What Happened To Winamp?

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In this video, we explore the captivating history of Winamp, the iconic media player that dominated the late '90s and early 2000s. Discover its revolutionary features, the challenges it faced, and its enduring legacy. Join us as we uncover the reasons behind Winamp's rise and fall, and its recent resurgence in the age of nostalgia. Whether you're a fan or curious about its fate, this video provides a fascinating journey through the rise and fall of Winamp.
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@DeadlyTechYT Месяц назад

Winamp is FINALLY Back: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AR0xYRbkaQw.html

@DaemonForce Год назад

The huge appeal point of Winamp was the simple lightweight utility of playing MP3s without issue. On an archaic 33MHz laptop with 16MB ram, Winamp was the only player that could handle MP3s without stuttering or any kind of problem. It was a nod to good efficient code that is just a myth in this age. From my quad core ARM powered phone I can't even load a stream without stutters every other second. All the wrapper apps are garbage but MP3s still work fine. We need Winamp era developers to come back and fix all of this for us.

@matheusgoulart1618 Год назад

A lot of the time it's not the fault of the devs, rather some higher ups who want exact real time telemetry for every breath the user takes.

@TheStolenBattenberg Год назад

@@matheusgoulart1618 Nah it is the developers. Modern day programmers suck.

@Blackadder75 Год назад

@@TheStolenBattenberg is it a decrease in education? (among programmers) I remember coding as being an university level study. (in the 80s, 90s and earlier) Now you have IT studies 'software developer' that are 2 levels below university. (I don;t know the correct name for that in anglo-saxon terms) I don;t want to belittle those people, they do the best job they can within their capacities, but they are not as smart as academic level students

@AJB2K3 Год назад

That's not stuttering on on modern hardware, that's attempt to play adverts.

@TheStolenBattenberg Год назад

@@Blackadder75 I'm not too sure. I only finished college myself in 2016 (that's UK college, ages 16/17 - 18/19). College education for me was boring and not very educational. The extent of programming they covered was making calculators in Python. I'd taught myself more in the years prior since I started programming when I was roughly 10 or so, because I enjoyed it instead of there being any financial incentive. I think the real problem is that modern programmers strive to make code as human readable as possible, and disregard any good optimization techniques in favour of that readability. Human readability should not be the goal - that's what comments are for. On RU-vid you also see videos advocating bad programming practices all the time; an example would be explaining that you should avoid nesting by expanding something that could be one method into many, many individual methods - this causes all current variables stored in registers to be pushed on to the stack for each method deep you go, which also has to be restored at each exit point of the method... Another example is telling you not to use else/if or goto even when they're completely appropriate for the situation. tl;dr? Modern programmers suck because they suck. Academics or otherwise.

@Pasi123 Год назад

"Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!"

@zhulikkulik Год назад

Oh and its best feature actually is the fact that it's modular. You can move windows however you like and they stick like magnets when you put them close enough.

@zhulikkulik Год назад

I still use winamp. The best player of all times. I use the classic skin, but I remember customization being a huge thing back in 2000s. People made all sorts of weird themes for it. From simple image overlays to very complex themes where buttons were repositioned and the window could be circular or something like that.

@BundesengelMichael2 Год назад

The only problem I have is I'm running on a 4K TV. Apparently there is no way to adjust the resolution of the player. Is quite small. But, still the best player

@_M_643 4 месяца назад

@BundesengelMichael2 You could try Wacup. It's a community supported version of winamp, which has a lot of bug fixes and allows resizing of the original themes.

@dpc4548 Год назад

Who the hell used itunes!? It was a punchline before being forgotten.

@KrisRyanStallard Год назад

I used it because I had an ipod. It wasn't the best, but it was there and would play my purchased music.

@weltenkrank7807 Год назад

@@KrisRyanStallard Had an Ipod touch but ITunes was sooo baaaaaad.

@KrisRyanStallard Год назад

@@weltenkrank7807 apparently younger me didn't think it was unusably bad 🤷🏼‍♂️😂

@MatthewCobalt Год назад

Honestly, it was either that or Windows Media Player

@stuartburns8657 Год назад

iSheep

@sulev111 Год назад

Dead? Wtf?! Winamp is the only consistently working music player I know of. And it's so easy to use. Nothing happened to it. You can't perfect perfection.

@harryshuman9637 3 месяца назад

AIMP is far supperior.

@Axiarus 2 месяца назад

Huh? AIMP and foobar2000 exist.

@mrpotatofly4453 21 день назад

foobar2000.....

@davebulow2 Год назад

I still use it literally every day and have done since the late 90s. It's far less intrusive software than any alternatives I'm aware of. I tried many alternatives but just kept coming back to its well designed interface. It's really easy to use most of the time as well as being extremely customisable. I still love that you can hide the docked window anywhere and hover the mouse over it to bring it up. It also respects your file system and computer's resources far more than the alternatives. And yes you can rip CDs directly from it too if you want to. By the way, about iTunes you say "It could identify CDs and copy songs from them in just a couple of clicks". Winamp could (and still can) also do this. It still contacts CDDB servers, downloads Cd, artist, track names, etc, adds them to ID3 and ID3v2 tags and rips the file. Can't get much easier than that. I can't say for sure when CD ripping was added to WinAmp, but I'm quite sure it was very early on, and probably before iTunes existed. iTunes (and even Windows Media Player) became more popular, not because they were better, but because they were promoted as the only option and/or came preinstalled on devices by worldwide companies.

@DGTelevsionNetwork Год назад

I'm pretty sure CD ripping originally came as a plugin then incorporated into version 3? My memory is pretty fuzzy though.

@azeldafan 9 месяцев назад

do you know how the visualization works? i want it randomly but it wont work and i found no tutorial on that X(

@SamLazier 10 месяцев назад

Winamp and foobar2000 are still kickin. As a person who wanted to listen thousands of songs in the time when spotify didn't exist, you had to do your digging (pirating) and cd rippin to find the good stuff and usually it was more fulfilling bc you did your own searching and share your new found music to your friends and share the files, no algorithms suggesting you curated trending music whatsoever. There's still so much music you can't find on any streaming and thats when good ol' mp3-files come handy once again 😎

@southernflatland Год назад

Fun fact: They also made DOSAmp, for DOS, obviously. It didn't have all the fancy features of Winamp, no playlists, no visualizers, etc. But hey, it could play MP3s straight from DOS!

@katanasteel Год назад

What happened? No mentions of all the skinning option winamp has. One was able theme your audio player(winamp in this case) to match or complement your desktop layout.

@SeleniumGlow Год назад

I moved from Winamp to AIMP which is kind of a Winamp clone. Didn't think Winamp was still around.

@Chrisspru 11 месяцев назад

i use winamp with a bunch of plugins, making it effectively aimp without its build in extra sound processing.

@guy.incognito 7 месяцев назад

Still using Winamp 5 in 2023 as my main Mp3 player, because it's still the best player. iTunes was crap from day one and still is, because it forced you to use its library

@Xeros_VII Год назад

I remember using WinAmp as a kid after my father gave me many MP3s of Rammstein he'd nabbed from either a torrent or the pirate bay. I still remember loving Haifish.

@axelprino Год назад

I've never met anyone who used iTunes as a music player, only ever heard bad things about that software. Winamp was still widely used until the mid 2000's, then it started to lose popularity to a variety of alternatives and clones. I used Winamp until the late 2000's, then switched to open source alternatives for a few years, I really liked one called Clementine but it stopped being updated at some point. Nowadays I just use VLC for everything, it works well in every device I own and can play almost anything I throw at it.

@marcovogler1189 8 месяцев назад

it s a pain to make playlists with VLC. I want to switch back to winamp.

@Dorff_Meister Год назад

At the time, Winamp really did whip the llama's ass.

@BrotherJohnMusic Год назад

I've used Winamp for decades and still do today (v 5.666 on Windows 11). I've tried all sorts of other apps but to this day not one of them comes close to being as good as Winamp. The closest I have come to regularly using another music player has been with Mixxx but that one doesn't work that well and I got tired of battling the bugs so I went back to Winamp. BTW - it's pronounced "ray - dee - AH - nuh - mee" not radio-No-me. They pretty much obliterated Winamp IMO... but I haven't adopted the newer versions so I could be totally wrong about that by now.

@DeadlyTechYT Год назад

Woow🙌🏻🙌🏻

@thevigilante8523 Год назад

I remember I’ve been ripping mp3 tracks off many different CDs my mom was buying. I don’t remember how I had the Winamp on my PC, but that music player was really something unforgettable. Then, it was AIMP and now I’m just using Win 11’s integrated media player on my PC. On my Phone, my daily driver is RU-vid Music, where I spend most of the time listening to music outside.

@JamesJimmyMcGill Год назад

I started using Winamp and never stopped. It really whips the llama's ass.

@blueelectric05 Год назад

I still use it to export music into wav files from format that's almost unplayable anywhere. You can think of it as the VLC of music And it seems that Winamp even got yet another competitor called Foobar2000

@GASH_one Месяц назад

I STILL use Winamp. Best player ever for windows, next to VLC.

@Zagoreni02A 7 месяцев назад

Oh i still use old 5.8 version of Winamp, works fine. There is no other player i ever wanted. Heck i use Winamp in all its versions from 2002.

@OfficialDJTasawennateken 15 часов назад

Winapm still exist It's now a music distributing company a radio website and other stuff on their new website and yeah for those of you don't know that you can distribute music through them

@Mazufa 25 дней назад

I have really good memories of Winamp, I used it a lot in my youth in 2000-2011! :) I also used Windows messenger a lot. Technology has advanced tremendously and nowadays it's actually really convenient when you can just stream the music you want on Tidal without having to manually download it from somewhere, etc.

@LiGTY 3 месяца назад

im actually still using it to this day and I still think its one of the best mp3 players to ever exist

@2005001991 16 дней назад

Gold old days! I can still remember what I was doing back then while watching this video and typing this comment. 😊

@RetroMan- Год назад

I still use Winamp. I'm on version 5.9.1

@autolancegega599 2 месяца назад

Where can u download Winamp from ?

@Anime300 7 месяцев назад

Still use Winamp today: very lightweight, lots of audio options, and MP3s are extremely customisable.

@postnick Год назад

Today I learned there was a Winamp pro.

@Supslowrobot Год назад

I miss winamp

@georgeprice4212 5 месяцев назад

Apparently, y’all haven’t SEARCHED for the new edition. IT IS OUT THERE.

@the_zenba 5 месяцев назад

still use winamp daily and will continue until something comparable is available

@desiv1170 Год назад

I remember finally registering WinAMP to be a good shareware citizen... And then the very next week, it went free for all... ;-) So, er... You're welcome? ;-)

@Tetracera. Год назад

i still use it, listen to internet radio with it to this day, mostly just synthwave stations at this point though.

@DeoxTew 9 месяцев назад

I used to use Winamp on my psp to tune into SiriusXM radio stations back in the day. I always hated the FM/AM Radio stations we use day to day, because I wanted music, not talking about shit that didn't matter to me. Also, there really wasn't a metal FM station anywhere near me, and Winamp gave me that. Good times to be had with Winamp. I wonder if I can tune into SiriusXM through Winamp again, it's how the little me found a lot of good bands.

@Kostanj42 Год назад

i still use it. i don't like my favourite songs disappearing from my spotify playlists because of some licensing bs

@zekester2097 Год назад

Literally never stopped using it lol

@avalean Год назад

6 minutes an no mention of Nullsoft's Installer system. An installer system that was made to distribute Winamp and that is still in use today, with the installer interface that everyone using Windows knows.

@ColinJarrett 7 месяцев назад

Still running 5.56 from 2009. I use it daily. Thanks to the creators.

@Zahgurym Год назад

Still use version 3 daily. It really does kick the llamas ass.

@tomevensen 5 месяцев назад

I love WinAmp! Have used it since last century!

@Chrisspru 11 месяцев назад

i still use winamp. with the huge load of still updated and made plugins & skins it cintinously keeps up with modern players. my setup: -winamp 5.666 - winamp essentials - wma decoder - bass library - madlib mp3 decoder - dynamic library - wasapi output - thimeo stereotool dsp - victhor classic modern skin

@dragosnecula 11 месяцев назад

I lied about Winamp, I've used it since I was little, but you should know that it came back this year.

@l1fef0rm Год назад

I never stopped using it.

@GODSPEEDseven Год назад

I still use it... I like the layout and simplicity. I don't stream music, only buy.

@Designer_R 6 месяцев назад

I'm 15 years winamp user, its a best mp3 player ever existed. Now i have downloaded somewhere apk installer for android, it has original logo (in new winamp they changed it), volume is boosted, looks like bento skin ,has built in shoutcast radio and NO ADS, unfortunetly it does not have or does not work equalizer (( but it's not so critical, if anyone want it i can send installer by email, cause i dont remember where i downloaded it ((

@ericapelz260 3 месяца назад

Some of us still like simple-to-use an mp3 player that can transfer files and playlists to a phone. And some of us like owning the songs, especially since the streaming services are jacking up the prices if you want to avoid listening to three ads for every song. (ok, that's an exaggeration, but it feels like it)

@LatvianVideo Год назад

I still use winamp on my pc, i have music downloaded and its a nice lightweight music player

@happyjohn354 Месяц назад

Always wanted a Ipod Shuffle gen 4 those things were TINY.

@capoman1 5 месяцев назад

Around 2000 I was pleasantly surprised when I found Reaper, Justin Frankel winamp creator had created a DAW. It was lightweight and cheap/free.

@jaimequezada4535 26 дней назад

Still using Winamp since it's the only player I know of with the plug-ins necessary to play video game music files (.spc, .psf., etc.) as they're played in-game.

@RSOFT92 Год назад

I use Winamp 5.666 from 2013. Its hands down the best Music Player there ever was. I even use a "clone" of Winamp on my MP3-Smartphone (yes i have a dedicated Smartphone working only as an MP3-Player).

@davebulow2 Год назад

What's the Android Winamp clone?

@RSOFT92 Год назад

@@davebulow2 It's called Poweramp. The Term Clone is only used very looseley here (as indicated by the Quotation Marks).

@davebulow2 Год назад

@@RSOFT92 Thanks 🙂

@worland102688 4 месяца назад

It is criminal that you did not remind us that winamp really whips the llama's ass XD

@NathanPatton Год назад

I remember trying to get my dad to switch from MusicMatch Jukebox to Winamp lol. Then in the mid 00s I switched to Foobar2000 for a few years.

@JaredConnell Год назад

I guess the llama finally whipped back!!

@GodlikeIridium Год назад

Winamp. For over half of my life one of the first five programs I installed on a new Windows install. Goid times 👌 Edit: And it was and still is better than iTunes. iTunes is malware you pay for... While Winamp was just an easy, media player for music, easy to use and intuitive. Just a good software.

@johnbarnett6924 2 месяца назад

Excellent post ❤revisted May 5 2024❤ John Barnett

@Kaelygon Год назад

I am not a fan of the animated font. Hard to read jumping text, I recommend using captions as they can be toggled

@DeadlyTechYT Год назад

thanks for feedback!

@YAOMTC Год назад

Yeah, it's distracting how fast it moves. It's as if there's a little dude breakdancing at the bottom of the screen trying to take my attention away from what you're trying to teach me. I've never seen someone do this one word at a time except for those kinetic typography music videos. It's not for accessibility, since it's only there some of the time (?) so what's the purpose?

@Kaelygon Год назад

@@DeadlyTechYT Other than that great video! Even though Winamp fell off popularity, a lot of alternatives surfaced from the innovation. For example qmmp, XMMS, Audacious which all support Linux as well.

@StarFyodperor 6 месяцев назад

What do you mean what happened... We still use it...

@Shillabritish 2 месяца назад

I remember my grandpa using winamp. when I looked it up today I saw it had AI NFTs. rip my grandpa and winamp

@abialo2010 Месяц назад

i remember using winamp to listen to comedy streams and really early podcasts. so long ago

@El_likes_to_stim Месяц назад

My first music software was iTunes which worked for me well until I dumped all apple products and services long time ago. Groove was good until it was gone, and I felt lost since, so I am glad to have learned about this software I can use next :-)

@GimmilFactory Год назад

It really whips the llama's ass! You're forgetting about milkdrop visualizer. I still use winamp.

@IIREHII 7 месяцев назад

It kicked the Llamas ass. Loved the app loved the mods. Loved my dancing bear.

@EricTheBroBean Месяц назад

I still use Winamp, exclusively. It's the only music media player I use, why pay for spotify when I can just use Winamp?

@rickgude6415 9 месяцев назад

Great video! 🤙

@fmphotooffice5513 Год назад

I think the Winamp boys went on to create (or have something to do with) a popular DAW free beefy program called Reaper. I'm sure someone has the complete history somewhere...

@TheRetroEngine Год назад

Sonique was my go to music player back in the day.

@902384902384 11 месяцев назад

Ipods were (officially) mac only for a generation or two. WIndows PCs almost never had firewire & would require an add-on card. After that hurdle there was no software support, no itunes, you had to wait for 3rd parties to reverse engineer the Ipod. I'm pretty sure there were plugins to use transfer music onto an ipod with winamp a year before there was a windows iTunes. The Ipod had a physical scroll wheel too. it was pretty cool & that specialized interface is still nicer & faster than what we use today to play music. It was the cheapest way to buy the tiny multi-gig HDs they used too.

@Malachibadgerman 6 месяцев назад

Love winamp more than i love spotify. Doesnt stutter and stop playing on random songs, and I can make it look cool with skins.

@ohadcohen2 8 месяцев назад

very impressive video. I really love winamp, just downloaded latest version and ready to give it a spin.

@ZakFlores915 7 месяцев назад

How did you like it?

@JanshaMusic Год назад

this video feels like if i'm watching a short video

@DeadlyTechYT Год назад

Don't know if that's a compliment or not😃

@JerryEakle 4 месяца назад

I have been using Winamp recently then all of a sudden the most current version of Winamp when I click on a winamp bookmark causes Winamp to crash. If I click on my music files on the PC it doesn't crash. I tried installing the iPad app of Winamp and there's no way for me to import bookmarks from the windows version.

@RedBloodOrochi 9 месяцев назад

I remember I'm using Winamp in my Symbian S60v2 phone, and I switch to TTPOD later..

@meandogassbite Год назад

Love winamp! still use it too! have my mp3 collection and winamp works fine just fine for me. And it still really whips the llama's ass too ;) 100%

@robotpizza 7 месяцев назад

Loved Winamp and the MilkToast plugin was the greatest! It really used to whip the Llama's ass!

@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 Год назад

Moved from Winamp to Aimp.

@user-bw7eo1fk2q 4 месяца назад

I am 26 but growing up in the east I also know that gem

@newmonengineering Год назад

Winamp is still great to manage offline mp3s. Everyone streams now but how's that work when the internet is down? I still have a ton of mp3 files.

@thavionhawkmkii4509 Год назад

ShoutCast, the best part of WinAMP

@LadyNicola Год назад

I held on until VLC. I still have it installed for converting files to. wav. Real Player was just crap.

@feomathardra 6 месяцев назад

I'm still using the old winamp, bugger off ya mate.

@PhillipParr Год назад

iToons was absolutely awful for music. I didn't use it until I got an iPhone 3GS, and had no idea why I couldn't just drag / drop music to it like I had done with every other device I'd had previously (including a digital camera from before the iPod existed, that weirdly also played MP3s). I'm fairly certain many of us moved from WinAmp to VLC, and personally I still have audio files because streaming fidelity sucks.

@kurtdewittphoto Год назад

Just here to find out of the Llama finally kicked back.

@CarloNassar 7 месяцев назад

6:03-6:05 Except I haven't seen any other way to use the visualizations Winamp comes with, so I can't say I'd do well without it. Plus, it's very rare to get visualization that look as cool as what Winamp offers. Also, please don't use large subtitles in the videos, especially if they're not going to be used in the entire video. Why not just use optional captions? Not everyone needs subtitles.

@DeadlyTechYT 7 месяцев назад

If you want, we can make separate videos just for you 😉 with no subs.

@andie_pants Год назад

The llamas decided to whip back.

@AJB2K3 Год назад

Winamp Really did kick the Llamas ass (before moving to V2

@Ed_Stuckey 5 месяцев назад

_WAS_ From the original, I updated several times but it got to versions I didn't care for. I went back to version 2.95 which is my current default mp3 player. I use it daily. I also use ACDSee 2.43 as my default image viewer.

@tails_the_god 6 месяцев назад

download where?

@maroon9273 10 месяцев назад

I love winamp due to its customize skin that reminds me of the vintage home audio systems and 3rd cd players of the late 90s/early 00s. Especially technic dj skin which is my favorite.

@axllebeer Год назад

...and it really whips the lamas a$$...

@arphod Год назад

I still use WinAmp, the newest version. I match skins to my desktop and the window options and visualizations kick arse.

@storage9578 Месяц назад

winamp wouldnt play videos but the video player would play music. So i was required to install a program that could replace winamp and at that point it was an easy choice to drop winamp.

@ufukthegreat0 8 месяцев назад

If anything took the spot of Winamp, it's not iTunes. In the very fact, iTunes was not even close to Winamp. It was VLC. VLC took over the whole world and they're still right at the top. VLC media player has became *so* wide that no other media player could catch-up since then. No other media player could even come close.