Here’s a taste of what I’m talking about if you’ve never had the chance to experience it or just want a stroll down memory lane:Īnyway back to the news, after many, many, many years Winamp is back and preparing for its surprising return. And who could forget the accompanying visualiser that’s effects were only comparable to taking some hardcore psychedelic drugs?

Not only could you use it to play your sick tunes but you could also download skins for it so that your music player would represent the anxiety tween that you were. Winamp was the media player that rocked the early 2000s. Now sure, downloading a song could take you anywhere from 4 hours to 2 days (and if your house received a phone call during that time you were out of luck) and sure, chances are that Crazy by Gnarls Barkley would instead turn out to be Moonlight Sonata but if the stars all aligned and the gods chose to smile upon you you would have your favourite song on your very own home PC to listen to whenever you wanted.Īnd that’s where Winamp came into the mix. Done were the days of you having to wait by the radio with your blank tape ready to push record when your favourite song would come on, this was the era where you could go and download music directly onto your PC. In the early 2000s PCs were officially commonplace in households and music was a big thing. Allow me to take you on a little journey. But let’s assume you’re not 100 years old like I am and you’ve never heard of this Winamp I speak of.

And yes, it’s the Winamp you’re thinking of. In news I never expected to be writing, Winamp is back, baby.

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