Winamp! Noooo!

[blogslut]

http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en

Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.

I haz many sads about this. When all other audio players get pissy, Winamp always worked.

[arcane1]

1. That's a bummer, I'm one of the last people I know who LOVE Winamp

[Fumesucker]

2. I guess the Llama kicked back

[blogslut]

3. :/

[bananas]

4. Why are they shutting down? What happened? nt

[blogslut]

5. AOL bought them years ago

...and put them on a shelf. Nullsoft did a pretty good job of updating/innovating for a while but apathy eventually turned into atrophy.

[MichaelSoE]

6. i gave up on winamp years ago ... switched to mediamonkey ... link below

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

[wandy]

7. Just use Windows Media Player, but ya gots to know one little trick................

It's called K-Lite.

About the K-Lite Codec Pack

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

http://codecguide.com/
See here for the overview.
http://codecguide.com/about_kl.htm

The basic K-lite package allows WMP to handle just about any Audio / Video formate you might come across. Their is an extended package and also an additional 64 Bit Codec set required by some games.
I would suggest starting with basic package and becoming a bit fimilar with it.
Also when installing use the advanced install. Although most defaults are what you want it will ask if you want to associate various A/V types with WMP. Say YES here.

You need no longer worry about Quicktime or what ever worms crawl out of that Apple player thing.
Good by Real player!
*.ogg ? Great! Be gone that clown hat VLC dingus.
Flash video ? No problem!
Handle DVDs without some oddball package? Sure it does.
Subtitles you can't get rid of? Part of the package has a tool that may fix that up for you.

This thing is darn good. My only caution is that even the basic version is BIG. As such it is a touch complex.

[TroglodyteScholar]

8. I used Winamp from the very early days

But I lost my love for it pretty quickly when Nullsoft was acquired by AOL.

VLC all the way, baby.

[gvstn]

9. Since others are giving alternatives

I thought I would mention foobar. I have crappy PC speakers so don't really listen to much music on PC but I find it gives a nicer tone to audio tracks than other media players.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/607401/foobar2000-vs-winamp