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Winamp And Its Services to shut down on December 20
AOL has announced that it is shutting down
Winamp.com and its associated web services and that the Winamp media player
will also no longer be available for download. "Winamp.com and associated
web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally,
Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download
the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements
to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15
years," said the note on the Winamp.com website.
The Winamp media
player was at the peak of its popularity in the late nineties. One of the
highlights of the player was the capability to skin its user interface and add
plug-ins to extend its functionalit. The player supports all popular file
formats including Ogg Vorbis. Winamp also supports gapless playback for MP3 and
AAC format files. It was also among the first players to offer streaming music
through support for SHOUTCast, Nullsoft's cross-platform software to stream
media.
Nullsoft was acquired
by AOL in June 1999, for $80 million in stock and since then is a subsidiary of
the media giant. The player was developed essentially for Windows, but betas
for Android and Mac OS X and an alpha for Linux were also released, though only
the Windows version has been updated regularly. The last version (Winamp 5.66)
was released on 20 November 2013, the day the shutdown was announced.
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