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71-548: Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft , which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $ 80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014, now known as the Llama Group . Since version 2, it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins , and features music visualization , playlist and

142-483: A music streaming service with plans to integrate with other music platforms such as Spotify and to play local audio files. Another feature of the new platform is Winamp Fanzone, where artists can upload and license their music for commercial use, and listeners can support artists directly by buying perks, such as early access to new songs or NFTs. On May 16, 2024, Llama Group announced that Winamp would be going partially open source on September 24, 2024. The source code

213-479: A "flat" picture can be transformed so as to give an illusion of depth when viewed through anaglyph glasses (usually red-cyan). An image viewed through anaglyph glasses appears to have both protruding and deeply embedded objects in it, at the expense of somewhat distorted colors. The method itself is old enough , dating back to the mid-19th century, but it is only with recent advances in computer technology that it has become possible to apply this kind of transformation to

284-486: A cease-and-desist letter to Nullsoft, claiming unlawful use of AMP. Nullsoft responded that they had replaced AMP with Nitrane, Nullsoft's proprietary decoder, but Playmedia disputed this. Third-party reviews found that Nitrane had bugs that resulted in playing back MP3s incorrectly, and that this resulted in unstable tones being added to the playback, and undoubtedly therefore violated the ISO standard. This also means that Nitrane

355-426: A collection of objects composed of 3D vertices and textures, much like in any modern video game, to achieve special effects. Tedious and costly, this method is only used in a small fraction of movies produced worldwide, while most movies remain in the form of traditional 2D images. It is, however, possible to give an otherwise two-dimensional picture the appearance of depth. Using a technique known as anaglyph processing

426-497: A custom source-available license. Plug-in development support increased Winamp's flexibility – for example, the creation of specialized plug-ins for game console music files such as NSF , USF , GBS , GSF , SID , VGM , SPC , PSF, and PSF2 . Winamp was first released in 1997, when Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev, formerly students at the University of Utah , integrated their Windows user interface with

497-475: A media library, supported by a large online community . Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997, and quickly grew popular with over 3 million downloads, paralleling the developing trend of MP3 file sharing . Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded Windows applications. By 2000, Winamp had over 25 million registered users and by 2001 it had 60 million users. A poor reception to

568-647: A modern video slot machine, since it is no longer required to set physical mechanisms and gears into motion. Articles of clothing are also given skeuomorphic treatment; for example, faux buckles on certain strap shoes, such as Mary Janes for small children, which permit the retention of the original aesthetic. Automotive design has historically been full of physical skeuomorphisms, such as the transformation from wooden framed and bodied early vehicles produced by coachworks to those which incorporated both functional wood and steel (referred to as "woodies" ) to, ultimately, simulated vinyl woodgrain cladding entirely for style by

639-600: A music NFT playback feature. Users are able to add music NFTs on Ethereum and Polygon to the media library by connecting to the Metamask wallet. In April 2023, Winamp 5.9.2 was officially released, which, according to the developers themselves, is a minor update to the previous version. On October 15, 2018, Radionomy's CEO Alexandre Saboundjian announced that a new version of Winamp – then called Winamp 6 – would be released in 2019. The new version launched on April 13, 2023 as an online service. The platform features Winamp Player,

710-501: A music locker service that would essentially compete with other online music lockers . The beta program was cancelled months before the announcement to shut down the Winamp project. On November 20, 2013, AOL announced that it would shut down Winamp.com on December 20, 2013, and the software would no longer be available for download nor supported by the company after that date. The following day, an unofficial report surfaced that Microsoft

781-684: A musical sting and bleating . Nullsoft was purchased by AOL in June 1999 for $ 80 million in stock, with Nullsoft becoming a subsidiary. AOL itself merged with Time Warner in 2000. Nullsoft relaunched the Winamp-specific winamp.com in December 1999 to provide easier access to skins, plug-ins, streaming audio, song downloads, forums, and developer resources. As of June 22, 2000, Winamp surpassed 25 million registrants. The next major Winamp version, Winamp3 (so spelled to include mp3 in

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852-456: A new default interface skin called "Bento" which unlike the previous skins is a unified player and media library in one window as opposed to a multi-window interface. This version dropped support for Windows 9x . Winamp 5.6 was released in November 2010 and features Android Wi-Fi support and direct mouse wheel support. Fraunhofer AAC codec with VBR encoding support was implemented. Moreover,

923-488: A physical paper folder to represent computer files in the desktop metaphor . This is even the case for items that are no longer directly applicable to the task they represent (such as a drawing of a floppy disk to represent "save"). Apple Inc. , while under the direction of Steve Jobs , was known for its wide usage of skeuomorphic designs in various applications. This changed after Jobs's death when Scott Forstall , described as "the most vocal and high-ranking proponent of

994-797: A seek bar, a timer with the current and total playback time, playback controls (play, pause, previous, next, stop), playlists, a "repeat" mode, and a "shuffle" (or "random") mode for curiosity and to facilitate searching long timelines of files. Different media players have different goals and feature sets. Video players are a group of media players that have their features geared more towards playing digital video . For example, Windows DVD Player exclusively plays DVD-Video discs and nothing else. Media Player Classic can play individual audio and video files but many of its features such as color correction, picture sharpening, zooming, set of hotkeys , DVB support and subtitle support are only useful for video material such as films and cartoons. Audio players , on

1065-754: A series of frames in a motion picture reasonably fast or even in real-time, i.e. as the video is being played back. Several implementations exist in the form of 3D video players that render conventional 2D video in anaglyph 3D, as well as in the form of 3D video converters that transform video into stereoscopic anaglyph and transcode it for playback with regular software or hardware video players. Well known examples of media player software include Windows Media Player , VLC media player , iTunes , Winamp , Media Player Classic , MediaMonkey , foobar2000 , AIMP , MusicBee and JRiver Media Center . Most of these also include music library managers. Although media players are often multi-media, they can be primarily designed for

1136-512: A specific media. For example, Media Player Classic and VLC media player are video-focused while Winamp and iTunes are music-focused, despite all of them supporting both types of media. A home theater PC or media center computer is a convergence device that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computer with a software application that supports video, photo, audio playback, and sometimes video recording functionality. Although computers with some of these capabilities were available from

1207-464: A system that are learned only through culture. Norman also popularized perceived affordances , where the user can tell what an object provides or does based on its appearance, which skeuomorphism can make easy. The concept of skeuomorphism overlaps with other design concepts. Mimesis is an imitation, coming directly from the Greek word. Archetype is the original idea or model that is emulated, where

1278-486: A tooltip bubble previewing footage at the position hovered over with the mouse cursor. A preview tooltip for the seek bar has been implemented on few smartphones through a stylus or a self-capacitive touch screen able to detect a floating finger. Such include the Samsung Galaxy S4, S5 (finger), Note 2, Note 4 (stylus), and Note 3 (both). Streaming media players may indicate buffered segments of

1349-529: A value, that many users may have no experience with the original device being emulated, that skeuomorphic design can increase cognitive load with visual noise that after a few uses gives little or no value to the user, that skeuomorphic design limits creativity by grounding the user experience to physical counterparts, and that skeuomorphic designs often do not accurately represent underlying system state or data types due to inappropriate mimesis . For example, an analog gauge interface may be read less precisely than

1420-399: Is a key component of Frutiger Aero , an Internet aesthetic derived from mid-2000s user interface designs. Other virtual skeuomorphs do not employ literal images of some physical object; but rather allude to ritual human heuristics or heuristic motifs , such as slider bars that emulate linear potentiometers and visual tabs that behave like physical tabbed file folders. Another example

1491-486: Is broader in scope, as it can be applied to design elements that still serve the same function as they did in a previous design. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make a new look more familiar and comfortable or may be the result of cultural influences and norms on the designer. They may be the artistic expression on the part of the designer. The usability researcher and academic Don Norman describes skeuomorphism in terms of cultural constraints: interactions with

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1562-472: Is built-in. This was developed by Will Fisher, as a re-write of the open source ml_ipod plug-in . Winamp 5.5: The 10th Anniversary Edition was released on October 10, 2007, ten years after the first release of Winamp (a preview version had been released on September 10, 2007). New features to the player included album art support, improved localization support (with several officially localized Winamp releases, including German, Polish, Russian, and French), and

1633-488: Is compounded from the Greek skeuos (σκεῦος), meaning "container or tool", and morphḗ (μορφή), meaning "shape". It has been applied to material objects since 1890. With the advent of computer systems in the 1980s, skeuomorph is used to characterize the many "old fashioned" icons utilized in graphic user interfaces. A similar alternative definition of skeuomorph is "a physical ornament or design on an object made to resemble another material or technique". This definition

1704-607: Is frequently incorporated in retrowave or synthwave illustrations. Skeuomorphic design is closely linked with metamodernism . Skeuomorphic design seems to be preferred by older recipient groups, often referred to as " digital immigrants ", while " digital natives " tend to favor flat design over skeuomorphisms. However, younger people are still able to understand the signifiers that skeuomorphic design employs. A better user experience could be measured for each respective design philosophy among digital natives and immigrants. An argument in favor of skeuomorphic design in digital devices

1775-427: Is that signifiers to affordances help those familiar with the original item learn to use the digital version. Interaction paradigms for computer devices are culturally entrenched; proposals for change often spawn debate. Don Norman describes this process as a form of cultural heritage , and credits skeuomorphism with easing transitions to newer technology, stating that it "gives comfort and makes learning easier" until

1846-469: Is the swiping hand gesture for turning the "pages" or screens of a tablet display. Virtual skeuomorphs can also be auditory. The shutter-click sound emitted by most camera phones when taking a picture is an auditory skeuomorph. Another familiar example is the paper-crumpling sound when a document is trashed. Retrofuturism incorporates visual motifs from old predictions of the future, especially visions of electro-industrialism. Skeuomorphic design

1917-471: Is worth between $ 5 and $ 10 million , with AOL taking a 12% stake (a financial, not strategic, investment) in Radionomy in the process. Radionomy relaunched the Winamp website, and it was available for download again. In December 2015, Vivendi bought a majority stake in Radionomy. Following Radionomy's acquisition, no new releases would officially surface until Winamp 5.8 in 2018. In September 2018, it

1988-514: The Doric order of classical architecture in Greek temples such as triglyphs , mutules , guttae , and modillions are supposed to be derived from true structural and functional features of the early wooden temples. The triglyph and guttae are seen as recreating, respectively, the carved beam-ends and six wooden pegs driven in to secure the beam in place. Historically, high-status items such as

2059-525: The Minoans ' elaborate and expensive silver cups were recreated for a wider market using pottery , a cheaper material. The exchange of shapes between metalwork and ceramics, often from the former to the latter, is near-constant in the history of the decorative arts . Sometimes pellets of clay are used to evoke the rivets of the metal originals. There is also evidence of skeuomorphism in material transitions. Leather and pottery often carry over features from

2130-456: The spectrum analyzer and waveform analyzer would later appear. Multiple files on the command line or dropped onto its icon were enqueued in the playlist. Version 1.006 was released June 7, 1997, renamed "Winamp", i.e., with "amp" now in lowercase. It showed a spectrum analyzer and color-changing volume slider, but no waveform display. The AMP non-commercial license was included in its help menu . According to Tomislav Uzelac, Frankel licensed

2201-459: The "Pro" and "Full" installers being one and the same, in the process removing OpenCandy, Emusic, AOL Search, and AOL Toolbar from the installation bundle. This was announced to be the last release of Winamp from AOL/Nullsoft. There was a Winamp 5.7 beta program for an invitation-based Winamp Cloud feature, which would let Winamp play a user's entire cloud-stored music library across all supported devices. This feature would have allowed AOL to provide

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2272-413: The 1960s. Other examples include thinly faux chrome-plated plastic components and imitation leather, gold, interior wood, pearl, or crystal jeweled elements. In The Design of Everyday Things , Don Norman notes that early automobiles were designed after horse-drawn carriages . Indeed, the early automobile design Horsey Horseless even included a wooden horse head on the front to try to minimize scaring

2343-470: The 2002 rewrite, Winamp3, was followed by the release of Winamp 5 in 2003, and a later release of version 5.5 in 2007. A now-discontinued version for Android was also released, along with early counterparts for MS-DOS and Macintosh . After a five-year hiatus, Winamp 5.8 (written as Winamp 5. ∞ {\displaystyle \infty } ) was leaked to the public in 2018 before its eventual release by Radionomy; development has since resumed with

2414-634: The AMP 0.7 engine June 1, 1997. Frankel formally founded Nullsoft Inc. in January 1998 and continued development of Winamp, which changed from freeware to $ 10 shareware . Despite the fact that there would be no extra features by paying $ 10, Winamp's popularity and warm reception brought Nullsoft $ 100,000 a month that year from $ 10 paper checks in the mail from paying users. In March, Brian Litman, managing co-founder with Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products, which by then had been merged into PlayMedia Systems, sent

2485-504: The Advanced Multimedia Products ("AMP") MP3 file playback engine. The name Winamp (originally spelled WinAMP) was a portmanteau of "Windows" and "AMP". The minimalist WinAMP 0.20a was released as freeware on April 21, 1997. Its windowless, menu bar-only interface showed only play (open), stop, pause, and unpause functions. A file specified on the command line or dropped onto its icon would be played. MP3 decoding

2556-624: The Llama Group about the code on October 15, 2024, the GitHub repository was deleted. Winamp for Android is a mobile version for the Android (version 2.1) operating system, released in beta in October 2010 with a stable release in December 2010. It includes syncing with Winamp desktop (ver. 5.59 beta+) over USB or Wi-Fi. It was received with some enthusiasm in the consumer blog press. The app

2627-499: The ability to adjust appearance and acoustics during playback using effects such as mirroring, rotating, cropping, cloning, adjusting colours, deinterlacing , and equalizing and visualizing audio . Easter eggs may be featured, such as a puzzle game on VLC Media Player . Still snapshots may be extracted directly from a video frame or captured through a screenshot, the former of which is preferred since it preserves videos' original dimensions (height and width). Video players may show

2698-515: The ability to count or find the total duration of tracks in a playlist )". Winamp3 had no backward compatibility with Winamp 2 plugins, and the SHOUTcast sourcing plugin was not supported. No Winamp3 version of SHOUTcast was ever released. In response to users reverting to Winamp 2, Nullsoft continued the development of Winamp 2 to versions 2.9 and 2.91 in 2003, even alluding to it humorously. The beta versions 2.92 and 2.95 were released with

2769-460: The aesthetics of physical objects. Examples include a digital contact list resembling a Rolodex , and IBM's 1998 RealThings package. A more extreme example is found in some music synthesis and audio processing software packages, which closely emulate physical musical instruments and audio equipment complete with buttons and dials. On a smaller scale, the icons of GUIs may remain skeuomorphic representations of physical objects, such as an image of

2840-402: The beginnings of the "classic" Winamp GUI: dark gray rectangle with silver 3D-effect transport buttons, a red/green volume slider, time displayed in a green LED font , with track name, MP3 bitrate, and "mixrate" in green. Overlength titles appear as slowly scrolling text (or "marquee"). The skeuomorphic design somewhat resembles shelf stereos . There was no position bar, and a blank space where

2911-664: The current position in the duration of the media file. Mainstream operating systems have at least one default media player. For example, Windows comes with Windows Media Player , Microsoft Movies & TV and Groove Music , while macOS comes with QuickTime Player and Music . Linux distributions come with different media players, such as SMPlayer , Amarok , Audacious , Banshee , MPlayer , mpv , Rhythmbox , Totem , VLC media player , and xine . Android comes with YouTube Music for audio and Google Photos for video, and smartphone vendors such as Samsung may bundle custom software. The basic feature set of media players are

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2982-468: The emulations can be skeuomorphic. Skeuomorphism is parallel to, but different from, path dependence in technology, where an element's functional behavior is maintained even when the original reasons for its design no longer exist. Many features of wooden buildings were repeated in stone by the Ancient Greeks when they transitioned from wood to masonry construction. Decorative stone features in

3053-501: The famous Wesley Willis -inspired DEMO.MP3 file "Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass" . Mike the Llama is the company mascot. By July 1998, Winamp's various versions had been downloaded over three million times. Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The new version improved the usability of the playlist, made the equalizer more accurate, and introduced more plug-ins. The modular windows for playlist and equalizer now matched

3124-426: The feature set of Media Player Classic and MediaMonkey combined. By default, videos are played with fully visible field of view while filling at least either width or height of the viewport to appear as large as possible. Options to change the video's scaling and aspect ratio may include filling the viewport through either stretching or cropping, and "100% view" where each pixel of the video covers exactly one pixel on

3195-550: The inclusion of some of the functionality of the upcoming Winamp 5. During this period the Wasabi cross-platform application framework and skinnable GUI toolkit was derived from parts of the Winamp3 source code. For Linux , Nullsoft released an alpha version of Winamp3 on October 9, 2001, but has not updated it despite continued user interest. During this time Winamp faced stiff competition from Apple 's iTunes . Winamp 5

3266-404: The late 1980s, the "Home Theater PC" term first appeared in mainstream press in 1996. Since 2007, other types of consumer electronics, including gaming systems and dedicated media devices have crossed over to manage video and music content. The term "media center" also refers to specialized computer programs designed to run on standard personal computers . Skeuomorph The term skeuomorph

3337-507: The latest version 5.9.2 released on April 26, 2023. Its developer Radionomy has since rebranded as Llama Group and launched a streaming service that allows users to support artists by buying perks or NFTs . The service launched on the web in April 2023, followed by beta apps for Android and iOS in July 2023. In September 2024, Llama Group partially released the Winamp source code for Windows under

3408-399: The media in the seek bar. 3D video players are used to play 2D video in 3D format. A high-quality three-dimensional video presentation requires that each frame of a motion picture be embedded with information on the depth of objects present in the scene. This process involves shooting the video with special equipment from two distinct perspectives or modeling and rendering each frame as

3479-436: The modern era, cheaper plastic items often attempt to mimic more expensive wooden and metal products, though they are only skeuomorphic if new ornamentation references the original functionality, such as molded screw heads in molded plastic items. Another well-known skeuomorph is the plastic Adirondack chair . The lever on a mechanical slot machine, or " one-armed bandit ", is a skeuomorphic throwback feature when it appears on

3550-415: The name and to mark its separation from the Winamp 2 codebase), was released on August 9, 2002. It was a complete rewrite of version 2, newly based on the Wasabi application framework, which offered additional functionality and flexibility. Winamp3 was developed parallel to Winamp 2, but "many users found it consumed too many system resources and was unstable (or even lacked some valued functionality, such as

3621-720: The newer devices no longer need to resemble their predecessors. Compared to flat design, skeuomorphic design seems to facilitate a fast navigation through graphic user interfaces, because icons are more easily recognized and less abstract than their minimalistic counterparts found in flat design. The arguments against virtual skeuomorphic design are that skeuomorphic interface elements are harder to operate and take up more screen space than standard interface elements, that this breaks operating system interface design standards , that it causes an inconsistent look and feel between applications, that skeuomorphic interface elements rarely incorporate numeric input or feedback for accurately setting

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3692-415: The option to write ratings to tags (for MP3, WMA/WMV, Ogg , and FLAC ) was added. Hungarian and Indonesian installer translations and language packs were added. With the release of Winamp version 5.66 on November 20, 2013, AOL announced that Winamp.com would shut down on December 20, 2013, and Winamp would cease to be offered for download after that date. Five days later, version 5.666 was released with

3763-554: The other hand, specialize in digital audio . For example, AIMP exclusively plays audio formats. MediaMonkey can play both audio and video formats, but many of its features including media library, lyric discovery, music visualization , online radio, audiobook indexing, and tag editing are geared toward consumption of audio material; watching video files on it can be a trying feat. General-purpose media players also do exist. For example, Windows Media Player has exclusive features for both audio and video material, although it cannot match

3834-467: The player's skin and could be moved around and be separated or "docked" to each other anywhere in any order. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded pieces of software for Windows . By the end of 1998, there were already over 60 plugins and hundreds of skins made for the software. PlayMedia filed a federal lawsuit against Nullsoft in March 1999. In May 1999, PlayMedia

3905-408: The real animals. In the 1970s, opera windows and vinyl roofs on many luxury sedan cars similarly imitated carriage work from the horse and buggy era. As of 2019 , most electric cars feature prominent front grilles, even though there is little need for intake of air to cool an absent internal combustion engine. Many computer programs have a skeuomorphic graphical user interface that emulates

3976-400: The screen. Zooming into the field of view during playback may be implemented through a slider on any screen or with pinch zoom on touch screens, and moving the field of view may be implemented through scrolling by dragging inside the view port or by moving a rectangle inside a miniature view of the entire field of view that denotes the magnified area. Media player software may have

4047-500: The visual design style favored by Mr. Jobs", resigned. Apple designer Jonathan Ive took over some of Forstall's responsibilities and had "made his distaste for the visual ornamentation in Apple's mobile software known within the company". With the announcement of iOS 7 at WWDC in 2013, Apple officially shifted from skeuomorphism to a more simplified design , thus beginning the so-called "death of skeuomorphism" at Apple. Skeuomorphism

4118-428: The way for future Winamp-related development on Mac and a fully featured media player as Winamp on Windows. However no further development occurred. An early alpha preview of Winamp3 for desktop Linux was developed in October 2001, but support was dropped not long after. Nonetheless some versions of Winamp for Windows are functional using Wine . DOSamp for MS-DOS operating systems was released in 1997. The software

4189-466: The wooden counterparts of previous generations. Clay pottery has also been found bearing rope-shaped protrusions, pointing to craftsmen seeking familiar shapes and processes while working with new materials. Another example is the tiny, non-functional handle on glass maple syrup bottles, which evoke stoneware jug handles. In this context, skeuomorphs exist as traits sought in other objects, either for their social desirability or psychological comforts. In

4260-400: Was based on the Winamp 2 codebase, but with Winamp3 features such as modern skins incorporated via a plugin, thus incorporating the main advantages of both products. Regarding the omission of a version 4, Nullsoft joked that "nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin" ("4 skin" being a pun on foreskin ). It was also joked that "Winamp 5 is so good they skipped a number" and "Winamp 2+3=5,". Winamp 5.0

4331-552: Was granted an injunction by Federal Judge A. Howard Matz against distribution of Nitrane by Nullsoft, and the same month the lawsuit was settled out-of-court with licensing and confidentiality agreements. Soon after, Nullsoft switched to an ISO decoder from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , the developers of the MP3 format. Winamp 2.10, released March 24, 1999, included a new version of the "Llama" demo.mp3 featuring

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4402-459: Was in talks with AOL to acquire Nullsoft. Despite AOL's announcement, the Winamp site was not shut down as planned, and on January 14, 2014, it was officially announced that Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy had bought the Nullsoft brand, which includes Winamp and SHOUTcast. No financial details were publicly announced. However, TechCrunch has reported that the sale of Winamp and Shoutcast

4473-585: Was introduced as a beta release. It is the first Winamp version for the Mac OS X platform and runs under version 10.6 and above. Its focus is on syncing the Winamp Library to Winamp for Android and the iTunes Music Library (hence the name, "Winamp Sync for Mac"). Nonetheless, a full Winamp Library and player features are included. The developer's blog stated that the Winamp Sync for Mac Beta would pave

4544-453: Was performed by the AMP decoding engine developed by Advanced Multimedia Products co-founder Tomislav Uzelac , which was free for non-commercial use. It was compatible with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 . Winamp was the second real-time MP3 player for Windows, the first being WinPlay3 . WinAMP 0.92 was released as a freeware in May 1997. Within the standard Windows frame and menu bar, it had

4615-421: Was released in December 2003. A blue themed "Modern" skin became the default interface. The media library was improved, CD burning and ripping was introduced, and other additions. The original Nullsoft team quit in 2004. As of version 5.1, Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison (Benski) and Maksim Tyrtyshny. From version 5.2 onwards, support for synchronizing with an iPod and other portable music players

4686-509: Was released in a GitHub repository under the " Winamp Collaborative License ", a license restricting the ability to create forks or distribute modified binaries (which is not considered free or open source) and requires waiving ownership of contributions to Llama Group. After the source code was released, multiple pieces of proprietary source code were found: the entirety of the SHOUTcast server software, as well as code from Microsoft, Dolby and Intel . After The Register contacted

4757-405: Was released on September 9, 2022, with mostly under-the-hood improvements. The development team migrated the project from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2019, in addition to improving support for Windows 11, high-resolution audio , and playback of HTTPS streams. The minimum supported operating system was increased to Windows 7 SP1 . On December 6, 2022, Winamp 5.9.1 was released, adding

4828-577: Was removed from the Play Store in 2014 due to a combination of factors, including a decline in user interest and the cessation of support from its parent company, AOL. It was reported in 2018 by TechCrunch that a redesigned Android app was planned alongside the announcement of the development of Winamp 6. An app for the Winamp service was released in beta for Android in July 2023. In 1997, Nullsoft also released MacAmp , an Apple Macintosh equivalent of Winamp. In October 2011, Winamp Sync for Mac

4899-422: Was reported that a Winamp 5.8 beta build 3563 was leaked to various file-sharing sites. The leaked build, bearing a build date of October 26, 2016, would be the first public build under Radionomy's umbrella, with changes including compatibility with Windows 8.1, 10 and 11, and the removal of the paid Winamp Pro. Following the leak, Radionomy officially released Winamp 5.8 build 3660 on October 18, 2018. Winamp 5.9

4970-693: Was soon abandoned by Nullsoft to focus on the Windows version (Winamp). Media player (software) Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players , such as play (  [REDACTED]  ), pause (  [REDACTED]  ), fastforward (⏩️), rewind (⏪), and stop (  [REDACTED]  ) buttons. In addition, they generally have progress bars (or "playback bars"), which are sliders to locate

5041-542: Was unlikely to have been based on the AMP software, and was more likely evidence of a hastily written MP3 decoder that didn't concern itself with standards compliance. Version 1.90, released March 31, 1998, was the first release as a general-purpose audio player, and documented on the Winamp website as supporting plugins, of which it included two input plugins ( MOD and MP3 ) and a visualization plugin. The installer for Version 1.91, released 18 days later, included wave , cdda , and Windows tray handling plugins, as well as

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