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Forum King
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: AT-DE
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RIP Winamp
thanks to onionring for pointing me to this article
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/20/5...-over-15-years to be honest, i'm not even shocked at all. i remember winamp as my long-time favourite player, but that was also a long time ago. in the end, it became just a tool for me to play visuals, but my primary audioplayer had been something else for a long time (these days i mostly listen to spotify). my real concern is the forums, what will happen to it? it's such a great resource outside the winamp discussion, it would be a great loss. edit: now that there's an announcement on the winamp page, it's clear that the forums will be gone as well. it would be nice if some forum admin would give us access to all the posts of the avs forum, but the move to announce the winamp a month before the shutdown makes me doubt it will happen. great move, aol! |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Behind your house
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That makes the both of us, I've known winamp for almost a decade and started using it like 6 or so years ago. I guess this was just a matter of time before this happened, first with AVS, then Winamp.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: an UFO near planet earth
Posts: 164
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This is really sad, I'm still using Winamp as my daily player and AVS at parties
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#4 |
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 27,876
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nothing stopping you from still doing just that.
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 155
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DrO will there be a possibility to import a Backup from this Forum in the winampforum.com or is all the resources lost?
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#6 |
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 27,876
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well from what i've heard, a number of people are scraping the forums and everything else but as far as importing things go, i'd expect it'll have to be a manual process but i really don't know.
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#9 |
Forum King
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: AT-DE
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working on version 2.0 as we speak, featuring proper blockquotes, codes and links. running some more tests before uploading it to the same address
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Bin King
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Finland
Posts: 2,173
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Canis Sapiens
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Eh... a hi and bye from me. Said everything else on the Classic Skins board.
AVS and you guys meant a lot to me once and still do in some ways. Thank you for tolerating an overenthusiastic, sometimes misguided, sometimes annoying, but always well meaning kid. My latest pack (old): http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=134260 My latest skin: A Skin ? v1.0: http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=135874 |
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#13 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Behind your house
Posts: 106
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By the way, if you're interested, there's another forum which will take over this one when the time comes, click here
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personally, i'm only interested where the all the webvs discussion is going to. my suggestion would be to keep it on github. |
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 27,876
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i've explained things to death about the current naming and 'legal' aspects about the alternate forum (is easily found in my posting history).
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#17 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 101
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Thanks to Nullsoft, and thanks to all AVSers.
I've been playing with AVS for 12 years now. It inspired me to get into programming / math / generative art, and to eventually pursue a career in computer science / game development. Hopefully DeviantART and Customize.org will keep their AVS categories up. I plan to continue using Winamp. I've perfected the configs over the years, and it has been pretty much bug-free for me, for years. And I have not seen anything even close to AVS in other players though. ![]() |
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#19 |
[Forum Pastry]
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 1,032
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wait whut? am I late to the irish wake?
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#20 |
Got his CT back
and didn't pay $10 (Forum King) Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 3,577
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^ Holy shit, it's that guy!
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#21 |
Senior Member
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i'm logging in from times long gone. i've been through an awful lot of life since i did my stint in the avs community, but i look back really fondly on it and i'm sad to see the llamas finally laid to rest.
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#22 |
Forum King
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 4,060
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NDD: nice to see you. In case you missed it, AOL sold winamp and shoutcast to Radionomy so the llama lives on. AVS on the other hand hasn't been alive at all in the past months (or year(s) depending on your definition of alive)
Jesus loves you [yes, you] so much, he even died for you so that you will not need to die, but live forever |
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