Winamp
Sign in to saveWinamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014, now known as the Winamp Group. Since version 2, it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Winamp
- Software.logo
- Winamp_media_player_logomark.png
- Software.logo caption
- Logo used in the Winamp player
- Software.logo size
- 250px
- Software.screenshot
- WinAmp 5.9.2, Windows 10.png
- Software.screenshot size
- 220px
- Software.caption
- Winamp 5.9.2 running on Windows 10 (Classic skin)
- Software.author
- Nullsoft
- Software.developer
- Winamp Group
- Software.programming language
- C, C++
- Software.operating system
- Windows, Android, MS-DOS (DOSamp), Mac OS (MacAmp), Linux
- Software.language count
- 18
- Software.language
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Software.size
- 16.3 MB
- Software.genre
- Media player
- Software.license
- Proprietary (1997–present); Winamp Collaborative License 1.0.1, source available (September–October 2024)
- Software.discontinued
- no
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Article
27 sectionsContents
- Features
- History
- Initial releases
- Winamp 1
- Winamp 2
- Winamp3
- Winamp 5
- Winamp 5.5
- Winamp 5.6
- Winamp 5.7
- Acquisition by Radionomy
- Winamp 5.8
- Winamp 5.9
- Winamp service
- Source code release
- On other platforms
- Android
- Macintosh
- Linux
- MS-DOS
- iOS
- Easter eggs
- Derivative works
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Radionomy in 2014, now known as the Winamp Group. Since version 2, it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.
Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997, along with basic counterparts for MS-DOS and Macintosh, and quickly grew popular with over 3 million downloads, paralleling the developing trend of MP3 file sharing. Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded Windows applications. By 2000, Winamp had over 25 million registered users and by 2001 it had 60 million users. A poor reception to the 2002 rewrite, Winamp3, was followed by the release of Winamp 5 in 2003, and a later release of version 5.5 in 2007. Winamp for Android was released in 2010. The last AOL-developed version, Winamp 5.666, was released in 2013.