AOL kills Nullsoft, Winamp

**meglamaniac** · November 11th, 2004, 06:49 AM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11...axes_nullsoft/

Having originally forced Nullsoft to release the horribly unfinished Winamp 3 on us, it now seems AOL have finally put the boot in just when Nullsoft were making a comeback with Winamp 5.

Gits.
RIP to the best media player around.

**Whir** · November 11th, 2004, 07:24 AM

So not cool, AOL.

**Droppyale** · November 11th, 2004, 08:39 AM

I'm sure we will be save again by the open source community.

**Creatures** · November 11th, 2004, 08:53 AM

who cares about winamp O_o

http://quinnware.com/

Creatures

**filipino** · November 11th, 2004, 09:05 AM

nothing sounds and look better than Winamp.

**Creatures** · November 11th, 2004, 09:12 AM

lol check out the skins for quintessential, there is also one that looks like winamp
quintessential has a lot of nice features, uses only 10 MB ram (donnu what winamp uses but the last time i used it it was up to 20 or more) you can bind actions to buttons, even when it runs somewhere in the background, mp3/OGG converter, CDDB, etc. check it out it's worth, and it never crashed <- the only thing missing is a library function, but check out the plug ins there is one that works quite good

quinte is way better than winamp...

Creatures

**filipino** · November 11th, 2004, 09:23 AM

memory usage as indicated bellow

Winamp Version 5.04

**Creatures** · November 11th, 2004, 09:38 AM

ah sucks, how many songs are in the playlist right now? =)

well my svchost is 11/10/10MB right now, not every system seems to be the same =)

Creatures

**filipino** · November 11th, 2004, 09:43 AM

it has 885 songs on playlist

**Creatures** · November 11th, 2004, 09:45 AM

HA ;p i have 1374 in it, but i think that doenst really influence the amount of ram it takes...

hm wait i gonna try another skin maybe it uses less.... =)

i have to beat winamp..... =)

Creatures

**filipino** · November 11th, 2004, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by Creatures

HA ;p i have 1374 in it, but i think that doenst really influence the amount of ram it takes...

hm wait i gonna try another skin maybe it uses less.... =)

i have to beat winamp..... =)

Creatures

come on give up! lol

**Creatures** · November 11th, 2004, 09:51 AM

muahah got it dont to 6168 KB ;p

anyway you gotta check it out, i really like it and i always had winamp till this stupid version <-

Creatures

**filipino** · November 11th, 2004, 09:52 AM

yes i am currently downloading it, who knows might end up liking it lol

**Stick32** · November 11th, 2004, 10:14 AM

... yet another reason to hate AOL

**Smidley** · November 11th, 2004, 10:24 AM

Noooo...

I hated Winamp 3, and switched to Windows Media Player.

Then I found 5 and fell in love.

I sincerely hope someone picks it up and doesn't muss it up.

**Smidley** · November 11th, 2004, 10:26 AM

What about Shoutcast?

I hope that sticks around, but I doubt it.

**GroundZero3** · November 11th, 2004, 11:02 AM

thanks for the link creatures, im gonna check out the program when i get home

**washe** · November 11th, 2004, 11:23 AM

I really liked winamp....

Well time to look for another one.

**Redwolf** · November 11th, 2004, 12:30 PM

Hey, the Nullsoft people are still there (AOL didn't whack em', right?), so they'll be back....they'll be back.

**RobRich** · November 11th, 2004, 12:43 PM

The Winamp and Shoutcast sites/software/services will remain open and available for public download. AOL is simply eliminating the core Nullsoft staff. Not to sound mean, but there is not much more Nullsoft can do at this point to "revolutionize" simple MP3 playback software.

Big deal core development has been suspended. Minor bugfixes will still be addressed, and that is all I care about at this time. The Nullsoft core development crew already made their fortune in 1999, and I am honestly surprised AOL kept them on staff for another five years.

To recap, Winamp is far from dead. It will be maintained and new plugins will continue to be developed. The primary application and user interface are stable enough for commercial distribution, so does it really matter if the core code is being placed in maintenance mode?