Winamp's 10th Anniversary Version Edition Will Challenge ITunes - Overclock.net

SZayat · 10-10-07

Eliot Van Buskirk
October 10, 2007

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The Winamp media player app, used by 62 million people last month, will be 10 years old next month, having since become part of AOL when Justin Frankel sold Nullsoft in 1999, dipped in popularity when Apple released iTunes in 2001, and since become more popular than iTunes outside the United States, according to Matt Callaway and Sam Weber, the product and business directors for AOL's Winamp and Shoutcast products.

The team has been working on today's Winamp 5.5 release for about a year, with iTunes firmly in its crosshairs. According to Weber, Winamp's position within AOL is stronger than it has been in years, because AOL is no longer selling music (remember AOL MusicNet?) and is now "purely an audience business." As a result, the Winamp team was free to add MP3 blog integration and remote music access features that companies such as Apple, who must placate their major label partners, must avoid by necessity.

Version 5.5 is scheduled to launch at 10:10 am on 10/10, but a beta version should be available here starting at around 1 pm today. The new design mirrors that of iTunes, making it easier for users of that application to make the switch, while still offering the under-the-hood tweaking and customization that the hardcore Winamp faithful has long embraced.

Winamp can play, organize, and sync your (unDRM-ed) music to an iPod just like iTunes can. But the new the 10th anniversary version has a bunch of other new tricks up its sleeve that could attract lots of Windows iTunes users

(via Wired)

mootin · 10-10-07

looks sweeeeet

should be more winamp users

although wmp11 is still one of my favourites to use

binormalkilla · 10-10-07

Hey that's cool. I'll give it a try when I get home. I'm picky on my players though, as I use my PC for HTPC functions as well.....I normally use Windows Media Player with all my H264 codecs.

**Kamakazi** · 10-10-07

ROFL, I still use the "Classic" skin.

legoman786 · 10-10-07

I <3 WinAmp... I would never cheat on it... hehe

PGT96AJT · 10-10-07

Winamp FTW. I think i've been using it ever since it came out.

**stanrc** · 10-10-07

i've tried it a few times, but for some reason it never appeals to me and i always switch back to itunes. i don't know what is wrong with me. but i'll give this one a try tonight

Niko-Time · 10-10-07

I prefer foobar and itunes.

Have they cracked the new ipods yet so they can be used on other players apart from itunes?

Trippen Out · 10-10-07

ive been using winamp since it first came out .. i remember when it was a paid for app.. then a free app and then the both versions to what they have today.. i too still use the classic skin.. i only use it for music and that because of plugins.. albedo gforce whitecap.. but the all time best and king of them all MILKDROP.. so piss on foobar take a nasty dump on itunes long live the king.. winamp

itslogz · 10-10-07

Looks good. Ive also been using winamp for a good 3-4 years now. Ill never download Fubar or anything else, winamp is where its at

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