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> Winamp is a media player for Windows, macOS and Android, originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev[5][6][7] by their company Nullsoft, which
by syspec 6y ago
> Winamp is a media player for Windows, macOS and Android, originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev[5][6][7] by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million.
80M, for an MP3 player is peek 1999
- bdcravens 6y agoThey also had a directory of streaming "stations", Shoutcast
- airstrike 6y agoAnd you could install shoutcast to host your own station! I remember hosting one for all of my friends to listen to, and we all had a great time. Of all the things of the internet of old, Winamp 2.x, its skins, shoutcast and the visualization library are what I miss the most by far
- jeremy_wiebe 6y agoOh I’d forgotten about the visualisations. Those were, for me, one of the best parts of Winamp.... other than the sound bite about a llama. :-)
- ganoushoreilly 6y ago> https://desktop.webamp.org/ https://desktop.webamp.org/ TripX was the jam. https://winampheritage.com/visualization/tripex3/92178 https://winampheritage.com/visualization/tripex3/92178
- isochronous 6y agoTripX was pretty, but Geiss, Milkdrop, and Gforce were my favorites, if only because of the insane number of add-on visualization presets. What was always ironic to me was that most of the presets by the actual developer were pretty garbage.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoI still use Milkdrop2 for visualizations when listening to music within Kodi. "ProjectM" exists within Linux as well, but I've never gotten it to work properly on my laptop.
- jpindar 6y agoPeople still use Shoutcast, it's the standard way to DJ in virtual worlds.
- syspec 6y agoAh yes, shoutcast! You know, it's funny how ahead of its time Winamp was in many ways.
- glenneroo 6y agoIt still exists and I use it regularly to find new stations: www.shoutcast.com You can play streams directly from there or via WinAmp.