Farewell Winamp 3.
Sunday, June 29, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Winamp 3 is no more. AOL's Nullsoft division has decided to discontinue Winamp 3 and return to enhancing Winamp 2 for the time being. A future "Winamp 5" will eventually become the next generation Winamp.
Winamp 3 was a very ambitious upgrade of Winamp. Rewritten almost entirely from scratch, it contained a new object oritend development language/environment known as Wasabi that would allow developers to create all kinds of things.
Unfortunately, such power requires memory and other resources which didn't appeal to Winamp's core user base which used Winamp because it was fast and light.
Winamp 3's cool skinning engine, however, is being brought to Winamp 2.
Winamp 3 was a very ambitious upgrade of Winamp. Rewritten almost entirely from scratch, it contained a new object oritend development language/environment known as Wasabi that would allow developers to create all kinds of things.
Unfortunately, such power requires memory and other resources which didn't appeal to Winamp's core user base which used Winamp because it was fast and light.
Winamp 3's cool skinning engine, however, is being brought to Winamp 2.
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joetheblow
Reply #22 Monday, June 30, 2003 9:01 PM
Reply #22 Monday, June 30, 2003 9:01 PM
DavidMandle, do you have a link? What does winAMP5 do? For that matter what will winAMP2.9 do? 
DavidDavid
Reply #23 Monday, June 30, 2003 10:27 PM 
and more. Running Win 2K with lotsa ram and processor- three was a tripod who's legs were bloatware, buggy and glacial. Liked the elements-couldn't take the buggy implementation. Pretty radical withdrawal of the software. Renews my faith in mankind, if not software ...
Reply #23 Monday, June 30, 2003 10:27 PM
and more. Running Win 2K with lotsa ram and processor- three was a tripod who's legs were bloatware, buggy and glacial. Liked the elements-couldn't take the buggy implementation. Pretty radical withdrawal of the software. Renews my faith in mankind, if not software ...
Graypony
Reply #24 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 7:43 AM
Reply #24 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 7:43 AM
object "oritend" development language??? Maybe oriented you mean? Or is this Wasabi *that* revolutionary that it gets a new word?
treetog
Reply #25 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 11:04 AM
Reply #25 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 11:04 AM
Long leave to 2x!
I was never able to run winamp3, it allways crashed my system.
I just finished a winamp2.91 skin and updated 2 other ones
I was never able to run winamp3, it allways crashed my system.
I just finished a winamp2.91 skin and updated 2 other ones
gorefighter
Reply #26 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 1:11 PM
Reply #26 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 1:11 PM
Good i hated winamp 3 the trash sould have never been made in the first place winamp 2 4 life bitches!!!!!
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Reply #27 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 1:39 PM
Reply #27 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 1:39 PM
Joe: http://feeds.zdnet.co.uk/avantgo/news/stories/2136712.html
rikkie
Reply #28 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 8:08 PM
Reply #28 Tuesday, July 1, 2003 8:08 PM
read ther article the link was pointing to and it seems things aren't going all to well for winamp 
Sure hope we can keep using the best mediaplayer around for some time to come....
Sure hope we can keep using the best mediaplayer around for some time to come....
joetheblow
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 2, 2003 2:48 AM
Reply #29 Wednesday, July 2, 2003 2:48 AM
Coding for the masses
Although the Winamp3 movement has been put on the back burner, it's by no means dead. Elements of Winamp3 and Wasabi will be combined with the faster, slimmer Winamp 2 for the next version of Winamp, called Winamp 5 (versions 2 plus 3), due out in late 2003. Wasabi code also is still being toyed with inside the halls of Nullsoft's San Francisco loft and will be found inside certain applications in Winamp 5, such as its skinning engine and its media library.
I don't believe it 2 + 3 is 5
Although the Winamp3 movement has been put on the back burner, it's by no means dead. Elements of Winamp3 and Wasabi will be combined with the faster, slimmer Winamp 2 for the next version of Winamp, called Winamp 5 (versions 2 plus 3), due out in late 2003. Wasabi code also is still being toyed with inside the halls of Nullsoft's San Francisco loft and will be found inside certain applications in Winamp 5, such as its skinning engine and its media library.
I don't believe it 2 + 3 is 5
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Reply #21 Monday, June 30, 2003 11:35 AM