Winamp waves farewell after 15 years

Back to the days when we dislike our stock media players on our PCs, Winamp is our go-to application for a better experience. Sad news, it is no longer staying with us.

Winamp was popular during the 90s and early 2000s. This was during the good old days of Win98 and XP where things are simple and straight forward. It even had a Mac and Android version to keep up with the times.

For an undisclosed reason, Winamp will be having its last download available on December 20, 2013. With that, all fans and users of the media player can have the latest build for remembrance. Of course, that doesn’t prevent you from downloading a copy now and saving it for future use or you’ll probably see copies saved somewhere else.

It’s been a good 15 years of service Winamp.

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Daniel Morial

This article was contributed by Daniel Morial, a film school graduate and technology enthusiast. He's the geeky encyclopedia and salesman among his friends for anything tech.

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22 Comments

aniny23423`` says:

11 years ago

effin end of an era… f*ck i feel soooo old, looool
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nostalgicpinoy says:

11 years ago

This is kind of sad. Winamp was synonymous to anipike. The website is where most of my music comes from as well as the skins for it.
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a says:

11 years ago

Release the source!

oh well I am on linux and I have a lot of choices for media player- with vlc as my favorite
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IC DeaDPiPoL says:

11 years ago

still recalls Winplay3 before Winamp overtook it solely by having more features like proper playlist creation.
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anOnymous says:

11 years ago

wHy ???!
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RaM says:

11 years ago

maka-80’s yung owner o. =)
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Ratheon says:

11 years ago

Damn, i feel like a close friend just died. its just nostalgic and sentinmental.

Winamp you will be remembered.
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lalasapinkita says:

11 years ago

still using winamp up to now.
love the ctrl + j to find music T_T
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benchmark says:

11 years ago

Alala ko ba back in the 90’s, sabi ko sa bro ko, bakit di gumawa ang Winamp na player na touch screen na pede mapalitan ng skins din like sa PC…he said, mahal ang touch screen.

Winamp, you will be missed!

Thanks for the wonderful memories!
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jonski22 says:

11 years ago

ahhh those are the days…..a new Pentium processor, with 256RAM, and and 8GB Seagate…Windows 98…a WinAmp players installed..of course..Alien Skin”…

farewell WINAMP..you will always be remember!
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ross says:

11 years ago

ganun sayang naman kasi yan ang gamit ko sa android phone, kasi dyan ako nakaka gawa ng playlist
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brookebones says:

11 years ago

use AIMP3, a lot of features are included.

enlightened1 says:

11 years ago

Nakakalungkot naman. Winamp gamit ko pampagana habang nagtatype ng thesis nung college o kaya habang nagka counter strike, battle realms, dota. :(

bye winamp!
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gential says:

11 years ago

i feel you bro!

kim says:

11 years ago

just kinda shock :-o :(. From XP time til this time windows 7/8 I’m still relying and using Winamp to play music while doing my online activities and I even keep this player updated everytime they released a new version. Just sad to know that they will stop updating this one. Anyways I guess the last build of this BEST OF BEST Music Player will be running fine for maybe at least 5-8 yrs (hope so).
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Justin says:

11 years ago

“Winamp! It really whips the llama’s ass!” … not anymore.
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Digest says:

11 years ago

lots of memories using Winamp. Especially during college days of drinking while the music and visualization are kicking in.

Winamp + Solitaire = second to none.
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Anti-JTC says:

11 years ago

I used to download skins for WINAMP. A must app during the year 2K+
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kamote says:

11 years ago

I can still remember their slogan when they released winamp 5. “We’re so good, we skipped a number!” Farewell winamp. You will be missed.
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CopyCat-droid says:

11 years ago

Kudos to all writers of WINAMP. The most lightweight mp3-player in the system of
EPIC-PCs

RIP WINAMP.
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Freeje says:

11 years ago

Winamp became Loseamp!
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