Solve : What Killed Winamp??

1.	Solve : What Killed Winamp??
Answer» Seen on the Winamp web site. Quote Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years. What? How? Why? A explanation elsewhere. http://www.groovypost.com/news/winamp-shutting-down-alternatives/ Quote Winamp is Shutting Down, Here’s Some Alternatives By Bogdan Bele on November 24, 2013 in News Winamp is shutting down on December 20, along with its online services. This is a piece of bad news I didn’t want to deliver to you, but it’s the truth. Here’s a look at some of the other alternatives to consider moving to. Winamp Goodbye, Winamp! The player which is a serious part of my generation’s teenage years and on which I’ve listened to the bulk of my music in the last several years is GOING away. FOUNDED in 1997 and bought by AOL in 1999, the player is facing a fate similar to other classic programs that have been around for what seems like forever. It will be completely shut down on December 20. The bad news is confirmed on Winamp’s official website, with Tom Pepper, one of Winamp’s two founders, taking to Reddit to thank fans for their support over the years. Online services, Shoutcast streaming being the most important, will go away along with the player. You can still download the latest version until that date, and use it from then on, too. However, as with any software product that ceases its development cycle, there will be no more updates. That means there is a possibility for vulnerabilities to be exploited by malware. The risk is probably not a large one, but it still should be considered. ... Now, while the last version will probably be available to download on tons of various sites, it will certainly be missed. Just as I was writing this article, another side to the whole story popped up. Microsoft is interested in buying Winamp together with Shoutcast. Even if that happens. I don’t know whether it should get all of our hopes up regarding Winamp’s future; as in some many other cases, Microsoft could just buy it and include its technology in its Xbox Music services, for example. ... Good-Bye! I for one will not miss it at all...Quote from: patio on November 29, 2013, 11:08:54 AM I for one will not miss it at all... I agree - what's the big deal about Winamp?Quote from: Google on November 29, 2013, 12:21:56 PM I agree - what's the big deal about Winamp? Plugins. Input plugins, for me, at least, are what MAKES it. Mostly for playing game music (such as native format NSF and SPC files for NES and SNES music) as well as a variety of similar formats for other game consoles. In particular this is preferable to MP3 renditions of those tracks because the Input plugins are effectively Sound emulators, as such one can easily choose different waveform smoothing modes for the music to get different effects; increase the emulated Hz, etc. Additionally, the files are smaller than any MP3 File. Every single .SPC file is exactly 64KB; NSF modules are usually smaller. Paired with the Disk Writer Plugin it makes converting sound effects and music tracks almost trivial. There are also a variety of DSP and output plugins for different purposes. Fact is, There is not a single other Media Player in existence with the ASSORTMENT of Plugins and extensions that Winamp has. the phasing out of Winamp doesn't affect me; I have all the plugins I want, and AOL couldn't possibly have a good effect on it. I don't even THINK 5.541 (the version I am using) is the latest version. The whole thing confuses me. "here are some alternatives" Why do we need alternatives? Every single copy of Winamp won't suddenly stop working. The only thing that was really "lost" was shoutcast streaming.

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Seen on the Winamp web site.
Quote

Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.

What? How? Why?

A explanation elsewhere.
http://www.groovypost.com/news/winamp-shutting-down-alternatives/
Quote

Winamp is Shutting Down, Here’s Some Alternatives
By Bogdan Bele on November 24, 2013 in News

Winamp is shutting down on December 20, along with its online services. This is a piece of bad news I didn’t want to deliver to you, but it’s the truth. Here’s a look at some of the other alternatives to consider moving to.

Winamp
Goodbye, Winamp!

The player which is a serious part of my generation’s teenage years and on which I’ve listened to the bulk of my music in the last several years is GOING away. FOUNDED in 1997 and bought by AOL in 1999, the player is facing a fate similar to other classic programs that have been around for what seems like forever. It will be completely shut down on December 20.

The bad news is confirmed on Winamp’s official website, with Tom Pepper, one of Winamp’s two founders, taking to Reddit to thank fans for their support over the years.

Online services, Shoutcast streaming being the most important, will go away along with the player. You can still download the latest version until that date, and use it from then on, too. However, as with any software product that ceases its development cycle, there will be no more updates. That means there is a possibility for vulnerabilities to be exploited by malware. The risk is probably not a large one, but it still should be considered.
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Now, while the last version will probably be available to download on tons of various sites, it will certainly be missed.

Just as I was writing this article, another side to the whole story popped up. Microsoft is interested in buying Winamp together with Shoutcast. Even if that happens. I don’t know whether it should get all of our hopes up regarding Winamp’s future; as in some many other cases, Microsoft could just buy it and include its technology in its Xbox Music services, for example.
...

Good-Bye! I for one will not miss it at all...Quote from: patio on November 29, 2013, 11:08:54 AM

I for one will not miss it at all...

I agree - what's the big deal about Winamp?Quote from: Google on November 29, 2013, 12:21:56 PM

I agree - what's the big deal about Winamp?

Plugins.

Input plugins, for me, at least, are what MAKES it. Mostly for playing game music (such as native format NSF and SPC files for NES and SNES music) as well as a variety of similar formats for other game consoles.

In particular this is preferable to MP3 renditions of those tracks because the Input plugins are effectively Sound emulators, as such one can easily choose different waveform smoothing modes for the music to get different effects; increase the emulated Hz, etc.

Additionally, the files are smaller than any MP3 File. Every single .SPC file is exactly 64KB; NSF modules are usually smaller. Paired with the Disk Writer Plugin it makes converting sound effects and music tracks almost trivial.

There are also a variety of DSP and output plugins for different purposes.

Fact is, There is not a single other Media Player in existence with the ASSORTMENT of Plugins and extensions that Winamp has.

the phasing out of Winamp doesn't affect me; I have all the plugins I want, and AOL couldn't possibly have a good effect on it. I don't even THINK 5.541 (the version I am using) is the latest version.

The whole thing confuses me. "here are some alternatives"

Why do we need alternatives? Every single copy of Winamp won't suddenly stop working. The only thing that was really "lost" was shoutcast streaming.

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