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NOOOO! Winamp DEAD!
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:53 pm
by McNevin
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:16 pm
by R3C
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:59 pm
by McNevin
Yes a winamp clone, with winamp plugin support would be excelent.
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:47 pm
by mistasparkle*
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?
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:57 am
by McNevin
Ahh.. good news! Thanks for finding that Sparkle...
I also second the notion of increasing the quote font size.
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:32 pm
by McNevin
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
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:56 pm
by enderzero
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?
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:37 pm
by mistasparkle*
lookin hot like fiah!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:35 pm
by Megatron
what a coincidence...I SPIT hot fiah!
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:49 pm
by McNevin
Looks great! Thanks