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eli on Feb 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech comp...

There's a really excellent long piece in Ars from 2012 about Nullsoft/Winamp that has the advantage of nearly a decade more perspective: https://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest...

The following year, AOL officially killed the Winamp product.

LeoPanthera on Feb 5, 2017 [–]

WinAmp is back. http://www.winamp.com/

mizaru on Feb 5, 2017 | [–]

It's been 'back' since... around 2013?

Sunset on Feb 5, 2017 | | [–]

It's "back" as much as a zombie is "back". Yeah it works on the latest OS, but several features are broken.

Shoutcast still working is a little miracle. Though I am quite pleased with the Podcast Downloading feature w/ RSS. ( for example you can pull stuff from soundcloud )

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