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WinAMP and ShoutCast are no longer a fit for AOL. This is most likely the writing on the wall for them. Sad because WinAMP is still a great product.

• w1ntermute 13y ago
  > I'm hearing that Winamp/SHOUTcast are still intact. https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/statuses/327865634924933120 https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/statuses/327865634924933120
  • Wilya 13y ago
    Yeah, but how long will it last ?
  • r00fus 13y ago
    I always imagined that nullsoft was angling to get immediately canned right after they leaked Gnutella into the wild. I'm surprised they're still around.
• astrodust 13y ago
  WinAMP is a great product by the standards of 1998.
  • vy8vWJlco 13y ago
    You're right - it's an excellent product by today's standards. :)
  • ferongr 13y ago
    If "standards of 1998" means proper parsing and display of metadata in various character sets from various sources (local file, internet streams etc), wide input format support, gapless playback and Replaygain support, relatively low resource usage, instantaneous search and unrestricted customizability then I wished more music players followed them.
    • rjbwork 13y ago
      Foobar is my current end all and be all in these terms. It does all of that and is endlessly extensible.
      • ferongr 13y ago
        I use FB2k too, though I had to adapt to its creator's hate for the "Now Playing" list, forcing media library browsers to maintain playlists instead.
• eli 13y ago
  If you haven't already read it, this long Winamp retrospective from Ars last year is really worth it: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...