Winamp is a proprietary licensed music player written in LANG. - Website - Source - Documentation - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp) > It really whips the llama's ass. # Notability It was *the* [[MP3]] player of the late 90s and early 2ks. [[Milkdrop]] was originally made as a Winamp plugin. # Philosophy The original author was [[Justin Frankel]] and other developers at [[Nullsoft]], who notably also developed the [[Nullsoft Installer]] used by a vast number of companies. - 1997 - Introduced by Nullsoft - 1999 - Nullsoft purchased by [[AOL]] - 2004 - Original team quits - 2014 - Acquired by [[Radionomy]] - 2017 - AudioValley took over Radionomy - 2018 - Winamp 5.8 beta 3563 built in 2016 leaked from Radionomy - 2020 - Radionomy shut down and merged into [[Shoutcast]] - 2022 - AudioValley renames to Targetspot - 2022 - Radionomy's remains acquired by [[Azerion Group N.V.]] - 2022 - [[NFT]]s were added to Winamp with v5.9.1 - 2023 - Targetspot renames to Llama Group - 2023 - The Winamp brand is primarily used to shill a shitty [[Spotify]] knock-off website with [[NFT]]s, but the v5.9.2 version is still possible to download - ? 2023 - Supposedly the desktop application is going to be at least partly released as open source, since they clearly no longer intend to develop it and are hoping to gain brownie points for their scam website According to their corporate website, Llama Group owns 99.98% of Winamp S.A. - it is not clear who owns the other 0.02% stake. For nearly everyone, version 2.95 from 2003 is the last "real" version of Winamp. The original team quit in 2004. Succeeded spiritually by several other music an media players which took some aspect of the Winamp experience to new places including [[Media Monkey]], [[Audacious]], [[QMMP]], [[Webamp]], and others. # Platform Support # Features # Tips # Resources - [Winamp Skin Museum](https://skins.webamp.org/) ## Clones - [[Webamp]] - Online Winamp 2.9 Clone - [[Wacup]] - Winamp 2.9 Clone (Windows-only, closed-source) - https://getwacup.com/screenshots/ # References - http://www.oldversion.com/windows/winamp/