Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev[7][8][9] by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014, now known as the Llama Group. Since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.
Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997, and quickly grew popular with over 3 million downloads,[10] paralleling the developing trend of MP3 (music) file sharing. Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded Windows applications.[11] By 2000, Winamp had over 25 million registered users[12] and by 2001 it had 60 million users.[13] A poor reception to the 2002 rewrite, Winamp3, was followed by the release of Winamp 5 in 2003, and a later release of version 5.5 in 2007. A now-discontinued version for Android was also released, along with early counterparts for MS-DOS and Macintosh.
After a five-year hiatus, Winamp 5.8 (written as Winamp 5.) was leaked to the public in 2018[14] before its eventual release by Radionomy;[15][16] development has since resumed[17][18] with the latest version 5.9.2 released on April 26, 2023. Its developer Radionomy has since turned into the Llama Group in 2023 and launched a new Winamp streaming service, which includes a feature called Fanzone which allows users to support artists by buying perks or NFTs.[19][20][21] The service launched on the web in April 2023 followed by Android and iOS beta apps in July 2023.[22]
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^Davenport, Corbin (September 9, 2022). "Winamp 5.9 Is the First Stable Update in Four Years". How-To Geek. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
^"モバイル版「Winamp」のクローズドベータが発表 ～iOS/Androidで人数限定のテスト／参加枠はまだ残っている模様". July 7, 2023.
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold...
visualization plugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. AVS has a customizable...
1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer network...
Arizona, in 1997 by programmer Justin Frankel. Its products included the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. In 1997, Justin...
January 2014). "AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast Music Services To Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy". TechCrunch. AOL. "Winamp lives on after acquisition...
vulnerabilities in many music players such as VLC media player, iTunes, Winamp, and many others. There is no formal specification for the M3U format; it...
standard AVI format. To play the file in a popular media player such as Winamp or Windows Media Player, the file had to first be modified, using a hex...
specification of 1999. More genres have been successively introduced in later Winamp versions. "d3v2.3.0 - ID3.org". id3.org. http://www.mpx.cz/mp3manager/tags...
MilkDrop is a hardware-accelerated music visualization plugin for Winamp and Kodi, which was originally developed by Ryan Geiss in 2001. It uses DirectX...
similar to Winamp, which was popular at the time. By supporting Winamp (Classic) skin files, the program can be configured to appear similar to Winamp 2.x....
libmpg123 is used by DeaDBeeF, Audacious, XMMS and Winamp (version 5.8) for MP3 playback and can be used in Winamp before version 5.8 via a plugin. The license...
Winamp, once a major licensee, no longer has access to Gracenote; the legacy media player program lost access to Gracenote when SHOUTcast and Winamp were...
formalizes the acquisition of Winamp and SHOUTcast from AOL. However, TechCrunch has reported that the sale of Winamp and Shoutcast is worth between...
Nesbitt Burns. He then accepted a job offer at Winamp and moved to California. Palihapitiya joined Winamp, which was subsequently acquired by AOL, where...
the ARChive of Contemporary Music. Next to the stock HTML5 audio player, Winamp-resembling Webamp is available. A project to preserve recordings of amateur...
MPlayer engine is always supported, but not contained in the actual package. Winamp input plugin support. Physical media (video): Blu-ray, DVD (with ratDVD...
chiptune formats natively, has a Winamp plugin converter. Audacious - *nix player that accepts GBS. Chipamp - Winamp plug-in bundle compiled by OverClocked...
was released under the name "Macast". Comparison of media players Dosamp Winamp "MPEG miscellany". CNET Networks. April 18, 1997. Retrieved November 23...
online radio aggregator Radionomy (including its media player platform Winamp and internet radio streaming software Shoutcast). Its shareholders, including...
visualization became widespread in the mid to late 1990s as applications such as Winamp (1997), Audion (1999), and SoundJam (2000). By 1999, there were several...
1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. x11amp received Winamp skin support in version 0.7 on May 6th...
player software include Windows Media Player, VLC media player, iTunes, Winamp, Media Player Classic, MediaMonkey, foobar2000, AIMP, MusicBee and JRiver...
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