![]() ![]() (The fact that you wrote an explainer for this hurt me in my soul. Installing Winamp in 2021 certainly brings back some good memories. It offered a ton of cool skins, had a visualizer, and was just fast and free, two things we appreciate in every piece of software. Though we had our mobile music needs met, we also needed software to play music on our PCs, and for that a lot of people used Winamp, ourselves included. The small file size also fueled the explosion of P2P file-sharing. This conversion allowed us to reduce the file size immensely, and also transfer the files to a portable music player like the iPod, or for a handful of folks, a Zune player. You see, back in the 2000s, digital music wasn’t really a thing yet, so we used to take our music CDs and extract the files into MP3 format. What’s surprising about this announcement is the software hasn’t been updated since 2013, and as we noted, people don’t use media players like Winamp anymore.įirst off, if you’re under the age of 30 and are reading this, some explanation is required. Winamp, the formerly hugely popular music player, has plans to relaunch in 2021 according to a report by Bleepingcomputer. This time around though, it’s software that’s attempting a comeback, from a bygone era. It’s not a new development in the tech world that bringing back “formerly loved” items from the past is cool once again, but that usually applies to old hardware like gaming consoles, smaller phones, and so forth. ![]()
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