Winamp is officially dead
Thursday, November 21, 2013 by c242 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Quote from the download area:
"Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years."
That is too bad, although I started using AIMP some time ago.
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Reply #42 Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:20 AM
I'm wondering how many here still use winamp. I usually have my smx's set up to use Xion but I can do both or if there's a preference.
Reply #43 Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:39 AM
I'm wondering how many here still use winamp. I usually have my smx's set up to use Xion but I can do both or if there's a preference.
Uvah I still use winamp but I also use xion and aimp. I think you will find winamp still has a lot of supporters even though a few naysayers will come along. For me a player that plays my crappy mp3's there are plenty of but I keep going back to winamp coupled with DFX as my main player.
Reply #46 Thursday, November 28, 2013 4:06 PM
Winamp is all I've ever consistently used. I've tried, of course, nearly every other media player on the planet - that I've heard of anyhow, but consistently go back to Winamp. It's usually the first thing, after the OS itself, that I install on any machine.
I'd switch, actually, if I knew of another media player, other than WMP, to handle the 'iZotope Ozone' plugin I use with Winamp. It takes music and kicks it up a notch or twenty. The prospect of listening to music without said plugin makes me sad, indeed.
(Any ideas? 
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Reply #47 Thursday, November 28, 2013 4:57 PM
Ditto.
My reason to do so is it's a reminder of a significant origin in GUI skinning- graphic glitches and all...
Reply #48 Friday, November 29, 2013 1:50 AM
One excellent plugin. Last time I checked the iZotope site the pay version of plugin had been abandoned, I think that was a year or so ago. That's a good plugin (the free version) to grab from the WinAmp site before the site goes down, if the plugin is still even there.
Reminds me that now is a good time for people to be sure they're covered for a re-install of all their skins and plug-ins if need be.
Reply #49 Friday, November 29, 2013 4:52 AM
The guys over at winamp spoke of another site, 1001 skins.com, that will be hosting skins for the player. There was also a mention of saving plugins to another site but nothing definitive. Thinking of checking out 1001 skins because at one time I had a ton of skins for winamp.
Edit: 1001 skins will also host plugins but it will be awhile.
Reply #50 Friday, November 29, 2013 5:34 AM
Quoting Matchbook, reply 46'iZotope Ozone' plugin
One excellent plugin. Last time I checked the iZotope site the pay version of plugin had been abandoned, I think that was a year or so ago. That's a good plugin (the free version) to grab from the WinAmp site before the site goes down, if the plugin is still even there.
Reminds me that now is a good time for people to be sure they're covered for a re-install of all their skins and plug-ins if need be.
Dave are you talking about this site? http://www.izotope.com/
I have the paid version. How can anyone not like this? ozone with one of my favorite winamp skins.
Reply #51 Friday, November 29, 2013 5:49 AM
check also the Winamp ClassicPro new skins layout > http://cpro.skinconsortium.com/
and here you go for the all the Winamp full \lite\ beta \old versions > http://www.oldapps.com/winamp.php
Reply #52 Friday, November 29, 2013 6:18 AM
Been to the izotope site but no free version there, only a paid one. So...off to the winamp site and got it from there plus a few skins to play with. To be honest though I saw a lot of skins that are, well, not what I'd call media players. Bulky, too flashy, too much other-worldly stuff.
Reply #53 Friday, November 29, 2013 9:20 AM
"not what I'd call media players"
That is funny Uvah, that is what I would have said about xion. There is plenty of simple or plain jane skins. Frankell mentioned the classic pro site. You might like those skins. You can shrink them down to nothing more then the player buttons and when expanded you can have any window you want opened in them, ie eq, album art, playlist, visualization etc. Simply grabbing the corner with your mouse and dragging it smaller will get rid of everything so all you have is a media player.
Reply #54 Friday, November 29, 2013 11:20 AM
Thanks JC. I downloaded a couple from the winamp site. I'll check out the other ones Frankell mentioned.
Reply #55 Friday, November 29, 2013 12:05 PM
I think those are the people, but I think they're just doing the more deluxe software now. (The "Ozone" on that site isn't the little $25 plugin.) The plugin site is here, I'm getting a 404 error on its download link http://www.ozonemp.com/
(This isn't a problem for me, I was just yakking about the Ozone.) I also forgot to say that as far as I know it does only work on WinAmp and Win Media player, but I really haven't tried to track down any players that might use it or other WinAmp plugins. Yep, I love it too.
Ok, had to look, the free version is still listed on WinAmp http://www.winamp.com/plugin/izotope-ozone/79374
Reply #56 Friday, November 29, 2013 2:47 PM
I don't listen to music because it distracts me from my writing and web page making. I had to go back into my downloads store and see what I had. I have an install copy of winamp5622_full_emusic-7plus_en-us I'm not sure if this is pre- or post bloat ware, but it does ask permission to install a winamp tool bar and set the search to AOL (I told it "no", I'll see if "no" means "no")
Reply #57 Friday, November 29, 2013 3:01 PM
yeah you can really go minimal with the Corner Amp skin (just chose one of the desktop corners, see mine at bottom-right)
or you can go even more minimal with the Winamp Tray Control which is bundled with Winamp 5.57 and above
I'm using this icon pack http://www.winamp.com/plugin/nullsoft-tray-control-plug-in-icon-pack/222396
Reply #58 Saturday, November 30, 2013 4:25 AM
It's also supposed to work, or at least at some point used to work, with Quintessential Player (aka QCD or QMP).
I've never used that, I have no idea what it might be like.
Reply #59 Saturday, November 30, 2013 10:08 AM
Dave I am not a WMP fan and therefore I am not familiar with configuring it. Have you used this with WMP? I bet it would do great things for that player.
Reply #60 Saturday, November 30, 2013 2:14 PM
In terms of sound and interface, it worked the same as it does on WinAmp. It worked "ok" with WMP, though not as stable as it is with WinAmp. WMP would sometimes get its "I've had a problem and disabled all plugins" states. I'm guessing the problem was WMP updates that Ozone didn't keep up with, it worked better on the earlier WMP versions. Most recent WMP I've used it on was WMP11, it ran ok but the "disabled plugins" error was somewhat common.
I quit using WMP altogether a couple of years ago. Had to start it up just now to see what version I'd used, it was 11. Loading up your music directories in WMP can screw up your album art in WinAmp. WMP creates its little art thumbnail files in the directories and points the music files to them, then WinAmp's album art looks horrible (enlarged small images). Fixing it within WinAmp wasn't as easy as you'd think, not sure that I ever really figured out a way to do it. Could be some WMP setting, don't know, but I got tired of it, reloaded my music files to the hard drive from scratch (pre-WMP thrashing), and kept WMP out of it.
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Reply #41 Monday, November 25, 2013 7:13 AM
It was stillborn. I believe '5' was the chosen version number just to distance itself from 3 .... cos 3 was a dog....