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Petition to turn Winamp into open-source software hits 25,000 signatures

article published on 26 November, 2013

Our most read article of the past week was the news that AOL had announced the shutdown of popular cross-platform media player Winamp. Despite rumors that Microsoft may come to save the day, one fan took matters into his own hands, starting a petition on Change.org the day of the announcement begging AOL to make the software open-source rather than shutting it down for good. The petition ... [ read the full article ]

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dEwMe
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27. November 2013 @ 08:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I remember the days when I had over 2000 MP3s in my library. Winamp was my go to player and I loved it. Now I use Pandora. They store the files for me and always seem to know what I want to hear. I could go on and on but my point is..Back in my MP3 days you could not have convinced me I would ever give it up to a streaming site. Along with the need for the library went the need for Winamp. It's kinda like my stacks of 500+ CD's I built up gathering dust in the basement or that cooler full of cassettes I finally threw away years ago. You served me well friend and I will always love you but I gotta move on.


Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
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27. November 2013 @ 16:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
that would be an awesome choice! make it so AOL!
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