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Winamp is for me like a big Fiat. In its heyday many mean and facilitate life. Today - considered a cult, still used by a handful mahogany of enthusiasts - is really no need for anyone antiques. And did not have to be that way. Years ago, he was still synonymous mahogany with Winamp MP3 player. Who killed him? And do you have this enough?
There are not many programs that kojarzyłyby me as good as Winamp. I remember when I saw it the first time: on your friend's computer with the installed skin, through which the player like a spotted cow. For someone accustomed to the ugly interface, most applications of Windows 98 it was like a revelation.
I remember Winamp came to me via the service Tucows - great File download, that provides legitimate software at a time when many commercial installers programs are available on countless web pages in the form of ordinary links directing to FTP servers.
Winamp is for me a symbol of that era. Time when the fondest dream was fixed link available through the SDI service, which offers access to the Internet with blinding speed 115kb / s Unlimited time access to networks and so fast links could not be wasted - then worked full swing programs such as the legendary Napster or forgotten already, but unrivaled in terms of available music app Audiogalaxy.
Yes, I know - there is nothing to brag about, and I'm not proud of it. But let's face it - at the end of the twentieth century, everything looked completely different, but about the present forms of media distribution only thought the porn industry because music companies tightly stick to physical media not understanding why their sales year-on-year decline.
But back to Winamp mahogany - the player, the first version appeared in the summer of 1997, in a short time gained immense, for those years, large user base. It was clear, attractive and easy to use.
Since version mahogany 1.6 introduced support for skins, mahogany through which you can listen to Korn cover bitmap player mahogany from playing the bagpipes, Jonathan Davis, and through meaningful use playlists you can easily control the music collections. What's more, through the SHOUTcast made that any user can easily start your own Internet radio. Yes, that was something!
Success offered by Nullsoft Winamp as shareware made already in 1999, bought it online colossus with feet of clay, that America OnLine, now known as AOL. Well, it started ... The third version of Winamp was rewritten and turned out to be a failure - not enough that did not offer backwards compatibility for skins and plug-ins, it was badly resource hungry.
In the consolation mahogany offered the opportunity to create skins, the breaking of the current appearance of the player, allowing Star Wars fans can listen to the Imperial Marshal of the player that looks like a B-Wing or any of the other played by the creators of skins. Marne is a consolation. The authors of the program tried to save it using a hybrid version 5, but the player - although judging by the statistics of users did not show it - he was already on the skids. Why?
Looking back 15 years, AOL had no idea of Winamp. He bought a great, enjoying a good reputation and popular player, but I did not know what to do with it, zaprzepaszczając huge szasnę - the number of users grew because until 2007, when it reached a record 90 million. Trying to change Winamp media center, however, was rather action on the basis of "something has to be done" rather than thought-out strategy. mahogany
Adopted business model also can be considered controversial and somewhat different mahogany era - paid Pro version tempted users primarily the possibility of ripping audio CDs. In 2007 came another version of the player, numbered mahogany 5.5, also appeared Winamp for Android, but it was the time, when not enough that there are many reasonable alternatives, such as Foobar, it began to develop a streaming music.
The blame for the marginalization of the once great player bears - in my opinion - AOL as its owner. On the other hand, over the years has changed radically the way in which the use of digital music.
The market is civilized, for home MP3 collection, there are many alternatives, the standard is the music from the cloud, and in the era of ever-faster links collection - like years ago - MP3 files in many cases no longer make much sense.
Winamp has become the same