Epon Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 Here's an amazing story on the history of WinAMP. To you youngin's who don't remember a time before iTunes or the gruesome process of downloading an MP3 over dialup for hours on end, WinAMP was the de facto media player for nerds. The amount of customization and skinning you could do to it still serves as a basis of product development today. Sadly, I remember when they released v5 and I was so turned off by the product and it's footprint that I just gave up on it altogether. I last used WinAMP a few years ago at a club for its visualization features. There was a pretty gnarly plugin that allowed your LINE IN to be pumped through the AVS system. I had a shitty laptop hooked up to about 30 LCD screens throughout the club bumping around to the beats. Ah, New Jersey fist pumping. Anyway, share your memories here. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 Winamp used to be my MP3 player of choice, I loved hoarding skins for it and adding all sorts of daft features. Then I just fell out of love with it. It just lost its charm after v5; dunno how, dunno why but it just did. I'm actually loving the Zune player at the moment; it's got a super sweet and sleek design (plus I love my windows phone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Bailey Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 Used WinAMP back in the day, don't have an audio program of choice now as I rarely listen to music on my PC, if I can get the speakers working at all. I remember making a Time Attacked WinAMP skin and putting it up for download. I remember Rlan posting a screenshot of something and could see he was using the Time Attacked WinAMP skin. To this day I still wonder how many other people actually used it, or even managed to get the skin working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 WinAmp was fun. I remember making a really crappy Kizna skin for it. Ahh the memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 It also was my default player... up to v5. Classic skin ftw. Good times, back with cell phone dial-up, hahahah. After that I switched to AIMP2, and now currently use Audacious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Winslow Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 dunno why everyone has issues with it after v5. you can still use classic mode and it runs fine that way. I still use it with the Fallout 2 skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XeroNazoBlaze Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 Oh, the memories. I remember downloading tons of anime and videogame skins on a 2004 PC with Windows 98 back in 2005-06. Now I hardly ever listen to music in my computer. If I do, WMP does the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanGameRevolver Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 I still use it cuz Itunes is garbage, and I never bothered to find anything else. Its also a plus that I have plugins that allow me to control it even when it isn't the active window an its not a resource hog(lol Itunes load times, wtf is it doing anyway?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 While I do use foobar2k, I did find Winamp pretty damn useful back then. I feel old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamerdude Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 I saw this article early this morning, quiet a good read. I used WinAMP for a long time...don't quite remember when I stopped using it. Aside from playing music, I used to use it for SAGE casting, good times . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 Here's an amazing story on the history of WinAMP. To you youngin's who don't remember a time before iTunes or the gruesome process of downloading an MP3 over dialup for hours on end, WinAMP was the de facto media player for nerds. The amount of customization and skinning you could do to it still serves as a basis of product development today. Sadly, I remember when they released v5 and I was so turned off by the product and it's footprint that I just gave up on it altogether. I last used WinAMP a few years ago at a club for its visualization features. There was a pretty gnarly plugin that allowed your LINE IN to be pumped through the AVS system. I had a shitty laptop hooked up to about 30 LCD screens throughout the club bumping around to the beats. Ah, New Jersey fist pumping. Anyway, share your memories here. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ reminds me of 56k and anime themesongs. ahhhh those were the days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epon Posted June 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 I saw this article early this morning, quiet a good read. I used WinAMP for a long time...don't quite remember when I stopped using it. Aside from playing music, I used to use it for SAGE casting, good times . Oh man of course, how can I forget the multicasting features it had?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 this topic honestly just makes me wonder why i stopped using winamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 I still use Winamp, mostly out of laziness. I don't particularly feel compelled to try another media player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckboy Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 okay who let grandpa out of the home he's blabbering about the good ol days again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epon Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 I just shit my pants want to change my pants for me Duckfuck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 I'd probably still rock winamp if I didn't have an iphone. So now I try to clean up my library in Itunes most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twodee Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 It really whips the llama's ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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