Is there even an alternative?

[wernerml]

probably even if there was an alternative, I would stick with Winamp like a maniac...
it's like Firefox, even with Chrome and other crap running/opening much faster, the community/inumerous-plugins of Firefox will always be bigger!

I would only start using another player if at least 10 years of plugins were being made (fanatically, like it has been done for winamp...)

So, to complete my post: I'm also really sad that it's dying...