2 Years Today With No Update For Winamp!

[NJK]

Originally Posted by evertroy

Why can't a developer come in here and tell us something?

There are no developers anymore....

Originally Posted by evertroy

What is the point of keeping secrets about it?

No secrets at all , simply nothing to report.

Originally Posted by evertroy

I'm guessing there is no reliable way for them to make money
from Winamp so it probably is dead bad.

now you get the picture

[musicf8]

Originally Posted by evertroy

Give me an update that fixes the location of my player, it keeps
moving out of the docked corner after close/open. I found a fix
here in the forums but it didn't last long.

Maybe don't use the beta?

[MourningStar]

^
winamp died and went to heaven here :

https://getwacup.com

[darkness94]

i'm happy with old versions

[Kwashiorkor]

It really is disappointing, and I really like winamp.

[cybersaga]

Originally Posted by Kwashiorkor

It really is disappointing, and I really like winamp.

So keep using it. It still plays music.

I still don't get all this noise about Winamp "dying". Development is dead. The app isn't.

[bubba_j]

Originally Posted by johncarner

if you really need JTFE like support use AIMP4
I am sorry but at this stage AIMP4 does everything winamp used to do(yes everything plugins skins,media library the whole #!shebang and is under active development with monthly releases winamp is not

Why can't a developer come in here and tell us something?

[DJ-Garybaldy]

Developers?

What developers last i heard there was no one working on Winamp #ICouldBeWrong

[goldman]

It's kinda sad there's no development.
i might be wrong, but i think if the name wasn't probably copyrighted, anyone with coding knowledge could mantain it and maybe even get a load of patreon money for it.

[Galgadot]

Originally Posted by cybersaga

So keep using it. It still plays music.

I still don't get all this noise about Winamp "dying". Development is dead. The app isn't.

Why update the program if it works great?

[Aminifu]

With carefully selected plug-ins it became and remained my go to app for playing music files and listening to internet radio until 3 years ago when I switched to WACUP (which is being actively developed by DrO, a major developer for Winamp v5.666.3516).

[KazzioRibald]

2 years without any update makes me think of switching to other players.

[gerryharris]

Why?
Has it stopped working?
Works just as I want it.
Cheers
Gerry

[Wineroz]

I will have a huge problem if Winamp stops working properly after some Windows 10 update [like in case of 5.666 being run on W10]

I have no perfect but good enough and productive combo of tweaked Mp3tag & Winamp; and of: old NCH Switch Sound File Converter Plus 4.35, out of date Sony Sound Forge 7.0 and up-to-date AIMP converter; plus Spek and heavily tweaked FreeCommander. Put all together they create a productive environment for my workflow

And so if any of these pieces breaks - the whole system breaks. With the Winamp and Mp3tag being its core

[Class316]

It still works well for audio.

Winamp is sadly dead. Technology marched too forward for it to be considered useful by the massses. But Winamp is not forgotten. When Generation X and Xennials die out it will be forgotten.

[DJ-Garybaldy]

Originally Posted by Class316

It still works well for audio.

Winamp is sadly dead. Technology marched too forward for it to be considered useful by the masses. But Winamp is not forgotten. When Generation X and Xennials die out it will be forgotten.

You are right in what you say while Winamp hasn't seen any development for 7 years other software and technology has made it practically redundant for me at least.

Winamp was a great little media player 22 years ago but sadly those Glory days are long gone

Even if Radionomy got a developer on the case of Winamp 6 it wouldn't have the fanbase it once had.

[Kiriakos-GR]

Originally Posted by darkness94

i'm happy with old versions

Many people are, because from a version up and later, Winamp was unable to run at multiple instances.

15 years ago we seen dedicated software for Radio Mix and radio broadcast, and Winamp lost it popularity for this application.

I think that for as long some one using Nullsoft DirectSound plug-in as output, Winamp will never stop working at Windows operating systems.

Microsoft DirectSound this is there since Win95.

[NJK]

Originally Posted by Kiriakos-GR

Many people are, because from a version up and later, Winamp was unable to run at multiple instances.

Which version are you talking about?

I have winamp still running on multiple computers and on one version 5.581 is running and that will still allow you to run multiple instances of winamp .
as far as i know 5.666 isn't that much younger.

[Class316]

Originally Posted by DJ-Garybaldy

You are right in what you say while Winamp hasn't seen any development for 7 years other software and technology has made it practically redundant for me at least.

Winamp was a great little media player 22 years ago but sadly those Glory days are long gone

Even if Radionomy got a developer on the case of Winamp 6 it wouldn't have the fanbase it once had.

Makes me feel so old

At this point I feel running winamp is clinging to my youth.

[Alrock]

Still the best music player out there, where it went wrong was trying to make it into a general media center.
We need a new version that strips out everything unrelated to music playback, no video support needed, no browser (what was the point of that anyway) etc.

[Class316]

Originally Posted by Alrock

Still the best music player out there, where it went wrong was trying to make it into a general media center.
We need a new version that strips out everything unrelated to music playback, no video support needed, no browser (what was the point of that anyway) etc.

Should be just as easy to simply not load videos on it.

I do agree browser pretty stupid.

I've a feeling that should Winamp 6.0 ever be released, it won't be the Winamp we know and love.

But again, good thing version 5.8 works pretty damn good. So we can still use it.

[Aminifu]

Originally Posted by Class316

...

I do agree browser pretty stupid.

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There was an option that let the internal browser be used to pull info (bio info, concert dates, etc.) from the internet related to the artist of the song being played. That ended when AOL sold Winamp.