Winamp announces retirement

[RedMileDJ]

nm

[Hugh Jahrmes]

Winamp reminds me of the Napster days.

[Kelekin]

Noooooooooooooooo.

Now nothing will really whip the llama's ass.

[The Yen Man]

Wow, totally blast from the past. I had no idea winamp was still around. It was definitely my favourite mp3 player back in the day.

Edit: In fact, I don't know why I don't use it again over the crappy windows media player or itunes. I'm going to go download it now.

[calgarywinning]

Winamp was amazing for it's time. So futuristic. Hosted many parties with my winamp library of the future. I remember it used to eat up a good chunk of CPU cycles.

[TorqueDog]

It would be nice to see the source be released to keep it going in the community but I guess foobar2000 has largely taken its place.

[bubbsy]

winamp and napster and a T1 lan connection in first year uni dorms was a game changer.

[Deegee]

I still use WinAmp with plugins to play odd file formats. Such a shame it's going away.

[Muffins]

Ugh, now I have to find another music player that has a Britney Spears skin.

[Komskies]

Fond memories of making my own skins for it in MS paint way back in the day.

[cral12]

Sad day.

[Hemi-Cuda]

I still use it as my main PC music player. If you install only the audio playback components in the latest versions, it's a very lightweight player. And it's media library is still the best that I've used

[Hemi-Cuda]

Oh and it still looks great with a decent skin applied

[northcrunk]

Great, now those stupid llamas get a free pass!

[cKy]

Still has been my go to player through all these years. Tried other players, and kept going back to Winamp.

[Burninator]

I always thought winamp was horribly ugly.

[The Yen Man]

It really took the awfulness of itunes and it's bloatedness to make me appreciate the simplicity of winamp.

[Nammer403]

Winamp was awesome because it was simple and you can spruce it up with the skins