[Kamikaze]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/11/11/1348218.shtml?tid=120&tid=141

Nullsoft has finally lost all of its devs. Apparently winamp will still get
updated occasionally, but it sounds like there won't be any more feature additions.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]It became bloatware after 2.91 anyhow. If you're feeling nostalgic though you can install one of the many clones available.
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[Liberator]

I like Winamp 5.  This is too bad.  But it's still better that Windows Media Player for MP3s, but I use MP Classic for everything else.

[Thorn]

5 isnt as bloated if you turn off the advanced skins. I just use the classic style. Ugly as hell, but its not meant to be pretty. Its meant to play music.

[Kamikaze]

Maeg: Yeah, I liked 2.91 too. On my Win boxes I use that. On my Linux boxes I use XMMS or BMP, both are winamp clones.

Foobar 200 and Zinf are pretty good free alternative players. Foobar2000 in nice because it's made for the power user and has a lot of features   that require plugins for other players (MPC support is nice).

[Clave]

So... it's Loseamp now?

[ChronoReverse]

It became bloatware after 2.91 anyhow. If you're feeling nostalgic though you can install one of the many clones available

And became unbloat againt when it hit 5.x

In any case, it too bad WA isn't going to be updated anymore.  I was really hoping they'd at least implement the WA3 Media Library in WA5 as well.

[Alan Bolte]

I really am enjoying WA5 with the Invicta advanced skin (stick mode) - on an ancient computer that barely plays Half-Life. This is a sad day, in my view.

[kasperl]

WA5 is actually quite a good player, very easy on the system, nice and reliable, good skinnability, nice system alltogether. A true pity.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by ChronoReverse
In any case, it too bad WA isn't going to be updated anymore.  I was really hoping they'd at least implement the WA3 Media Library in WA5 as well.

Uhh... Winamp5 HAS v3's Media Library.