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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. FB2K FTW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Foobar2000 is great!

    1. 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.

    2. 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?

  2. 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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  3. A victim of animal cruelty legislation... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all these years, the Llama will finally have its vengeance...

  4. WinAMP still rocks by CanEHdian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In "classic" skin you have the good old nice and small interface, and it has excellent 24bit support... Fraunhofer Institute codecs... all sorts of goodies. I wonder what will happen to people who (recently) bought the Pro upgrade...

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    1. Re:WinAMP still rocks by dstyle5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I bought the Pro upgrade last week. Maybe I should pick up some Blackberry stock this week while I'm at it.

  5. Oh Man- My Lightshow by gnarfel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My very first light shows we're done using AVS Studio plugin. It was sick. You could render text, create complicated intricate patterns, specify coloring directly (not just a pass filter over an existing image) and even adjust all of it in real time on a second monitor. Modern VJ apps like arkaos and resolume don't even dent the surface of the on-the-fly stuff you could do in AVS, even if they do have more features overall.

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

    Just do it.

    1. Re:Open source it. by Unknown+Lamer · · Score: 5, Informative

      They did released Milkdrop under the BSD license a few years ago, there's a clone for OpenGL. XBMC uses it, and it can even load Milkdrop 1.x presets (totally just grabbed a huge set of those and am living like it's 2001 right now). I'm unaware of anything that can emulate AVS presets unfortunately.

      Audacious can load Winamp 2.x and XMMS skins too. I'm still using it after a few years of flirting with other media players (ok, I may have given up and used xbmc on the teevee machine, but that's because it has a nice party mode and milkdrop!).

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  7. Download Any Version of Winamp by bobbutts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get your Winamp here:
    http://www.oldapps.com/winamp.php

  8. Re:Aimp is a great replacement by svobodniy · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a fake adress with the fake donate on the site. The real adress of AIMP project is http://aimp.ru/