If you have been a Windows user for a long time you most
likely have used or at least heard of WinAmp Media Player. It was a very
popular free program that would play audio and video files and was used by a
lot of people. It was also used to stream audio from internet radio sites and
the like. WinAmp supported a variety of file types making it popular for end
users.
Once Windows Media Player and iTunes became the standards
for audio and video playback WinAmp started fading away except for the faithful
old school users. WinAmp was created in 1997 and soon bought out by AOL in
1999.
The latest version of WinAmp was released this Wednesday and
the last time you will be able to download the software from their site will be
on December 20th. All of their associated web services will be shut
down on the 20th as well. Even though former employees claim that WinAmp was
pulling in 6 million a year the company has not commented on why they are
shutting down.
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