything else. So you get to make your own killer playback screens. But your streamer is a nice workaround iTunes' lack of interface flexibility.

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