Editing Winamp (section)

{{Short description|Media player for Microsoft Windows}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox software
| name = Winamp
| logo = Winamp Logo.svg
| logo size = 200px
| logo caption = Logo since 2021
| screenshot = Winampmain.png
| caption = Winamp 5.8 using the default ''Bento'' skin
| author = [[Nullsoft]]
| developer = [[Radionomy|Llama Group]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1997|4|21}}
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]<ref name="WACoreProgLang"/>/[[C++]]<ref name="Lextrait"/><ref name="WAPluginProgLang"/>
| operating system = [[Windows]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[MS-DOS]] (DOSamp),<ref name="winamphistory"/> [[Classic Mac OS|Mac OS]] ([[MacAmp]])
| language count = 18
| language = English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
| size = 16.3 [[Megabyte|MB]]
| genre = [[Media player (software)|Media player]]
| license = Winamp Collaborative License 1.0.1, [[Source-available software|source available]] (2024–present); [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] (until 2024)
| website = {{URL|winamp.com/player/}}
| discontinued = yes
}}

'''Winamp''' is a [[media player (software)|media player]] for [[Microsoft Windows]] originally developed by [[Justin Frankel]] and Dmitry Boldyrev<ref name="Saltzman"/><ref name="Millard"/><ref name="Mengyi"/> by their company [[Nullsoft]], which they later sold to [[AOL]] in 1999 for $80&nbsp;million. It was then acquired by [[Radionomy]] in 2014, now known as the [[Radionomy|Llama Group]]. Since version 2, it has been sold as [[freemium]] and supports extensibility with [[plug-in (computing)|plug-ins]] and [[skin (computing)|skins]], and features [[music visualization]], [[playlist]] and a media library, supported by a large [[online community]].

Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997, and quickly grew popular with over 3 million downloads,<ref name=Wired98/> 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.<ref name="AutoMZ-18"/> By 2000, Winamp had over 25 million registered users<ref name=AOL1/> and by 2001 it had 60&nbsp;million users.<ref name="arstechnica.com">{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ |title=Winamp's woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself |date=July 3, 2017 |access-date=January 2, 2018}}</ref> 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. A now-discontinued version for [[Android (operating system)|Android]] was also released, along with early counterparts for [[MS-DOS]] and [[Macintosh]].

After a five-year hiatus, Winamp 5.8 (written as Winamp 5.<math>\infin</math>) was leaked to the public in 2018<ref name="winamp58release"/> before its eventual release by Radionomy;<ref name="winamp58"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Evangelho |first=Jason |title=Winamp 5.8 Has Been Officially Released And Supports Windows 10 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/10/19/winamp-5-8-has-been-officially-released-and-supports-windows-10/ |access-date=June 15, 2020 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> development has since resumed<ref name="winamp59release" /><ref name="winamp591release" /> with the latest version 5.9.2 released on April 26, 2023. Its developer Radionomy has since rebranded as Llama Group and launched a streaming service that allows users to support artists by buying perks or [[NFTs]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://themusic.com.au/news/could-the-answer-to-indie-revenue-be-winamp/-HFG6u3s7-4/13-04-23 |title=Could the Answer to Indie Revenue Be… Winamp?}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Newman |first=Jared |date=2023-04-14 |title=Winamp is back, but not like you remember it |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90880374/winamp-is-back-but-not-like-you-remember |website=FastCompany}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web |last=Davenport |first=Corbin |date=2022-09-09 |title=Winamp 5.9 Is the First Stable Update in Four Years |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/831727/winamp-5.9-is-the-first-stable-update-in-four-years/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=How-To Geek |language=en}}</ref> The service launched on the web in April 2023, followed by beta apps for Android and [[iOS]] in July 2023.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1514530.html |title=モバイル版「Winamp」のクローズドベータが発表 ～iOS/Androidで人数限定のテスト／参加枠はまだ残っている模様 |date=July 7, 2023}}</ref> In September 2024, Llama Group partially released the Winamp source code for Windows under a custom [[Source-available software|source-available]] license; the source repository was deleted soon afterwards following criticism for its license terms and inclusion of proprietary code.<ref name=at8oct>{{cite news |last1=Proven |first1=Liam |title=Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/winamp-really-whips-open-source-coders-into-frenzy-with-its-source-release/ |access-date=22 January 2025 |work=[[Ars Technica]] |date=16 October 2024}}</ref>