Bleck Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 In a month. What does this mean for Chipamp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brandon Strader Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Worst news of the year. RIP Winamp, I'll still be using it though. As for Chipamp... it should either stay as-is with current Winamp or become its own plugin for some other program. Maybe a VLC plugin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowbar Man Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Chipamp is just a collection of a bunch of plugins in the first place. Right on the website it has an alternative of Audio Overload and i'm sure most of these plugins have alternate installs for like Foobar and other players. I'm very sad to see Winamp go. It has always been my favorite music player. The amount of plugins you can get to play retro music is amazing. But, if you've already got a copy of Winamp installed, it isn't like it will stop functioning. And being the internet at all, the download will be found somewhere. I know I'm going to keep rocking it for all my music needs, for all time Here is hoping they will do the right thing and open source it / release the source. If not, I'm sure all the plugin devs will move elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I had the same version of Winamp for several years and it worked even past major revisions. You'll probably always be able to pick an old version up from oldversion.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Damned Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Yep, still using Winamp to play music on my computers. Luckily, there's enough of a fanbase with enough technical knowledge to keep mucking around with it for some time. We may see all kinds of mods for it still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Felis Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I'm still using winamp, and people are still skinning it. Heck, winamp was what I used to put MP3s on my ipod before I discovered sharepod. I'm sad to see it go, and hope that some awesome open-source project rises from the ashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gario Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 For some reason, I see people continuing to distribute it throughout the internet for years to come, and possibly even continuing to develop things for it long after the official site dies. There's too many people that only use this player for it to suddenly get wiped from the internet once the company discontinues it. I personally stopped using it once I had my own computer, but that's just me. Still sad to see the llama finally won, in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argle Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Winamp feels too bloated to me, and I don't really like the GUI. It dates back to the bad old days of the internet though, so RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypnotikid Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I heard about this yesterday but mostly from fans of the site, I checked out the site to see if it is true, and I didn't see anything abut this on the site. Where is this info? Or is the info about it shutting down on it now? Perhaps I will check again. Winamp was my 1st media player since I got my Windows XP machine many moons ago. If it is true that it is shutting down, then I will be one sad panda, but hopefully it will still function like normal. Idk if it's supporting features like AOL Music and shout-cast will be around, but I doubt it. I discovered OCR from Winamp Radio. x_x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrow Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en - There's a large message on the top of pretty much every download page at winamp.com about the upcoming shutdown. The message isn't on their front page though, for extra confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moguta Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 RIP, friend. Many nights I fall asleep to a relaxing Winamp playlist, knowing that it'll put the PC to sleep immediately after finishing. Anyone know other audio players with this functionality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José the Bronx Rican Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Surely the end of an era. Definitely some bloat on recent builds (also don't dig constant upgrade notices), so it's not on my vital 'studio' systems, but for convenient VGM discovery (thanks to the best plugins and Dave's Chipamp project) I gotta have it, currently on a couple laptops. That's at least until foobar approaches the same level of quality and quantity with their VGM plugins. I maybe would like to see a final update to Chipamp to keep things at their most current before the end, especially with the huge improvements on in_vgm since last update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapidkirby3k Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Just heard the news about Winamp this morning and I am saddened. That media player was one of my most favorites, too. =( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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