{"id":60437,"date":"2013-11-21T14:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=60437"},"modified":"2013-12-20T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T11:05:10","slug":"rip-winamp-thanks-for-the-llamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/60437-rip-winamp-thanks-for-the-llamas","title":{"rendered":"RIP WinAmp: thanks for the llamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WinAmp will no longer be available for download from 20 December 2013, a notice on its website announced. The Winamp.com website \u201cand associated web services\u201d will also be shut down from that date, the notice said.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the MyGaming forum you can <strong><a title=\"MyGaming forum\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/35053-R-I-P-Winamp\" target=\"_blank\">commiserate with the other distraught Winamp users<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a report on the era-ending announcement, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/11\/after-15-years-of-llama-whipping-aol-shuts-down-winamp-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica quoted former WinAmp employees<\/a> who had previously blamed AOL\u2019s mismanagement for the media player\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t confirmed how services such as Shoutcast will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?t=373778\" target=\"_blank\">members of the WinAmp community<\/a> expect the Shoutcast Internet radio service to join Nullsoft TV and the Winamp.com website (including the forums) in Internet Valhalla.<\/p>\n<p>For your nostalgic llama whippin\u2019 pleasure, a YouTube video of DJ Mike Llama\u2019s legendary intro is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKqKrH0O9yg\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Jan Vermeulen.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/91285-buy-windows-phone-apps-with-airtime-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Buy Windows Phone apps with airtime in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/90441-android-4-4-kitkat-launched.html\"><strong>Android 4.4 KitKat launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/89493-bbm-for-android-iphone-arrives.html\"><strong>BBM for Android, iPhone arrives<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/19185-android-media-players-hot-up.html\"><strong>Android media players hot up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/nephp\/1830.html\"><strong>\u2018Critical\u2019 exploit hits Winamp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable llama-powered media player will be put out to pasture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":60438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,11748],"class_list":["post-60437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-winamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}