Interestingly enough, there has been a community project dedicated to keeping the last Winamp version alive (last version from the original creators), and it really great to use.

https://getwacup.com/

It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor.

Edit: I was too young to remember the releases, but replies are indicating that version 5 was in fact, not the most popular :P

I just can’t understand the point of the DMCA takedown here. This software is very dead and abandoned at this point, and the only thing bearing its name is vaporware that appears to be so distant from the original as to effectively not even compete with it.

Of course, the copyright holders have every legal right to do so. But doesn’t it seem pointless? This codebase probably has more historical interest than commercial by now. Am I missing something?

Honest question, as someone who actually used Winamp back in ~2004: why would you want to use it now?

I have some nostalgia for it, sure, but what exactly does it actually offer you that something like VLC doesn't? It seems like it plays my music and videos competently enough, and I don't know anyone who actually uses Shoutcast anymore.

This isn't a passive aggressive dig or anything, I would actually like to know.

I nearly got a job with them back around 2001. At the time they were revamping their development group.

I had written some plug-ins for Winamp so I familiar with the plug-in structure. It looks like the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. The older code was all C based and very simple. I wasn’t fan of the new direction.

I listened to my first MP3 ever (Creed's "Higher") in 1999 on Winamp. It really whipped the South American camelid's posterior. Dang. I'm old.

I'm afraid that, at one point in time, a DMCA takedown might backfire at the archive. I mean, it has been taken down on Github, but it's of course available at archive.org - it would hurt the internet as a whole if the archive needs to close it's doors.

Hopefully that will never happen.

Download zip doesn't work for me, found a mirror here https://sizeofcat.ru/so.cl/1638195782/

I might be alone here but I still have Winamp on my Windows computers. From my 100 MHz pentium 1 to my bazillion core Ryzen, the only constant has been Winamp. Whether it was playing back mp3s, internet radio or ripping discs, it worked. I like the familiarity. Foobar and Clementine just feel so alien, I could never get used to them. Maybe it’s the compact, floaty UI, which first hog the entire screen.

I’ve since switched to mainly macOS but iTunes feels awful and sluggish in comparison, especially with Apple Music, I hate even starting it.

Interesting as a historic document. If someone is willing to port it to newer systems or compilers, also maybe of some value. I really don't see much value considering there are already reasonable good, lightweight (I think) and multi-platform (like qmmp) which offer support to winamp skins.

Has everyone forgotten Winamp was open source? Winamp3 was released as Wasabi.player, source code was free:

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=16613.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20031210093403/http://www.wasabi...

Seems nobody cared at the time. Never heard of a community springing up around it, and you can hardly find it now. Got it in my archives somewhere.

Wow, I think it's been more than a decade since I even thought about Winamp, let alone used it.

It still seems to be free to download though? What is even the point of keeping the code closed?

I still remembers all those crazy music visualizations.

It was rarely seen these days. Someone should make a WebGL version.

For those looking for a lightweight but powerful music player, Foobar2000 is a good choice!

It really whips the llama's ass.

Unfortunately the Archive link does not archive all the files in the repo.

Winamp was my best friend during my teenage hallucinogen experimentation phase.

Winamp was great in 2000s ... Today Deadbeef works exceptionally great on UNIX systems. There is also Sayonara or VLC ... and tons of other usable players.

Not sure what happens on Windows systems nowadays but I always include Winamp 2.95 as part of the Windows installation that I do for family/buddies ... I just change the default 'ugly as fuck' theme to something usable and nice appealing :)

If you want Winamp-like experience, try AIMP[0]. It keeps Winamp's traditions on usability, audio quality and features, while not trying to monetize its users in any way.

0. https://www.aimp.ru/

Can I just say I am blown away that archive.org crawls github I mean wow

We might get a Linux Winamp? Either way, the thing that I liked the most about Winamp (besides mp3 player) was being able to fit winamp in the title bar of my current window (always-on-top).

I'd love to have lived in a world where Nullsoft never sold to AOL, but it's absolutely okay they did at the time they did.

Winamp was still my music player of choice until a little over a year ago when I finally made the switch to MusicBee.

there are so many music players that can do mp3, why winamp source code is of interest still?

Leak or an attempt to get attention since it doesn't seem to be getting much?

Stop using archive.org to host illegal content, the site is run on donations and they'll have to become less open if people use them as just another filesharing site. Policing uploads requires staff and costs real money. Legal issues cost real money.

Never understood why people didn't just migrate to AIMP.

I've never even heard of Winamp before lol

Winamp is still alive?

I still feel Winamp had a better UI than all these modern players, particularly the streaming ones like Spotify. For some reason, even though Spotify has a massive engineering organization, the end product is utterly terrible in its design and usability. I get the feeling no one working there actually likes music or uses their product. And why do none of these players have visualizations? Winamp had such a rich community around things like skins and visualizations that I sorely miss.