What AOL did to Winamp, Lycos did to Sonique. Paid a lot of money for it and abandoned it. Althought Sonique was never that advanced.

Winamp was bought by a company in Berlin I believe. It will forever be remembered as the MP3 player that: - Introduced several generations to shoutcast online radio. - Was one of the only players that handled your 5,000+ song MP3 collection.

Still use it to this day and it works amazingly well with searching, filtering, and building playlists for massive collections. It's stable, not dead, and still in use by many. But because it's not releasing new versions every year the average music junkie might believe it to be dead.