NOOOO! Winamp DEAD!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:53 pm

Death Knell Sounds for Nullsoft, Winamp
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
November 10, 2004, 1:26 PM

The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned.

Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected.

More at source.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:16 pm

Well, seeing as how it's worked quite well for a long time, I don't see how updates would make it any better. Especially since people can write their own input/output plugins if they want. Someone will make a better player.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:59 pm

Yes a winamp clone, with winamp plugin support would be excelent.

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:47 pm

SlashDot wrote:"In a previous story, we heard that WinAmp was down for the count. Apparently, this is not the case. Here is a note by Eric Caoili that says "No we weren't axed. We haven't even seen anyone with an axe. There was this one guy who came up to us to axe us a question, but that's about it.""

p.s. - Ender - Could you bump up the font size for quotes one point?

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:57 am

Ahh.. good news! Thanks for finding that Sparkle...

I also second the notion of increasing the quote font size.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:32 pm

It's so not dead, that they released a new version!

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1066336873/1

Winamp 5 Full 5.06
Publisher's Description:

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
Latest Changes:

* Fixed crashbug when clearing the playlist and then right clicking on the songticker
* JTFE v0.96ff
* Security bug fixes
* Lots of small bug fixes

Post by **enderzero** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:56 pm

Does the fact that the last original member of the Winamp team left mean that they would stop updating the program?

mistasparkle* wrote:p.s. - Ender - Could you bump up the font size for quotes one point?

Look better?

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:37 pm

lookin hot like fiah!

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:35 pm

what a coincidence...I SPIT hot fiah!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:49 pm

Looks great! Thanks

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