Do you remember Winamp? If you already have a few gray hairs, you probably do. Winamp was the music player par excellence for all of us who had a PC between the 90s and the 2000s. Although it enjoyed great popularity for more than a decade, the emergence of YouTube (where people could listen to music online) and the subsequent popularization of players like Media Player Classic and VLC Media Player eventually dethroned the king, which retired from the market in 2013.
Many years later, Winamp came back and announced that it would return as an all-rounder app, with music player, streaming services, podcast, radio stations, audiobooks and more features, something that would finally happen in 2022, when the first full version of the player was released after its return: 5.9 Final.
Now, a year after its return, Winamp has announced on its Twitter account the launch of a completely revamped version of Winamp. In addition to a redesigned interface and the features it already had so far, the new Winamp will also include a number of features aimed at content creators with which they will be able to add subscription plans for users to access certain types of content according to rank.
While the complete overhaul of Winamp is positive in essence, it could also cause a lot of backlash among many of the program’s fans, who still cling to the nostalgia of the player’s “good old days”. Still, it would be a logical step for an app that aims to follow in the footsteps of the big audio companies, such as Spotify.
The new version of Winamp is now available from its official website. Users can use the web version of the player or download the desktop version.
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