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Winamp Shutting Down On December 20

Posted by Soulskill on from the llama-finally-whipped-back dept.

New submitter Cid Highwind writes "If you want to download the latest version of Winamp, you'd better do it soon. According to a new banner on the download page, AOL will be pulling the plug on the iconic llama-whipping music player in a 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.' Ars Technica ran an article last year detailing how the music player lost its dominance."

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  1. A sad day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No more llama ass-whipping :(

    1. Re:A sad day by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Indeed, looks like AOL finally managed to kill it.

      Lets face it, everyone thought this was going to happen years ago when AOL first bought it, its amazing its JUST NOW being shut down, though according to the article it appears to be a profitable business unit and AOL is just shutting it down to cut off its own nose.

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  2. Re:FB2K FTW by Russ1642 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No it isn't. You collect pieces of Foobar and put them together to try to get something that acts sort of like a music player.

  3. Open source it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just do it.

  4. Re:FB2K FTW by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 5, Insightful

    VLC's terrible for music. Ever noticed the pitch bending? Bad playlist controls? Long initialization times? Lack of seamless transition?