Ok, so I have been on here bashing the direction Winamp had headed in for a long time. But I must say...this is a step ahead. I remember when this didnt even have an installer and it was ugly as sin...

I remember when could register Winamp. you would get a code to use it. :-) And then it became free!!

...so when are they gonna update nullsoft.com?

Happy 10th anniversary, Winamp!

I've been using it since the 2.x days, happy to find a great free alternative to the default Media Player. What really sold me on Winamp (apart from the Llama) was Geiss and, later, Milkdrop - two cracking visualisations that Winamp has hypnotised entire rooms of people with at various parties I've held over the years!

As for the future, I'm now using Linux and Amarok has turned my head with its simplicity. But I'll still keep the Llama installed on windows, just in case. ;)

I remember when using it on my 486/66 that I had to turn the quality down for MP3's or they wouldn't play without skipping. My Pentium finally allowed me to play it at full quality.

Isn't it odd that Justin Frankel's latest endeavor REAPER a audio recording app went 2.0 on the same day, about the same time?

Ten years already? I have been using Winamp on my Windows machines for the past five years at least, but didn't realize it has been 10 years total.

Congrats to the Winamp crew!

Though I use Media Player Classic for all of my video playback needs, Winamp has been one of the only constants of my computing life since '97 as far as audio files are concerned.

Sure, it's gone through its rough periods (experimental plug-ins, Winamp 3, etc.), but I've always been faithful and stuck with it.

I've tried others throughout the past decade... most notably Sonique way back when. I've dabbled with Microsoft's various incarnations of Windows Media Player, but always found it lacking (but fairly sufficient). About the only thing I use iTunes for is to check playlists and ID3 tag information on my iPod, where ml_iPod handles all transfers to the iPod through Winamp. ModPlug used to handle all of my MOD files years ago, but no more. The rest, Winamp handles with aplomb... always has.

Thank you Justin Frankel, Nullsoft, and AOL for helping to provide the soundtrack of my life for the past 10 years.

WOW!! has it been ten years that I've been using this? GEEZ!!!! Nullsoft! congratulations for always keeping up the good work and for providing Winamp all this years...THE BEST AUDIO PLAYER EVER!!!

Haven't actually used WinAMP in a while.

* Love the new Bento (Large) Theme!

* Love WinAMP Remote. Using it now. Fab.

It's quick, it's nice looking, and it has a hell of a lot more functionality than the last time I used it.

This almost hurts, but:

Bye-bye Foobar2000.

Whee! We have a converter!

/Loves Winamp a little too much

Now if I could just get Orb working.

The songs from my home PC show up, but when I try to play them, they all show up as "Error clip" video files.

*sigh*

Downloaded it today and very happy aside from a few issues. First off I like the new interface, more so cause they kept what worked from the previous design. So i didn't have to learn it from scratch. I haven't tried all the new features but they sound decent. The album art needs some work. Some albums it can't find. But it's just eye candy, you don't need it. Scolling thru the playlist is still choppy and needs work. But they have never got that right b4. I've wanted a new interface for a long time. Time changes and winamp never did. Thankfully they did something new for once. Hasn't crashed yet, and doesnt eat to much ram. So all in all a great player.

I liked that it was $10 dollars vs. something like $40 dollars for Mod4Win to play my mod files.

Still great despite the fact AOL owns it. One of the few software products they have bought out that hasn't gone to hell (I'm looking at you ICQ and Netscape).

This doesn't mean I'm not switching to an open source alternative (foobar 2000) but I am taking my sweet time about it (I'll admit I'm lazy).

Still my fav windows player ever. But I can only imagine what it could have been today if AOL hadn't gotten their grim reaper hands on it.

I remember that someone installed it strangely on my first laptop and I had to enter some run command to even get at it. I've been using it ever sence, 1.9x I believe.

I agree it was a great media player, the first of it's kind to support many formats and configurable to a fault: skins, tons of useful plugins and enhancements like like the visuals, TV card support. You could make it as large, or as small as possible. I recall it used to fit nicely on a 1.44 floppy disk (remember those days?!)

These days WinAmp has become my alternative to iTunes. I still use WMP somewhat for movies and DVDs. I've stripped down WinAmp to what i needed, supports just the audio formats i use today, no more funky visuals or skins. Just a nice simple media player that works and runs right off my iPod.

It really whips the llama's a$$!

I can remember way back when it became all the rage. I don't think I used a different media player throughout college. I liked it because the extra features were optional and you could strip it down to the bare essentials to play MP3s and not have all the other junk.