Nov 15, 04
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RIP: Winamp
First it was ICQ, now Winamp... whats next... daemon tools?
Death Knell Sounds for Nullsoft, Winamp By Nate Mook, BetaNews November 10, 2004, 1:26 PM 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. Winamp's abandonment comes as no surprise to those close to the company who say the software has been on life support since the resignation of Nullsoft founder and Winamp creator Justin Frankel last January. The marriage of Nullsoft and AOL was always one of discontent. After AOL acquired the small company in 1999 for around $100 million, the young team of Winamp developers was assimilated into a strict corporate culture that begged for rebellion. Although Nullsoft was initially given a long leash by AOL, It wasn't long until the two ideologies collided. Frankel and his team were accustomed to simply brainstorming ideas over coffee and bringing them to the masses without approval. So when Frankel and fellow Nullsoft developer Tom Pepper devised a decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing system, dubbed Gnutella, parent AOL was left in the dark. http://www.betanews.com/article/Deat...amp/1100111204 
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Nov 15, 04
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I remember using the first version of WinAmp. *sniff* R.I.P. Nullsoft...
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Nov 15, 04
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It sucks but if you want a really good alternate player that as far as I'm concerned rivals Winamp.... download the Quintessential Player.
www.quinnware.com
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Nov 16, 04
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i'm still using winamp, probably will for a long time
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Nov 16, 04
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winamp doesnt need upgrades, it was perfect a long time ago. stable, smooth, and sexy. there's no need for an rip thread, just because there wont be major upgrades doesnt mean winamp is dead :)
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Nov 16, 04
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I like Musicmatch Jukebox myself.
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Nov 16, 04
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ewwwwwww system hog :P
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Nov 16, 04
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doesnt slow my cpu down at all.
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Nov 16, 04
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<-- foobar2000 zealot. An incredibly powerful, configurable, and high-quality player with loads of features not found anywhere else. Good for playback, transcoding, masstagging, renaming, mastering, and more. Bad for users who think they know more about music players than they do (ie. a lot of the Winamp target demographic).
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Nov 16, 04
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It really is all about foobar.
www.foobar2000.org It's not particularly pretty, but its memory footprint is small, and its a great media player.
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Nov 16, 04
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just keeping everything together in the library, and being able to hook up my ipod without switching programs is just convenient. keeps everything in one place (and i NEED things to be organized o_O) the radio stations are fun too.
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Nov 16, 04
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Mayhaps a Windows port in teh FUTAR!!!1?
I use XMMS, which is pretty much the same thing as Winamp, whenever I want to just access a single mp3 file or something... but mainly I just use Rhythmbox, which is an iTunes clone. Seriously, if you're not using iTunes, you should be. The only problem I really have with it is that it always rips CDs to m4a and aac, with no option to rip to mp3 or anything like that.
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Nov 16, 04
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i still use winamp as my main music player. doesnt slow my comp down or anythin. the visualizations still rock!!
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