In the Linux world, WinAmp was cloned into xmms, which was my default media player for years, but it's stuck on the i386 architecture and is a pain in the ass to get working on modern linux. Not because it wasn't still awesome, but because mainly AOL bought it, and then subsequently fucked it all up with WinAmp 5. 'What the hell is that?!' I asked, and he responded by tossing me a floppy with WinAmp on it (and also said, 'check this out' and opened a small program called napster).īut as the world moved on, WinAmp got left behind.
Prior to that night, the only MP3 players I had heard of were hardware based units that were thousands of dollars, so when the dude next to me opened winamp, I was dumbfounded. I found winamp at a giant all-night Action Quake 2 lan party in the middle of 1999. My all-time favorite MP3 player is, hands down, Winamp.
