Winamp to die before Christmas

[lokkerman]

You may have not heard this but our dear friends of AOL are to kill Winamp. Like it or Lump it, this was a very good free player and one which I use myself. There is a petition and a quick Google will explain more than me. Petition link is: https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/aol-keep-winamp-alive-or-let-it-go-open-source

This has served many of us for many years please sign if you can....

[Nor22]

I read a rumor in Gizmodo or Engadget that Microsoft was/is thinking about buying Winamp from AOL.

That was a few days ago. Haven't heard anything since.

On Nov 26, 2013 4:24 PM, "lokkerman" <phil.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

You may have not heard this but our dear friends of AOL are to kill Winamp. Like it or Lump it, this was a very good free player and one which I use myself. There is a petition and a quick Google will explain more than me. Petition link is: https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/aol-keep-winamp-alive-or-let-it-go-open-source

This has served many of us for many years please sign if you can....

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[Alejandro Valdez]

Signed :)

[Lewis Simon]

signed

 

[DanielF]

I've signed, but I don't really know what all the fuss is about!  Unless a piece of software relies on some sort of on-line 'registration' or 'unlocking', or has a hardware-dependent 'key', then a company can't "kill" it – all they can do is cease supporting it.  If you already have a copy running on your PC, there's nothing to stop you continuing to use it for as long as you wish.

Of course, if your'e a 'fashion follower' and insist on 'upgrading' your Windoze every time Micro$oft tells you to, then you might find that eventually that software won't run on some new version of Windoze.  But I'm sure most of you are too smart to blindly follow that 'upgrading' path. :-)

Daniel
(Still happy with Windoze 2000, though '98 was better :-)

[Lokkerman]

You are right but they could legally stop you using it – that’s in the EULA you (should’ve) agreed to; just that most folks do not read it. Winamp was good inasmuch that many people contributed plugins for it so you could bend the software to how you want to run it – not In a specific way.

Thanks for signing BTW.

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[EoH]

Op dinsdag 26 november 2013 23:23:56 UTC+1 schreef lokkerman:

You may have not heard this but our dear friends of AOL are to kill Winamp. Like it or Lump it, this was a very good free player and one which I use myself. There is a petition and a quick Google will explain more than me. Petition link is: https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/aol-keep-winamp-alive-or-let-it-go-open-source

This has served many of us for many years please sign if you can....

Never liked the program........ I prefer Media Player Classic...........

[Lokkerman]

Nevertheless it’s one less to choose from…

 

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[Grampopsicle]

Seems like a lot of fuss for an audio player with rather limited capabilities (yeah, the skins are "cool" but, so what). I've been using Foobar2000 for years and it's capable of much more than Winamp since it can play SACD-R ISO files and DSD files (with the appropriate plugins). I can't remember Winamp being able to do that.

[Lokkerman]

Yes but can Foobar cope with 200k tracks and with an interface that allows you to search easy; no. I also had problems with early Foobar always crashing and I couldn’t get the ASIO to work; not saying it doesn’t now. I also like the ASIO upsampling module, which is not known by many –it  always sounded better to my ears (but let’s not debate that) . What is a shame is that Winamp got neglected in favour of Foobar  - the first MLP plugin being in Winamp and not Foobar;  it was same designer though who developed the SACD-R and DSD decoders, with input from the team at the SSGG; if you can remember.

[Andreas m]

WHAT!  why would they do  that.

use to use winamp, now i'm on the foobar train but damn winamp was a charm to use

[realafrica]

Andreas, 4 years late for the party ;)

[Gunther Uyttersprot]

Winamp is still not dead :) , there is even after all those years finaly a new beta out .

winamp58_3660_beta

https://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp58_3660_beta_full_en-us.exe

[DanielTheGreatAu]

Been using it since January 2019, with no problems so far.
Daniel

[RW]

I like WinAmp's interface, but the program's inability to play hi-res formats such as ISO, SACD/DSF, DVD-Audio, etc. really relegates it to a distant 2nd in comparison to Foobar2000 which uses plug-ins to enhance its capabilities.  I downloaded the latest version and played with it for a couple hours and then reverted to Foobar.  C'mon WinAmp, get with the program!!

-RW-

[Lokkerman]

Having said that, My personal; preference is with AIMP although it only decodes SACD to PCM and not DSD. I've found that FK2 cannot deal with a big database and crashes far too often but it is great for playing single DSD albums, especially with a Sabre DAC.

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