Winamp is Closing Down by Sir-Sabin at 4:18 PM EST on November 20, 2013
Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.
by dissident93 at 7:21 PM EST on November 20, 2013
also, it seems like vgmstream wont allow the newest version to open after install. i removed vgmstream.dll from the plugin folder and all is well. not sure why it's doing this, since it worked with 5.55
Sooo, is this final release the best ever or do I finally need to take the plunge into... whatever that other player was that could use Winamp plugins. Foobar?
...On second thought I tried installing the external DLL's. Seems they need updating to cope with the final version; they don't even have metadata! o.o
Also, Hotcakes, forgive the UBER-facepalm, but it's XMPlay. :/
edited 11:15 PM EST November 20, 2013
by dissident93 at 11:34 PM EST on November 20, 2013
I redownloaded and put the external DLLs back in the Winamp folder just in case, but Winamp still will not start as long as in_vgmstream.dll is in the Plugins folder. On all the other updates to Winamp, vgmstream simply wouldn't show up in the plugin's list.
@Hotcakes: depends, if you're already using Winamp then I don't see why you wouldn't update to the latest version (save for this apparent issue). also, Foobar doesn't use Winamp plugins technically, but it has support for basically every game plugin Winamp does (loads of them were ported over and improved upon by kode54). it's also very lightweight and easy to update.