After a prolonged absence, Winamp is making a historic comeback with a new generation of features designed to cater to modern users’ needs. The relaunched version aims to combine the nostalgia of the original Winamp with cutting-edge enhancements, such as integration with streaming platforms, cloud syncing, and support for various audio and video formats. While specific details about the relaunch remain scarce, this announcement has sparked excitement among longtime fans and new users alike, as they eagerly await the revival of this beloved media player.
What absence? It never really went away, it just became less popular. AFAIK, the site and the download have been available this entire time. I even went and installed it like 3 months ago and recently found a way to play Spotify through it so now it’s once again my default music player on desktop.
I’ve read some shit about “WinAmp Premium” while looking for the Spotify thing tho. Is that what this is actually about? It sounds like they’re trying to take a feature that has existed in the app for years (shoutcast) and make it a subscription based thing.
It wasn’t up the whole time. I went looking for it a few years ago after a new OS install, and found that, at the time, the site was in limbo with some message about coming back eventually, but no official way to download it. Glad it’s back, hope they didn’t turn it into enshittified bloatware.
Can you explain how you got Spotify to play through it?
I switch between both and its quite the pain
I found a thing called SpotiAmp on GitHub.