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- Developed by Nullsoft in 1997, Winamp is a media player that supports a wide array of audio formats and was an iconic software application in the heyday of MP3 music. Winamp was nearly ubiquitous, used by millions in the early 2000s.
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I've been using it the better part of 20 years now and still consider it the best piece of software I've ever had. It's never failed me.
I'm an old school audiophile and it was on Winamp I learned about meta tags. My collection is dated and rated with playlists created.
Whenever I threw a party, winamp was the player with playlist on the laptop, visualizations projected to wall, audio through home theatre. It was perfect as you can customize so much.
Fan Forever.
It had a serious cool factor that no other piece of Windows software had. Loved ripping WAV files off of borrowed CDs and compressing my own MP3s at high bit rate (328kbs, I think? Or 340kbs? Can't remember). I've migrated those files from one computer to the next, sometimes on ancient media like tape drive backups, and still have them today. Love looking at the file properties and seeing "Created on 4/18/1999" or somesuch. High school days traveling through time to greet me today. It's like 17-18 year old me saying 'SUP?! to 41 year old me. And I still like a lot of the same songs. Lot of Eazy E, Lords of Acid, Cage, Pantera, ICP, Twiztid and other 90s relics. And you better believe I had my ID3 tags on point! File names too. Album art on some of them. I was meticulous! This is bringing back so many memories. And I didn't discover Linux until December 1999 so the real fun hadn't even kicked off yet. Damn I wish I could go back and relive those days.
where can you download it?
Winamp is my sole music library program and always will be (MP3s on laptop, image WAVs on Hi-Fi). No sabotage updates, online entrapment, subscription extortion. a BIG FINGER to all the marketing dept out there.
True story and why I still use after all this time.
Winamp and XP will never die.
What happened to Winamp?
It showed up, whipped the llama's ass, and went home.
The good old Windows Xp days.. I used to use Winamp all day.
Shiiid how abt windows 95!!!!!
The Yahoo Messenger plug in that showed what music you were playing at that time!
@@RandoBurner wowww..its nostalgic...
Yeah I remember those days..
Yeah it was my first MP3 player program, on Windows 98SE. I had a Soundblaster Live! sound card and I used the RCA output ports hooked up to the AUX input on a Technics receiver and some Klipsch Cornwall II speakers. So much fun! I miss those days. I used a really cool skin too, looked like black metallic with red LED digits, just like my old Technics receiver.
I started using WinAmp in 1998 on Windows 95. There were lively chat groups on Yahoo! Chat (now defunct). Those were fun times.
I have this obsession started back in 1999, while music playing I can stare at my screen for hours looking at those visualizations, me and my friend call it "a winamp condition". we still rocking default skin or mercury skin, chees!
1999 was my year too! I didn't like the default skin but yeah those visualizations were the shizzle swizzle for RIZZLE!
I installed the last version of winamp again recently. Man it's still the best music player.
Play my mp4 music videos through it and after running replay gain the sound from vid to vid is great.
every 90's kids Media Player
i can tell that Winamp had more than 3 millon users probably close to billion cause in southeast Asia they were sold as CDs and we bought them from market, they were copied and burned into CD-Roms. we also bought music collection that way. it was a 90s thing
So back then in Southeast Asia, you could buy winamp on a CD with a collection of music? Cool!
im really sad that they didnt open sourced this. it would just be match in heaven.
I am an original user.. 1998. I am only recently wandering around for other musical means. I used to host chat rooms with scripts.. free mp3s etc. they would get going to 1000 people sometimes. huge overload for the little pentiums and smoking athlons. Good old days. The music goes on.
Ive also been in the game since the early stages. I had Winamp when it was in beta in 1997. I spent many nights in the old IRC chat rooms trying to acquire mp3's. The struggle was real back then. There was no Napster yet, no Limewire, no torrents, and definitely no Spotify. I would go back in a heartbeat. Good times :)
Were you on Usenet back then by any chance? This 1998-1999 talk is bringing back fond memories of computing and internet of yesteryear. I became adept at trolling on Usenet before trolling was really a thing.
And wasn't it suspect how much computing could be done on a 450Mhz K6III with like 256Mb of RAM, when now running calc.exe requires 10x that much power? Software has just gotten more and more bloated, and I'm convinced it's a conspiracy between the bloatware traffickers and chip pimps. My first real job in 1999 gave me a 733Mhz Toshiba laptop that felt like a supercomputer it was so snappy. Running the first version of XP too, I believe. Or maybe Windows 2000? Can't remember, we got advance beta versions of a lot of stuff at Cisco. But it all felt zippy and fast, and our whole office had a single ISDN PRI line, and files downloaded so fast you only saw a blur where the status bar was even when half the office was doing the same thing. We created bootable CD ISO images of baseline installs on our lab computers and uploaded these 700Mb files to our fileserver in San Hozay (or "San Jose" as they mistakenly spell it, even though that spells "Sand Joe's") in about 5 seconds, maybe 10.
Same here. I started using WinAmp in 1998, the glory years of the internet.
Obviously, without internet you can't stream. You have no music unless you have your music cached on your device. Having a backup of mp3s of any and every music you want and love, and can access anytime anywhere with a computer can never die. The software I will always use to manage and play my mp3s is winamp. Nothing ever did, and as far as I'm concerned, never will come close. I loved to fullscreen any of the cool visualisation on a big tv or monitor, seeing it react ON BEAT to every sound and instrument in a song, seeing the info fade in and out for each song, wowing guests that see it. The hours I burned editing tags, making sure I had album art on all my music. It's been over a decade since I used it since development stopped, cause I could never find a stable version as widows updated. But thanks to this video and the comments, it seems like there's hope in getting back my favourite non mobile music experience back again. Long live winamp.
You should do a spot on wacup the winamp community update project. It's where the winamp scene went. The last dev from winamp is rebuilding it without any proprietary code. Do a video on that, send some support over to dro
man id love to have it on my tablet. i really don't like any of the mp3 player that the goole play stoee
@@birdy369 hard agree.
@@birdy369 isn't it crazy how that 90s era piece of software had it right from day one? If the code were available and neatly portable to mobile devices, even an old version of Winamp would whip the llama's ass of any music player crapps available on Google Play.
thanks for the mention of wacup, cause it fixed all my complaints I had with winamp on modern setup
Don't forget WACUP! It's what I use. Winamp but upgraded and updated by the community, supporting everything normal Winamp supports, except AVS. AVS is iffy on systems past XP, apparently, I managed to force it to work on windows 10 somehow. WACUP also allows the setting of default album art, so skins can be just that little bit better.
2001 and brought me back here. I was in undergrad from 2000-2005 EVERYONE had WinAmp. we used it daily and it was EXCELLENT! Even when iTunes came out i think around 2004 or 2005 we still used it. it just became simpler to import your mp3 library and ripped CD's into the Apple Music player. And MAN, buying all the songs you wanted at 99 cents was genius- and we used that all the time. heard a new song on the radio? guess what you just bought it without paying for the entire album. it was awesome!
i only use winamp and mp3s never went to spotify Its also weird cause im the only one my age doing this (22) most my friends use streaming apps
High IQ
I still whip my llama
It's kind of astonishing that good old winamp is still one of the best players for non-streamed tunes.
I don't need a bunch of overly specific playlist customization options or fifty windows bombarding me with track info I don't care about.
Slam a folder into the playlist and you're good. That's all I want.
The few groups still making music playing software are so obsessed with feature creep that they miss the forest for the trees.
proud user since 2001
I _always only ever_ used Winamp for streaming while I worked. Cryosleep and Bluemars were my all-time favorites. I also listened to Sleepbot. This type of music allowed me to work without the distraction of beats. I could also sleep with it playing. I was bummed when Bluemars shut down, but I found that some faithful listener had created tribute streams. So, today, in 2022, I still use Winamp almost daily. I loved the days when the custom skins were coming out (whatever happened to those), but I still use the Bento skin.
Today, I'm trying to install the 5.9 update, but my company's security settings won't allow me to because it updates the registry. So, it looks like I'm stuck with version 5.8.
I truly miss the 90s and 2000s, when the internet was young and running wide open.
I loved the milkdrop visualisations.
Gotta love those 90s easter eggs!
I cant believe you didnt mention the winamp skin museum!
Its a real throwback to the past!
Thanks for reminding me about this amazing software that I used to use on daily basis back in 2000s. but for some reason completely forgot about. I'm going to download it again immediately.
Good old WinAmp! Yes I was an early adopter, I think I already used it in 1996, perhaps '97.... I lived at the campus of University of Twente, which was once one of the largest student internet hubs in the world, we were quite a head of time there. Still remember my carribean neighbour-student, who listened music the whole day through WinAmp - he introduced me to it. Brings up nostalgia... ! Still remember my mother being impressed by the visualisations. But it drained the batteries of my laptop back then, and burnt a hole in my lap because of my laptop running hot :-P
But I moved to mplayer, which I still use the most today. Happened with my switch from Windows to Linux around 2009 ... CLIs rule, I do a lot of on the fly customisation and programming, and for this mplayer is terrific. Also a long-lasting platform - to which I was first introduced in the late 90s by yet another University Twente campus student who was a relatively early adopter of Linux ;-)
Yes, in a sense we were privileged (I and the maker of this video ;-) ), we all saw it happen. The guys and girls that now work for my organisation, were born with these or similar tools, and didn't see the fascinating early development of the modern tools we use today.
I'm still using it today and with replay gain all my music videos sound great at my parties. I can do things with it I can't do with other apps. I wish someone would buy it off the current owners and start updating it cause it's simply the best there has ever been. WINAMP forever yeah!
yo word!
Best part about Winamp was the streaming ripper plug-in to rip song by song from broadcasted stations.
Loved Winamp
as of 2022 they went full NFT. R.I.P. winamp 1997-2022
I've been using Winamp since the late 90s and have music files on my hard-drive that are dated from the early 2000s as well. I use this program every single day when I'm on the computer to play my music and still use the classic mode. Still looks like the same program.
Still using version 2.91 made in 2003. It runs perfect even in newer OS.
Why does the past always seem better?....thanks for this video.....Always loved the Winamp intro...lol
it was a service before and now its about selling a product with business makeup -like cool ,like the shareholder must see a product that according to the market -kids --So the past were better before they involved into getting rich and make a career
I love using Winamp. I've been using it since 2001.
Thank you. I didn't know anything about winamp and you helped me make the decision to download it.
What happened?Nothing.I am still using.:)
I never stopped using Winamp :D It's an amazing, simple player for those that don't want to be surprised by their favourite music being deleted from TH-cam or Spotify. I use the Muin_V2 skin (from DeviantArt) for years now and it never stopped looking good. The original skin is just too ugly and Bento adds additional GUI that I simply don't need or want.
I still use it myself
The most fun here is that Winamp still alive and have new version. I make portableapps and one guy say me that he still use Winamp, I was confused, but then check that Winamp alive more then others and so I make portable build of it.
Good old times back when I listen mp3 with Winamp :)
Never used another mediaplayer than Winamp and I never will. Eagerly awaiting the new, revamped Winamp !
l still using a GOOD winamp,nothing can change him
It's still easy to find and still more or less works as well as it always did.
I still actively use it.
I don't have any streaming services, I download the songs and make my own playlists, call me old fashioned but im only 15. I half-like the old style of this software.
Love Winamp
Winamp is my sole music library program
Got its ass kicked by a Llama, that's what..
Before spotify existed this was the thing me and my big brothers played music with. Among the bands were Nightwish which I grow up with. I really liked its blue background and the logo was very cool. Brings lot of memories.
Winamp v5.9.0 was released in Sept of 2022... I have it installed now. I really hope Winamp can stage a comeback! I can't wait!
If I could still use Winamp, I'd go back to it in a heartbeat.
why can't you? no PC?
I still use WinAmp almost every day! Best music player, by far.
Luv Winamp blue and silver template
There's a new Winamp being released on 15 April 2023, and that's according to Winamp.
great video
Best skin: Cassiopeia
Nice vid bro!
I assume it's just because I'm old as shit. But I never stream, and I don't get why you would? I have ALL the music I want, on my HDD. So yeah, I still use Winamp too.
I know this is probably not the most common reason, but most the stuff I listen to actually doesn’t have torrents available, with my only options being a. Buy their albums off their website for like 40 dollars b. Try and find software that can rip their music which can be difficult and time consuming. Or c. Just stream it
Im 55 stopped using winapp and mp3s long ago, I love Spotify, I get pod casts, music and more all in one place and its dirt cheap premium family plan. I drive a lot for work, its so much better than changing radio stations all day as I move from city to city, and bests the hell out of serious xm
I use the last version of Winamp. Mostly for videogame musics, MP3 encoding via LameEnc (Yes, I still use that.) and listening to various internet radios which is a nice change from time to time. There is probably better alternatives out there for all of this but Winamp feels just right, feels like home. After all, it is the first music player I used after the one that came with some soundblaster clone back in the day. :)
How i miss the old days
still using wimamp...its the best till now
i still have winamp
i still use Win amp, pretty much the best media software i know of.
still using it :D
Winamp is reborn 28 february 😍
I never stopped using Winamp either. Think I've been using it since like 1998 or 99. I keep a folder of installation files on my computer, it automatically gets copied over to every new computer I buy. In it are two versions of Winamp 5.13 and 5.621 Pro. I legitimately bought a Pro license back in the day, and the passcode still works (as long I'm running as Administrator when I enter it) And I like the Classic Skin, Double Size, Fire in the box with no peaks.
Tht Panasonic joint was 🔥
Switched to foobar since 2009 and never looked back at winamp.
foobar is good too
Maybe what also happened is Napster was shut down and smartphones became good enough to stream music or play your personnel mp3 library.
I lived WinAmp....to the day, "WInamp...(winamp)....It really whips the llama's assss!" still rings in my head. lol! If they were smart, they would try to tie it in with streaming. Make it the best streamer add-on.
It's August 2022, and they've just released version 5.9. 😀❤The one program which genuinely picked up the banner was AIMP. With a good skin, such as 4X, it's a brilliant alternative to Winamp. I used Winamp from 1999 until 2018. 19 years. :-)
yea only bad thing is that its only for windows and android..😔
Yes i Wish there was an linux version
Update. Winamp is back in development.
man i used to use winamp so much years ago. All this streaming crap killed alot of media players off. I still have a ton of trance and other EDM stuff as mp3 thats i still listen too.
I guess it finally whipped the Llama's ass.
I switched to mac in 2012 and Winamp is what I miss the most. Would it work on recent version of Windows if I used Parallels?
I miss Winamp TV first time seeing been hacked and Sean Kennedy
I still use Winamp, even in the year 2022. Can't find a player that lists songs as I phave them listed in the Windows Directory, literally it doesn't exist except with Winamp
Winamp 5.9 is available for download now 👍
I still use winamp. Looking forward to their newest version.
I still use it
So far I still use Winamp 5.8, because no reason to use others? I still listen mp3 music, so why not?
Sadly I really wish everything in 64bit, but no one make it 64bit now.
Still using Winamp for my 300 days content of music, no other app can touch the library quality. Well maybe JRiver media player can match it. Starting using it when I ripped all my 200 album cds to flac way back in 03.
Very good sound
Winamp, still going strong. Used it since version 1.666. I make mp3s so I use it daily, and cant afford Spotify. Now its into NFTs, so sadly not very interested in Winamp as it stand in that pile of uugh...
Wow i just went bacc to the past after watching this.
im still usig version 2 XD
I had so many winamp skins
When i listen to music i use Winamp. It really whips the lama's ass!
The Player was part of the experience. I was looking for a way to add a better theme to youtube music and stumbled on this brilliant retrospective. Yup, nother step backwards for music over money. Imagine that bands could skin their own templates for the actual player. That's like having a crystal method boombox etc....That is totally MIA right now. Cannot even find a basic visualizer to replace the youtube video. So much more on this but why bother .... lol Nobody listens or is going in that direction (art).
i am still using winamp 5.666.
with a few upgrades (the classic modern skin from victhor, the winamp essentials plugin collection, dynamic library, the mad library mp3 decoder and thimeo stereotool as a dsp)
i prefer it over aimp or mediamonkey for its simplicity and less attention demanding sound (better for background, worse for intensive listening). foobar sounds to cold for my tastes.
It's so sad to me that companies have essentially given up on desktop music apps and on local ownership of music files. Windows 10 and 11's default music player is garbage, and Apple has nixed iTunes in favor of Apple Music, which is better for streaming than for local file management. I long for the days when you could manage a local library easily, and Winamp, foobar2000 and the rest are the relics that typify that era.
Yeah storage space is cheap, I've got at least half a terabyte of unused space, and if I own a song I want it stored LOCALLY. Streaming my own files is ridiculous. What if there's buffering? And on my crappy phone plan my data is throttled after the first two gigs. I get that technology evolves, no one uses rotary dial phones anymore, but this "make everything streaming" and "store your stuff on THE CLOUD" stuff isn't better, it's not an advancement. It feels like a downgrade. Hard disk space is cheaper than bandwidth and a Hell of a lot more reliable.
I wouldn't say relics. Winamp is just as good as it was 15 years ago. There's a trend in the software development world to constantly develop apps, which in many cases just ruins the original product making it worse then it was. When speaking about winamp, if you like having music on a storage device, it's perfect. Honestly not much can be added to make it better. That's my oppinion though.
Yeah we're stuck with Winamp when instead we could get new updates every week on new online-only apps that we could subscribe to... I feel like a cow who's not being milked.
You will own nothing and you will be happy!
winamp the best Audio Program
I am still using WinAmp.
I just downloaded it 3 days ago.
It beats the bloody-shit outta that cheezy Groove Music or iTunes.
I'd like to see resizable sections, but it really does "whip the llama's a$$"
they are making a new winamp apparently
WINAMP was legendary and unparalleled. I wish the owners never sold it, but I understand nobody wants to work forever.
I'd fire up WINAMP not just for nostalgia, but also cause it was and still is the best digital player out there. All others have a really crappy shuffle and sorting system.
I can't find WINAMP on your site..
My buddy still uses it🍻😂👍
still using winamp now.
I miss that Alpaca
"how to play spotify musics with winamp?"
lol. i have the same external dvd drive. i think it came with nero burn software. actually using it still for ripping audi cds to flac. 0:33
AOL bought Winamp ,then parked it the basement. Why? I thought it was the best.
I used to run the HALS eye skin.I would park it in a set of wheels on my desktop(car wallpaper) ,invite friends to figure out where the music was coming from. Or shrink it down really small amazing laughs.
nEW sUB; Dryden, Mich.
Well Done, WInAmppin the Lammas @#$### since the Beginning, I used to have to use a program to Split MP3s onto Floppies, then Merge them Back together on a Different PC like I was Installing MS-Dos LOL
Nothing happened, I have it installed just like over 20 years ago.
yeah well you are passing also all the tv like sattions on it that were incredible to stream at that time pre youtube !!!!
Winamp forever
I feel like Winamp just couldn't keep up in terms of looks, usability, services, and mindshare. Not long after Winamp, we got iTunes which has all of those down (especially before v11 or whichever that redesign was), but also we had competitions from VLC, MPC, Realtime Player, GOMI (or whatever it was called), foobar2000 (which supersedes Winamp for the tinkerer) and WMP (because at least that one's present by default).
Nowadays, mpv and VLC are more popular among techies, iTunes among Apple users, and Spotify for most people. Music player is a commodity nowadays.
Winamp is for people who don't give a F about Mindshare and Services, just want to organise and play their music without any IT hassle.