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> Winamp is a media player for Windows, macOS and Android, originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev[5][6][7] by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million.

80M, for an MP3 player is peek 1999

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They also had a directory of streaming "stations", Shoutcast

And you could install shoutcast to host your own station! I remember hosting one for all of my friends to listen to, and we all had a great time.

Of all the things of the internet of old, Winamp 2.x, its skins, shoutcast and the visualization library are what I miss the most by far

Oh I’d forgotten about the visualisations. Those were, for me, one of the best parts of Winamp.... other than the sound bite about a llama. :-)

> https://desktop.webamp.org/

TripX was the jam. https://winampheritage.com/visualization/tripex3/92178

TripX was pretty, but Geiss, Milkdrop, and Gforce were my favorites, if only because of the insane number of add-on visualization presets. What was always ironic to me was that most of the presets by the actual developer were pretty garbage.

People still use Shoutcast, it's the standard way to DJ in virtual worlds.

I still use Milkdrop2 for visualizations when listening to music within Kodi.

"ProjectM" exists within Linux as well, but I've never gotten it to work properly on my laptop.

Ah yes, shoutcast!

You know, it's funny how ahead of its time Winamp was in many ways.

It still exists and I use it regularly to find new stations: www.shoutcast.com

You can play streams directly from there or via WinAmp.

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