Is Winamp still a thing?
Winamp was made up of several windows; iTunes only had one. Since then the Winamp website has declared a new version is “coming soon,” but five years later and we’ve seen nothing. There are occasional developer rumblings about new builds, but nothing substantial so far.Click to see full answer. Then, is Winamp still available?The original…
Winamp was made up of several windows; iTunes only had one. Since then the Winamp website has declared a new version is “coming soon,” but five years later and we’ve seen nothing. There are occasional developer rumblings about new builds, but nothing substantial so far.Click to see full answer. Then, is Winamp still available?The original Nullsoft team finally quit in 2004. AOL maintained Winamp in a desultory fashion and finally announced its death in late 2013. But when only the real thing will do, the December 2013 version of Winamp is still downloadable and works.Subsequently, question is, is Winamp safe to use? We therefore recommend that you download this version rather than any other as we guarantee it is safe for you to use. This version is not an ongoing project but be sure that we are currently working hard on a future new Winamp.” Winamp 5.8 on Windows 10, playing its classic radio-style opening stinger. Similarly, is Winamp dead? “Winamp users really are everywhere. But everybody ‘knows’ that Winamp is dead, that we don’t work on it any more. This is not the case.” Either way, the official Winamp 5.8 is expected to be out on October 18, and the 5.666 release (along with various skins and plugins) can still be had at winamp.com.Who bought Winamp?Winamp. Winamp is a media player for Windows, macOS and Android, originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014.
