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“It fed us the internet one feed at a time, until Google decided we were full.”
“It really whipped the llama's behind, right up until the very end”
Winamp was a media player for Windows, built in 1997 by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev at Nullsoft, that rode the wave of MP3 file sharing straight into our hearts. With its plug-ins, skins, music visualization, and playlists, it became one of the most downloaded Windows applications — 25 million registered users by 2000, and 60 million by 2001. For a generation, it wasn't just software; it was the soundtrack's f
The trouble started after Nullsoft sold to AOL for $80 million in 1999. A poorly received rewrite, Winamp3, in 2002 was patched over by Winamp 5 in 2003, but the magic had dimmed. The last AOL-developed version, pointedly numbered 5.666, arrived in 2013, and after a five-year hiatus the player passed into the hands of Radionomy — now the Winamp Group — leaving behind millions of playlists and a truly excellent llama.
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“It fed us the internet one feed at a time, until Google decided we were full.”
“It learned your voice sentence by sentence, then fell quiet.”
“Tasman deserved better, and so did we.”