The best thing about VLC is the option to change its default skin and make it look a bit like Winamp 5. The thing about the default VLC skin is that the playlist window is available on a separate screen. When you add visualizations to VLC when playing audio, it does give us a Winamp like feel, to a certain extent that is. You can use its powerful playlist feature in order to put your music files in a list and play them sequentially, randomly or repeatedly. Regardless of whether or not Winamp will be made open source or whether some other company will buy it to continue its development you can always use VLC Media Player to play your music files. The software will still be hosted at numerous locations around the internet. Soon the official website will go down as well. The old version or the latest version of the software is available for download from the official website. This would continue the development of Winamp. There is a petition at in order to save Winamp and make it open source. That is why AOL, the parent company which owns Winamp has decided to shut down Winamp and its associated services on December 20, 2013. It used to be really popular, it still is popular among fans but the number of people who use this player has declined. It was a favorite MP3 player of many, but it has been long forgotten by people.

Winamp was once a popular media player used mainly for the purpose of playing music files.

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