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This site is dedicated to the great Winamp Media Player.
Since 1997, Winamp has been the definitive music player of the mp3 era. Its continuous development and solid user base made it the best music player for Windows. However, in December 2013, AOL decided to shut down its development and website.
Our aim is to collect legacy resources for Winamp, including the best skins, plugins and visualizations and make them available to download freely.
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The Outline | The story of SongMeanings, the best lyrics site on the internet The Outline On the website for the early music player Winamp, a passionate group of users debated the meanings of their favorite songs on the page's forums. Brian Adams and Michael Schiano, then students at Ohio University and Rutgers respectively, remember being ... |
Silicon UK | Tales In Tech History: Winamp Silicon UK Earlier this month Silicon UK examined the impact of the Apple iPod, but no examination of digital audio would be complete without also reviewing the impact of Nullsoft's iconic media player Winamp. Winamp (for the few that don't know) is a media ... |
The Outline | in GarageBand? The Outline Winamp may have been Patient Zero in this gaudy epidemic, but it has spread far and wide. I spend a lot of my time mixing and editing audio, and that often involves having multiple audio plugins (essentially applications that run inside the main audio ... |
YourStory.com | Ghost of tech's past: Discontinued apps, products and services YourStory.com After 15 years of glorious usage, popular media player Winamp was finally shut down in December, 2013. Winamp had been the rage during the 90s, but since it was acquired by AOL in 1999, its demand and very style waned in comparison to the other media ... |
OxGadgets (press release) (blog) | 5KPlayer – for all your media needs OxGadgets (press release) (blog) Most of us are quite happy with our media players. The popularity of online streaming has meant that our reliance on media players is starting to fade away. However, as anybody who still plays videos on their computer directly, a good media player is ... |
Neowin | AIMP 4.50.2020 Beta Neowin AIMP is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp). The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization ... |
BetaNews | SHOUTcast for Windows BetaNews SHOUTcast Server will accept connections via SHOUTcast DSP Plug-in in order to have a SOURCE Stream to broadcast. Once a stream has begun, the server will only accept connections from other copies of Winamp in order to broadcast that source stream to ... |
Engadget | Recommended Reading: Rebooting a hero in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Engadget Winamp's Woes: How the Greatest MP3 Player Undid Itself Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica. Winamp was the go-to MP3 player for a lot of people, but its glory didn't last. Ars Technica takes a look at what went wrong. DJI Is Locking Down Its Drones Against a ... |
Ars Technica | Winamp's woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself Ars Technica Enter Winamp, the skin-able, customizable MP3 player that "really whips the llama's ass." In the late 1990s, every music geek had a copy; llama-whipping had gone global, and the big-money acquisition offers quickly followed. AOL famously acquired the ... |
A Journal of Musical Things (blog) | Hey, Whatever Happened to Winamp? A Journal of Musical Things (blog) Back in the pre-iTunes era (and for quite some time after), the go-to CD ripper and MP3 playback player was Winamp. With its introduction in the late 90s, the free software was downloaded tens of millions of times and was used to digital many a music ... |
Ars Technica UK | Winamp's woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself | Ars ... Ars Technica UK This piece originally ran on June 24, 2012, just a few months before Winamp finally called it quits in November 2013. We're re-running this story today because ... |
Ars Technica UK | Winamp's woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself Ars Technica UK Enter Winamp, the skin-able, customizable MP3 player that "really whips the llama's ass." In the late 1990s, every music geek had a copy; llama-whipping had gone global, and the big-money acquisition offers quickly followed. AOL famously acquired the ... |
Neowin | FxSound Enhancer 13.007 Neowin FxSound Enhancer (formerly DFX Audio Enhancer) boost the sound quality of most online music and video content streamed over the Web, including YouTube, Pandora, Spotify and Apple Music streaming services. FxSound also performs real-time audio ... |
Neowin | AIMP 4.13.1897 Neowin AIMP is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp). The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization ... |
 | G-Force 5.7 TechCentral.ie G-Force is a highly configurable music visualiser which works with iTunes, Windows Media Player, Google Desktop, Winamp, RealPlayer, MediaMonkey, JetAudio, J. River Media Center and musicmatch. The program supports multiple visual themes ... |
Good Herald | Free MP3 downloads – An On Line Guide Good Herald Not only does Winamp feature this type of MP3 music, but they also let you download their free MP3 winamp player, complete with ultra-phat skins and visualizations. Aside from that, Winamp also features some great plug-ins to give your MP3 player some ... |
BW Businessworld | Tech Trend: An Ode To The MP3 BW Businessworld If you're someone who grew up in the 1980s or 1990s, you'll probably remember the time you first chanced upon this new-fangled format called MP3. At the time, you had to install something like Winamp to play it, and each song took forever to download ... |
Forbes | Reports Of MP3s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated Forbes An MP3 from 2000 plays as well on this new, high-resolution Sony Walkman as it did back in 2000 on Winamp. There have, over the years, been plenty of examples of the reporting done in tech where the truth is somehow obfuscated. Sometimes the company ... |
| Winamp Techradar India Free media player Winamp is a one stop shop for managing your music library. You can sync your music collection to an MP3 player or smartphone, and you can also stream it over the internet, allowing you to share your favourite tunes with your friends. |
TechRadar | Winamp TechRadar Winamp is still a great media player, and has all the essential tools you need for managing and enjoying music and videos, but it now relies on third-party extensions to add features found as standard in more modern players. |
