Steven W, 2014-01-05 23:25 »
As stated, I really did like Winamp many moons ago. I remember watching the decline. The introduction of a video player was, in my opinion, a bad move. Then there was the advertising that starting up (even in the paid for version):
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=280976Can't believe that thread is still around.
Here's an article about how some employees say it went downhill:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06 ... id-itself/I found the bit about AOL buying two companies and tossing them together particularly amusing, I found myself in practically the same situation in the past couple of years:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06 ... id-itself/It is amazing how these huge corporations believe that they are indestructible or offer something of such great value that is irreplaceable. Hello, Microsoft? Anybody home?:
And that pointed to a bigger problem for Winamp, and for the "Winamp culture" inside AOL-its primary users were music fans, geeks, and people who cared about what bitrate their MP3s were encoded at-in other words, the key users of Winamp in the early 2000s were allergic to AOL as a company. (Or perhaps were just put off by all those AOL promo CDs.)
Heh, I remember in those days getting the relatively inexpensive dial-up service from the phone company and in the back of my mind wondering what made AOL so great -- thinking perhaps I was missing something. Finally saw AOL from a new friend and realized there was nothing that made it so great.
As stated, I really did like Winamp many moons ago. I remember watching the decline. The introduction of a video player was, in my opinion, a bad move. Then there was the advertising that starting up (even in the paid for version):
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=280976
Can't believe that thread is still around.
Here's an article about how some employees say it went downhill:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/
I found the bit about AOL buying two companies and tossing them together particularly amusing, I found myself in practically the same situation in the past couple of years:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/
It is amazing how these huge corporations believe that they are indestructible or offer something of such great value that is irreplaceable. Hello, Microsoft? Anybody home?:
[quote]And that pointed to a bigger problem for Winamp, and for the "Winamp culture" inside AOL-its primary users were music fans, geeks, and people who cared about what bitrate their MP3s were encoded at-in other words, the key users of Winamp in the early 2000s were allergic to AOL as a company. (Or perhaps were just put off by all those AOL promo CDs.)[/quote]
Heh, I remember in those days getting the relatively inexpensive dial-up service from the phone company and in the back of my mind wondering what made AOL so great -- thinking perhaps I was missing something. Finally saw AOL from a new friend and realized there was nothing that made it so great.