Yathosho

20th November 2013 20:12 UTC

RIP Winamp
thanks to onionring for pointing me to this article

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/20/5...-over-15-years

to be honest, i'm not even shocked at all. i remember winamp as my long-time favourite player, but that was also a long time ago. in the end, it became just a tool for me to play visuals, but my primary audioplayer had been something else for a long time (these days i mostly listen to spotify).

my real concern is the forums, what will happen to it? it's such a great resource outside the winamp discussion, it would be a great loss.

edit: now that there's an announcement on the winamp page, it's clear that the forums will be gone as well. it would be nice if some forum admin would give us access to all the posts of the avs forum, but the move to announce the winamp a month before the shutdown makes me doubt it will happen. great move, aol!

InCUbuS-94

20th November 2013 20:37 UTC

That makes the both of us, I've known winamp for almost a decade and started using it like 6 or so years ago. I guess this was just a matter of time before this happened, first with AVS, then Winamp.

goebish

20th November 2013 22:27 UTC

This is really sad, I'm still using Winamp as my daily player and AVS at parties :hang:

DrO

21st November 2013 00:22 UTC

nothing stopping you from still doing just that.

greatWho

21st November 2013 13:37 UTC

DrO will there be a possibility to import a Backup from this Forum in the winampforum.com or is all the resources lost?

DrO

21st November 2013 14:01 UTC

well from what i've heard, a number of people are scraping the forums and everything else but as far as importing things go, i'd expect it'll have to be a manual process but i really don't know.

Tuggummi

22nd November 2013 12:43 UTC

I'll only miss the forums, as i've explained on my journal.

Good run WinAmp. Good job Nullsoft. Sleep now, earned it you have. [/yoda]

Yathosho

22nd November 2013 15:42 UTC

http://visbot.github.io/AVS-Forums/

Enjoy and reminisce!