It had a similar spirit to Winamp, so much that AOL/Nullsoft looked into acquiring them. As did Apple before iTunes existed, as documented in The True Story Of Audion:
Re:Efficient music players remain elusive
by lloeki on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:42AM
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I liked using VOX for some time because of its FLAC and BS2B support, but dropped it because of iTunes Match and Apple Music convenience. Now I see they introduced a FLAC digital locker too, but the price is steep.
I miss Audion, from the folks at Panic (makers of Coda & Transmit):
https://web.archive.org/web/20120524030742/http://www.panic....
It had a similar spirit to Winamp, so much that AOL/Nullsoft looked into acquiring them. As did Apple before iTunes existed, as documented in The True Story Of Audion:
https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/