Winamp's original incarnation petered out in late 2013, shut down by AOL after years of mismanagement. Like a lot of influential Windows 95-era PC apps, it was eventually outpaced by newer software and business models and forgotten, but it has technically never actually been dead. (For anyone younger than that: It was like Spotify, but you needed to collect every single song you wanted to listen to manually and add it to the app yourself.) People over the age of 30ish will remember Winamp as the premiere music player for people using Napster, Limewire, and Kazaa to illegally download Aerosmith MP3s to their Gateway desktop computers.
Further Reading Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itselfīack in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before the days of the iPod and the iTunes Music Store, there was an app called Winamp.
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