It's coming back with a monthly subscription.

It's dead already, then. WinAmp's heritage was providing a free audio player. I was looking forward to a refreshed build to test out, but I won't pay for it.

There are a dozen better, free, maintained, and actively developed players out there. This is less than too little, and far too late. Those of us who used winamp back when it was still activly developed will continue to have nostalgia for it, but I bet it will be DOA to most of the target audience.

I've only kept up on news for it because I was hoping it would be reborn true to itself. I have zero interest in it as a subscription model.

The MP3 era’s favorite player returns with a monthly subscription.

The sub-subtitle says enough that you should just look elsewhere.

"To take on streaming"

In a partnership with Deezer, Winamp will be reborn as a completely new player with its own premium subscription service, with Deezer providing the white-label streaming technology and licensed catalog.

So, basically a nostalgic skin for Deezer.

as a streaming service... That really sucks the llama's ass.

It's coming back with a monthly subscription.

All I want is a simple, nostalgic media player.

Again. Anyone remember Shoutcast?

Anyway, the old versions of Winamp work just fine for playing your local library.

Winamp will be reborn

No. No, it won't.

Someone already revived Winamp in the best way years ago with Winamp 2.0 in a browser, complete with all the skins they could salvage: https://webamp.org/

These owners are just whatever lawyers have gotten ahold of the WinAMP trademark.

Anybody remember when they attempted to push out the source code for WinAMP on GitHub and failed miserably? Or included NFTs?

After the "open source" fakeout that was nothing more than them trying to get free work without actually opening the source code for anyone to use, Winamp and Llamasoft or whatever their name is can get bent by an elephant.

I won't even use an old copy in Wine at this point. They fucked up repeatedly and now nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Get fucked, losers of Winamp.

Winamp revived: nostalgia tickled!

Subscription warning! Go fuck yourself!

This does not whip the Llamas ass.

You're bringing back everyone's favourite free pirated mp3 player as a subscription service.. why?

I have the feeling the new version's tagline will be something along the lines of

"WINAMP, IT REALLY SUCKS THE LLAMA'S CORPORATE COCK!"

This is a whole enshitification process right there. After a few months Deezer will start removing content that you will have access to over the winamp subscription, or winamp will pull an Amazon and insert ads into the paid subscription, call it basic subscription, and ask for more money for premium without ads.

Fuck this, I'm fine with my navidrome.

Last time I heard about a Winamp reboot it was a Bandcamp ripoff with added cryptoslop. While this seems marginally better it's still pretty disappointing.

Deezer seems alright as a streaming service, though, and they're French so there's that.

Will be reborn? If they had actually released Winamp under a real open source licence, it would have been reborn years ago! A bit late for it now!

More like its corpse will be reanimated in an attempt to scam people using nostalgia. Wouldn't be the first time this trick has been pulled, remember when LimeWire got resurrected to shill a scam cryptocoin?

Foobar2000 it is then

foobar2000 and mpv wreck the everloving shit out of it already

WINAMP! It really licks the llama's ass!!

Why would I choose it over VLC?

Another subscription thing. Sad.

WinAmp was already reborn as Wacup though?

https://getwacup.com

Remember when it was reborn to sell NFT?
WACUP for the win

No, it won't.

I loved Winamp years ago. And I love nostalgia but not like this. I will just stick with my Navidrome instance and its tons of open source free clients.

AIMP for life. Sure, it stands on the shoulders of llamas, but it's unbeatable. And it's got a native Linux version now, too!

Loved Winamp. But over the years how many reborn announcements did it have?

Wait. Didn’t it already get rebooted?

🏴‍☠️

Fuck Winamp then.

Didn't they try to open source it only to nope out at the last second?

kodi has visualisations

sorry winamp

i hope "under no circumstances should you Check new versions of Winamp at startup" option continues to work

I just realized it doesn't even need to be reborn to "take on streaming." Y'all with home servers and a big music collection can just start hosting Shoutcasts again and we can use the OG Winamp to stream. :P

Qobuz + jellyfin > winamp plus

Winamp was great back then, but now anything respecting my folder sorting and supporting Milkdrop works for me.

Lame. I really want a super powerful local music player. One that takes iTunes smart playlists to the next level. One that can sync to an equally powerful mobile app. There's enough streaming, give it a rest.

Where are my fellow SoundJam MP users at? I still miss the Eclipse visualizer.

Anyone else still use Foobar2000?

Bring back Sonique!!!!!!

Again?

Again?

I'm still using the latest winamp, a new winamp would be great but I'm never paying a subscription for music.

Winamp isn't even good. There are much better media players. Use Strawberry.

It's not like it already was shitty when version 3 was released

I still remember the hate for the new interface

Version 5 ("it's so good, we skipped v4") was even worse

I don't understand the point of this. Strawberry Player exists. Shortwave exists. I miss the old Zune Player. Mais, c'est la vie, non?

Let the dead stay dead.

They finally released a Mac version. Still doesn’t support m4a out of the box. Dragged it to the bin so fast.

I read the title in the voice of one of those crazy prophets