Saying Goodbye to Winamp with One Last Spin

[Pixel55]

The legendary MP3 software deserves another listen before it's gone..

Effective December 20, Winamp will officially pass away. AOL is giving up on the media player it acquired in 1999, and will no longer host the software on Winamp.com.

Perhaps you heard the news, shed a tear of nostalgia, made an off-hand llama-whipping joke and moved on. Winamp deserves more than that. This is a legendary piece of software whose responsibility for the digital music revolution goes hand-in-hand with Napster. Illegal file sharing services merely provided the tunes. Winamp let us play them.

As AOL has been gracious enough to give us a month’s notice before yanking Winamp from its servers, it’s only appropriate to give the 16 year-old MP3 software another listen.

As for me, I’m actually pulling for that final outcome. For a program so deeply rooted in the seediness of the digital music revolution, piracy would be a fitting way to ensure Winamp lives forever.

[Zaxze]

have they really removed it ? ive always used it and feels kind of sad they throw it away like this.

[korkyman]

Didn't know that, I think that I was always using Winamp.

Really simple to use and interface is nice.

[.Penny.]

Yep, it is pretty weird AOL let such a software die. I hope Radionomy will be able to bring Winamp back to life.

ATM I've switched to Foobar2000 and I like it.

[gogo]

Used it a lot back in the day, when Windows was my #1 OS. It's a shame it came to this.

[NAILS]

I have always used it. Its simple

[Ploelkroi]

Since the early days until now it is still my main and only music player

[igiver]

I used this around 2007-2008 time. Amazing software with different skins.

[bitchasunshine]

I used it for all the Plugins. Lately I just use Spotify+Hola. It serves me well enough.

[logitech]

I have used it long time, its simple and easy

[superman332]

i like it, its fast and easy to use