Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)

Re:Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (... by superasn on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:59AM (#23583963)

> Winamp could have been Spotify but went in a completely different directions

Yes I remember that the first time I used streaming music it was shoutcast.

It was really fantastic with hundreds of different music channels and podcasts. One radio station I was particularly fond off was called Atlantic sound factory. They had a goldmine on their hands and it's a shame they let it all go to waste.

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Re:Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (... by doublerabbit on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:02AM (#23583983)

And video streaming too. It was uncommon but they had the nsv (nullsoft video) format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullsoft_Streaming_Video

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Re:Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (... by ukyrgf on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:19AM (#23584079)

Yep, "podcast" still feels like an Apple-branded version of shoutcasts to me, 15 years later.

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Re:Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (... by dleslie on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:53PM (#23589363)

IceCast still exists.

I've been a di.fm subscriber for a looooooong time now. :)

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