Talk: Winamp

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Features List

Hmmm, maybe it would be interesting to have a Winamp 5 vs. Winamp 2 comparison chart rather than only having the features list for Winamp 5. Or maybe just a separate Winamp 2 features list . . . or maybe not :) -Frazzydee 15:06, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Winamp is not "windows amplifier"

I think Winamp's name comes not from "windows amplifier", but from a Windows version of AMP, an open-source MP3 decoding engine. AMP in turn stands for Advanced Multimedia Products, the company name of the original author of AMP. See [1] Drew3D 01:56, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Indeed it does, and that was why I added the part about AMP and its author to the introduction when I revised this article... I agree that I think Winamp started out as something like a Windows port of AMP, hence Winamp. Jugalator 18:48, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

Rumors of demise

This recent news posting at winamp.com seems to say that rumors of Winamp's demise have been greatly exaggerated. "We're going to chalk this one off to one to a poorly-worded and vague news piece that got out of hand (No offense to Nate.). While yes, our team might be a bit lean at the moment, we aren't the starved, skeleton-thin relics we've been rumored to be."

Okay if I remove the line that says that "In November 2004, the last members of the original Nullsoft development team resigned and no further improvements to Winamp are expected."? --Arteitle 00:02, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Whoops. Sorry to jump the gun, but I didn't see this message and I've already removed it. 64.230.144.132 18:57, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, while it is obviously clear that Winamp itself has not been axed, I think the first half of the sentence is actually accurate; perhaps we could mention something like "In Novermber 2004, during a restructuring of parent comapny AOL, the last members of the original development team resigned; the remaining Nullsoft team, though small, strongly denied rumours that Winamp was dead." Or perhaps we should only mention that in the Nullsoft article? I'm not sure. - IMSoP 22:50, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've been going a bit mad with the corrections on both the Nullsoft and Winamp articles, basically all the original members have left over the past year/year and a half. AOL haven't actually layed any of them off, they just resigned. It's currently maintained by the previous Engineering Manager until replacement staff can be hired. CraigF 16:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yes, fair enough. Is it not true, however, that AOL is doing some pretty major restructuring (including layoffs) in general at the moment; and doesn't this, in fact, contribute to the doubt over future development? Perhaps we could say something like "Because of this and restructuring within AOL as a whole future major releases of Winamp are in doubt, although..."? But I don't really know much about the situation, so I'll leave it as your call. - IMSoP 17:02, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree, thats why I left in that particular line. I'm not about to pretend that its likely that one/two/three person(s) can continue the entire product line. It's all in doubt at the moment. So I'm trying to keep wikipedia as factually correct as I can at the current moment. CraigF 20:12, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)