Once most popular media player Winamp is losing its popularity from last a few years. Because of the increasing popularity of other media player like VLC, very few users are now using winamp media player. That is why winamp authority has announced that they are going to shut down Winamp media player. Winamp media player will be shutted down from 20 December 2013. AOL authority will stop Winamp.com and all the web related services. That is why Winamp media player can not be download after 20 December 2013 from its site.
The last version of the Winamp 5.66 had released on 21 November 2013. Winamp in its website has given thanks to their users for last 15 years support. During the nineties decades winamp player was the most popular media player to the computer users. In 1997 Justin frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev had developed this freeware software. It was once used by more than five million users. The developer of the software continue the update of winamp under Null-soft.
In 1999 Nullsoft was bought by AOL. Because of increased mp3 file sharing, the uses of Winamp media player was continues to grow. Winamp supports Mp3, MIDI, MOD, MPGE-1, AAC, MP4A, WAV, WMA formats. The shutdown announcement you can see from the Winamp website.
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