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Winamp Media Player, perhaps one of the best media players for Windows, is being closed down after over 16 years in development (I've been using Winamp since my 95 days

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I'm really going to miss Winamp, but at least there's still many skins/plugins/etc. for it

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As far as I'm concerned Winamp development ended in 2003

Still run Winamp v2.91, even though I'm on a Mac >_>

But it is sad from a legacy standpoint.

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Ah, shit! There goes my primary music player.

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I've been using Foobar2k for a long time now, after switching from Winamp. I like it much more

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I never used Winamp. My needs are met by the default Windows Media Player and VLC.

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I still have a floppy with Winamp 2.64 (then current). So yeah I'm a long-time Winamp user.

I guess I'll stay with the last version then until... dunno.

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I tried Winamp once, but it felt too heavy on my system's resources.

There used to be a time where every tiny system resource mattered.. kids these days will never know those times. Even their smartphones are exiting that phase now.

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I tried Winamp once, but it felt too heavy on my system's resources.

Weak computer?

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Posted by Gywall
I tried Winamp once, but it felt too heavy on my system's resources.

What kind of system do you have? I never thought Winamp was resource-heavy. Unless you tried the ill-fated version 3...

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Posted by Liliana
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I tried Winamp once, but it felt too heavy on my system's resources.

What kind of system do you have? I never thought Winamp was resource-heavy. Unless you tried the ill-fated version 3...

It were a while ago. I was on my 2.66GHz machine with 512MB Ram at that time. >_>

So that's quite a few years back now.

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Posted by Gywall
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I tried Winamp once, but it felt too heavy on my system's resources.

What kind of system do you have? I never thought Winamp was resource-heavy. Unless you tried the ill-fated version 3...
It were a while ago. I was on my 2.66GHz machine with 512MB Ram at that time.

So that's quite a few years back now.

I used to run WinAmp on a 200MHz computer and had no issues

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Post #14

Sort of updating this thread.

Winamp has been bought by Radionomy, and they're planning to "update" it by making it look more modern (which I hope is not by making it look like a Win8 App).
Let's hope it goes well enough.

This also means their "not quite" hidden plugin folder is still up and going, although the root directory isn't browsable anymore.

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