WinAmp will no longer be available for download from 20 December 2013, a notice on its website announced. The Winamp.com website “and associated web services” will also be shut down from that date, the notice said.
I’m willing to bet my llama farm that WinAmp has been a feature in the lives of many PC gamers, keeping us company during long single-player sessions, drowning out the clamour of noobs during online matches, and setting the tone for the LAN party with that awesome Milkdrop2 visualisation.
Over on the MyGaming forum you can commiserate with the other distraught Winamp users.
In a report on the era-ending announcement, Ars Technica quoted former WinAmp employees who had previously blamed AOL’s mismanagement for the media player’s demise.
While all the downloadable components of WinAmp such as skins, plugins, and the player itself can live on after the website is shut down, it isn’t confirmed how services such as Shoutcast will be affected.
However, members of the WinAmp community expect the Shoutcast Internet radio service to join Nullsoft TV and the Winamp.com website (including the forums) in Internet Valhalla.
For your nostalgic llama whippin’ pleasure, a YouTube video of DJ Mike Llama’s legendary intro is embedded below.
Additional reporting by Jan Vermeulen.
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*speechless* I never, ever imagined that Winamp would be shut down. I hope someone leaks the code so that Winamp can live on!